Pool Shots keeps your work on your own devices. This page explains, plainly, what that means for your data.
Your current table, undo history, and settings like felt color and table size are stored only on the device you're using. They are never synced or uploaded anywhere.
Your saved shots are stored on your device and also in your own private iCloud database, so the same library appears on your iPhone and iPad and survives getting a new device. This uses Apple's CloudKit with your existing Apple Account — there is no sign-up, no password, and no account with us.
The data lives in your private iCloud storage, not on any server we run. We have no way to read it, and it is never used for analytics, advertising, or tracking. Apple handles the transfer; you can read Apple's terms for iCloud separately.
If you're not signed in to iCloud, or you turn iCloud off for Pool Shots in iOS Settings, the app carries on working exactly as before and simply keeps everything on that one device. Nothing is lost and no feature is withheld.
When you use the Share feature to export a shot as a still image, an animated GIF, or a .poolshot file, that content is handed to Apple's standard share sheet — the same system-level sharing tool used across iOS. Pool Shots does not see, log, or transmit what you share; it goes only to wherever you personally choose to send it (Messages, Mail, AirDrop, saving to Files, and so on).
The Backup option in Settings creates a file containing your saved shots and current table, which you export and store wherever you choose using the standard iOS file picker. Restoring just reads that file back in locally. Pool Shots does not upload backups anywhere on its own.
If someone sends you a .poolshot file (for example, over AirDrop or Messages), opening it loads that layout directly into the app on your device. No data about the file, or about you, is sent anywhere as part of that process.
About this website. Everything above describes the Pool Shots app itself. This website is separate: it uses Google Analytics to measure page visits, which sets cookies and records your IP address. That applies only to these web pages — the app sends nothing to Google or to us. Its only network traffic is iCloud sync into your own private database.
Because Pool Shots does not collect any personal information from anyone, it does not knowingly collect personal information from children.
If Pool Shots' data practices ever change, this page will be updated before that change ships, and the "Effective" date above will change accordingly. The August 9, 2026 revision covers the addition of iCloud sync for saved shots.
Questions about this policy can be sent to [email protected].