Freshroll Privacy Policy
- Effective date: 2026-11-03
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App: Freshroll: Storage Cleaner for iPhone (
com.kbalachander.freshroll) - Developer: Balachander Krishnamoorthy
- Contact: kbcllc2025@gmail.com
The short version
Freshroll does not collect any data about you. We have no accounts, no servers that receive your data, no analytics, no advertising and no tracking. Freshroll analyses your photos, contacts and calendar on your iPhone, and that information never leaves your device because of Freshroll.
What Freshroll accesses, and why
Freshroll asks for each permission only when you use the feature that needs it. You can change these permissions at any time in Settings › Privacy & Security.
| Permission | What Freshroll does with it | Where the results stay |
|---|---|---|
| Photos (read and write) | Finds duplicates, similar photos, screenshots, blurry or dark photos, Live Photos and large videos. It also deletes the items you confirm, and saves compressed videos and still versions of Live Photos that you create. | On your iPhone. Deleted items go to Recently Deleted in the Photos app for 30 days. |
| Contacts | Finds duplicate and incomplete contacts, then merges or removes the ones you choose. | On your iPhone. Freshroll saves a backup first (see below). |
| Calendars (full access) | Finds old events so you can remove them. Birthdays, subscribed calendars and recurring events are protected. | On your iPhone. |
| Face ID | Unlocks your Private Vault if you turn this on. | Face ID is handled entirely by iOS. Freshroll never sees your face data, only whether the check passed. |
To compare photos, Freshroll computes small numeric fingerprints of each image, such as a visual hash, sharpness and brightness. To make rescans faster, it keeps a cache of these numbers inside the app on your iPhone. The cache does not contain your photos.
Information stored on your iPhone
Freshroll stores a few things in its own private storage on your iPhone. None of it is sent to us.
- Settings and progress: your detection settings, swipe-review progress, the "space freed" counter and the free-plan daily deletion count.
- Contacts backup: before each contact merge or deletion, Freshroll saves a copy of your contacts as a file inside the app. iOS data protection protects this file while your iPhone is locked. You can use it to restore contacts from within Freshroll.
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Private Vault:
- Each photo you add is encrypted with AES-256-GCM (Apple CryptoKit). The key is stored in the iOS Keychain and set to stay on this device only.
- Your vault passcode is never stored. Freshroll stores only a salted PBKDF2 hash of it, also in the Keychain.
- Repeated wrong guesses lock the vault for a growing amount of time.
- We cannot see, recover or reset the vault because we never have access to it. If you forget your passcode, we cannot recover its contents.
- The key never leaves your iPhone, so vault contents cannot be opened on another device, including a new iPhone restored from a backup.
Device backups. If you use iCloud Backup or back up to a computer, iOS may include Freshroll's app data in that backup. That includes the contacts backup and the encrypted vault files. Apple handles these backups under your device settings. We never receive them.
Deleting your data. When you delete Freshroll, iOS removes all of the app's data from your iPhone. That includes the contacts backups and the Private Vault. Vault passcode and key entries in the Keychain may remain on the device, but without the vault files they cannot be used to read anything. Photos you deleted with Freshroll can be recovered from Recently Deleted in the Photos app for 30 days.
Purchases
Freshroll Pro is sold through Apple's App Store. Apple processes all payments. We do not receive your name, email address, payment details or Apple Account information. The app checks whether you own Freshroll Pro on your device with Apple's StoreKit. Apple's privacy policy covers the purchase itself: https://www.apple.com/legal/privacy/
What we don't do
- We have no user accounts and we don't ask for your name, email address or phone number.
- We don't use analytics, advertising, attribution or crash-reporting SDKs. Freshroll includes no third-party SDKs.
- We don't track you across apps or websites, and we don't use the advertising identifier.
- We don't sell or share any data, because we don't have any.
- We don't upload your photos, contacts, calendar events or vault contents anywhere.
Information Apple may share with us
If you turn on Share with App Developers in Settings › Privacy & Security › Analytics & Improvements, Apple may share anonymised crash reports and app usage statistics with us. Apple controls this sharing and you can turn it off at any time. We use it only to fix bugs.
If you email us, we receive your email address and whatever you choose to send. We use it only to reply to you, and we delete it when it is no longer needed.
Children
Freshroll is not directed at children and does not collect personal information from anyone, including children under 13.
Changes to this policy
If this policy changes, we will update the effective date above and post the new version at this address. If Freshroll ever starts collecting data, we will update this policy and the App Store privacy label before the change ships.
Contact
Questions about privacy: kbcllc2025@gmail.com