Privacy — Plain and Simple Games

Last updated 23 October 2026.

The short version: this app collects nothing about you, and there is no Plain and Simple server for anything to be sent to. Playing with someone nearby goes straight between your devices, on your own local network, and nowhere else.

What the app stores

Your game data — statistics, streaks, and half-finished puzzles.

All of it is kept on your device. That is true whether or not you sign in, and it does not depend on anything working.

If your device is signed in to iCloud, a copy also lives in your own private iCloud database — a part of your personal iCloud account, which is what lets your games follow you to another device of yours. We cannot read it, Apple does not give us access to it, and it does not pass through any server of ours.

Signing in with Apple is a separate thing and does not turn that on or off — see the next section.

What Sign in with Apple gives us

An anonymous identifier, and nothing else.

The app asks Apple for no scopes at all, which means Apple is never asked for your name or your email address. We do not have them and could not leak them if we tried.

The identifier is kept in your device's Keychain and is used for one thing: noticing that a different person has signed in on a device that already holds someone's game history, so the app can warn you before you see it.

It is not what makes your games reach your other devices. That is your device's own iCloud account, set up in the Settings app, and it works whether or not you ever sign in here.

Signing in is optional. Every game and every feature works without it.

What the app does not do

• No advertising, and no advertising identifier.
• No analytics. Not ours, not anyone's — the app contains no analytics code.
• No third-party SDKs of any kind.
• No tracking across apps or websites.
• No location, no contacts, no photos, no microphone, no camera.
• No cloud multiplayer, and no Plain and Simple server for a game to reach, because there isn't one.
• The puzzles themselves are in the app already. Nothing is downloaded after you install it to play them.

Playing on more than one device (Local Network)

Four Up, Dots and Boxes, Low Twelve and Chess can be played with one person on each of two devices, in the same room (iOS 26 or later).

Cover Your Bacon and Crazy Eights can be played by up to four people, each on their own device, at the same table (iOS 26 or later). It is set up in Settings › How games play › Play on several devices.

Everything else in the app works without this, and so does playing these games on one device.

• The permission. The app asks for iOS's Local Network permission only when a player taps Host or Join. It is not asked at launch, and playing on one device never asks for it.
• Where it goes. The devices talk directly to each other on the local network, using Bonjour to find one another. Moves go only between those devices and never to a server. Nothing goes to the internet, and nothing goes to us.
• What is sent. Only the moves of the game, between the devices at that table.
• No accounts. There is no sign-in, no list of players and no profile. Seats at a table have numbers, not names. The digits one person reads out and the others type in are only how the devices find each other.
• What is kept. Each device records its own result in the same way as a game played alone, and a paused game is kept on that device for a day so you can carry on. Your iCloud sync is your own private iCloud, as described above, and is unchanged.

Deleting your data

Everything is yours to remove:

• On this device: delete the app.
• From iCloud: Settings → your name → iCloud → Manage Account Storage → Plain and Simple Games → Delete Data. Or delete the app on every device and turn iCloud off for it.

We cannot delete it for you, because we cannot reach it.

Children

The app is rated 4+ and is suitable for any age. It collects nothing from anyone, regardless of age, so it does not treat children's data differently — there is no data to treat.

Changes

If this ever changes, this page changes with it, with a new date at the top.

Getting in touch

help@plainandsimple.app