MerchSwift Privacy Policy

MerchSwift is a design app for stickers, t-shirts and mugs. This policy explains what the app does with your information. Last updated: 9 November 2026.

In short

• Your designs, images and exported files are handled on your device. If you turn on sync, they are also stored in your own iCloud account, which we cannot read.
• You do not need an account to design. We do not ask for your name, email address or phone number.
• The only information the app sends to our server is the text of an AI art request (and a few technical items needed to run it), and only when you ask for an image.
• On the free plan on iPhone and iPad, the app can show a short rewarded video, but only when you choose to watch one, to earn an extra export or remove the watermark from one. Pro and the Mac app show no ads. The app has no analytics or tracking code of our own. See “Ads on the free plan” below.

Who we are

MerchSwift is published by PDFSwift (pdfswift.cc). In this policy, “we” and “us” mean PDFSwift. You can reach us at support@pdfswift.cc.

Your designs and files

When you import an image, a PDF, an SVG or a font, or build a design, MerchSwift works with it on your device: editing, print checks, background removal, upscaling, mockups, cut lines and export. We never receive a copy of your designs, your imported files or the files you export. Exported files go where you choose, through the system save dialog or the share sheet. After you share a file, the receiving app's or service's policy applies to it.

What the app stores on your device

• Your designs and the original images and fonts they use, in the app's private storage.
• Settings and presets you create, such as custom print presets.
• Purchase and credit status, so the app knows which plan you have and how many AI credits are left.
• Temporary files created while exporting, in the app's cache, which the system may clear at any time.

Deleting the app removes this data from the device. A backup of your device, made by iCloud or your computer, may include the app's data under Apple's terms.

iCloud sync

If you turn on sync, your designs are stored in your private iCloud space through Apple's CloudKit service. Only your Apple ID can read them. They go from your devices to Apple and back, and we have no access to them. Apple handles that data under its own privacy policy.

AI art

AI art is the one feature that uses our server. When you ask for an image:

• The app sends the text of your request, the style and the size you chose, a proof that the request comes from a genuine copy of the app (Apple's App Attest), and information from the App Store about your plan and purchases.
• Our server, which runs on Cloudflare, checks that proof and your credits, runs a safety check on the text, and asks an AI image model on Cloudflare's Workers AI service to create the picture. The image comes back to your device.
• We do not store your request text or the generated image on our server. We keep only a credit balance and usage counts, linked to an identifier from your App Store purchase, not to your name or email address.
• Like any server, ours receives the IP address your device connects from. Cloudflare processes it to deliver the request and to protect the service, under Cloudflare's own privacy policy.

Please do not type personal information, such as names, addresses or ID numbers, into an AI request. Requests for known brands, logos, clubs, characters, real people and unsafe content are refused.

Purchases

Subscriptions and credit packs are bought through the Apple App Store with your Apple ID. Apple processes the payment; we do not receive your payment details, your Apple ID or your name. Apple tells our server whether a subscription is active and when it renews, and we use only that to unlock features and to give you your credits. “Restore Purchases” asks the App Store to confirm your purchases again.

Permissions

• Photos: when you import from your photo library, iOS shows the system picker, which gives the app only the pictures you choose. If you ever allow wider access, you can change it in iOS Settings.
• Files: you choose each file you import or export through the system file dialogs.
• MerchSwift does not request location, contacts, microphone, calendar or phone permissions.

What we do not collect or do

• We do not collect personal information through the app, apart from what is described above for AI art and purchases.
• We do not include analytics or crash-reporting services of our own, and we do not show ads in Pro or in the Mac app. The only advertising in the app is the optional rewarded video on the free plan on iPhone and iPad, which is described below.
• We do not sell personal information, and we do not use your designs or requests to train AI models.

Ads on the free plan

On the free plan on iPhone and iPad, MerchSwift can offer a short rewarded video. It never plays by itself: you tap a button to watch one, and you get an extra export or a watermark-free export in return. Pro removes the limit and the watermark, and the Mac app shows no ads.

• Who provides the ads: Google AdMob. When you watch a video, the app loads it from Google's servers, and Google and its advertising partners may receive information about your device, such as its IP address, device identifiers, the ad you were shown and how you interacted with it, and your approximate location. Google handles this under its own privacy policy and the choices you make below.
• Your choices: where the law requires it (for example in the European Economic Area and the United Kingdom), the app shows Google's consent form before any ad request is made, and nothing is requested if you decline. On iOS the app also asks, through Apple's tracking prompt, whether it may use your advertising identifier; if you decline, ads still work but are less relevant. You can change your tracking choice at any time in iOS Settings under Privacy & Security, then Tracking.
• What the ad provider never receives: your designs, your imported files, your exports, or the text of your AI requests. Those are not shared with advertisers or with Google for advertising.
• We do not sell personal information and we do not build advertising profiles of our own.

Children

MerchSwift is a general-purpose design tool and is not directed at children under 13. We do not knowingly collect information from children.

Deleting your data and your rights

Your designs live on your device and in your iCloud. Delete a design in the app, delete the app, or remove the iCloud data in your Apple ID settings. On our side there is only the credit and usage record linked to your App Store purchase. To see it or have it deleted, write to support@pdfswift.cc from the email you prefer to be answered at and tell us your approximate purchase date. Depending on where you live, you may also have rights to access, correct or delete personal data and to object to its use. We will answer within a reasonable time.

Security

Because your designs stay on your device or in your iCloud, their safety depends mainly on your device's protection: a screen lock, encryption and updates. Communication between the app and our server is encrypted, and only same-app requests with a valid App Attest proof are accepted.

This website

This policy covers the MerchSwift app. The pdfswift.cc website is covered by the PDFSwift Privacy Policy; the website may show advertisements. The app's own advertising is described in “Ads on the free plan” above.

Changes to this policy

If the app's behaviour changes in a way that affects your privacy, we will update this page and the date above before the change takes effect.

Contact

Questions about this policy or MerchSwift: support@pdfswift.cc.