Bedtime Tales ("the app") is a bedtime story app for children, developed by Karya Boyraz, an independent developer based in Turkey. You can reach us at karya.poyraz@gmail.com.
The app stores everything locally on your device using Apple's standard SwiftData persistence:
None of this data is uploaded, synced, or shared with us or any third party.
Story text is written by our story-generation service. When you create a story, the app sends only anonymous story settings over an encrypted (HTTPS) connection:
Your child's name and the companion's name are never sent. The service returns a story with placeholders, and the names are filled in on your device. The returned story is stored only on your device. If the service is unreachable, the app falls back to fully on-device story templates.
All page illustrations are generated by Apple ImagePlayground on your device. Read-aloud uses Apple's built-in AVSpeechSynthesizer on your device.
If you start the 7-day free trial or buy a subscription, the transaction is handled entirely by Apple's StoreKit. Apple sees the transaction; we see only the entitlement state ("is this user a subscriber, yes or no") via on-device validation. We never receive your payment information, name, billing address, or Apple ID.
You can cancel at any time from your device's Settings → [your name] → Subscriptions, or from inside the app via Parent Space → Manage.
To understand how the app is used and improve it, the app sends anonymous usage events to our own server (hosted on Cloudflare): when a session starts and ends, its duration, and the names of screens or features used. Each event is tied only to a random identifier created when the app is installed, plus the app version and device language. The country is derived from the connection on the server; IP addresses are not stored. No name, age, profile, story content or other personal information is ever included. This data is not linked to you or your child, not used for advertising or tracking, never sold or shared with any third party, and kept for at most 24 months. Deleting the app deletes the random identifier.
We do not use third-party analytics, crash reporting, advertising IDs, attribution SDKs, or any tracking technology. The app does not use the App Tracking Transparency framework because there is nothing to track.
This app is designed for use by parents to create bedtime stories for their children. We do not knowingly collect any personal information from anyone — including children. The app is compliant with Apple's Kids Category guidelines and uses a parent-gate (arithmetic challenge) before opening the Parent Space or showing purchase options.
The app makes network requests only to (a) Apple's servers (App Store, StoreKit, model availability checks) and (b) our story-generation service described in section 3 and (c) our own anonymous usage-statistics endpoint described in section 5. The app contains no third-party SDKs that "phone home," no advertising SDKs, and no analytics SDKs.
Because we collect no personal data, there is nothing for us to access, correct, export, or delete on your behalf; the anonymous statistics in section 5 cannot be linked back to you. To remove the app's local data, simply delete the app from your device.
If our practices ever change in a way that involves collecting or sharing data, we will update this page and post a note in the app's "What's New" section before the change takes effect.
Questions? Concerns? Email karya.poyraz@gmail.com.