Name Sprout

Privacy Policy

Effective September 30, 2026

Who I am

Name Sprout is made by Quint Bailey, an independent developer. “I” and “me” in this policy mean me. You can reach me at help@quint.design.

What stays on your phone

These are stored only on your device and are never sent anywhere:

• The names you pass on and the names you block.
• Your filters, appearance and gesture settings, and the rest of the app’s preferences.
• What the home-screen widget shows, and ratings you make from it before the app picks them up.

When the app says a name out loud, it uses your phone’s built-in voice. Nothing is recorded or sent.

What goes to your iCloud

To keep your phones in step, Name Sprout saves some things in your own private iCloud account using Apple’s CloudKit:

• The names you like and super like.
• Names you add yourself, with the details you typed for them.
• How names are shown to you (a family name to try them with, and which order).
• The first name you enter in My Info, how many names you’ve passed on, and which name origins you’ve chosen.
• How many super likes you have left.

This is stored in your iCloud account, not on any server of mine, and I can’t see it. It stays there until you remove it. Apple’s privacy policy covers how iCloud keeps it. If you’re not signed in to iCloud, it stays on your phone.

What your partner sees

If you invite a partner, or accept an invitation, Name Sprout uses Apple’s CloudKit sharing to give that one person access to these:

• The names you like and super like, so the app can show you both your matches.
• Names you’ve added yourself.
• Your first name from My Info, how many names you’ve passed on (the number, not the names), and which name origins you’ve chosen.
• How names are shown (the family name and order).

They travel between your two iCloud accounts on Apple’s servers, never through a server of mine. Your partner never sees which names you passed on or blocked. Invitations only open for the Apple Account they were sent to. Either of you can stop sharing at any time from Settings; after that, neither of you sees the other’s names.

Daily name counts

I’d like to know which names people like, so the app keeps a tally on your phone and sends it to me once a day. Each day’s report contains:

• For each name that came up that day: how many times it was shown, liked, super liked, passed on or blocked, and how many matches it made.
• The date.
• The country your phone’s region is set to (in Settings → General → Language & Region). This isn’t your location, and the app never asks for your location.
• A random number that’s different every time, so the same report can’t be counted twice.

Nothing else goes with it: no account, no device or advertising ID, no name, and no times of day.

My database adds each report into totals for each name, day and country, and keeps only those totals, not the reports. The random numbers are kept for a week to catch duplicates, then deleted.

The database runs on Supabase. Like any web service, Supabase’s servers see the internet address each report comes from, and it shows up in their request logs. On my plan I can look back about a day in those logs. I don’t look at them or connect them to the totals. Supabase’s privacy policy covers how long it keeps them.

I keep the totals for good, as a record of which names people liked over time. I may later merge older daily totals into monthly ones.

Because nothing in the totals says whose phone they came from, I can’t pick out or delete one person’s share. You can stop the counts, though: turn off Contribute to name rankings in Settings → Help. The app then stops counting and throws away anything it counted but hadn’t sent yet. Deleting the app stops them too.

Notifications

If you turn notifications on, the app creates them on your phone, for example when you and your partner both like a name. Apple’s notification service wakes the app when iCloud has news from your partner. I don’t run a notification server.

Shared links, the App Clip and this website

When you share a name, the link carries the name’s card inside it, so the page and the App Clip can show it without looking anything up. If you share a name you added yourself, what you typed for it travels in the link to whoever you send it to.

If someone opens your link without the app, they may see Name Sprout’s App Clip, a small part of the app that lets them rate a few names. Those ratings stay on their phone and are passed to the full app if they install it. iOS removes the App Clip and its data if it isn’t used for a while.

This website is hosted by Vercel, which sees visitors’ internet addresses and keeps request logs, as any web host does, under its own privacy policy. The site has no analytics and no cookies, and it loads nothing from anywhere else.

Email

If you write to me, whether from Help in the app, a name report, a name suggestion or your own mail app, I get your email address and whatever you include. The app adds your app and iOS version to the draft, and you can delete them before sending. My email is handled by Apple’s iCloud Mail. I use your message only to reply to you and fix the name list, and I don’t share it. I keep emails as a record of what people have asked and reported, unless you ask me to delete yours.

What Name Sprout doesn’t do

• No accounts or sign-in.
• No ads, and no advertising identifiers.
• No tracking across other apps or websites.
• No selling or renting of anything.
• No third-party analytics or advertising code. The two open-source libraries in the app, Glur and ConfettiSwiftUI, only draw effects on screen.
• No access to your contacts, photos, location, microphone or camera.

Children

Name Sprout is for grown-ups choosing a name. It isn’t directed at children, and I don’t knowingly collect information from children.

Deleting your information

• Deleting the app removes everything it keeps on your phone.
• You can unlike names in the app at any time, and stopping sharing ends what your partner receives.
• You can delete the app’s iCloud data from iCloud storage in the Settings app.
• Turning off Contribute to name rankings stops the daily counts. Totals already sent can’t be traced back to you, so your share of them can’t be picked out and deleted.
• If you’ve emailed me and want the conversation deleted, ask and I will.

If you’re in the EU or UK

Name counts. I rely on legitimate interests. I want to know which names people find useful and which they pass on, so I can improve the name list and the app. The counts carry no account, device ID or anything that names you, and you can switch them off at any time in Settings → Help.

Email. I use what you send to answer you and act on what you report, which is also a legitimate interest, and one you start by writing to me.

Depending on where you live, you can ask what I hold about you, get a copy, have it corrected or deleted, limit how I use it, or object to my using it. In practice the only thing I can connect to you is an email you sent me. For the counts, switching them off is how you object, since I can’t pick out yours. Write to help@quint.design to use any of these rights. You can also complain to your local data protection authority.

Apple, Supabase and Vercel are US companies, so your information may be handled in the United States.

Changes

If this policy changes, the new version will be posted here with a new date. If a change affects what leaves your phone, I’ll also mention it in the app’s release notes.

Contact

Questions about privacy go to help@quint.design.