Privacy policy

Effective November 8, 2026

Box Retriever is made by 3351 Labs, a one-person studio in Texas. The short version: there's no account, no cloud and no analytics. Your bins, items and photos stay on your phone, and 3351 Labs never receives them. (On iPhones with Apple Intelligence, a photo you ask it to read may go to Apple's Private Cloud Compute for that request only; see below.)

What stays on your phone

Everything you put in Box Retriever (rooms, shelves, bins, items, photos, tags, notes, values and keywords) is stored only on your phone. We don't run a server that receives it, and there's no way for us to see it.

Photos and the camera

Box Retriever asks for the camera and your photo library so you can add photos and scan QR labels. Photo suggestions (spotting items and reading text such as book titles) run entirely on your phone. On iPhones with Apple Intelligence turned on, Box Retriever asks Apple Intelligence to read the photo. Apple Intelligence may handle that on the iPhone or send the photo to Apple's Private Cloud Compute, the same private servers Apple Intelligence uses for its own features. Apple uses the photo only to answer that one request and doesn't store it, and neither 3351 Labs nor Apple can see it. Box Retriever never uploads your photos anywhere else. How Private Cloud Compute works.

Google ML Kit

To scan QR labels, Box Retriever uses Google's ML Kit, which runs on your phone. Google says ML Kit sends Google basic diagnostics: device details such as the model and system version, app details, and performance and usage measurements of those features. It does not send your photos, the text it reads or your lists. Google describes this on its website.

QR labels and boxretriever.app

A printed label holds a link to boxretriever.app with the bin's name, where it lives and its list of items as of the day you printed it. That list is in the part of the link after the "#", which a phone's browser keeps to itself and doesn't send to the website. The page reads the list right on the phone that scanned it.

Anyone who scans a label can see what's on it, so leave anything private off the bins you label.

Websites

boxretriever.com and boxretriever.app use no cookies, no analytics and no ads. They're hosted by Cloudflare, which, like any web host, handles technical details such as your IP address to deliver the pages and keep them secure. We don't receive or keep any of it.

Purchases

Box Retriever Plus is bought through the App Store or Google Play. Apple or Google handle the payment; we never see your payment details. The app asks the store whether you've bought Plus so it can unlock it.

Backups, PDFs and spreadsheets

Backups, label sheets and inventories are made on your phone. They go only where you send them, using your phone's share sheet or print screen.

Children

Box Retriever collects no personal information from anyone, children included.

Deleting your data

Delete items and bins in the app, or delete the app to remove everything. Backups you saved elsewhere are yours to delete.

Changes

If this policy changes, the new version will be posted here with a new date.

Contact

Questions? Email [email protected].