AxleSet
AxleSet · Last updated 27 September 2026
All of it is stored on the device. We cannot see it, and AxleSet does not send it anywhere. If you back up your iPhone (iCloud Backup or Finder), Apple's backup includes this app's files, the same as for any other app; that copy is yours, under your Apple ID. Deleting the app deletes all of it from the phone (the optional iCloud backup below is separate).
AxleSet asks for camera or photo-library access only when you tap to scan or attach a photo to a scale ticket. The photo is copied into the app's own storage on your phone. It is not uploaded or shared; the numbers are read from it on your phone. Like every app's documents, it is included in your own iPhone backup if you keep one, and AxleSet's own iCloud backup never carries photos. You can use the whole app without ever granting either permission.
AxleSet asks for your location only when you open CAT Scale locations near me, to sort the list by distance. The position is read once on the phone, used for that list, and not stored or sent anywhere. You can use that screen without location by searching a CAT number or truck stop name, and the rest of the app never asks. You still pick your state yourself.
When you scan a scale ticket, the numbers are read from the photo on your iPhone by Apple's built-in text recognition. The photo is not uploaded anywhere.
If you turn on Back up rigs and tickets to iCloud, AxleSet writes one file to your own iCloud Drive container for this app. What goes in it: your rigs, your tickets (weights, dates, places and the road class saved with each one — not the photos), the state you picked, whether you were on the Interstate, a state highway or one of a state's lower road classes, your slide strategy and drives target, and pounds or kilograms. What never goes in it: the ticket photos, and the last setting in the list above, which stays on this phone only.
Restoring that copy replaces what is on the phone: your rigs, your tickets and those settings are swapped for the ones in the copy, and anything on the phone that is not in the copy is gone with it — the photos already on this phone stay with their tickets. It goes through Apple's iCloud under your Apple ID; we have no server and cannot see it. The switch only stays on if that first copy actually goes up: if this iPhone has no iCloud account signed in, AxleSet turns it back off and tells you, instead of leaving you thinking there is a copy. Turn it off any time; delete the app's data from iCloud Drive in Settings.
AxleSet makes no network requests of its own. The state limits, fine schedules and the CAT Scale list are built into the app. Tapping a scale opens catscale.com or Maps in their own apps. The optional iCloud backup uses Apple's iCloud, nothing else.
Scale locations come from OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL) and link to catscale.com by scale number. Nothing about which scales you look at is recorded.
When you tap share on a ticket PDF or export your tickets as CSV, the file goes only where you send it (Mail, Messages, Files, your dispatcher's app). The PDF includes the photo you attached to that ticket; the CSV never carries photos. AxleSet itself never sends it anywhere.
AxleSet is free to download and use. AxleSet Pro is an auto-renewing subscription sold through the App Store and managed by Apple: Apple processes the payment, and neither the app nor we ever see your payment details, your Apple ID or your card. You cancel it in your Apple account settings, and the Restore button brings it back on a new phone. If you bought the earlier one-time unlock, you keep it, and Restore brings it back too. Whether AxleSet Pro is active, and until when, is stored on this phone, not on a server of ours — that is why the app answers the question with no signal and without asking anyone.
AxleSet is a tool for commercial drivers and is not directed at children. Since it collects nothing, it collects nothing from children either.
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