Zinimal for iPhone and iPad · Last updated 22 August 2026
Zinimal collects nothing. It has no accounts, no analytics and no advertising, and it makes no network requests of any kind. Nothing you make is sent anywhere.
Your zines — the photos you picked, your text, the layout and your settings — are saved in the app's own private storage on your device. That data leaves the device only when you export or share it yourself — or when your device includes it in its own backup (iCloud Backup, if you have it turned on). That backup is made by your system, not by the app, and follows your device settings.
Because everything is local, deleting the app deletes your zines. There is no backup on our side to restore from.
Photos come in through the system photo picker. The app only ever sees the pictures you tap there — it does not ask for access to your photo library and cannot browse it.
A picked photo is copied into the zine's own folder, so the zine still prints even if you later delete the original in your library. Delete the zine and the copy goes with it.
When you export, the app writes a file — a print-ready PDF or an image — and hands it to the iOS share sheet. Where it goes from there is your choice: a printer, Files, Mail, AirDrop, or another app. Zinimal itself uploads nothing.
You can also hand on a zine as a zine file (.zinimal). That file holds the zine itself — photos included, unencrypted, at full resolution. Whoever receives the file has the photos. That is the point of it, but it should be said plainly here: handing something on is not a safe.
From JPEG photos the app strips capture data such as place and time — on the way in from the photo picker, on the way out into a zine file, and from zine files you receive from someone else. JPEG is the format the photo picker delivers for very nearly everything. Other formats, PNG or HEIC among them, are passed through untouched: whatever data they carry stays in them.
Zinimal is suitable for all ages. Since it collects no personal information from anyone, it collects none from children either.
Apple may collect its own information when you download or purchase the app, such as download statistics reported back to us in aggregate. That is governed by Apple's privacy policy, not this one, and we never receive information that identifies you.
If a future version ever changes what the app stores or sends, this page will be updated before that version ships, and the date above will change with it.
Questions about this policy: info@zinimal.com