Pocket Bench: Privacy policy
This is an earlier version, published on 12 November 2026 before the app’s release and replaced later the same day. The current version is here; every version is listed under Previous versions.
Pocket Bench is made by Bounceback Studios (“we”, “us”), the registered business name of a sole trader in Australia, ABN 24 362 033 828. Contact: support@bouncebackstudios.app.
This policy explains what Pocket Bench does with your information.
1. The short version
- Pocket Bench has no account and no sign-up.
- We do not run a server for the app. Nothing you enter in the app is sent to us.
- The app contains no advertising and no analytics or tracking software.
- Some tools connect to servers that you run. The app talks only to the server addresses you add to it yourself.
2. What you enter and where it is kept
Some tools work with a server of your own. To use one you add that server: its address, a name, and the sign-in details the server needs (such as a password, an API token or a request header).
- Server addresses, names and settings, the list of tools you have added, and the fingerprints of certificates you have accepted are stored in the app’s storage on your device.
- Passwords, tokens and other sign-in secrets are stored in your device’s secure storage (the Keychain on iPhone and iPad, Keystore-protected storage on Android). They are set to stay on this device and are kept out of device backups.
- The other items in this list can be included in your device’s own backup (iCloud or a computer backup on Apple devices, Google backup on Android) if you have backups turned on. Those backups are run by Apple or Google under their terms, not by us.
3. What the app sends, and to whom
- The app sends your sign-in details and its requests only to the server addresses you entered.
- The Home screen shows a short live status for each tool. To do that, while Home is open, the app contacts servers it has already reached successfully, at most about once a minute for each tool, without you tapping anything.
- If you enter an address that starts with
http://rather thanhttps://, your sign-in details and the data shown travel unencrypted over your network. Usehttps://where your server supports it. - If your server uses a self-signed certificate, the app shows you that certificate’s fingerprint and connects only after you accept it. After that it connects to that server only while the certificate stays exactly the same.
4. Information from your servers
Tools show information that your servers hold, for example a list of virtual machines or a log of DNS queries. A DNS query log can include the website names looked up by other people and devices on your network, and their network addresses. The app shows this on screen only. It does not save it and does not send it anywhere else. You are responsible for having the right to view the data on the servers you connect to.
5. Information about your device
The “About this device” screen reads your device model, system version and memory and shows them to you. This is not stored and not sent anywhere.
6. Crash and diagnostic reports
The app has no crash-reporting software of its own. If you have chosen to share diagnostics with app developers in your Apple or Google settings, Apple or Google may give us crash reports and usage figures that do not identify you.
7. Purchases
If the app offers a purchase, it is made and paid for through Apple’s App Store or Google Play. We do not receive your payment details.
8. Deleting your data
Delete a server in the app to remove its address, settings and stored secret. Uninstalling the app removes everything it stored on the device. Copies in your device backups are removed under Apple’s or Google’s backup rules.
9. Children
Pocket Bench is a utility app for a general audience. It is not directed at children under 13, and it collects no personal information from anyone.
10. Changes to this policy
If the app changes in a way that affects this policy, we will update this page and its date before that version of the app is released. The current version is always at https://bouncebackstudios.app/pocket-bench/privacy/.
11. Contact
Bounceback Studios (ABN 24 362 033 828), support@bouncebackstudios.app