GladlyThe short version: your check-ins live on your iPhone. The Gladly app has no ads, no analytics and no tracking. Cloud backup is optional, and you can delete it from the app at any time. This website counts visits with Google Analytics.
Gladly ("Gladly", "we", "us") is a daily affirmation and gratitude app for iPhone. This policy explains what the app stores, what leaves your device and the choices you have. It also covers this website, trygladly.app.
What stays on your iPhone
Your check-ins (mood, the gratitude stickers you pick and any optional note), saved affirmations, custom gratitude stickers, the name you'd like Peanut to call you (if you give one), your companion's name and gifts, and your settings are stored only on your device. Cloud backup never includes your name. The Home Screen widget reads a copy of today's affirmation from storage shared with the app on the same device. We cannot see any of this.
What the app doesn't do
- No advertising and no advertising identifiers.
- No analytics or crash-reporting SDKs.
- No tracking across other companies' apps or websites, and no selling or sharing of personal information.
New affirmations
About once a day the app may download new affirmations from our server. The request contains no information about you or your check-ins. Like any internet request, it reveals your device's IP address to our hosting provider, which may keep it briefly in server logs for security and reliability.
Optional cloud backup (Gladly Premium)
If you turn on cloud backup, you sign in with Apple and Gladly stores a copy of your check-ins and custom gratitude stickers with our database provider, Supabase, so you can restore them on another iPhone. To do that we receive:
- an anonymous user identifier from Sign in with Apple, and
- your email address, or an Apple private relay address if you choose "Hide My Email".
Your backup is protected so that only your signed-in account can read or change it. We use this data only to provide the backup. You can turn backup off, sign out, or delete your cloud account at any time in Settings → Cloud backup → Delete cloud account. Deleting the account permanently removes your backup and sign-in record from our servers; check-ins on your iPhone stay there.
Purchases
Subscriptions are sold and processed by Apple. We never receive your payment details.
To manage subscriptions, Gladly uses RevenueCat, a subscription service that works on our behalf. When you open the app or buy, restore or renew a subscription, the app sends RevenueCat:
- your purchase history with Gladly from Apple (which plan, when it started, renews or ends, and Apple's transaction records),
- a random identifier the app creates for this purpose, and
- basic technical details such as the app version, iOS version, language and App Store region.
RevenueCat never receives your name, email, check-ins or notes, and none of this is used to track you or to show ads. Like any internet request, it reveals your device's IP address. RevenueCat handles this data under its own privacy policy. The app also checks your subscription with Apple on your iPhone, so Premium keeps working if RevenueCat can't be reached.
Notifications
Daily reminders, including the greeting with your name, are scheduled on your iPhone. Nothing about them is sent to us.
This website
This website uses Google Analytics to count visits and see which pages people read. Google Analytics sets cookies in your browser and receives the pages you view, the site that sent you, your browser and device type, and your approximate location based on your IP address. We use it only to understand how many people visit and what they find useful, not to show you ads. Google handles this data under its own privacy policy.
You can block it with your browser's privacy settings, a content blocker, or Google's opt-out add-on. The Gladly app doesn't use Google Analytics, and nothing from the website is linked to your check-ins or your app.
Your choices and rights
- Export everything: Settings → Your data → Export your data (CSV or JSON).
- Delete everything on this iPhone: Settings → Your data → Delete all data.
- Delete your cloud backup and account: Settings → Cloud backup → Delete cloud account.
Depending on where you live, you may have rights to access, correct, delete or port your personal data. The tools above cover these for data we hold; you can also email us and we'll help.
Data retention and location
Cloud backup data is kept until you delete it or delete your cloud account. Subscription records are kept as long as needed to provide your subscription and meet legal and accounting obligations; email us to have them deleted. Our providers may process data in countries other than yours, with safeguards required by law.
Children
Gladly is not directed to children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from them.
Changes
If we change this policy, we'll update the date above and, for material changes, tell you in the app.
Contact
Questions or requests: support@trygladly.app