Nothing you write here reaches us

Where your data lives

Everything you put into Cadence — notes, habits, planner entries, trips, recipes, weights, moods, finances, all of it — is written to a database file inside the app's own container on your device. It is not uploaded, mirrored or backed up anywhere unless you switch on iCloud sync or export it yourself.

Delete the app and that database goes with it. There is no copy elsewhere for us to delete on your behalf, because we never had one.

iCloud sync, if you turn it on

Sync is off by default. Switching it on moves your database into the private database of your own iCloud account, which is the part of iCloud only you can read. Apple operates it under Apple's privacy policy, and the developer of Cadence has no access to it — not to the contents, not to a list of who is syncing, not to anything.

Sync uses silent push notifications to learn when something changed on another device. Those carry no content of yours.

Your calendar

If you grant calendar access, Cadence reads events from the calendars you already have so they can sit beside your plan, and writes back the ones you add or edit in the app. That exchange is between Cadence and the calendar database on your device. Events are never copied to us, and declining the permission simply leaves the calendar views empty.

Your photos

Photos you attach to a trip, a recipe or a progress picture are copied into the app's own storage and stay there. Cadence asks for photo access only at the moment you pick one, never reads your library in the background, and never uploads an image anywhere.

Reminders

Notifications for habits, medications and timers are scheduled locally by your device. Nothing about them leaves it, and no server is involved in deciding when one fires.

Exporting and deleting

Settings has a full export that writes every record to a single JSON file wherever you choose to save it, and a clear-all-data command that takes a backup first and abandons the delete if that backup fails. Both run entirely on your device. What happens to the exported file afterwards is yours to decide.