Scribblebop Privacy Policy

Effective: 9 November 2026 Version: 1.0

1. The short version

The Scribblebop app does not collect any information from you or your child. Nothing is sent to us or to anyone else.
Everything the app does with a drawing happens on your device: finding the paper, cutting out the characters, writing the song, playing the show and making the movie.
There are no accounts, no ads, no chat, no analytics and no tracking.
Scribblebop itself sends a movie off the device only when a grown-up answers the grown-up question and chooses to send it. A movie or drawing you keep is a copy in your own photo library or gallery, which your device's own photo service may sync under your settings.
A grown-up can see exactly what is saved and delete it at any time, from the For grown-ups screen.
This website sets no cookies and runs no scripts. The web host keeps standard server logs, such as IP addresses, which we do not use to identify or track anyone.

2. Who we are

Scribblebop is made by Barakah ("we", "us").

21213B Hawthorne Boulevard #3015, Torrance, CA 90503, United States
Email for privacy questions and requests: privacy@scribblebop.com

3. Who this app is for

Scribblebop is made for children from 4 to 8 years old, and for the grown-ups who stick their art on the fridge. Because the app is meant for children, we treat everyone who uses it as a child and we keep the app free of anything we would not want a child to be asked for.

4. What stays on your device

When a child saves a show to the fridge, the app keeps only what it needs to play the show again. For each saved show that is:

a random label that tells one show from another;
the date and time it was saved;
the show's title, which is always kept: Bop picks one, or the child picks an idea chip or types up to 40 letters, so it can be a name;
a picture of the drawing's page, straightened, at most 1400 pixels;
which way up the photo goes;
where the corners of the page are in the photo;
the switches chosen on Make it yours: song, tempo, length, moves, magic and stage;
which characters were picked to dance;
a small picture of the show for the fridge;
which of our sample drawings it came from, if it was one;
which save format the show uses;
which version of Bop's cutting tools cut it, so a newer version finds the same characters again;
a number worked out from the drawing that picks its song and how its lines wobble;
where each dancing character stands on the page, so the same ones dance again;
where the star stands on the page, if the child picked one;
the color of the paper and of the table around it;
whether a grown-up chose to make the whole page dance as one picture.

The app also keeps, on the device only:

two switches on the For grown-ups screen, so they stay as you left them (music and sound effects on or off; the read-aloud button on or off);
a short problem log. When something goes wrong, the app notes a short code, the screen and the day (not the time), and keeps the last 50. It contains no pictures, names or words. It is never sent. A grown-up can read it on the For grown-ups screen, copy it into an email if they choose, or clear it;
a short timer that remembers a "rest" after three wrong answers to the grown-up question. It is cleared when the app closes.

Nothing else is remembered. All of this lives in the app's own storage on your device. We cannot see it.

5. Camera, photos and files

Camera. The app uses the camera only when a child taps "Take a photo". The photo is taken by your device's own camera (on some phones, by its own camera app), and the app receives only the finished picture. The device may ask permission first. The app never sees the camera until the photo is taken. The picture is used to make the show, and a show you save keeps only what section 4 lists. The camera's own picture file is deleted from the app's private temporary storage as soon as the app has read it. If you say no, the app still works: choose a photo or try a sample drawing.
Choosing a photo. "Pick a photo" opens the device's own photo chooser. The app receives only the picture you choose, not your other photos, and it never asks to see your whole photo library.
Location. The app does not ask for or use your location.
Not added to your photo library. The photo of a drawing is not added to your photo library by the app.
Saving. "Keep my movie" (on the movie screen) and "Save drawing" (on the For grown-ups screen, behind the grown-up question) add a file to the device's photo library or gallery. The device may ask permission to add to your photos. The app only adds: it does not read your library.

6. Sending a movie to family

"Send to family" is behind the grown-up question. It opens your device's own share sheet so a grown-up can choose who gets the movie. The movie contains the show: the drawing, its title if there is one, a Scribblebop card at the end, and the music. The text "Made with Scribblebop. Their real lines, never redrawn." goes with it where the receiving app accepts text. We do not receive the movie and we do not choose who gets it. After you send it, the app you picked and the person who receives it handle it under their own terms and privacy policies.

7. The grown-up question

Some things need a grown-up: opening the For grown-ups screen, sending a movie to family, and deleting saved shows. To open them the app asks a times question written in words, for example "What is seventeen times eight?". The question is a barrier for young children. It is not an age check, it does not identify anyone, and it is not a way of giving consent to anything. We do not store the answer.

8. Backups

On some devices Scribblebop turns the device's app backup off, so saved shows are not copied to any backup. On the others, the device may include the app's saved shows in its own backup if backup is turned on for the device. That backup is run by the device and its maker, under your settings and their policy. We do not receive it.

9. Read-aloud

The read-aloud button speaks Bop's own short sentences, such as "Show me your drawing! Take a photo of it, or pick a photo." It uses your device's own speech voice. On some devices, the speech service chosen in the device's settings may use an online voice for these sentences. Scribblebop itself sends nothing. If the device has no English speech voice, the button is not shown. Only Bop's own words are read out. Nothing a child draws, types or says is ever given to the speech voice. A grown-up can switch the button off on the For grown-ups screen.

10. What we collect, and who else is involved

The app. We collect nothing through the app. We do not receive photos, drawings, shows, titles, movies, names, email addresses, birthdates, device identifiers, IP addresses, location or contacts from it. The app does not contain advertising, analytics, crash-reporting, attribution or social-media code from other companies, and it makes no network connections.

This website. The website sets no cookies, runs no scripts and loads nothing from other sites. The web host keeps standard server logs, such as IP addresses, which we do not use to identify or track anyone.

Parts of your device that the app uses are run by the device's maker and not by us: the camera, the photo chooser, the photo library and its sync, the share sheet, speech, the system component that shows the app's screens, and backup. Their own policies cover what they do.

11. Children's privacy

Scribblebop is directed to children. We do not knowingly ask for, collect, use or share personal information from children, and the app has no way to send it to us. Because the app gives us no personal information about your child, there is nothing on our side to review, correct or delete. You are in control on the device: a grown-up can see each saved show and its stored photo, save or delete any one of them, or delete all of them, from the For grown-ups screen.

If a future version of Scribblebop ever sends anything off the device, we will say so in this policy and in the app before it ships, and we will ask a grown-up for permission in a way that is designed for that purpose before any information about a child is sent. Answering the grown-up question described in section 7 will not count as that permission.

12. How long we keep things, and how to delete them

Saved shows stay on the device until a grown-up deletes them or the app is removed. On the For grown-ups screen a grown-up can:

delete one saved show, or all of them (this cannot be undone);
clear the problem log.

Removing the app from the device removes everything it stored, including any temporary copy of a picture that it was given. Files that a grown-up saved to the photo library or the device's storage, or sent to someone else, are separate copies; delete them where they are.

If storage is blocked on the device, the app keeps shows in memory only and they go when the app closes.

13. Your rights

The app gives us no personal information about you or your child, so there is nothing to access, correct or delete on our side. Everything the app keeps lives on your device and is under your control. If you live where a law gives you rights over personal information (for example in the United States, the United Kingdom, the European Economic Area or Brazil) and you think we hold something about you, write to us at the address in section 2 and we will answer.

14. Security

Saved shows stay in the app's private storage on your device, protected by your device's own security such as its passcode. Because the app sends nothing anywhere, there is no server holding information from the app that could be breached.

15. Changes to this policy

If we change this policy we will change the effective date at the top and the version in the app. A change that affects what happens to a child's information will be made before the feature ships, and the app will tell grown-ups.

16. Contact

Questions about privacy, or a request about your information: privacy@scribblebop.com, or by post to 21213B Hawthorne Boulevard #3015, Torrance, CA 90503, United States. We reply within 72 hours, usually within 24.