LineBy You for iMessage · Last updated 11 July 2026
LineBy You is a free iMessage app for turning a phrase into a scrambled-tile puzzle you send to a friend. It has no account and is built to collect nothing about you. Gameplay is fully offline — the only network use is the App Store sheet behind its Get LineBy button (Apple's own, first-party sheet; it sends nothing about you to us).
The short version. No account. No analytics. No ads or advertising identifiers. No tracking. No iCloud. The app does not read your conversations and does not request access to your location, camera, microphone, contacts, or photos. The entire puzzle travels inside the message itself — there is no server in the loop.
LineBy You is developed and published by 0n1 Studios, a sole proprietorship ("we", "us"). For any privacy question, contact [email protected].
LineBy You contains no analytics or crash-reporting SDKs, no advertising, no third-party trackers, and no in-app purchases. We do not collect your name, email address, or any contact information, and the app does not ask for permission to use your location, camera, microphone, contacts, or photo library.
Like every iMessage app, it cannot read the contents of your conversations. iOS only ever hands the extension the single puzzle message a sender created or a recipient tapped — never the rest of the chat.
When you scramble a message, the puzzle — the phrase and its tile layout — is encoded on your device directly into the message's link. Nothing is uploaded to us. When your friend taps the bubble, their copy of the app decodes that same link locally and builds the board. The puzzle lives entirely in the message; there is no account to create and no database to look it up from.
Please note: the phrase is encoded for the tiles, not encrypted. Anyone who has the message link can read the underlying phrase — so please don't scramble passwords or anything sensitive.
If someone you send a puzzle to doesn't have LineBy You installed — including friends on Android — the message link can open a small web page at 0n1studios.com/lineby/play so they can still play. That page decodes the puzzle from the link and runs entirely in their browser: it sets no cookies, loads no analytics, and sends nothing back to us.
| Data | Status |
|---|---|
| Name, email, contacts, location, camera, photos | Never collected or requested |
| Your conversations / message contents | Not accessible to the app (iOS restriction) |
| Advertising identifiers (IDFA) / tracking | None — no ads, no tracking |
| Analytics & crash reporting | None |
| The puzzles you send | Encoded into the message link on your device; never uploaded to us |
| Account / iCloud data | None — the app uses no account and no iCloud |
LineBy You is not directed to children under 13 and does not knowingly collect personal information from children. No personal information is required to use it.
If our data practices change, we will update this page and revise the date above.
Questions about this policy? Email [email protected].