Last updated: 8 October 2026
In short: Tick it Off keeps your habits, and the numbers you track, on your iPhone. You do not need an account, and there is no advertising, no analytics and no tracking. Your data leaves your iPhone only when you choose: when you share or send something yourself, or when you turn on Backup and sync (part of Pro). If you turn it on, your habits and trackers are stored in the Tick it Off cloud so they can be restored and kept the same on your phones. You can turn it off, and delete your account and everything in the cloud, from the app at any time.
Some of what you can track is personal: your weight, your sleep, your fasts, what you lift at the gym, and what you spend. It is treated exactly like everything else described here — kept on your iPhone, and sent to the cloud only if you turn Backup and sync on.
This policy explains what Tick it Off stores, when data leaves your iPhone, who handles it, how long it is kept, how to delete it, and what each permission is for. "We" and "us" mean the developer of Tick it Off. "The app" means Tick it Off for iPhone, as downloaded from the App Store. The Android app has its own privacy policy.
This is how the app works unless you turn Backup and sync on. We receive nothing: the app does not send your habits, your trackers, your history, your profile or your photos to us or to anyone else. The app contains no analytics, advertising or crash-reporting code, does not use the advertising identifier, and does not track you across other companies' apps or websites.
Everything below is kept in the app's private storage on your iPhone. Other apps cannot read it, and deleting the app deletes it.
The expense tracker holds only what you type into it. The app does not connect to a bank, it cannot read your messages, and it never asks for a card number, an account number or any payment details.
The app does not read from or write to Apple Health. It is not a medical device and does not diagnose, treat or give medical advice. The numbers in a tracker are the ones you entered; the app records them and shows them back to you, and nothing more.
Backup and sync is off until you turn it on. Before anything is sent, the app explains what it does and asks you to choose a Google account.
What is stored in the Tick it Off cloud
Photos are not uploaded. A profile photo or share-card picture stays only on the phone where you chose it.
What it is used for. Only to back up your data, restore it, and keep it the same on the phones where you sign in. We do not use it for advertising or profiling, we do not sell it, and we do not look at your habit or tracker data. We never use health, fitness or spending information for advertising, and we do not pass it to anyone for their own purposes. We may access your account's records only if you ask us to help with a problem, and only as much as needed to fix it.
Where it is stored. With our cloud hosting provider, Google Firebase, in Mumbai, India. The provider stores it for us under a contract and may not use it for its own purposes.
If Pro ends. Syncing and daily copies stop. Your data stays on your iPhone, and what is already in the cloud stays there, so you can still restore it or delete it.
| Data | Kept for |
|---|---|
| Data on your iPhone | Until you delete it in the app, use Erase everything on this device, or delete the app. |
| Synced habit and tracker data in the cloud | Until you turn off Backup and sync and delete your account, or until the account is closed as described below. |
| Daily copies | The 14 most recent days. Older copies are deleted automatically. |
| Records of deleted items | About 90 days, so other phones can catch up, then removed. |
| Inactive accounts | If an account has not synced for 24 months, we may delete it and its data. |
| Emails you send us | As long as needed to answer you, and deleted on request. |
| What | Where it goes |
|---|---|
| Sharing a card, picture or video | Wherever you choose in the iPhone's share sheet, for example a messaging or social app. That app then handles it under its own policy. |
| Saving a backup file | A file of your habits, trackers and history, saved wherever you choose, for example the Files app. It stays where you put it, and you can restore from it later. |
| Your iPhone's own backup | If iCloud Backup or a computer backup is turned on for your iPhone, Apple may include the app's data in it. This is controlled by you in your iPhone's settings and covered by Apple's Privacy Policy. We have no access to it. |
| Emailing us | Sending feedback, or the report from the app's error screen, opens your own email app with a message you can read and edit first. Nothing is sent unless you press send. We receive your email address and what you write. |
Pro is bought through the App Store. Apple handles the payment, renewals, refunds and cancellation. We never see or store your card, UPI or other payment details, or your Apple Account details. The app asks the App Store on your iPhone whether your subscription is active. Apple gives us sales reports, such as the plan, the country and the amount, which we use only for accounting and to help with subscription problems. Payments are covered by Apple's Privacy Policy and the App Store's terms.
We do not sell or rent personal data, and we do not share it for advertising. Data is handled only by:
Your iPhone asks you before the app can send notifications, ring alarms or use the camera, and you can change your answer at any time in the Settings app.
| Permission | Why |
|---|---|
| Notifications | To show the reminders you set. |
| Alarms | So an alarm you set on a habit, to-do or tracker rings like your alarm clock until you stop it. Used only for the alarms you set. |
| Camera | Only when you tap “Take a photo” while making a share card. You can refuse, and the app works without it. |
| Photos | Not asked for. You choose a picture in the iPhone's own photo picker, which gives the app only that one picture and no access to the rest of your library. |
A picture you choose or take is copied into the app's own folder on your iPhone and goes nowhere else. The app does not use your contacts, location, microphone or Apple Health, does not open the camera by itself, and does not read your photo library or files in the background. It connects to the internet only for Backup and sync when you turn it on, and to check your subscription with the App Store.
On your iPhone, data stays in the app's private storage, protected by iOS. With Backup and sync on, data travels to the cloud over encrypted connections (HTTPS) and is encrypted when stored by our provider. Access rules allow each signed-in account to reach only its own data. No system is perfectly secure; please keep your iPhone locked and your Google account protected.
You can ask us to tell you what data we hold about you, correct it, or delete it, and you can withdraw consent at any time by turning off Backup and sync. Most of this you can do yourself in the app. For anything else, email us; we reply within 30 days. If you are in India, you may also complain to the Data Protection Board of India under the Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023, after contacting us first.
The app is not directed at children under 13. Backup and sync, and buying Pro, are for people aged 18 or over, or younger people using them with a parent or guardian's permission.
If the app changes how it handles data, we will update this page before the change reaches the app and change the date at the top. For important changes we will also say so in the app's What's new.
Questions, requests or complaints about privacy: somanathksm@gmail.com