Privacy policy

Effective October 29, 2026. Short version: Tuckbird keeps everything on your phone and sends nothing about you to us.

What Tuckbird reads

• Only the links you share or paste into it.
• It doesn't read your notifications, messages, contacts, photos, location or other apps.

What it connects to

• The site in the link. To save a video, Tuckbird contacts the site the link points to (TikTok, Instagram or Facebook) and downloads the video from it, as a browser would. That site sees a normal request from your phone's internet connection, under its own privacy policy.
• Updates. Now and then Tuckbird checks this website for a newer version of itself, and GitHub (owned by Microsoft) for a newer version of its download engine, yt-dlp. Both see a normal request from your phone. This site is served by Cloudflare, under its own privacy policy.
• Nothing else. There's no Tuckbird server, no account, no analytics, no advertising and no crash reporting.

What stays on your phone

• The videos you save and the list of links you shared, in the app's private storage. Tuckbird deletes saved videos after a week at most. You can delete them sooner in the app, or by uninstalling it.
• When Tuckbird sends a video to WristReel, WristReel gets a copy and handles it under its own privacy policy.

This website

This site uses no cookies and no analytics. Our hosting provider (Cloudflare) keeps standard server logs, such as IP address and pages requested, for security, under its own policy.

Children

Tuckbird isn't directed at children under 13.

Changes and contact

If this policy changes, the new version goes up here with a new effective date. Questions: [email protected].