TripSnap records where you drove. That is about as sensitive as phone data gets, which is why the app was built with nowhere to send it. TripSnap has no account system and no server of its own. Your trips exist in one place — the device in your hand — until you export them. The only services it talks to are Apple's: geocoding, maps and the App Store.
Last updated: 09/03/2026
The short version
- We collect nothing. Not anonymised, not aggregated, not "for product improvement".
- There is no account and nothing to sign in to.
- There is no employer dashboard, and no way for one to exist — there is no server for it to read from.
- No analytics SDKs, no advertising SDKs, no crash-reporting services, no third-party trackers of any kind.
- Your trip log leaves your device only when you export it or email it. Separately, Apple receives what its own services need: two coordinates per trip to name the address (you can turn this off), the map area being drawn, and your subscription. See What Apple receives.
What TripSnap stores, and where
All of the following is written to TripSnap's own database inside the app's private storage on your device, protected by iOS file-level encryption when the device is locked:
| Data | Why it exists |
|---|---|
| Trips — start and end times, distance, start and end coordinates and addresses, purpose, note, vehicle, tolls and parking, how the trip was detected, whether it's been submitted | The mileage log itself, and the source of every report |
| Route points — periodic coordinates sampled while you drive | Measuring distance, drawing the route map, and evidencing that a business trip was really driven |
| Vehicles — the name you gave a car, its CarPlay or Bluetooth audio identifier, fuel or energy type, economy and price | Recognising your car, and estimating running costs |
| Places — a Home and an Office coordinate with a match radius | Separating your commute from reimbursable business driving |
| Schedules and shifts — working windows, and clock-on/clock-off records with platform tags and earnings | Pre-labelling work drives, and per-shift economics for gig drivers |
| Settings — worker mode, mileage rate, your name for the report header, manager email, pay period and payday anchor, units, currency, odometer readings | Building a report that matches how you actually get paid |
The manager email address you save is stored on your device and used to pre-fill a mail composer. It is never transmitted to us, because there is no "us" to transmit it to.
Permissions, and exactly what each is used for
| Permission | Used for | Not used for |
|---|---|---|
| Location (When In Use and Always) | Recording where you drove and how far, including in the background so a drive that starts with the app closed is still captured. | Advertising, profiling, geofenced marketing, or sharing with anyone. |
| Motion & Fitness | Detecting that driving has started or stopped, so trips begin and end in the right place. | Fitness tracking, health inference, or step counting. |
| Bluetooth | Reading whether Bluetooth is powered on, so TripSnap can warn you that your car stereo won't be recognised. TripSnap identifies your car from the audio route your phone already has. You're asked only after you save a Bluetooth-audio car; CarPlay-only users never see the prompt. | Scanning for nearby devices, connecting to devices, or proximity tracking. TripSnap performs no Bluetooth scan of any kind. |
| Notifications | The classify prompt after a drive, the weekly classify reminder, and the unclaimed-mileage warning. All are composed and scheduled on the device. | Marketing messages. There is no push server. |
What Apple receives
Three of Apple's services run behind TripSnap. Each is the standard iOS one — there is no TripSnap layer in between — and each receives only what it needs to do its job:
- Geocoding. When a trip ends, its start and end coordinates are sent to Apple's geocoding service to become street addresses; an address you type into Places is sent the same way to become a coordinate. TripSnap never sees or keeps either — the result is written straight to your local trip. Your route is never sent. Settings › Tracking › Look up addresses turns this off, after which trip endpoints stay unnamed and nothing else changes: distance, pay and exports are unaffected.
- Maps. Trip and route maps are drawn by Apple Maps, which fetches map tiles for the area shown. Viewing a map therefore tells Apple which area is being drawn, the same as any Maps view on your phone.
- The App Store. TripSnap Pro is sold and billed through the App Store. TripSnap reads only a signed receipt on the device to know whether Pro is active; it never sees your payment details, and your subscription is managed in your Apple Account settings, not by us.
All of this is covered by Apple's privacy policy, not ours, because none of it passes through anything we operate.
What TripSnap does not do
- No TripSnap server. The app has no backend of ours to talk to and no analytics. The only network traffic is to Apple's own services, described above.
- No account, no login, no sign-in with anything.
- No cloud sync. Your log is not mirrored to iCloud by TripSnap, and no copy exists outside the device except the backups you choose to make.
- No analytics or telemetry. We do not know how many trips you record, which features you use, or whether you opened the app today.
- No advertising. No ad SDKs, no identifiers for advertisers, no App Tracking Transparency prompt, because there is nothing to track.
- No data sales or sharing. We have no data to sell.
- No employer visibility. Your employer receives the report you email them. They cannot see your routes, your live position, your personal trips, or anything you did not put in that report.
Exports, email, and the moment your log leaves
Apart from the Apple services above, your trip log leaves your phone in two ways, and you initiate both:
- Export. You generate a PDF, CSV, JSON or GeoJSON file and hand it to iOS's share sheet — to save to Files, AirDrop, or send to another app. Where it goes from there is governed by whatever app or service you chose.
- Send to manager. TripSnap opens Apple's mail composer with the report attached and your saved manager address filled in. You press send, from your own mail account. TripSnap cannot send mail on your behalf and never sends anything silently.
Note that a GeoJSON export contains full route geometry. Share that one deliberately — a PDF or CSV report contains distances, addresses and purposes, but no route.
Widgets and Live Activities
The home-screen widget and the Live Activity that appears while you're driving read a small summary — today's distance, the active trip's progress, tracking-health status — from a private container shared between the app and its widget extension on the same device. Nothing about them involves a network or a remote service. iOS renders a Live Activity on your Lock Screen and Dynamic Island; the content is generated on the device.
Your data, your control
- See it: every trip, point and setting is visible in the app.
- Correct it: edit any trip's date, distance, purpose, vehicle or note; delete individual trips or route data.
- Take it: export the whole log as CSV or JSON at any time, in an open format.
- Erase it: deleting TripSnap removes its database and everything in it. Because no copy exists anywhere else, deletion is immediate, complete and irreversible — there is no request to file with us and no retention period to wait out. Deleting the app does not cancel a TripSnap Pro subscription — manage that in your Apple Account settings.
The same design that makes deletion absolute also means we cannot recover your data for you. If the device is lost and you have no export and no device backup, the log is gone. Keep periodic exports.
Children
TripSnap is a business tool for licensed drivers and is not directed at children. We knowingly collect no personal information from anyone, of any age, because we collect none at all.
Not tax or legal advice
TripSnap records mileage and applies published rates to it. It does not provide tax, accounting or legal advice, and the figures it produces are a record for you and your employer or tax preparer to rely on at their discretion — not a determination of what you are owed or what you may claim.
Changes to this policy
If TripSnap's data practices ever change — for example, if an optional backup feature is added — this policy will be updated before that version ships. (The 09/03/2026 revision added the "What Apple receives" section and the TripSnap Pro subscription, and corrected an earlier statement that address lookup happened on the device — it does not; the two endpoint coordinates go to Apple.) Any such change is also described in the app's release notes rather than buried here. The "last updated" date above always reflects the current version.
Contact
Twisted Data Studios
Email: support@twisteddatastudios.com
Questions about this policy, or about anything the app does with your data, are welcome. See also the TripSnap support page and the studio terms of use.