Privacy Policy

Last updated October 14, 2026

Doodlebug turns one of your photos into a short moving picture: Live, Effects or Draw. This page says what we keep, why, who else sees it and when it is deleted. Doodlebug is made by GroupUltra Limited.

What we keep

• Your account. When you first open the app we create an account with no name or email. If you sign in, we keep the identifier Apple or Google gives us and the name and email they share; with email sign-in we keep your email and a one-way hash of your password, never the password itself.
• Your doodles. The photo you choose, your sketch and the words you type in "what is it?", and the doodle we make from them.
• Your phone. A notification token, so we can tell you when a doodle is ready, and whether you want that. To give free doodles only once per phone we use Apple's DeviceCheck, which stores one yes/no bit with Apple and no identifier of yours.
• Your plan. Apple tells us whether your Doodlebug Pro subscription is active and when it renews. We never see your payment details.
• What you send us. Reports about a doodle and messages through Contact us.

We do not use advertising trackers and we do not sell your data.

AI services that see your content

To make a doodle we send content to AI services, only for that purpose:

• OpenAI checks your photo before an AI doodle is made from it, and before a link to a free doodle is first shared. Free doodles you keep to yourself are made on your phone and their photo is not sent to any AI service. To make a Draw doodle it sees only your sketch and your words, never your photo: it reads your sketch to pick what it could become, draws your sticker from it, and describes and checks the sticker.
• xAI (Grok) makes the 5-second Live video from your photo.

Your photos and sketches are used only for your doodle, never to train AI: these services may not use them to train their models, and neither do we.

The app asks before the first time any of this happens, names the services in use, and asks again if they change.

Sharing

A link to a doodle is made only when you share it. Anyone with the link can see that doodle; links are random, never listed and never indexed by search engines. For a free doodle, which is put together on your phone, the app uploads its short video when you first share it, so the page can show it. The video and image on a shared page carry no location or capture time.

Deleting a doodle stops its link at once. Deleting your data or your account stops every link you shared at once too: by the time the app says everything is deleted, the pages and their videos and images no longer open.

When it is deleted

• A photo you pick but don't use: within 24 hours.
• A doodle you delete: its photo and result within 24 hours.
• Your account or your data, when you delete it in the app: the links you shared stop at once, everything else within 24 hours, and we revoke the Apple or Google sign-in. Deleting your account does not cancel a subscription; do that in your Apple account settings.
• An account that never signed in and has not been opened for 12 months: deleted with its doodles and links.
• Reports and Contact us messages: after 12 months.
• How many Pro doodles a subscription used this month stays with the Apple subscription, without your account, so the monthly limit still holds.

Where

Our servers and storage are in the United States.

Children

Doodlebug is not meant for children under 13, and we do not knowingly keep their data.

Questions

Use Contact us in the app's settings. If this policy changes, we update this page and the date above.