The short version: nothing leaves your phone
Privacy policy
Effective 6 July 2026
What the app does with your data
SkyPocket reads your phone's sensors (GPS, barometer, motion) to show live readouts and to record flights you choose to record. All of it is processed on your phone and stored only on your phone, in the app's own storage. There is no account, no sign-in, no analytics, no advertising, and no server: the world map, airport list and country facts ship inside the app, so it never needs a connection.
Permissions, and why they are asked for
- Location: live speed, altitude, track and the moving map, and recording flights. Background location runs only during a recording you start, and stops when the flight ends.
- Motion and fitness: the barometer and motion chip, for cabin pressure altitude, g-force and turbulence.
- Notifications: one local alert, so a locked phone can tell you it detected your landing.
- Camera and photo library (optional): stamping a photo with your flight stats. Saving uses add-only access to your library.
Every permission is optional. Decline any of them and the rest of the app keeps working.
What leaves your phone
Only what you choose to share, when you share it: a flight card image, a stamped photo, or a CSV export sent through the standard iOS share sheet to an app you pick. SkyPocket itself transmits nothing.
Deleting your data
Your recorded flights live in the app's storage. Delete a flight in the app to remove it, or delete the app to remove everything at once. There is nothing to delete anywhere else, because nothing was ever sent anywhere else.
Children
SkyPocket collects no data from anyone, children included.
Changes
If this policy ever changes, the new version will appear at this address with a new effective date. Given the app's design, the honest prediction is that it will not.
Contact
Questions about privacy: john@codebelfast.com