Lark Photo — Privacy Policy
Effective: November 6, 2026
This policy covers two separate things: the Lark Photo app and this website, larkstudio.dev. They work very differently, so each has its own section below.
The short version
The app collects no data. No accounts, no analytics, no advertising, no server. Your photos, and everything about how you use the app, stay on your phone. The one-time purchase that unlocks the app is handled by Apple, and we never see your name, email, or payment details.
The website counts visits anonymously. It uses a privacy-friendly counter with no cookies and no tracking, so we can see how many people visit. Nothing from the website is ever connected to the app.
The Lark Photo app
What the app collects
Nothing. Lark Photo has no accounts, no analytics, no advertising, and no server of its own. The app never transmits your photos, your usage, or any personal information to the developer or to anyone else.
Lark Photo’s App Store privacy label reads Data Not Collected, and the app contains no third-party code. The website described further down is separate from the app and does not change this.
Photo library access
Lark Photo asks for full access to your Apple Photos library. It needs this to do its one job: gathering every photo and video taken on a chosen calendar date across all years, which requires reading the whole library’s dates. Access is used only to display your photos to you and to carry out the actions you take — favoriting, adding to albums, sharing, and deleting — through Apple’s standard Photos technology on your device.
If some of your photos are stored in iCloud rather than on your phone, your phone may download them from Apple so Lark can show them to you. That download happens between your device and Apple’s iCloud service, exactly as it does in the Photos app, and is covered by Apple’s privacy policy. Lark Photo does not see or store anything in transit.
Photos you delete go to the iOS Recently Deleted album, where iOS keeps them for 30 days before removing them permanently. You can recover them there during that window, in the Photos app. If you use iCloud Photos, a deletion made on your phone applies across all your devices signed in to iCloud, as it would in the Photos app.
Your purchase
Lark Photo is free to try. One in-app purchase unlocks the full app for a single one-time price; there is no subscription.
Apple processes that purchase. Your payment details, name, and Apple Account belong to your relationship with Apple and are governed by Apple’s privacy policy. We never receive them. Apple reports sales to us only as totals, with nothing that identifies you.
To know whether the app is unlocked, Lark Photo asks the App Store on your device whether a purchase was made. That check stays between your device and Apple; nothing is sent to us.
Reminders
Lark Photo can remind you to sort a date, at a time and rhythm you choose. Reminders are off until you switch them on, and they are ordinary local notifications scheduled by iOS on your phone. There is no push service and no server involved; switching the reminder off cancels it, and you can revoke notifications for Lark Photo in iOS Settings at any time.
What stays on your device
Your review progress — which dates you’ve sorted, what you’ve deleted, which milestones you’ve reached, your reminder schedule, and summary statistics like storage cleared — is stored locally on your phone. It syncs nowhere, and we cannot see it, though it is included in your phone’s own iCloud or computer backup like other app data. If you delete the app, that progress is deleted with it. (Your photos themselves are unaffected; they live in your Apple Photos library.)
Third parties
None. Lark Photo contains no third-party SDKs, trackers, or ad networks, and shares data with no one. The only company involved in your use of Lark Photo other than us is Apple, through the App Store, iCloud Photos, and the iOS features the app is built on.
Children
Lark Photo does not collect data from anyone, including children.
Your rights
Privacy laws in some places (for example the GDPR in Europe and the CCPA in California) give you rights to access, correct, delete, or export the personal data a company holds about you, and to opt out of its sale. The app gives us no personal data about you, so there is nothing from the app to access, correct, delete, export, or sell.
This website
The app collects nothing. This website is the one place we use a measurement tool, and we want to be clear about it.
What the website collects
larkstudio.dev uses Cloudflare Web Analytics to count visits and see which pages people read. It does not use cookies or store anything in your browser, and it does not track you across visits or across other websites. For each page view it records the page, the site you came from, your browser and device type, and your country, which is worked out from your IP address. We see only totals. We do not use them for advertising, we do not sell them, and they are not linked to anything you do in the app. How Cloudflare handles this information is described in Cloudflare’s privacy policy.
Your choice
Because the counter uses no cookies and does not identify you, there is no banner to click through. If you would rather not be counted at all, a content blocker or your browser’s tracking protection will stop it, and the site works the same either way.
Your rights on the website
The visit counts are anonymous totals, so we hold no website data that is tied to you and nothing to access, correct, delete, or export. If you have a question about this, write to us at the address below and we will answer it.
Server logs
Our hosting provider may also keep ordinary server logs (such as the IP address and time of a visit) to run the service securely; we do not use those logs to identify anyone.
Changes
If a future version of the app ever changes any of the above, this policy will be updated before that version ships, and the change will be noted in the app’s release notes. If the website’s practices change, this page will be updated first. The effective date at the top tells you when it last changed.
Contact
Questions about this policy: support@larkstudio.dev
Lark Photo is designed, built, and maintained by Lark Studio, LLC.