Privacy Policy

HelpSplit for iOS and the web · Effective November 10, 2026

HelpSplit is made by le6labs LLC. The iOS app keeps your groups, people, and expenses on your phone (the web app keeps them in your browser, section 7), and, once you sign in, mirrors your groups to your account so they follow you (section 4). Beyond that mirror and the items in sections 3, 4, and 7, there is nothing on our side to look at, lose, or hand over.

1. What we collect

Very little. Your sign-in identity (an account identifier, and the name and the email your Apple or Google sign-in provides), the groups you sync (section 4), and, if you turn on AI reading, the 30-day read records in section 3. We never ask for your phone number, location, or contacts. Our hosting provider counts visits to our websites and the web app (section 5).

If you choose Continue with Google, Google's sign-in SDK collects data under Google's privacy policy. Google declares that it may collect your name, email address, phone number, approximate location, account and device identifiers, usage data, and other data, linked to you, for sign-in and analytics, and that none of it is used for tracking. Sign in with Apple adds none of this.

2. Where your data lives

Groups, people, expenses, settlements, and your settings are written to your device's private app storage. They are included in your device backup if you back one up — that backup is handled by Apple under Apple's privacy policy, not ours. Deleting the app removes the copy on your phone. Groups you synced come back when you sign in again (section 4); anything that never synced is gone, and we cannot recover it.

3. Camera and photos

With your permission, HelpSplit opens the camera or your photo library so you can capture a receipt, and saves a group's summary image to your photos when you choose Save Image.

Unless you turn on AI reading, receipt reading happens entirely on your phone. Text recognition built into iOS reads the receipt on your phone, and the reading itself sends nothing off your phone. If you turn on AI reading (beta, off by default), the photo is sent to an AI service run by Google to read it; with it off, receipts are read on your phone only.

When AI reading is on, this is what we keep, and for how long. We never keep the photo — it is read, then discarded. Google runs the read for us under its cloud data-processing terms. It does not train its AI on your photo, and it keeps nothing after the read, with one exception: if Google's automated safety checks flag a request as possible misuse of its AI service, Google may keep that request, photo included, for up to 90 days so authorized Google staff can review it. The read may run in any Google region worldwide, not only in the United States. If we change the AI service, we will update this section before any photo is sent to the new one. We keep a record of each read for 30 days, or until you delete your account if that comes first (section 9): the fields the AI extracted (such as the merchant, date, total, and line items), which AI model version read it and what the read cost us, and a fingerprint of the photo (a hash that cannot be turned back into the image) so the same receipt is not read twice. That record is tied to your account; it does not say which group or which people the expense was for. We also keep a monthly count of your reads. Our logs record the size of the photo and how long the read took, never what was on the receipt.

A receipt photo leaves your phone in only two cases, both your choice: AI reading, above, and attaching it to an expense (see section 4).

You can decline or later revoke camera and photo access in iOS Settings; the rest of the app continues to work.

4. Network requests

The iOS app talks to the internet for these things, and nothing else:

Sign-in. Apple or Google confirms who you are (section 1), then our sign-in and security service (Google) establishes your session and confirms, with a device check from Apple, that requests come from the real app.
Sync. When you are signed in, your groups are stored under your account with our cloud provider (Google, acting as our processor), so they follow your sign-in and the people you share a group with see the same expenses.
Sharing. If you ask to join a group, its keeper sees your name and email. Anyone with a group's share link can see the group's name, everyone's first name, the expenses, and who owes whom, until 30 days after the group last changes; never photos, notes, or payment handles.
Receipt photos. A photo you attach to an expense is uploaded to our cloud storage (Google), stored under your account beside that group, so it follows your sign-in and anyone you share the group with can see it. It is re-encoded first, which strips the camera and location metadata, and only you and the people seated in that group can open it.
Exchange rates. Described below.
AI reading, only if you turn it on. The photo goes to Google's AI service to be read (section 3).

When you enter an expense in a currency other than the group's, the app fetches an exchange rate from Frankfurter (api.frankfurter.dev), an independent public exchange-rate service. That request contains only a three-letter currency code — for example ?base=USD.

It contains no amount, no merchant, no names, no device identifier, and no account.
As with any internet request, the receiving service can observe your IP address. It receives nothing else about you.
If the request fails, the app keeps working — you can split a bill with no connection at all.

5. No tracking, no ads, no data sale

HelpSplit contains no advertising, no crash-reporting SDK, and no third-party trackers, and the iOS app contains no analytics SDK. Our hosting provider counts visits to our websites and the web app and measures how fast pages load, without cookies or other storage in your browser, and without fingerprinting you or following you across sites. If you choose Continue with Google, Google's sign-in SDK collects data for sign-in and analytics under Google's privacy policy; section 1 lists what Google declares. We do not sell your personal information or share it for advertising. We do not use your data to train any model.

6. Payment apps

When you settle up, HelpSplit can open Venmo, Cash App, or PayPal if it is installed on your phone; in a US-dollar group, Venmo opens with the amount filled in. That hand-off happens on your device. HelpSplit does not move money and never sees your payment credentials. Anything you do inside those apps is governed by their own privacy policies.

7. The HelpSplit web app

The browser-based dashboard is a separate surface from the iOS app, and this section applies only if you use it. Where the web app offers sign-in, it uses our sign-in and security service (Google) to establish a session and to block automated abuse. That involves an account identifier and standard abuse-prevention signals handled by Google as our processor. The iOS app uses the same sign-in and security service; section 4 describes what it sends.

The web app keeps your session, groups, people, expenses, and settings in your browser's own storage, and mirrors your groups to your account the same way the iOS app does (section 4). A receipt photo or PDF you add in the web app is kept only in that browser: it is not uploaded, so it does not reach your phone or the people you share the group with. Signing out, or deleting your account in the web app, clears everything you entered in HelpSplit in that browser; settings such as your number style and default currency stay. Clearing your browser's site data removes it too; anything that never synced is gone, and we cannot recover it.

8. Children

HelpSplit is not directed to children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect information from them. If you believe a child has provided information through the app or the web app, contact us and we will remove it.

9. Your rights

Privacy laws including the CCPA and the GDPR give you rights to access, correct, delete, and port your personal information. For what lives on your phone, deleting the app removes it.

Delete your account any time, in the iOS app or the web app: Settings → Delete Account, the last row in Settings. This removes your account, the groups synced to it and their share links, the receipt photos you attached, your AI read records (section 3), and your place in other people's groups and your requests to join them. If you have signed in with Apple in the iOS app, it also revokes Sign in with Apple. An AI read record the deletion misses, such as a read still finishing at that moment, expires 30 days after the read. To access, correct, or delete anything we hold without deleting your account, including AI read records before they expire, contact us and we will act on any such request. Help is at helpsplit.com/support.

10. Changes

If this policy changes we will post the revised version here with a new effective date. Material changes affecting data we actually hold will be surfaced in the product.

11. Contact

le6labs LLC
1120 Sycamore Avenue, Suite 2G
Vista, California 92081, United States
[email protected]