OwnClean — Your data

OwnClean collects no data.

OwnClean has no servers of its own and no analytics, advertising or tracking of any kind. Your photos never leave your device because of anything OwnClean does.

The app asks for access to your photo library, because that is what it works on. It reads your photos to measure their sizes, compare them with each other, and show them to you for review. It does not copy them anywhere, and it cannot send them anywhere.

What it stores on your device:

A scan index — sizes, dates, sharpness measurements and a small numeric fingerprint per photo, used to find duplicates and near-identical shots. It holds no images. It is a cache, and deleting the app removes it.
Your deletion queue and history — what you have staged for deletion, and a 30-day note of what was deleted so the app can tell you what is still recoverable.
Screenshot readings — the kind of screenshot and one short line to recognise it by. The recognised text itself is never stored.
Folder and drive access you granted — a bookmark to the folder you chose for exports, so a long export survives closing the app.
A record of what was copied to a drive — for each exported file, its path on the drive, its checksum, and the date, place, favourite mark and albums it had. This is what lets a second export copy only what is new, and what lets the import put your library back the way it was.
A record of what was brought back — the checksum of each restored file and the photo it became, so bringing the same archive in twice does not create a second copy of everything.
No ads, and no advertising identifiers.
No analytics or usage tracking.
No third-party SDKs that collect data.
No account, email or password.
No location or contact access.
No selling or sharing of your data with anyone.

Text recognition on screenshots runs on your device using Apple's own frameworks. Nothing is sent for processing.

On the App Store, OwnClean's privacy label reads Data Not Collected.

For the full detail, see the Privacy Policy.