Privacy
What Snarkee sends, what it keeps, and who else sees it.
In effect 20 September 2026 · privacy@snarkee.app
The short version
Snarkee has no accounts, no sign-in, and no profile of you. We never sell your data, and nothing here is used for advertising beyond the one ad you choose to watch.
The photo you pick is sent to an AI service to write your reading, and we don't keep it.
Your pet photos
When you allow it, the photo you choose is sent to Snarkee's servers and passed to an AI model that writes the reading. It is processed to answer that one request and is not written to any database, log or file we keep.
We currently use Cloudflare Workers AI to run the model. Your photo is sent to Cloudflare as part of that request. If we change providers, this page changes; that is exactly why the app asks about “the Snark Engine” rather than naming a company that may not be the one we use next month.
If you decline the prompt, no photo ever leaves your phone, and Snarkee writes a reading on-device instead.
Photos are never used to train any model, never attached to an identity, and never shared with anyone else.
What the app reports back
Snarkee counts how it is doing, anonymously. An event carries its name (for example “reading completed”), the date the app was first opened on this device, how many days old that install is, the app version, and sometimes a short technical detail such as an error code.
That is the whole event. There is no device identifier, no name, no location, no photo, and no caption. The server keeps running totals only — “this many readings today” — not a record of anything you did.
Proving the app is the real app
Snarkee uses Apple's App Attest to check that requests come from a genuine, unmodified copy of the app rather than a script pretending to be one. Without it, anyone could run up the AI bill.
This creates a random key for your installation, and our server stores that key's identifier along with a per-day request count. It is not derived from your Apple ID, your device's serial number or any advertising identifier, we cannot use it to recognise you anywhere else, and deleting the app ends it for good.
Ads
Snarkee shows exactly one kind of ad: a video you can choose to watch at the daily limit, in exchange for one more reading. There are no banners, nothing between your photo and your card, and nothing at all if you buy the unlock.
Those ads come from Google AdMob, which may collect data including an advertising identifier. On first use you will see Apple's tracking prompt, and where the law requires it, Google's consent form. Decline either and the app works exactly the same — you will simply see a less relevant ad.
What Google does with that data is covered by Google's own privacy policy at policies.google.com/privacy.
Buying the unlock
The unlock is a one-time purchase handled entirely by Apple. We never see your payment details — only whether this device is entitled to the unlock.
Challenging a friend
A challenge link carries a random id and whatever display name you typed, and nothing else. It cannot pass along your photo or your reading: whoever opens it takes their own photo.
Children
Snarkee is not directed at children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect anything from them.
Your choices
Say no to the AI prompt and no photo is ever sent. Say no to tracking and ads stop being personalised. Delete the app and everything it kept on your phone — your daily count, your reading style, the App Attest key — goes with it.
To ask what we hold about an installation, or to have it deleted, write to privacy@snarkee.app. Because the data is anonymous, you may need to tell us roughly when you installed the app so we can find anything at all.
Changes
If what we do with data changes, this page changes with it and the date above moves. Substantive changes will also be flagged in the app.