Your photo library stays your photo library.

What the app accesses

With your permission, Feather Trove accesses the photos you select or your full Apple Photos library. It reads images and available metadata such as capture date and location so it can find likely bird photos, suggest species, organize sightings, and show them on your private map. You can change Photos access at any time in iOS Settings.

On-device processing and iCloud recovery

Bird detection and species suggestions run with models bundled in the app. Feather Trove stores its working archive—including Photos identifiers, suggestions, confidence values, dates, locations, and your edits—in the app's local container. App preferences and scan state are also stored locally.

When iCloud Drive is available, Feather Trove automatically saves a private recovery copy of identification metadata and scan progress in your iCloud account. That copy can include Photos identifiers, species suggestions, confidence values, capture dates, and your edits. It does not include your photos or precise coordinates. The recovery copy is stored in Feather Trove's private iCloud container and is not sent to Ash Apps.

If an original is stored only in iCloud, Apple Photos may download it before Feather Trove can analyze it. Map imagery and other Apple services are provided by Apple and are governed by Apple's privacy practices.

Data collection and tracking

Feather Trove has no account system or advertising SDK. Ash Apps does not collect, sell, rent, or use your photos, photo metadata, sightings, or location history for advertising or profiling.

Feather Trove uses Superwall to present subscription offers and manage premium access. Superwall may receive an anonymous app identifier, app and device information, paywall interaction events, and purchase or subscription status. Ash Apps uses this information for app functionality and aggregate paywall and subscription analytics. It is not used for advertising, is not used to track you across other companies' apps or websites, and is not linked to an account because Feather Trove does not have accounts. Feather Trove does not send Superwall your photos, photo metadata, sightings, or precise location.

Feather Trove uses Firebase Crashlytics to diagnose crashes and improve reliability. Crashlytics may receive crash stack traces, a Firebase installation identifier, app, device, and operating-system diagnostics, and automatic Analytics breadcrumbs showing coarse actions immediately before a crash. Ash Apps does not add user identifiers, custom free-text logs, photos, photo metadata, sightings, precise location, or filenames to crash reports. Crashlytics data is used only for app functionality and reliability, is not used for advertising or cross-company tracking, and is retained by Firebase for 90 days before removal begins.

Feather Trove uses Google Analytics for Firebase to understand aggregate product use. It records fixed screen names and coarse milestones for onboarding, Photos permission, library scanning, review actions, sharing, premium gates, and subscription unlocks. Counts are sent only in broad ranges. Firebase may receive a pseudonymous app-instance identifier, coarse location derived from network information, app, device, operating-system, session, and event information, and purchase or subscription events. Feather Trove does not send Analytics photos, photo metadata, sightings, precise location, filenames, species, search text, user IDs, or exact library counts.

The Analytics integration excludes IDFA capability and disables IDFV collection, ad-network registration, on-device advertising conversion measurement, ad storage, ad user data, and ad personalization. Analytics data is used only to evaluate and improve Feather Trove. It is not used for advertising or cross-company tracking and is not linked to an account because Feather Trove does not have accounts.

Exports, sharing, and deletion

Sharing a bird card, exporting your life list, opening a location in Maps, or saving an image is initiated by you and uses the destination you choose. Resetting Feather Trove removes its local archive and its iCloud recovery copy. If iCloud is temporarily unavailable, deletion is completed the next time Feather Trove can reach iCloud. Deleting the app removes data in its app container but leaves the private recovery copy so a later reinstall can restore the archive. Images or albums saved to Apple Photos remain there until you delete them in Photos.

Support messages

If you email support, Ash Apps receives the address and information you include so we can respond. Do not attach private photos or diagnostics you do not want to share. Support correspondence is kept only as long as reasonably necessary to resolve the request and maintain ordinary business records.

Children and policy changes

Feather Trove is suitable for a general audience and does not knowingly collect personal information from children. Material changes to this policy will be posted on this page with a revised date.

Contact

Questions about privacy can be sent to aaron@ashapps.com.