Stricksy Privacy Policy

Last updated: 12 October 2026

Stricksy is a knitting row counter for iPhone. This policy describes what the app does with your data. In short: your projects, patterns and questions stay on your iPhone, and usage statistics are only sent if you agree.

Data on your device

• Projects: name, rows counted, counters (repeats, decreases and increases), stitch count, notes, yarn colors, the kind of piece and the time you last counted are stored on your iPhone, in storage that only Stricksy and its widgets can read.
• Patterns: when you import a pattern, Stricksy stores the recognized text in the app's private storage so you can read it again in the project. Stricksy does not keep the photos, scans or files themselves. Copies that iOS creates when you pick a photo or file sit in the app's cache and are removed by iOS. When you delete the last project that belongs to a pattern, its text is deleted too.
• Questions to Stricksy: conversations in the "Frag Stricksy" chat are kept in memory only and are gone as soon as the app is closed.
• Settings: your appearance choice (light, dark, automatic) and your answer about usage statistics.
• If you back up your iPhone to iCloud or a computer, this data is part of that backup. You set up the backup in iOS yourself; Stricksy has no access to it.
• Stricksy has no user accounts and no server of its own. We cannot see your projects or patterns.

Processing on the device

Text recognition in photos, scans and PDF files runs on your iPhone with Apple's Vision and PDFKit frameworks. On iPhones with Apple Intelligence turned on, Stricksy uses Apple's on-device language model to create counters from a pattern and to answer your questions in the chat. Images, texts and questions do not leave the device in these steps.

Lock Screen, Control Center and Action Button

When you turn on "Auf dem Sperrbildschirm", a Live Activity shows the project name and the current row on the Lock Screen and in the Dynamic Island, so it is also visible to people who see your locked iPhone. The "Reihe +1" control in Control Center, on the Lock Screen and on the Action Button counts in the project you opened last. These features run on your iPhone and send nothing.

Videos and copying for other assistants

• Chat answers can suggest a matching YouTube video. Stricksy only shows its title and channel and loads nothing from YouTube. Only when you tap the video does it open in the YouTube app or in Safari; Google's privacy policy applies then.
• "Für KI-Chat kopieren" puts your pattern, the project status (with the project name, counters and note) and the conversation so far on your iPhone's clipboard. Stricksy sends nothing in this step. You decide where you paste it; the terms of that service apply there.

Permissions

• Camera: to scan the pages of a pattern. Requested only when you start a scan.
• Photos: to import photos or screenshots of a pattern. Stricksy only reads the photos you select.
• Files: Stricksy only reads the PDF or text file you select. No permission is needed for this.

Usage statistics

Usage statistics are off after installation. Once you have created a project, the app asks once whether you want to share them. You can change your answer at any time under Settings, Privacy. Nothing is sent before you agree.

If you agree, Stricksy sends the following to PostHog (PostHog Inc., EU Cloud with servers in Frankfurt am Main, Germany), our processor for usage statistics under a data processing agreement:

• a random identifier that is not linked to you or to your Apple Account;
• app version, iOS version, device model, language and whether Apple Intelligence is available;
• which screens are opened and which features are used, with numbers such as the row count or the number of counters, without any content;
• when something fails: the kind of error and its technical code, and crash reports with technical stack traces.

Stricksy never sends project names, notes, the text or images of your patterns, your questions or the chat's answers. Your IP address is technically needed for the transfer, but PostHog does not store it.

The legal basis is your consent (Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR and Section 25(1) of the German TDDDG), which you can withdraw at any time in Settings. Withdrawing stops any further transfer. PostHog keeps data that was already sent for at most 12 months and then deletes it. Usage statistics are never used for advertising and are not used to track you across other apps or websites.

Sharing data

Stricksy does not sell your data and does not share it with third parties, with these exceptions:

• PostHog receives the usage statistics described above, only with your consent.
• YouTube (Google) receives your request when you open a suggested video.

Children

Stricksy is not directed at children under 13 and does not knowingly collect data from them.

Your rights

You have the right to access, rectify and erase your data, to restrict processing and to object, to data portability, to withdraw your consent, and to lodge a complaint with a data protection supervisory authority. Because Stricksy stores your projects only on your device, you exercise most of these rights directly in the app: delete a project by swiping it to the left on the home screen; deleting the app removes everything. For usage statistics, contact the address below.

Changes

If this policy changes, the updated version is published with a new date at the same address.

Controller and contact

Responsible for Stricksy and this policy under the GDPR:

Simon Gneuß
Birkenweg 6
09569 Oederan
Germany
info@simongneuss.com