Henscratch

Privacy Policy

Last updated 27 October 2026

In short

  • Your diary is stored in your own iCloud account, not on a server of ours. We can't see it.
  • Henscratch has no accounts, no analytics, no ads and no tracking.
  • Only the people you invite can see the diary you share with them.
  • Henscratch never asks for your location.

Who we are

Henscratch is a travel diary app for iPhone, iPad and Mac, made by Ingo Bürk. In this policy, "we" means the developer. You can reach us at contact@henscratch.app.

Where your diary is stored

Everything you write in Henscratch (trips, days, text, photos, voice memos, places, and your profile photo and name) is stored on your devices and in your iCloud account, using Apple's iCloud (CloudKit). It syncs between your devices through iCloud. We run no server and have no access to your iCloud data. Apple stores it under the Apple Privacy Policy.

The diary takes up iCloud storage of the person who started it.

Writing together

When you invite someone, Henscratch uses iCloud sharing. Only the people you invite can join, and everyone in the diary can read and edit its shared trips. They also see your profile photo and name. A trip marked Private stays in your own iCloud and is never shared.

The person who started the diary can remove people under Settings › People. If you'd like to leave someone else's diary, ask them to remove you.

Photos

If you allow full access to your photo library, Henscratch looks at your photos on your device to show the ones you took on each day of a trip, and to find the places you went from where the photos were taken. You can say no or limit access: adding photos one by one through the system's photo picker still works.

A photo you add to a day is saved to the diary as a smaller copy, together with a link to the original in your library. If not everyone in the diary can open the original (for example, because it isn't in an iCloud Shared Library you all belong to), Henscratch saves a full-quality copy to the diary instead.

Voice memos

The microphone is used only while you record a voice memo. The recording is saved in the diary, and what you said is written down on your device using Apple's speech recognition. The audio isn't sent anywhere else.

Places and maps

To name the places you visited, Henscratch looks them up with Apple Maps. For this, the location where a photo was taken, or what you type when you search for a place, is sent to Apple. Maps in the app are Apple Maps too. Apple handles these requests under its own privacy policy.

Translated exports

When you export a trip in another language, the text is translated on your device with Apple's translation. The languages are downloaded from Apple the first time you use them.

Exports and sharing from other apps

PDFs and archives you export are made on your device and go only where you send them. Text, links and pictures you share into Henscratch from other apps are saved to your diary.

Settings

A few of your settings, such as the app's colours and Light or Dark, sync between your devices through iCloud.

What we receive

Nothing from the app itself. If you turned on sharing with app developers on your device (Settings › Privacy & Security › Analytics & Improvements), Apple may send us anonymous crash reports and usage statistics, which we use only to fix problems. Testers using TestFlight can send us feedback and crash reports, which reach us through Apple.

If you email us, we use your email address and message only to reply, and we delete them when they're no longer needed.

Deleting your data

As we hold no data about you, there is nothing for us to look up, correct or delete. For data stored in iCloud, you can also contact Apple.

Children

Henscratch isn't aimed at children and collects no data from anyone, children included.

Changes to this policy

If Henscratch starts handling data differently, we'll update this page and the date at the top before the change reaches the app.

Contact

Questions about privacy: contact@henscratch.app