Privacy Policy

Last updated: 2 November 2026

Everything you put into Strikk — your projects, photos, yarn stash, and patterns, whether typed by hand or digitised from a photo or PDF — stays on your device. Strikk has no servers, no account system, and no analytics of any kind. Nothing you enter is sent anywhere.

Pattern digitisation and AI features

Turning a pattern photo or PDF into a structured, readable pattern, and resizing a pattern to your own gauge, run entirely on your iPhone. Strikk's own pattern reader does the reading, on any iPhone that runs iOS 26. On iPhones with Apple Intelligence, an optional extra step can ask Apple's on-device model about the lines the reader set aside; that model also runs on the phone. Your pattern text and photos are never uploaded, and no part of this process involves a server of ours — because we do not have one.

What you choose to share

Two features can send information off your device, and only when you deliberately choose to use them, only to a destination you choose, and only after letting you see exactly what would leave:

• Finding patterns online opens your own web browser with a search you can review before you go — Strikk builds the search, your browser runs it under your own identity.
• Asking an AI chat to help read a pattern keeps the exact text one tap away ("See what gets sent") before anything leaves. You then choose how it leaves: copy the text and paste it into the AI chat you already use, or send the text together with the pattern file through your iPhone's share sheet, to whichever app you pick. The file is the PDF you imported, or the photos of its pages gathered into one PDF; the photos are copied without their location, camera and date details first. Strikk never talks to any AI service directly, and never sees what comes back until you bring it back yourself.

Outside of those two features, which you have to start on purpose, Strikk makes no network connection of its own.

On the Lock Screen

If you choose Show on Lock Screen, or press the Count a Row control (which puts the counter it counted there), the project's name and its two top counters, with their names, counts and reminders, appear on your Lock Screen, in the Dynamic Island and in StandBy, where anyone who can see your iPhone can read them. iOS may also show them on a paired Apple Watch, in CarPlay or on a Mac, through Apple's own features. Strikk updates them from your iPhone only, with no server involved. Remove from Lock Screen takes them off.

The Count a Row control and Siri (“Count a row in Strikk”) change one counter on your iPhone and send nothing anywhere. They are made to work on a locked iPhone, so anyone holding it could move a counter by one, and Siri can say a counter's name and count aloud. Siri handles your voice as it always does, under Apple's privacy policy; Strikk receives only the request.

Camera and photos

Strikk uses the camera to photograph yarn labels. Photos are read on your device and never uploaded. Choosing photos from your library — a label, or the pages of a pattern — works the same way: Strikk only ever sees the photos you pick.

Purchases

Purchases are handled entirely by Apple. Strikk receives only whether Strikk Pro was purchased; it never sees your payment details, and it has no way to identify you.

Network

Strikk works fully offline. Beyond the two features described above, which you start yourself, it makes no network requests of its own.

Children

Strikk contains no objectionable content, and because it collects no data from anyone, it collects no data from children either.

Changes to this policy

If this policy ever changes, the date at the top of this page changes with it. Strikk collecting nothing is a design decision rather than a current setting, so a change here would mean a change to the product, described honestly rather than folded quietly into an update.

Questions

Email mtomasgaard+strikk@gmail.com.