ShipHound
Privacy Policy
ShipHound is an iPhone app that keeps your distracting apps locked until you ship something that grows your app. There is no account. Almost everything stays on your phone. What leaves it: the ship you type, your goal, and the proof you choose to submit, sent to be judged and not stored, plus anonymous subscription data for the paywall.
No account, no tracking
ShipHound has no sign-up and no login. We do not collect your name, email address, contacts, or location. The app contains no advertising and no analytics trackers of our own.
What stays on your phone
- The apps you lock. You pick them in Apple’s Screen Time picker. Apple hands ShipHound opaque tokens and counts, never app names or icons. This selection never leaves your phone. Apple’s rules for the Screen Time API forbid it, and we could not read it anyway.
- Your setup. Your ship hours, your goal, and the one-line description of your app.
- Your ship log. Each task you shipped, the judge’s label for it, and when.
- Session state. The running session, the reward window, and your settings.
All of it lives in the app’s own storage on your device and is deleted when you delete the app.
What leaves your phone, and why
Three features need a server: the ship check, the coach, and proof verification. For these, the app sends the following to our server, a Cloudflare Worker, which passes it to Anthropic’s Claude API to produce the verdict:
- Ship check. The task you typed, your goal, and your app description.
- Coach. Your goal, your app description, and your recent ship log, up to the last 15 ships.
- Proof. The proof agreed up front, plus the screenshot or photo you picked, resized to at most 1600 pixels on its longest side.
We do not store any of it. The image is judged once and discarded. The verdict comes back to your phone and is kept there, not with us. Anthropic processes the content to generate the response under its commercial API terms and does not use it to train its models. Our server keeps short-lived technical logs (time, IP address, response status) to rate-limit and debug requests, never the content.
Screenshots and photos
ShipHound only sees the one image you pick for a proof, through Apple’s picker. It does not scan your photo library. The camera is used only when you choose to take a proof photo.
Payments and the paywall
Subscriptions are sold through Apple’s App Store. Apple handles payment, and we never see your card details. The paywall and your subscription status are managed with Superwall, a third-party service. Superwall receives an anonymous, app-generated ID, basic device details (model, iOS version, language, time zone), which paywall you saw, and whether you subscribed. It never receives your locked apps, your ship hours, your ships, or your proofs. If ShipHound comes to Android, Google Play will handle payment the same way.
Children
ShipHound is for adults building apps and is not directed at children under 13. We do not knowingly collect personal data from children.
Your rights
Because we hold no personal data about you, there is nothing for us to export, correct, or delete. To remove everything ShipHound stored, delete the app. For a question or a request under the GDPR, the CCPA, or another privacy law, email hello@shiphound.app.
Changes
If this policy changes, the new version will be posted here with a new date.