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Saloon Archive
Browse 45+ original entries spanning classic Hollywood, spaghetti westerns, revisionist cinema, and neo-western film and TV — each with cultural notes, legacy scores, director's palette mood boards, and radar charts.
On-device · private by design
Archetype Ranch Your frontier culture workshop
Western Film & Culture Studio
Archetype Ranch is your on-device frontier culture workshop — a deep study studio for Western film, television, games, fashion archetypes, and dialogue craft. No accounts, no streaming, no ads: everything runs offline from curated reference content on your iPhone or iPad.
100% offline-first
0 accounts needed
45+ archive entries
What it does
Everything frontier culture needs, in one saloon.
Archetype Ranch turns scattered watchlists and half-remembered quotes into a structured studio you can trust — from classic Hollywood to neo-western film and TV.
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Outfit Forge
Build screen-ready Western looks with eight archetypes, an era-blend slider from 1903 to 2026, component pickers, live silhouette preview, and an authenticity score. Save and export outfit boards to your gallery.
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Showdown Compare
Pit two archive entries head-to-head on dual radar charts. Compare legacy, dialogue, style, and director's palette side by side, then save your verdict.
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Practice Yard
Train your era sense with five distinct quiz modes plus Blitz — a timed five-question sprint. Track accuracy, review mistakes, and build a sheriff streak across daily runs.
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Media Passport
Log planned, watching, and completed frontier media in a kanban-style tracker. Add ratings, notes, and watch your progress from Ranch Desk.
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Frontier River & Saloon Desk
Scroll a train-track timeline from 1903 to 2026, explore an influence graph, run Marathon watch queues with Live Activity, play pass-and-play Roundup games, and use the Dialect glossary and Dialogue Lab.
About us
Built for people who study the Western.
Archetype Ranch is an independent educational reference for iPhone and iPad. We built it for fans who want one steady place to study Western film, television, games, fashion archetypes, and dialogue craft — without noise, accounts, or clutter.
Inside the app you browse the Saloon Archive, forge era-faithful outfits, compare cult classics in Showdown, sharpen knowledge in Practice Yard, and track your media journey in a personal Passport. Your progress, outfits, verdicts, and journal stay on your device.
Archetype Ranch is an educational reference about Western film, TV, game culture, and frontier fashion archetypes. It is not a store, not a streaming service, and not affiliated with any studio or franchise. Optional poster artwork may load from Wikimedia Commons when available.
Privacy policy
Your ranch records stay on your device.
Archetype Ranch is designed around local storage. We do not operate user accounts, and we do not sell your personal information.
📅 Effective date: July 2026 · Last updated: July 2026
This Privacy Policy describes how Archetype Ranch (the "Application") handles information when you use our frontier culture workshop app. The Application is provided by the developer of Archetype Ranch ("we", "us", or "our").
Information We Collect
Archetype Ranch does not require an account, sign-up, or login. We do not ask for your name, email, phone number, or location inside the app. We do not run third-party analytics or advertising trackers.
The following data is stored locally on your device only:
- Trail interests and profile preferences from onboarding
- Media Passport items — planned, watching, and completed titles with ratings and notes
- Saved outfits from Outfit Forge and export history
- Showdown verdicts and comparison history
- Quiz sessions, accuracy records, sheriff streak, and milestone progress
- Bookmarked quotes, journal entries, and daily challenge status
- Cached poster images from Wikimedia Commons
Third-Party Content Services
To show optional film and TV poster artwork, the app may request public thumbnail images from the Wikipedia / Wikimedia Commons API when you browse archive entries. These requests use public page titles only — we do not transmit your passport, journal, quiz results, or other personal profile data to Wikipedia.
All editorial content, quizzes, glossary entries, and cultural analysis are bundled inside the app and work fully offline.
How We Use Information
Because we do not collect personal data on our servers, there is nothing for us to profile, share, or sell. Every feature — Archive, Outfit Forge, Showdown, Practice Yard, Passport, Frontier River, and Saloon Desk — operates using data stored on your device.
Data Storage & Retention
All of your content remains in the app's private storage on your device. There is no cloud sync and no remote backup operated by us. Deleting the app permanently removes associated local data from your device.
Live Activity & Widgets
If you start a Marathon session or enable Home Screen widgets, those features use Apple's system frameworks on your device. We do not receive Lock Screen or widget content on our servers.
Children's Privacy
The Application does not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13. Because no personal data is collected or transmitted to us, the app aligns with COPPA and similar child-privacy standards.
Your Control
You can edit or delete your local data at any time through the app — update passport items, remove saved outfits, clear quiz history, or uninstall the Application to remove all stored content from your device.
Changes to This Policy
We may update this policy to reflect app improvements or legal requirements. When we do, we will revise the effective date above. The core commitment — local storage, no accounts, no sale of personal data — will not change without clear notice.
Contact Us
Questions about this Privacy Policy? Contact us at ambermccullenn@gmail.com.
Contact
Say hello. 🤠
We love hearing from Western culture fans. Questions, feedback, or ideas — a real person reads every message.
⏳ We usually reply within 24–48 hours.
General inquiries
ambermccullenn@gmail.comPrivacy questions
ambermccullenn@gmail.comPhone
+1 (428) 436-4473App
Archetype Ranch
iPhone & iPad · iOS 16.2+