Privacy

PaperDude collects nothing. Your scans stay on your device and in your own iCloud Drive. They go anywhere else only when you send them there.

What the app handles, and where it stays

• Your pages. Each picture of a page is processed on your device. Finished scans are saved as PDF files in PaperDude's own folder, which you can see in the Files app.
• iCloud Drive. If your device uses iCloud Drive, that folder is kept there, in your own iCloud account, so your scans are backed up and your other devices can see them. We cannot see them. If you would rather keep them only on this device, the choice is at the top of Documents and in Settings.
• The pictures behind each page stay on this device, so you can change a page's look or crop later. They are not in iCloud Drive and not in your device's backup.
• The words on a page. The app reads a page's text on your device, to make the PDF searchable, to suggest a name for it, and so that Spotlight and search in Documents can find it. Both keep that text in an index on this device only, and a scan drops out of the index when it is gone.
• Your voice. If you turn voice on, what you say is understood on your device. It is never recorded, never kept and never sent.
• Your settings. These are kept on your device.

If your device backs itself up to iCloud or a computer, that backup includes the app's folder, as it does for any app. That backup is yours, and we cannot see it.

The camera and the microphone

• Camera. The app uses it only while the scanning screen is open, to find and capture pages. iOS asks your permission the first time.
• Microphone. The app does not use it until you tap the microphone and allow it. From then on it listens only while the scanning screen is open and the app is in front, and it stops the moment you leave that screen. The screen shows you when it is listening. Everything else in the app works with the microphone off.
• Speech. Recognition runs on your device. iOS may download Apple's speech model the first time you use voice. That download comes from Apple, and your voice is no part of it.

You can turn voice off in the app's Settings. To remove either permission, open your device's Settings, then Privacy & Security, then Camera or Microphone.

Photos

If you import from Photos, you use Apple's picker. The app receives only the pictures you choose, and it has no access to the rest of your library.

What leaves your device, only when you choose

• A scan you share or save. Share opens Apple's share sheet. The file goes to the app or place you pick, and that service's own privacy terms apply there.
• Google Drive or Dropbox, if you connect one. In Settings, under Save To, you can sign in to your own Google Drive or Dropbox. You sign in on Google's or Dropbox's own page: the app never sees your password, and keeps only the sign-in key it is given, in this device's Keychain. When you tap the folder button, the scan goes from your device straight to your account. Google Drive lets the app see only the files it made, in a PaperDude folder, and Dropbox only its own folder, Apps › PaperDude. Nothing passes through us. Disconnect in Settings forgets the sign-in. Google's or Dropbox's own privacy terms apply there.
• A message to support. If you write to us, we see what you write and the address you wrote from. We use them only to answer you.

What the app does not do

• No account with us, and no personal information asked for. The only sign-in is to your own Google Drive or Dropbox, and only if you connect one.
• No analytics, no tracking and no ad network.
• No location and no contacts.
• No server of its own. The app sends nothing to us, and nothing to anyone else unless you send or save a scan there.

Apple's part

iCloud Drive is Apple's service and works under your own iCloud account, and Apple's terms and privacy policy apply to it. The app has no part in it beyond keeping its folder there.

If the app ever asks you for a rating, it uses Apple's standard prompt. iOS handles that prompt, and the app learns nothing from your answer.

If you have chosen in your device's Settings to share analytics with app developers, Apple may pass us anonymous crash reports. Nothing else comes back. Apple runs the App Store and has its own privacy policy.

Deleting

Delete a scan in the app and it goes to Recently Deleted, where it stays for 30 days and can be restored. After that it is gone, or sooner if you choose Delete Now. Delete a scan in the Files app and it is gone from the folder.

Scans in iCloud Drive stay there if you delete the app, and you can still see them in the Files app. Deleting the app deletes everything kept only on this device, so move anything you want to keep first. A scan you shared or saved somewhere else, Google Drive and Dropbox included, stays where you put it.

Children

PaperDude is a general tool, not made for children in particular. Because the app collects no personal information from anyone, there is nothing for us to hand over, correct or erase on request.

This website

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If this changes

Any change will be listed on this page with a new date, and in the App Store release notes, before it takes effect.

Contact

PaperDude is made by Conscious Cadence. Questions about privacy: info@consciouscadence.com

Last updated 10 November 2026