Privacy Policy

Last updated: July 24, 2026

ChoreBlock is built by Scarabyte. The app locks distracting apps until you complete a household chore, verified by a live photo. This policy explains what data the app touches and — more importantly — what it never keeps.

The short version: your chore photos are checked and immediately deleted, your app-usage settings never leave your phone, and we don't have user accounts, ads, or data sales. Ever.

Chore photos

When you verify a chore, the photo you take is sent over an encrypted connection to our verification service, where an AI model compares it to your reference photo and returns a pass/fail result. The photo is discarded immediately after the check — it is never stored on a server, never logged, never used to train AI models, and never seen by a human. Your reference (baseline) photos are stored only on your device.

Capture is camera-only: the app has no access to your photo library.

Screen Time data

ChoreBlock uses Apple's Screen Time (Family Controls) framework to lock and unlock the apps you choose. Apple's design keeps this data private by architecture: the list of apps you block is held in opaque tokens that ChoreBlock cannot read and that never leave your device. We cannot see which apps you block or how you use your phone.

Purchases

Subscriptions are processed by Apple and managed through RevenueCat, our subscription infrastructure provider. RevenueCat receives an anonymous app-generated identifier and purchase receipts — never your name, email, or photos. See RevenueCat's privacy policy.

Crash reports

We use Sentry to collect crash reports and performance data so we can fix bugs. These reports contain technical details about the crash (device model, OS version, what the app was doing) — never photos or personal information. See Sentry's privacy policy.

What we don't do

No user accounts — nothing to sign up for, nothing to breach
No ads and no third-party ad tracking
No selling or sharing of personal data
No location tracking, step counting, or motion sensors
No photo storage of any kind on our servers

Data retention & deletion

Because chore photos are discarded at verification time and your settings live only on your device, deleting the app deletes your data. There is no server-side profile to remove.

Children

ChoreBlock is designed for adults managing their own screen time and is not directed at children under 13.

Changes to this policy

If we change this policy, we'll update this page and the date above. Material changes will be called out in the app's release notes.

Contact

Questions? Email privacy@choreblock.app.