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Privacy policy

Last updated 10 November 2026

Bubbletin reads the iPhone backups on your computer, and does it all there, without an account: your backups, and what Bubbletin shows you and saves from them, stay on your computer. This policy says what Bubbletin and its website keep, and why. "We" and "us" are Bubbletin, the business that makes it, as in the license agreement.

1. What Bubbletin keeps on your computer

Bubbletin keeps these on your computer:

  • The free trial: when it started, and the latest time Bubbletin has seen. Bubbletin signs it with an ID that macOS or Windows gives your computer, so it only counts on the computer it started on. The ID isn't kept with it or sent anywhere.
  • Your license, once you've entered it in Bubbletin's window: the license key, the email address it was bought with, which the window shows, and when Lemon Squeezy last said it's good. It's signed and kept with the free trial.
  • The log, which helps track down problems. It notes when Bubbletin starts and its version, its checks for updates and what they found, the trial and the license, though not its key, and anything that goes wrong. Once it's over about 1 MB, Bubbletin starts a new one and keeps only the one before.

The free trial and your license are in Bubbletin's folder (~/Library/Application Support/Bubbletin on a Mac, %APPDATA%\Bubbletin on Windows) and where macOS or Windows keeps Bubbletin's settings. The log is at ~/Library/Logs/Bubbletin.log on a Mac and %LOCALAPPDATA%\Bubbletin\Bubbletin.log on Windows. None of it leaves your computer unless you send it to us yourself, such as the log when you ask for help, but for your license key, which Bubbletin sends to Lemon Squeezy as section 2 says.

Bubbletin never keeps the password of an encrypted backup. What you save from a backup goes where you choose, and is yours.

On a Mac, Bubbletin asks macOS for Full Disk Access, since macOS keeps the folder your iPhone's backups are in behind it, and uses it only to read iPhone backups. On Windows it needs no special permission. It doesn't look at your screen, your other files or what you type.

2. What Bubbletin sends over the internet

Bubbletin never sends your backups, or anything in them, anywhere. It contacts only two places: our update server, and Lemon Squeezy once you've bought it.

Updates. Bubbletin contacts our update server a minute after it starts and every six hours after that, to check for updates and download them. Each check says which version you have, with a random ID made when Bubbletin was installed, which lets an update go out to some computers before others. Like any website, the server sees your IP address. We don't keep a record of the checks.

Your license. When you enter a license key, Bubbletin sends it to Lemon Squeezy, which sells Bubbletin for us, to activate it on that computer. With it goes only whether it's a Mac or a Windows PC, which labels the activation so that you and we can tell your computers apart, and no other identifying information. After that, about once a day while Bubbletin runs, it asks Lemon Squeezy whether the license is still good, with the key and the activation's ID, and Deactivate sends them to free the activation. Like any website, Lemon Squeezy sees your IP address.

That's all. Bubbletin has no analytics, crash reports, ads or tracking, and the free trial sends nothing, since it's kept on your computer.

3. The website

This website has no analytics, ads or tracking, and sets no cookies of its own. Everything its pages show, fonts included, comes from the site itself.

  • Cloudflare hosts the site, the downloads and the update server for us. Like any host, it sees your IP address and what you ask for, to send it to you and to keep the site safe from attacks. It shows us totals, such as how many visits and downloads there were and from which countries, but not who they were from. Its privacy policy covers the rest.
  • The waitlist. If you join it, we keep your email address and when you joined, in storage Cloudflare runs for us, to email you once, when Bubbletin is out, and for nothing else. We share it only with the email service we send that email with, and delete the list once it's sent. To leave the list before then, email us.

4. When you buy Bubbletin

Lemon Squeezy sells Bubbletin for us, as its reseller and merchant of record, so the checkout is Lemon Squeezy's. It collects what it needs to take your payment and charge the right tax, such as your name, email address, billing address and card details, and its privacy policy covers what it does with them. We never see your card details.

Lemon Squeezy shares with us your name, email address and country, what you bought and for how much, and your license key with the computers it's active on. We use them to send you your purchase, answer you, make refunds, turn off a key that's misused (see the license agreement) and keep the records the law asks of a business, and for nothing else unless you agree to it.

5. When you email us

If you email us, we keep your message, your address and anything you send with it, such as your log, to answer you and help with what you asked. We keep them only for as long as we need them for that.

6. How long it's kept

  • We keep emails only for as long as we need them to help you.
  • We keep the waitlist until we've emailed it that Bubbletin is out, and then delete it.
  • We keep the record of a purchase for as long as tax and accounting law asks a business to.
  • Cloudflare and Lemon Squeezy keep what they collect for as long as their own policies say.
  • What Bubbletin keeps on your computer stays there until you delete it.

7. Your rights

What Bubbletin keeps on your computer is yours to delete at any time. You can ask us what we have about you, and ask us to correct it, send you a copy or delete it, and we'll answer within a month.

Depending on where you live, such as in the EU or the UK, you may have other rights over your data too, such as to object to how we use it or to complain to your data protection authority. Nothing in this policy takes them away.

8. Changes

We'll post any change to this policy on this page, with its date. Before Bubbletin sends more over the internet than section 2 says, and before the site has analytics of its own, this policy will say what that shares, and with whom.

9. Contact

Questions? Email us at hello@bubbletin.com.