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Fake Beer — Privacy Policy
Last updated: 31 August 2026
Fake Beer is a photorealistic pint-pouring app for iPhone, published by LetsGetStashd™ Ltd.
This app collects nothing beyond a handful of on-device settings. It has no account, no analytics, no advertising, no crash reporting service and no server. It makes no network requests of any kind — pouring a drink is the whole of what it does, and it does it entirely on your device.
That is not a policy choice that could quietly change in an update without you noticing: the App Store listing's privacy label states what is collected, and Apple requires that label to be corrected before any build that changes it can ship.
What the app uses, and why
Camera — required
The app's whole premise is a glass that refracts the room behind it, so it needs the rear camera. Each frame goes straight to the graphics chip and is released — nothing is recorded, saved, or transmitted, and there is no photo library access and no video file ever written.
The one exception: finishing a game and choosing to share composes a single picture for you to send, and only then. If you decline camera access, everything else still works — the glass refracts a synthetic room instead of your real one.
Motion and orientation — required
Tilting the phone is how you pour and drink, so the app reads the device's motion and orientation sensors continuously while it is open. That data drives the physics on screen in real time and is never stored or sent anywhere — it is read, used for that frame, and discarded.
Storage
A small number of preferences — your last drink and glass shape, condensation amount, exposure/brightness, upside-down mode, whether the on-screen controls stay always visible, your chosen Cheers style, language override, and whether you've seen the onboarding — are stored locally on your device using iOS's standard app-preferences mechanism. They are not backed up to any service by this app; whether they are included in your iCloud or computer backup is decided by your own iOS backup settings, not by the app.
What happens when you share a result
Finishing a game and choosing to share hands a single composed picture to iOS's own share sheet. What happens to it after that is between you and whatever you send it to — a messaging app, social media, a photo library. The app is not involved beyond that point and receives nothing back.
A note on the content
The app's premise involves a glass of a drink — Lager, Bitter, Stout, Cider, Lemonade, Milk, Champagne, Red wine or White wine. There is no real alcohol involved, nothing is purchased, and the app itself has no age gate. Any age rating shown alongside the app on the App Store is Apple's own determination, made through its App Store age rating questionnaire, not something asserted here.
Children
The app is not directed at children and collects no information from anybody, of any age.
Purchases
Fake Beer is a single one-time purchase, with no in-app purchases or subscription of any kind. The purchase itself is handled entirely by Apple. The app never sees your payment details, your Apple Account, or your name — Apple's own privacy policy covers that transaction.
Changes
If a future version ever collects anything beyond what is described here, this page and the App Store privacy label will both say so before that version ships.