Privacy
Effective June 2026 · Blackpaw Studio
Chronicle has no account, no Chronicle server, and no Chronicle cloud. Blackpaw Studio never receives any of your data. Everything you see lives on your iPhone.
Chronicle reads a few things from your phone to build your timeline. All of it is read locally and never uploaded anywhere. It is stored only in the app's private on-device storage.
No analytics, no crash reporting, no advertising, no tracking, no telemetry of any kind. No Firebase, no Google services. We collect nothing.
There are exactly two cases where data leaves your phone, and in neither case does anything go to Blackpaw Studio. Here is plainly what happens in each.
This only happens if you choose to connect it. To bring in your past check-ins, Chronicle signs in to Foursquare using OAuth and downloads your own check-in history. Your access token is kept in the iOS Keychain, and your check-ins are cached on your device. You can disconnect at any time in Settings, which deletes the token and the cached check-ins. Your Foursquare account is governed by Foursquare's own privacy policy.
To show what the weather was like on a day in the past, Chronicle asks Open-Meteo, a free weather service, for historical weather. It sends only the photo's approximate coordinates, rounded to about 11 kilometers, along with the date. No name, account, device ID, or any other identifier is sent, so the request cannot be tied to you. This happens only for memories that already contain location data.
Chronicle does not request location permission. Place information comes only from the location already embedded in your photos, and place names are looked up on-device using Apple's geocoder.
Everything is in the app. Disconnect Swarm or clear imported data in Settings at any time. Deleting the app removes all Chronicle data from your device.
We may update this policy. When we do, we will post the changes here with an updated effective date.
Questions about this policy? Contact Blackpaw Studio.