Privacy Policy

Last updated: May 2026

Habits (the "app") is published by Peak Development LLC ("we", "our"). The app is designed to respect your privacy completely. This policy explains exactly what we do and do not do with your data.

1. The short version

• We don't collect, transmit, or sell any personal information.
• We don't use third-party analytics, advertising SDKs, or tracking pixels.
• You don't create an account. The app stores your habits locally on your device and, when iCloud Sync is enabled, in your private Apple iCloud account.
• You can export everything to CSV or JSON at any time and reset all data in two taps.

2. Data the app stores on your device

The following data is stored locally on your iPhone, in the app's private container:

• The habits you create: name, icon, color, schedule, and target.
• Your daily logs: completion counts, skip flags, and date stamps.
• Habit groups you've created.
• Your app settings: appearance, reminder times, badge style, sounds, haptics, week start, and similar preferences.
• Local achievement progress.
• Recent app-open dates (used to render the check-in calendar in Analytics).

None of this data is transmitted to a server we operate. We do not operate any servers.

3. iCloud Sync

If iCloud Sync is enabled in Habits, Apple CloudKit securely mirrors your habits, daily logs, groups, themes, and related app data to the private iCloud database associated with your Apple ID. This keeps Habits in sync across your devices signed in to the same Apple ID. Peak Development LLC cannot access this private database.

You can turn iCloud Sync off in Habits Settings. The change takes effect the next time you open the app. Turning it off stops future syncing; it does not remove any existing local data or records already stored in your private iCloud account.

4. Apple Health / HealthKit

If you connect a habit to Apple Health, Habits reads the following metrics from HealthKit on your device:

• Step count
• Active energy (calories burned)
• Walking and running distance
• Exercise minutes
• Sleep duration
• Workout count

Habits reads this data only to check whether you've met a daily goal you set for a health-linked habit. The app does not write to Apple Health, and we do not receive, store, or transmit raw HealthKit samples to any server we operate. Raw HealthKit data stays on your device. If iCloud Sync is enabled, the resulting Habits record (for example, a habit's completion status) may sync through your private iCloud account as described above.

You can revoke Habits' access at any time in Settings → Privacy & Security → Health → Habits on your iPhone.

5. Data we do not collect

• No name, email, phone number, or other contact details.
• No device identifiers (IDFA, IDFV, ad identifier).
• No location data, photos, contacts, or calendar data.
• No usage analytics, crash logs sent to us, or behavioural events.
• No advertising or marketing profiles.

6. Apple's role

When you purchase Habits Premium, the transaction is handled by Apple via StoreKit. Apple receives the payment data. We never do. Apple may also provide us with aggregate, anonymised metrics about downloads and subscriptions through App Store Connect, but no personally identifying information.

Notifications are scheduled locally through Apple's UserNotifications framework. They never leave your device until iOS itself delivers them.

7. Required iOS privacy manifest disclosures

The app's PrivacyInfo.xcprivacy file declares three Apple API categories:

• NSPrivacyAccessedAPICategoryUserDefaults: used to store your settings and a widget snapshot.
• NSPrivacyAccessedAPICategoryFileTimestamp: used by SwiftData when reading and writing your habit store.
• NSPrivacyAccessedAPICategorySystemBootTime: used only by the Apple Watch companion's in-app double-tap completion timer.

Both are local-only uses. We declare no tracking domains and collect no data.

8. Your control

• Export: Settings → Export Data → CSV or JSON share sheet.
• Delete: Settings → Reset All Data wipes habits, logs, achievements, and notification state. This is irreversible.
• Uninstall: Deleting the app from your iPhone removes all local data.

9. Children

Habits is not directed at children under 13. We do not knowingly collect personal information from anyone, including children. If you believe a child has somehow provided personal data to us — given that the app does not provide any data-collection interface — please contact us.

10. Changes

If we ever materially change this policy we will update the "Last updated" date and, where applicable, prompt you inside the app on next launch. The current version is always available at this URL.

11. Contact

Questions? Reach us at [email protected].