Gridstory

Privacy policy

Effective date: 13 November 2026

Gridstory is a photo app for planning an Instagram grid. This policy explains what happens to your photos and data when you use it. The short version: Gridstory does its work on your device, does not track you, and only sends the posts you choose to publish.

Your photos

  • Gridstory asks for access to your photo library so you can fill your grid. You can give access to all photos or only selected ones, and change this at any time in Settings.
  • Colours, tones and hashtag ideas are worked out on your device, using Apple's on-device frameworks. Your photos are not uploaded for this.
  • If a photo is stored in iCloud Photos, your device may download it from Apple's iCloud so Gridstory can show or publish it. This happens between your device and Apple, as with any photo app.
  • When you pick photos in the Filters app and send them to Gridstory, they are passed between the two apps on your device.

What Gridstory stores

Your projects, grid plans, captions, dates and photo analysis are stored on your device. Where the app keeps your data in step across your own devices, it uses your private iCloud account, which we cannot see. We do not run servers that store your projects or photos.

Publishing to Instagram

Nothing leaves your device until you publish or schedule a post. When you do:

  • The photos, caption and date of that post are sent to the publishing service, which passes them on to Instagram at the chosen time.
  • Today the publishing service is Postiz, connected with your own Postiz account and API key. Postiz's handling of that data is covered by Postiz's privacy policy, and Instagram's by Instagram's privacy policy.
  • Gridstory also asks the publishing service about posts you have already scheduled, so it can show their status and let you change them.
  • Your API key is stored in your device's Keychain. It is never written into your projects or sent anywhere except to the publishing service it belongs to.

No ads, analytics or tracking

Gridstory has no ads, no analytics, no third-party SDKs that collect data, and no tracking across apps or websites. We do not sell or share your data.

Crash reports

If you have chosen to share analytics with app developers in your device settings, Apple may send us anonymous crash reports. You can turn this off in Settings.

This website

gridstory.app is a plain static website. It uses no cookies, no analytics and no trackers. Our hosting provider may keep standard server logs, such as IP addresses, for a short time for security.

Children

Gridstory is not aimed at children and does not knowingly collect data from anyone.

Your choices

  • Remove photo access in Settings at any time.
  • Delete a project in the app, or delete the app to remove everything it stored on your device.
  • Remove your API key in the app, or revoke it in your Postiz account.
  • Posts already sent to Postiz or Instagram can be deleted there.

Changes

If this policy changes, we will update it here and change the effective date above.

Contact

Questions about privacy? Write to us from the support page.