Tabletales isn’t social media. There’s no public feed, nothing you save is ever posted to the open internet, and we never sell your data or use it for ads. Here’s exactly who can see what, and how you steer it.
A night only ever reaches someone one step from the table: you were there, or you’ve played a game night with someone who was. Strangers can’t reach your memories at all. Whether a night you can reach actually opens for you, or you just see that it exists, is set by the night itself (below), and opening one never chains someone onward to other nights they weren’t part of.
Think of them as your front door and each night’s door.
This is only about your profile page: when a friend you’ve played with opens it, do they see the nights you’ve saved, or just the ones you shared together? Open (the default) shows your game-night history to your crew. Private shows them only the nights you both attended. It never changes who can open a night, just what your page lists.
Every night has its own setting, and you pick a default for new ones. Open: friends of the people at the table can view it. Locked: it still appears in histories, but only the people who were there can open it. Hidden: just the people who were there, and no one else even knows it exists.
Always, forever. Everyone at the table keeps full access to the photos, scores, and roster, no matter what any setting says.
Anyone who’s played a game night with someone who was there can open an Open night. On a Locked night they’ll see it listed but can’t open it; a Hidden night they never see at all.
Nothing. If you haven’t shared a table with anyone who was there, the night doesn’t exist for you.
Yes. Tap their name or face on a night to open their profile, tap the three dots, then Block. You can also block someone from a photo they added. It’s quiet: they aren’t told.
You stop seeing each other’s comments and reactions, and you stop seeing the photos they add. You won’t get notifications about each other.
Add you to a night, link a guest to your account, find you, see your profile, or comment on a night you saved (and you can’t comment on theirs). Neither of you can see or open a night the other is on, unless you were both there.
Nights you already shared stay whole in both your memories: the people, the games, and the scores. They keep every photo from those nights, yours included. You can remove any shared night from your memories, and a friend can still put you both on a night you were really at.
A block only ever works between the two of you: everyone else at the table sees the night just as before. Changed your mind? Unblock them anytime in You → Privacy.
Comments and reactions stay at the table. Even on an Open night, only the people who were there see who commented or reacted.
Reports stay between you and us. Long-press a comment to report it, or tap the three dots on a photo, a night, or a profile. We see what you reported, the reason, and that it came from you, so we can act. We review every report, and we never tell the person you reported that it was you.
Counts, not contents. The people you’ve shared a night with can see how many nights and games you’ve logged, whether your profile is Open or Private, but never the photos, scores, or details of a night they can’t open. Your top games show only while your profile is Open.
You’re still in the nights you attend. If you played at someone else’s Open night, your name and score are part of that memory, the way you’d appear in a friend’s photo album. Going Private hides your profile; it doesn’t erase you from their night.
Who controls a night? The person who created it (whoever first saved it). Everyone who was at the table can edit the night’s games, scores, players, and photos, it’s a shared memory. But only its creator can change who’s allowed to see it, or delete it, so no one can quietly re-open a night you chose to keep close. And if you’d rather not see a night in your own timeline, you can remove it from yours without touching anyone else’s.
An invite shows a preview, never the night. An invite link is meant for one person. Before they claim it, whoever holds it sees who sent it and the date, plus, depending on the night’s setting, its name and the games played. Never its photos, scores, where it was, or anyone else who was there. A Hidden night shows only who sent it and when. A table code works the same way, and only while it’s on the host’s screen; the host confirms each person who scans it. An invite link keeps working until its guest claims it, and then it stops.
Share cards go only where you send them. Anyone at a night can turn it into an image with first names and send it to whoever they like. Tabletales never posts it, and the image has no link back to the night.
We see which features get used, never what you save. The app records which screens are opened, which buttons are tapped, and whether a sign-in worked (with a short reason like “no connection” when it didn’t), so we know what to improve. Until you sign in, that’s tied to a random ID made on your phone; signing in links it to your account, and signing out starts a fresh one. It never records your nights, names, scores, photos, comments, or anything you type, there is no screen recording, and it’s never used for ads or to follow you across other apps.
“Here” finds your city, never your address. When you tap Here on the place field, your phone works out roughly where you are and asks its own maps service (Apple’s on iPhone, Google’s on Android) which city that is (or the neighborhood, if it can’t name a city), then types it in for you. That tap is the only time Tabletales asks for your location, and never in the background. We never see or store your coordinates: we keep only the place name, the same as if you had typed it, and you can change it before you save.
No public feed. No selling your data. No ads, and no tracking you across other apps. No posting anything to the open internet. Tabletales is a keepsake for your table, not a place to perform for strangers.