Privacy Policy
Typelace styles your text on your device. It has no Typelace accounts and contains no analytics, advertising, or tracking code. Apple’s iCloud carries your Settings switches between your devices when available. The developer never receives those switches or the text you type, copy, or share.
This policy covers the Typelace app for iPhone and iPad, its Share extension, and the Typelace keyboard. Typelace is made by Gary Neitzke, referred to here as “the developer.”
What Typelace collects
Typelace sends no text or Settings switch values to the developer. It contains no third-party SDKs, ad networks, or analytics services. Apple’s iCloud handles the settings synchronization described below; the developer cannot access those preferences and does not sell or share them.
Your text and History
The text you type is kept in memory while Typelace is open. It isn’t saved.
When you copy a result, Typelace adds it to History, which keeps your 50 most recent copies. Each entry holds the copied text, the style and decoration you used, and when you copied it.
History, your favorite looks (styles and optional decorations), and your settings are stored on your device in a container that the app shares with its Share extension and keyboard. Like other app data, they are included in your device backups.
Settings and iCloud
The main app uses Apple’s iCloud to sync six switches: Haptics, Bold Digits in Script Styles, Scroll Long Previews, Show Unsupported Glyphs, Hide Lookalike Styles, and Screen Reader Notice. Only their on or off values are sent. Changes made through the Share extension are passed to the main app for syncing when it next runs and the same iCloud identity is available.
Without an available iCloud identity, changes stay on this device. Text, History, favorites, keyboard backgrounds, photos, and whether you have seen the screen reader notice are not part of this sync. The developer has no access to these iCloud preferences.
Clipboard
Typelace writes to the clipboard only when you copy something. It reads the clipboard only when you paste, with the Paste button or the Paste command.
Share extension
When you share text to Typelace from another app, the extension receives only the text you chose to share. When you pick a style, it copies the result and adds it to History. The text you shared isn’t saved.
Keyboard
The Typelace keyboard doesn’t request Full Access, so iOS doesn’t let it connect to the network or use the clipboard.
The keyboard briefly reads text around the cursor to place and follow frames and to capitalize letters when the text field requests it. It uses text only in memory, never saves it, and never sends it over the network.
Word suggestions come from Apple’s spelling checker, which runs on your device. It checks only the word you are typing, or just typed, with the Typelace keyboard. Typelace keeps that word and its suggestions in memory and never saves them, adds them to the checker's dictionary, or sends them anywhere. A suggestion you tap while typing into an app only adds letters. A spelling fix changes only the keyboard's draft, before you tap Insert.
The keyboard reads your favorite looks (styles and optional decorations) and settings and its background from the app so it can show them. Fonts insert as you type, and so do most frames you start at the beginning of a field. Other frames, and flips and spacers, go in when you tap Insert.
If you choose a keyboard background, Typelace keeps keyboard-sized copies of it in its shared app container so the keyboard can show it. If the background is your own photo, Typelace also keeps a resized copy of that photo, without its location or other metadata, so you can adjust the crop later; that copy may be included in your device backups. Typelace does not upload your photos. Remove Photo deletes the copies on this device. The keyboard reads the copies and cannot change them.
Crash reports and diagnostics
Typelace has no crash-reporting service of its own.
iOS can give an app reports about its own crashes, hangs, and resource use through Apple’s MetricKit. Typelace writes these reports to your device’s system log and never sends them anywhere.
If you’ve turned on Share With App Developers in Settings › Privacy & Security › Analytics & Improvements, Apple may send the developer crash and performance reports. If you test a beta through TestFlight, TestFlight sends crash reports and any feedback you submit.
Crash and diagnostic reports don’t include the text you type. They describe the app’s state, such as the code that was running when it crashed.
Deleting your data
- To remove one History entry, swipe it left.
- To remove all of History, tap Clear All in History.
- To remove a favorite, tap its star.
- Deleting Typelace removes its local data, including History, favorites, and settings, from your device. It does not delete the Settings switch values already stored in iCloud; those may return if you reinstall.
Copies in device backups made before you deleted something are kept or removed according to your backup settings.
Children
Typelace collects no personal information from anyone, including children under 13.
Changes to this policy
If Typelace starts handling data differently, this page and the policy inside the app will be updated before that version is released, and the effective date above will change.
Contact
Questions about this policy: [email protected].