Privacy policy
Effective September 24, 2026
Catchable tells you whether you can still make your BART train. It has no accounts, no analytics, no advertising and no tracking. The developer does not collect any data about you.
What stays on your phone
- Your two addresses, stations and settings. You enter these when you set up the app.
- Your location during a commute. It is used to work out whether your pace will make the train, and it is not recorded.
- Your last 14 days of commutes: when each one started and ended, and how. They are deleted automatically after 14 days.
- A diagnostic log of when commutes started and ended, and why. It never contains your location. It leaves the phone only if you choose to share it from Settings.
Deleting the app deletes all of this.
What leaves your phone, and where it goes
- Apple Maps. Catchable asks Apple how long the trip to your station takes, from where you are, and searches Apple Maps when you type an address. These requests go to Apple and are covered by Apple's privacy policy.
- BART. Catchable asks BART for live departures at your station. The request contains the station code and nothing about you. As with any website, BART's servers see your IP address.
Nothing is sent to the developer.
Location permission
Catchable asks for "Always" location so that a commute started by a Shortcut can run while your phone is in your pocket, and so it can end a commute if you leave the station without boarding. Outside a commute, the only thing it watches is whether you are at one of your two stations. You can turn location off in the Settings app. Catchable still shows departure times without it.
Children
Catchable is not directed at children and collects no data from anyone.
Changes
If this policy changes, the new version will be posted here with a new effective date.