Privacy

In short

Everything you write or choose in Nearstep is stored on your device, in the app’s private storage, excluded from automatic backups. Your words are encrypted there, with a key kept in your phone’s own secure storage: the Keychain on iPhone, the Keystore on Android. There is no account, no cloud sync and no analytics of your content. Your words are never sent to AI services, to us or to anyone else.

Technical data used for purchases, access and offer-view statistics leaves your device, as described below. A one-time purchase is handled by your store and checked through RevenueCat. This data never includes your words. Nearstep runs no server of its own.

What stays on your device

Your notes, preparations, chosen options, edits, reviews and step checks, and, if you add them, a note for a harder moment, the date of the breakup, and your count without reaching out with the moments you log in it and, when you say, what pulled an urge. A sky picture you choose to save or share has no names or notes and goes only where you send it. Optional reminders and notes, such as the next milestone or the evening before a hard date, are scheduled through your phone’s own notification system with a generic text, such as a number of days or “A hard date tomorrow.”; they never contain your words or names.

You can read, copy, export and delete all of it at any time, for free, in Settings. Deleting in Nearstep doesn’t remove copies you exported.

Purchases

Apple or Google processes purchases under its own privacy policy. Nearstep uses RevenueCat to check access when the app opens, when you buy and when you restore. RevenueCat receives an anonymous app user ID that RevenueCat generates for this installation (an installation from an earlier version keeps the pseudonymous ID it already had), basic device and platform information, and purchase receipts or tokens when present. Purchase records include the product and transaction dates. They are used to confirm access and report commercial statistics such as purchases. The ID connects these records to an installation, without a Nearstep account, name or email. RevenueCat never receives your private words or choices.

From version 2.2.4, Nearstep also notes on that RevenueCat record whether this installation opened the Nearstep Plus page to buy it: how many times, the first and last day, and from which part of the app, such as Settings, Your sky or after a pause. It never includes what you wrote, chose or logged. We use it only to understand whether people see Plus and whether that leads to purchases.

Purchase records are kept by the store and by RevenueCat under their retention rules. Deleting your words in Nearstep doesn’t delete a purchase record.

Retention and deletion

Local records remain until you delete them or remove the app. Purchase records are retained to verify access and restoration, subject to the store and RevenueCat rules.

Delete all records in Settings removes local content, not store or RevenueCat records. There is currently no in-app remote deletion control. Contact the support address with privacy questions or requests; do not send your private words. The code under Privacy requests in Settings is RevenueCat’s ID for this installation; it lets us find which technical records belong to you. We explain any records that must remain for access, security or legal obligations. We cannot delete records held independently by Apple or Google.

What we don’t do

No account or sign-in. No analytics of your private content, advertising or cross-app tracking. Commercial statistics are described above. No reading of your messages, contacts, photos or other apps. No AI processing of your text, on the device or anywhere else. Shortcuts and automations you set up on your phone only open the pause; Nearstep doesn’t learn which app or event started them.

Device loss and backups

Because your words live only on your device, losing the device, resetting it or uninstalling the app removes them. The key that encrypts them stays on this phone and isn’t backed up, so they can’t be read from a copy of the app’s files. Export regularly if you want a copy. Restoring a purchase restores access, not words.

Age

Nearstep is intended for people aged 16 and over. It doesn’t ask for your birth date and isn’t directed at children.

Changes and contact

If this policy changes, the date at the top changes with it, and the current text is always available in Settings. Questions about privacy go to the support address; please don’t include your notes.