Your chats stay on your phone.

What stays on the device

Everything you import and everything TextMint makes: the chat export file, text message backup files, screenshots, screen recordings, pasted text, recognised text, names you type for the document, case or file references, and the exported files. A document leaves the phone only when you share, save or print it yourself.

Removing the app removes this data from the phone. On iPhone, if you use iPhone backup, the app's data is part of your own backup like that of any other app. On Android, TextMint's data is not included in Android's device backup.

Photos and files

You pick screenshots and screen recordings with the system photo picker of iPhone or Android, so TextMint receives only the items you select and does not get access to your photo library. On Android the app has no storage permission.

A file that you open in TextMint, or share to TextMint from another app (for example a chat export from WhatsApp, or a text message backup file), is read on the phone and may be copied into the app's own storage. From a text message backup, TextMint lists the conversations in the file so that you can choose one, and keeps only the conversation you import.

Text recognition

To read screenshots and screen recordings, TextMint uses the text recognition built into the phone's system: Apple's on iPhone, Google ML Kit's on Android. The pictures and the recognised text never leave the phone.

On Android, Google's ML Kit library may send Google technical information about how text recognition runs, such as the device model, the app version, processing times and error codes, together with an identifier for this installation of the library. It never includes your pictures or the text that was read. Google describes this in its ML Kit documentation.

Purchases

TextMint offers two one-time purchases and no subscription. Apple processes payments made on iPhone; Google Play processes payments made on Android. The app asks the App Store or Google Play whether TextMint Pro is owned. A single export is remembered on the phone it was bought on.

Bumblly does not receive your name, e-mail address, payment card, Apple Account or Google Account. Apple and Google send Bumblly sales reports for accounting, which list for each sale the product, the price, the date and the buyer's country; Google's reports also hold an order number, the device model and, where Google provides it, the buyer's state or postal code.

Usage counts and your choice

After your first import or export the app asks once whether you want to share usage details.

• Before you choose: the app sends a small set of anonymous counts to Bumblly's own server (analytics.bumblly.com): first launch, the first completed import and export, the purchase screen being shown or closed, a purchase being started, completed, cancelled, pending or failed, and a rating request. Each count holds the event name, the app version, whether it is the iPhone or the Android app, the country setting of the phone and at most a few fixed values such as "pdf" or "pro". It holds no identifier of any kind.
• If you choose Allow: counts may also cover how you use the app (for example which kind of source was imported, and size ranges such as "10 to 49 messages"), together with a random installation ID that the app creates itself. It is not an advertising ID or a hardware identifier, it is not linked to your identity, and a reinstall creates a new one.
• If you choose Not now: waiting counts and the installation ID are deleted and no usage details are collected. One anonymous count records that the question was declined.

Counts never contain message text, names, phone numbers, file names, images or anything else from a conversation. They are sent encrypted (HTTPS), are not shared with third parties and are not used for advertising or tracking. You can change your choice at any time in Settings. Because the counts are not linked to a person or an account, Bumblly cannot find or delete the counts of one person.

Google and Apple services in the app

On Android, purchases, the rating request and update notices go through Google Play on your phone; on iPhone they go through the App Store. Those services work under Google's and Apple's own privacy policies. TextMint contains no advertising or tracking libraries.

Children

TextMint is made for adults and is not directed at children.

What TextMint does not promise

TextMint makes a clear, dated record of a conversation. Whether a document is accepted is decided by the person or office that receives it.

Contact and changes

For privacy questions, write to hello@bumblly.com. This page is updated when the app's data practices change; the effective date at the top shows the latest revision.