In short
Here is the honest version in a few bullets:
- There is no btcountr account and no login.
- The app does not include third-party ad or analytics SDKs.
- Your settings, optional display name, cached price, simple local counters, and widget-related data stay on your iPhone (and your iCloud backup if you use one)—they are not sent to our servers by the app.
- To show the live price, the app requests public Bitcoin price data from our API. That request is a normal web request: it does not contain your name, email, or an advertising ID. It can include technical details such as IP address and standard headers (for example User-Agent); we use those to run the service, limit abuse, and troubleshoot—not to advertise or track you across other companies' apps or websites.
- Our API gets aggregate market prices from CoinGecko and Coinbase. Those are public market feeds, not a dossier about you.
- Purchases go through Apple. Apple may provide developers with limited or aggregate information under Apple's privacy policy; we do not receive your full payment details from Apple.
- Questions? Use Support. The form opens your mail app; anything you send uses the address you choose.
What stays on your iPhone
Examples include haptics and sound preferences, an optional name you type for display in the app, the last price so the screen can open quickly, simple local counters (such as how often you have opened the app), and data needed for the Home Screen widget. This uses iOS storage (UserDefaults, SwiftData, and the app group shared with the widget). We cannot open your phone and read this data ourselves.
When the app fetches the Bitcoin price
The app sends a GET request to our API. There is no form body with personal information. Our API runs on Cloudflare Workers with a short-lived cache (Cloudflare KV) for the latest price JSON. We apply rate limiting by IP address (stored only for a short window) so one client cannot overwhelm the service. We may log structured events (for example IP, timing, cache hits) in Cloudflare's logging tools to keep the API reliable. We do not use this to identify you as a person, build a marketing profile, or sell data.
Other companies involved
- Apple: App Store checkout, links to the App Store, and Apple's optional in-app review prompt are governed by Apple.
- Cloudflare: Hosts our API, KV cache for prices, and operational logs.
- CoinGecko and Coinbase: Supply aggregate Bitcoin USD prices to our server when we refresh data.
This website (btcountr.app)
The marketing site is static HTML. Support uses a mailto link so your own email app composes the message. Whoever hosts the site may keep ordinary web or CDN logs (such as which pages were requested and from which IP); that is separate from the iOS app.
What we do not do
- We do not sell your personal information.
- We do not run in-app advertising networks.
- We do not use cross-app or cross-site tracking for ads.
Your choices
Deleting the app removes the data it stored locally on that device. There is no btcountr cloud account to close.
Children
btcountr is a general-audience Bitcoin price app, not directed at children. Parents and guardians can use Screen Time and other iOS controls to manage use.
Changes and contact
When we update this policy, we change the Last updated date above. For privacy questions, visit https://btcountr.app/support.html.