Privacy Policy

Effective date: October 6, 2026

This Privacy Policy explains how Blips ("Blips," "we," "us") handles information when you use the Blips app (the "App") on your Apple devices. Blips is designed and built with both your privacy and convenience in mind by Andrija Urošević, an independent developer. Thank you for trying it, and for taking the time to read this.

Summary

Blips is built so your data stays yours. Any information you enter into the app is stored only on your device by default. If you turn on iCloud sync, it's also stored in your own private iCloud account, which we can't see or access. We don't operate any servers, we don't use analytics, we don't show ads, and we don't sell or share your data with advertisers or data brokers. Features like Siri, Spotlight search and Price Suggestions are built on that same idea. They lean on Apple's privacy-focused technology, do as much as they can right on your device, and never send anything to us.

Information We Store

All the information listed below stays only on your device by default, and additionally in your own private iCloud account if you turn on iCloud sync. None of it is collected by us, sent to a server, or seen by anyone but you.

Information you provide directly

• Subscription details: information you enter, such as service name, price, renewal date, category, and more. This can include an optional payment method label (e.g. "Visa," "PayPal" - not an actual card or account number). It can also include an image, either auto-matched from TheSVG's icon registry or one you choose yourself from your Photos library or the Files app.
• Shared member details: if you mark a subscription as shared, you can add a name, an optional photo, and an amount owed for each person. You can also pick someone from your Contacts using Apple's system contact picker, which fills in their name and photo for you. Blips also stores a contact identifier for that person, used only to prevent duplicate entries. We never get ongoing access to your Contacts.

Information collected automatically

Blips doesn't use analytics, advertising identifiers, or any third-party tracking SDK, and we don't collect device identifiers or behavioral data about you. That's also why you'll never see an "Allow Tracking" permission request in Blips.

Information from Apple services

• In-app purchases: your Blips Pro purchase status is verified through Apple's StoreKit. Blips never receives your payment card details - Apple processes all payments directly, and we only learn whether a purchase succeeded. If you use Apple's Family Sharing, other members of your iCloud family group may get Blips Pro at no extra cost. This is handled entirely by Apple, and we don't receive any information about your family group or its members.
• iCloud: if you enable iCloud sync, your subscription data is stored in a private CloudKit database tied to your Apple ID, encrypted and managed by Apple under Apple's own privacy terms. We cannot see or access this data - it lives only in your iCloud account.

Exporting and Importing Data

Blips lets you export your subscription data to a file, and import it back in. When you export, Apple's system share sheet opens so you choose where the file goes, such as Files, Mail, or AirDrop. When you import, you choose the file yourself using the system file picker. Either way, the file moves directly between your device and wherever you choose - it never passes through us.

Local Notifications

If you turn on local notifications, such as renewal reminders or free trial expiry alerts, Blips schedules them on your device using Apple's notification framework. These notifications are generated and delivered entirely on-device and are never transmitted anywhere.

Apple Intelligence, Siri, and Spotlight

Blips works hand in hand with the smart features built into your iPhone, so keeping an eye on your subscriptions takes hardly any effort. Each of these features keeps the same promise as the rest of the app: they work for you alone, and nothing you enter in Blips ever reaches us.

Price Suggestions

On devices that support Apple Intelligence, Blips can suggest a service's current plans and prices while you add a subscription, so you don't have to go looking for them yourself. Here's how it works:

• Finding the prices: Blips looks for the pricing page on the service's own website, directly from your device, much like your browser would. Only publicly available pricing is fetched, nothing about you or your subscriptions is sent along, and Blips doesn't keep or send any cookies. As with any website visit, the site can see your device's network address, which is exactly what lets it show you the prices for your country.
• Reading the plans: Apple Intelligence then reads the plans from that page. To get you results much faster, the page text is sent to Apple's Private Cloud Compute. Apple designed it so that whatever it receives is used only to answer that one request, isn't kept once the answer comes back, and can't be seen by anyone, not even Apple. If Private Cloud Compute isn't available, or you've reached its daily limit, Apple Intelligence reads the page right on your device instead.
• When there's no page to read: Apple Intelligence may suggest prices from what it already knows. In that case, the service's name and website, your country, and your currency are sent to Private Cloud Compute.
• You stay in charge: suggestions are only ever offered, never filled in for you. Nothing is looked up while you edit an existing subscription, and results are kept only in memory while the app is open.

Price Suggestions is on by default on supported devices, and you can turn it off at any time in the app's Settings, under Apple Intelligence & Siri.

Siri and Shortcuts

You can ask Siri what you're paying this month, what's due soon, when a charge is coming up, or which free trials are about to end, and use the same actions in the Shortcuts app. Blips answers these questions on your device, using the data that's already there. To show you phrases that work, Blips also checks which language Siri is set to. Siri itself handles your request under Apple's own privacy terms, and we never receive your questions or Blips' answers.

Spotlight

Blips adds each subscription's name, price, and upcoming charge, along with its category and space, to your device's Spotlight index, letting you find any subscription straight from Search. Your subscription names are also shared with Siri, so it knows which one you mean when you ask about it by name. The Spotlight index is stored only on your device, it's refreshed as you make changes, and it's cleared when you use Delete All Data. You can choose whether Blips appears in Search and Siri at any time in your device's Settings app, under Apps, then Blips.

Third-Party Services We Use

Blips connects to a few outside services for specific purposes:

• ExchangeRate-API: fetches current currency exchange rates so amounts can be converted between currencies. Blips only sends currency codes to this service; no personal or subscription data is sent.
• TheSVG: fetches the icon files used to represent services in your subscription list. Blips only sends the subscription's service name to find a matching icon; no personal data is included.
• Apple iCloud: if you enable iCloud sync, your subscription data is synced to your own private iCloud account, encrypted and managed by Apple. We cannot see or access this data.
• Service websites: if Price Suggestions is on, Blips fetches the public pricing page of the service you're adding, straight from that service's own website. No personal or subscription data is sent.
• Apple Intelligence: reads the plans on that pricing page, using Apple's Private Cloud Compute or the model on your device, as described in "Apple Intelligence, Siri, and Spotlight" above.

Beyond these lookups, we don't share your data with any third party for their own purposes. We also don't use any third-party AI services, advertising networks, or analytics SDKs. The only AI in Blips is Apple Intelligence, which Apple built with your privacy at its core.

This policy doesn't cover information Apple collects on its own behalf through iCloud, Siri, Apple Intelligence, the App Store, or StoreKit. See Apple's privacy policy for that.

Data Storage and Retention

Your data lives on your device and, optionally, in your own private iCloud account. Deleting an individual entry within the app removes it from your device and, if iCloud sync is on, from iCloud as well. You can also erase everything at once, from Delete All Data in the app's Settings, under Data. That screen lists how much of each kind of data you have, and once you confirm, permanently deletes all of it: your subscriptions along with their price, status and sharing history, the people you've added as shared members and any photos of them, your notes and images, your custom categories and spaces, your budgets, and your saved payment method labels. If iCloud sync is on, that deletion syncs to iCloud and to your other devices too. Your subscriptions are also cleared from Spotlight and from Siri's suggestions on your device. Your app preferences, such as currency, language, appearance and reminder defaults, aren't information about you and are left as they are. Turning off iCloud sync only stops future syncing - it doesn't delete what's already stored in iCloud. Deleting the app removes data from your device only; if you had iCloud sync on, your subscriptions remain in your private iCloud account until you delete them, either by reinstalling the app and removing them from there, or by clearing Blips' iCloud data directly in Settings, under your Apple ID's iCloud storage. Because we don't operate a server that stores your data, there's no separate "delete my account" request to make with us. You're in control, directly on-device and in your iCloud settings.

Permissions

You can revoke Blips' access to Contacts or Notifications at any time in your device's Settings app, under Privacy & Security or Notifications. Revoking Contacts access only affects future selections - it doesn't remove people you've already added as shared members, which you can delete within the app, either individually or all at once with Delete All Data.

Blips never asks for Siri permission, since Siri and Shortcuts work without it. You can still choose whether Blips appears in Search and Siri in your device's Settings app, under Apps, then Blips, and turn off Price Suggestions in the app's Settings, under Apple Intelligence & Siri.

Children's Privacy

Blips is not directed at children under 13. We don't ask for or collect anyone's age, so we have no way of knowing whether any user is a child.

Your Rights

Blips doesn't hold your data anywhere but your own device or your own private iCloud account. That means you're already in control of it. You can access, correct, or delete it at any time by editing or deleting data in the app, by erasing all of it at once with Delete All Data in the app's Settings, or by managing your iCloud storage in Settings. Depending on where you live, you may have additional rights under laws like the GDPR or the CCPA - for those, contact us at the email below.

Trademarks and Logos

Brand names, logos, and trademarks shown in Blips, including those sourced from TheSVG's icon registry, are the property of their respective owners. Their use is for identification purposes only and does not imply any affiliation with or endorsement by the trademark owner.

You can also replace a subscription's image with one of your own from your Photos library or the Files app. Blips doesn't review, moderate, or verify these user-added images. You're solely responsible for having the right to use them. Any trademark or copyright issue arising from an image you've added is your responsibility, not Blips'.

Changes to This Policy

We may update this policy as the app changes. We'll update the effective date above whenever we do, so it's worth checking back occasionally. Continuing to use the app after a change means you accept the updated policy.

Contact Us

Questions about this policy or how Blips handles your information? Email [email protected]. Thanks for using Blips!