Crayon Tales is a local-first app for keeping a child's artwork together with the child's own spoken words. No account is required. The photos you take or import, voice recordings, text transcripts, notes, titles, dates, the child's name or nickname and optional birth date, and any Time Capsule letters are stored in the app's container on your device. This version does not send them to a developer-operated server, contains no advertising, tracking or third-party analytics SDKs, and the app itself makes no network requests of its own.
With your permission, Crayon Tales uses the camera to photograph artwork, the microphone to record your child's voice, and Speech Recognition to turn recordings into editable text. Speech recognition runs on your device only: if your device cannot recognize a language on-device, the feature is unavailable instead of falling back to online recognition, and you can type the text yourself. Photo Library access is used only to save images and videos you export; photos you import are chosen through the system picker. Face ID or your passcode is used only if you turn on the optional app lock, and biometric data is handled by iOS and never available to the app. If you turn on the daily reminder, notifications are scheduled locally on your device.
Widgets show a small snapshot that the app shares with its widget through an on-device App Group: a picture, a title, a date and age, the length of a recording and the text of a daily question. This content may be visible on your Home Screen; you control widgets and their visibility in iOS.
Apple processes App Store purchases. Crayon Tales uses verified StoreKit transactions to determine Pro access; the developer does not receive your payment card details. Apple's terms and privacy policy apply to Apple's services.
If the app crashes or hangs, iOS may hand the app a diagnostic report through MetricKit. Crayon Tales keeps these reports on your device only. They contain program call stacks, not your artwork, photos, recordings or information about your child. They are never uploaded automatically; a report leaves your device only if you choose Export Diagnostics in Settings and send the file yourself.
When you export a backup, PDF, video, image or card, a copy is created wherever you choose, such as Files, Messages, email or another app. That copy can contain your child's photos and voice, and the app cannot control it once it leaves; please treat backup files as personal information. Your iOS device backups, such as iCloud Backup, may also include the app's data according to your iOS settings. This version has no iCloud sync or family sharing; if such a feature is added in the future, this policy will be updated first.
Crayon Tales is intended for use by parents and guardians. It has no advertising, no accounts and no social features for children, and it does not collect personal information about children. What you record of a child stays on your device unless you choose to share it.
You can delete works in the app; deleted items stay in Recently Deleted for 30 days and are then removed permanently. Deleting inside the app cannot remove copies you exported, backups controlled by iOS, or copies in other apps. Uninstalling the app removes its data from your device, subject to iOS backup behavior. No account deletion is needed because no account exists.
If you choose Send Feedback, the app opens your email app with a draft, and nothing is sent until you send it. The draft may include the text you write and basic app information (app version, iOS version, device model and language) that you can edit or remove first. Please do not include private details. Email providers process messages under their own policies. The operator is 王彦芳. For support or privacy requests, contact jackie.lee7805@gmail.com. Support correspondence retention: Correspondence is used only to handle your request. Personal information no longer needed is deleted after resolution, except where retention is required by law. Contact the email above for access, correction or deletion requests; applicable legal rights remain unaffected. Material changes will be reflected in an updated policy.