Privacy
Last updated: October 29, 2026
Short version: your photos never leave your iPhone. Forkpin keeps a small backup of the restaurants you stamp, tied to an account with no email or password. You can delete everything at any time.
Your photos
Forkpin reads your photo library on your iPhone to find meals: when and where a photo was taken, and whether it shows food. All of this, including the AI that looks at photos, runs on your iPhone. No photo is ever uploaded.
Finding restaurants
To name the restaurant at a spot, Forkpin asks Apple Maps which places are near that spot. Apple receives the location of the place being looked up, not your photos. Apple's own privacy policy applies to Apple Maps.
Your account and backup
On first use Forkpin creates an account without an email, phone number or password. It is stored in your iCloud Keychain so it comes back if you reinstall the app or move to a new iPhone. The backup holds, for each stamp you confirm:
- restaurant name, cuisine, guide award (if any), city and country
- the date
- a rough location (about 100 m), so the stamp can be put on your map again
It also holds the name you choose to show friends, your invite code and your yearly totals (tables, cuisines, cities, stars). The backup can be turned off in Settings.
Friends and challenges
Nothing is shared with anyone until you turn Friends on. Then the friends you add, and people in challenges you join, can see your name, your stamps (restaurant, cuisine, city, date) and your yearly totals. They never see locations. Turn Friends off and they stop seeing you.
Who stores it
The backup and Friends data are stored with Supabase, our database provider, protected so each account can only read its own data and what friends have chosen to share. Purchases are handled by Apple; Forkpin never sees your payment details.
What Forkpin doesn't do
- No ads and no advertising trackers.
- No selling or sharing of your data with anyone else.
- No tracking across other apps or websites.
Deleting your data
In the app: Settings → Delete all data. This removes your stamps, backup, account and friends from your iPhone and from our servers. Your photos are not touched.
Contact
Questions: [email protected]