klear privacy
in effect from 9 november 2026
klear is an iPhone app for clearing out your photos and videos. It's made by ktrlkhaos LLC. This page covers the klear app only. The website has its own privacy page.
The short version: klear collects nothing. Your photos, and everything klear works out about them, stay on your phone.
your photos
- klear asks iOS for access to your photo library so it can show you your photos and videos and let you keep or toss them.
- Everything klear does with them happens on your phone. That includes counting how much space they take, finding exact copies and look-alikes (it compares the pictures on the phone itself), and sorting them by kind or by month. None of it is uploaded anywhere.
- If your library is in iCloud, iOS may download a photo from Apple's iCloud so klear can show it. That's between your phone and Apple. klear doesn't receive or keep a copy.
- klear only deletes what you toss, and only after iOS asks you to confirm. Deleted items go to Recently Deleted in the Photos app, where you can get them back for 30 days.
- klear never touches your favourites, and leaves alone anything in a shared library.
what klear keeps, and where
To remember where you left off, klear saves a few things inside the app on your phone. That's which items you kept or put in the bin, your plan and its steps, your settings, and the space counts. Deleting the app deletes all of it. None of it is sent to us or anyone else.
what klear doesn't do
- No account and no sign-in.
- No servers of ours. klear doesn't talk to us at all.
- No analytics, no ads and no tracking. klear doesn't follow you across apps or websites, and it shares nothing with data brokers.
- No contacts, location, camera or microphone.
notifications
If you turn on a reminder (a weekly clean-up, or a daily one at the pace you picked), it's scheduled on your phone by iOS. No server sends it. You can turn it off in Settings › Notifications › klear.
klear pro (subscriptions)
Apple handles subscriptions through your Apple ID. klear never sees your name, email or payment details. All klear gets from Apple, on your phone, is whether pro is active. To cancel or manage it: Settings › your name › Subscriptions.
children
klear doesn't collect personal information from anyone, children included.
your choices
You can take away klear's photo access any time in Settings › Privacy & Security › Photos › klear. Deleting the app removes everything it saved.
contact
Questions about this page: hello@ktrlkhaos.com.
changes
If this page changes, the date at the top changes with it. If klear ever starts collecting anything, this page will say so first.