What RSSTube does with your data.

Your library and iCloud

Your profiles, channels, folders, watch progress, Watch Later list, history and preferences are saved on your device. When iCloud is available, they sync through your private iCloud storage to your other devices signed in to the same Apple Account.

The developer cannot access your private iCloud database. There is no sign-in and no RSSTube server, so nothing about your library is sent to the developer.

Loading channels and videos

To show new uploads, the app downloads each channel’s public feed and, when the feed is unavailable, its public videos page. To subscribe, it opens the link you paste to find the channel. Thumbnails and avatars load from the video service’s image servers and are cached on your device.

On first launch, the app can suggest channels to try. It picks them from your device’s region and language settings, which it reads on the device and never sends anywhere. Showing the suggestions loads those channels’ public pages and avatars from the video service. Only the channels you choose are saved to your library.

These requests go straight from your device to the video service, which receives the connection information needed to serve them, such as your IP address. The app’s own requests carry no cookies or account, apart from a cookie that declines the consent banner.

Videos play in the video service’s privacy-enhanced embedded player inside the app. That player can store cookies and site data on your device like a website does. The app blocks known ad and tracking requests in the player. Settings → Clear Player Data removes everything the player stored without touching your library.

Camera, photos and Face ID

The camera is optional and used only for a profile picture. iOS asks for permission the first time you choose Take Photo, and never before. If you decline, everything else works as usual. You can change this at any time in iOS Settings.

Choose Photo uses Apple’s photo picker, which runs outside the app. RSSTube needs no access to your photo library and receives only the photo you pick.

A profile picture is saved small on your device and syncs through your private iCloud with the profile. It is never sent to the developer. You can remove it on the profile screen.

Face ID is optional and used only to let a parent unlock a kid profile’s settings. iOS performs the check, and the app only learns whether it succeeded.

Kid profiles

A parent can set a PIN for a kid profile. Only a salted hash of the PIN is stored, and it syncs through your private iCloud with the profile. The log of unlock attempts stays on the device it happened on.

The app asks for no child’s personal details. A profile’s name and picture are whatever you choose to add.

Purchases

RSSTube Premium is sold through the App Store. Apple handles payment, and the developer never sees your payment details. The app checks your purchases with Apple on your device.

Ads, analytics and permissions

RSSTube has no ads, tracking or third-party analytics or crash-reporting SDKs. It does not request access to your microphone, location or contacts, and it does not track you across apps or websites.

Apple provides App Store statistics and, if you choose to share them with developers, app usage and diagnostic reports. These are managed through Apple’s services and privacy settings, separately from your library.

Importing and exporting

OPML import reads a file you choose; OPML export creates a file you decide where to save or share. The app does not upload these files anywhere.

Managing your data

Unsubscribe from a channel or remove videos from Watch Later and History in the app. Deleting the app removes the data on that device; the copy in your iCloud can be removed in iOS Settings → your name → iCloud → Manage Storage.

This website and support email

Visiting these pages sends the connection information needed to serve a website, such as your IP address, to the hosting provider.

If you email support, the developer receives your email address, message and any attachments, and uses them only to answer you. Please do not send passwords or other sensitive information. You can ask for your support correspondence to be deleted at the address below.

Policy updates

The date above will be updated when this policy changes.

Apple’s Privacy Policy

Using the app

For help using the app, see the RSSTube help page.

For support or questions about this policy, email [email protected].

See also the Terms of Use.