Data and honesty
Data sources
Peekabug is built on other people’s good work. This is who they are and what each one receives.
| What it does | What it receives | |
|---|---|---|
| iNaturalist | Species counts and photos behind Bug Brief, and localized species names in the Field Guide. | A place or approximate coordinates and a month. No personal data. |
| Google Gemini API | Identifies the bug in your photo and answers Ask Peeka questions (Gemini 3.8 Flash for free use and Gemini 4 Argon for Peeka Pro; each is the other’s automatic fallback). | The photo you send and your question text. We use the paid API tier: under Google’s Gemini API terms these are not used to improve Google’s products. We store neither the photo nor the answer. |
| Open-Meteo | Current weather for the sky over your Bug Hotel and the weather on your cards. | Approximate coordinates. No identifiers. |
| Apple Maps | Place search and the map itself. | Your search text and map position, handled on your device by Apple. |
| Cloudflare | Runs our request proxy and hosts this website. Keeps our API keys server-side. | Standard request data. |
| Supabase | Stores accounts and synced collections, only if you sign in. | Your email address and your collection. |
| RevenueCat | Manages Peeka Pro subscriptions with the App Store. | An anonymous app user id and purchase receipts. |
iNaturalist observations
Bug Brief counts research-grade community observations of insects and arachnids, month by month. Photos are shown only under CC0, CC BY or CC BY-SA licences.
All species pixel art is drawn by us and is not a photograph. Fonts on this site: Press Start 2P, Titan One, Nunito and Patrick Hand, all under the SIL Open Font License.
Updated 2026-09-15