Privacy
FridgeWorthy is an app for keeping your child’s artwork. This page explains what happens to that artwork, and to everything else you put into the app.
The short version: nothing about your child’s artwork reaches us. There are no accounts, no analytics, no advertising, and no tracking of any kind. Two things do leave your phone, and neither goes to a server of ours: your library syncs to your own private iCloud so it is on all your devices, described under “iCloud sync” below; and smart tagging, which is off until you turn it on, described in full further down.
Who we are
FridgeWorthy is made by ChakraBit Solutions LLP, Mumbai, India. You can reach us at contact@chakrabit.com about anything on this page.
What stays on your device
All of the following is stored on your device, in the app’s own storage, and is never transmitted to us. With iCloud sync on (see below) a copy also lives in your own private iCloud, which we cannot read:
- The artwork itself — the photos you scan or import, and the edited versions.
- Voice notes — recordings of your child talking about a piece.
- What you write — titles, themes, dates, and any corrections you make.
- Artist details — the name you enter and, if you choose to add one, a birthday. A birthday is optional; the app works without it.
- Descriptions produced by smart tagging — titles, captions, colours, transcribed handwriting, and the estimated drawing stage, once they come back.
- Your settings, and a randomly generated identifier described below.
If you turn on “Save scans to Photos”, scans are also added to your own Photos library. The app only ever adds to Photos; it never reads your library. Photos you choose to import are handed to the app by the system picker, one at a time, without giving the app access to anything else.
Deleting a single piece inside the app deletes that piece’s image, its voice note, and everything recorded about it — on every synced device, including the other parent’s if you have shared the library (see “iCloud sync” below). Deleting the app deletes everything stored on that device; if sync is on, the copy in your own iCloud remains and comes back when you reinstall. To remove that copy too, delete the pieces inside the app first, or remove FridgeWorthy’s iCloud data in iOS Settings under your Apple Account’s storage.
iCloud sync
On by default. You can turn it off in Settings → iCloud.
Your library — artwork, voice notes, titles, dates, artist details — is copied to your own private iCloud database so the same collection appears on every device signed in to your Apple Account. This is the same place Photos and Notes keep their data.
What this means concretely:
- It goes to Apple, not to us. It is stored in your personal iCloud under your own Apple Account. We have no access to it, no ability to read it, and no copy of it. There is no FridgeWorthy account and no FridgeWorthy server holding your artwork.
- It uses your iCloud storage. Artwork is the bulk of it. If your iCloud is full, syncing pauses and the app keeps working normally on the device you are using — nothing is lost, and Settings will tell you what happened.
- Only people you invite see it. Out of the box that is nobody: only devices signed in to your own Apple Account. Sharing with the other parent is described next.
- Turning it off stops the copying. Your library stays on the device you are using. It takes effect the next time you open the app.
Sharing with the other parent
You can invite one person to the library — Family sharing, in the app’s menu. The invitation is created and delivered by Apple’s own share sheet, and accepting it links the library to the other person’s Apple Account. From then on either of you can add, edit, and delete pieces, and both of you see everything, including what was there before the invite. The library keeps living in the inviter’s iCloud and counts against their storage; Apple carries all of it, and we still have no access to any of it. Either of you can end the sharing at any time from the same screen — the person who invited can remove the other, and the person invited can leave.
Rendered reels are deliberately not synced: they are large videos your device can rebuild from artwork that is already syncing, so uploading them would spend your iCloud storage for nothing.
Smart tagging — the one thing that goes to a server of ours
Smart tagging is off until you turn it on. The app asks once, plainly, after you have added your first piece, and you can change your mind at any time in Settings. If you never turn it on, nothing in this section happens and no artwork is ever sent to us or to an AI provider. (iCloud sync, above, is separate — that is your own iCloud, not our servers.)
When it is on, then for each new piece:
- What we send. A downscaled copy of the artwork photo (long edge reduced to 768 pixels). Your child’s age in whole years, but only if you have entered a birthday — the age helps estimate developmental drawing stage. A random identifier generated on your device when the app is installed, so we can stop one installation from overwhelming the service.
- What we do not send. Your child’s name. Their date of birth. The title, notes, or anything else you have written. Voice notes. Your location. Anything about your device or about you. There is no account, so there is nothing to attach any of it to.
One thing we cannot promise away: if your child has written their name on the drawing, it is in the picture, and the app transcribes handwriting it finds so you can search for it later. That transcription comes back to your device and stays there.
Where it goes. To a service we operate, which passes the image to a model provider to be described, and returns the description to your phone. We use one provider at a time, and it is one of two: OpenAI or Anthropic. Today it is OpenAI. Which one we use is our decision rather than yours, so we name the current one here and update this page when it changes. No one else receives the image.
What happens to it. On our own service, the image is held only for as long as the request takes — we do not store it, log it, or keep a copy. Whichever provider answers, the same commitments apply: they process the image only to produce the description, and your child’s drawing is not used to train their models. Both may hold what is sent to them for a limited period for safety and abuse monitoring before deleting it. Their policies: OpenAI and Anthropic.
The identifier. It is a random value created on your device. It is not your device’s identifier, not derived from anything about your device or you, and is not shared with anyone. We use it to rate-limit abuse of the service, and it appears in our own server logs next to the timing and token count of each request — never next to the image, and never next to anything about you or your child. Deleting and reinstalling the app produces a new one, and there is no way for us to connect the two.
Children
This app is designed for a parent or guardian to use, about their own child. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children, and the app has no way for a child to create an account, message anyone, or share anything.
The artwork is your child’s, and you decide what happens to it. If you would rather none of it left your device, leave smart tagging off — every other feature works exactly the same.
What we never do
- No advertising, and no advertising identifiers.
- No analytics, crash reporting, or usage tracking. No third-party SDKs of any kind.
- No selling or sharing of personal information with anyone, for any purpose.
- No tracking across apps or websites. The app never asks for tracking permission because it never tracks.
Permissions the app asks for
- Camera — to scan artwork. Frames are processed on your device.
- Microphone — only when you record a voice note.
- Photos (add only) — to save scans and exported reels into your library. This does not give the app permission to read your photos.
Each is asked for at the moment it is first needed, and declining leaves the rest of the app working.
Your rights and choices
Because everything lives on your device and we hold no personal data about you, there is no account to close and no data of yours for us to return or delete.
- To stop the one upload: turn off Smart tagging in Settings.
- To delete a piece and everything about it: delete it in the app — this reaches every synced device too.
- To delete everything: delete the app. If iCloud sync is on, also remove FridgeWorthy’s data from your iCloud in iOS Settings — deleting the app alone leaves that copy in your own iCloud, and reinstalling restores it.
- If you believe we hold information about you and want it removed, write to contact@chakrabit.com and we will act on it. Depending on where you live you may have rights under the GDPR, the UK GDPR, the CCPA, or India’s DPDP Act; we will honour requests under any of them.
This website
Everything above is about the app. The site you are reading this on collects nothing by simply being visited: its fonts, styles, images and scripts all load from this domain, and there is no analytics script, no advertising pixel, and no third-party embed, so nothing here follows you around the web.
The site no longer collects email addresses — FridgeWorthy has shipped, so the notify form is gone. For the list gathered before launch, we hold:
- Your email address — so we can email you.
- The date you signed up, the two-letter country Cloudflare reports for your connection, and which page the form was on.
- A one-way hash of your IP address — enough to stop a bot filling the list with junk, but not something we can turn back into an address. The address itself is never stored.
- Your browser’s user-agent string, for the same anti-abuse reason.
That list is stored in Cloudflare D1, in Cloudflare’s infrastructure. It was used for exactly one thing: telling you when FridgeWorthy is available. It is never sold, rented, or shared. You will get the one launch email and nothing else unless you ask for it, and every email carries a one-click unsubscribe.
Want off the list, or want to know what we hold about you? Email contact@chakrabit.com and we’ll delete your row and confirm it.
Changes
If this policy changes we will update the date at the top and, where the change is material, say so in the app before it takes effect.
Contact
contact@chakrabit.com — for anything on this page, and for support generally. There are answers to common questions on the support page.