The Cadence app has no accounts, no servers and no analytics. There is no database anywhere with your name on it, because there is nowhere for your data to go. Everything below is just the detail of that, and the two exceptions: a problem report reaches us when you choose to send one, as described below, and this website counts its visitors, and says how further down.
Last updated 1 October 2026
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.
Sync is the one part of Cadence that is bought rather than given, and it is off until you both buy it and switch it on. Everything below applies only once you have.
Switching it on does not start you from empty: whatever you have already typed on that device is uploaded to your own iCloud, rather than being replaced by what is up there. Switching it back off leaves the data on the device exactly as it is.
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.
Because sync is bought, the app has to ask whether this Apple Account owns it. That question goes to the App Store through Apple's own StoreKit, and it is the only reason Cadence talks to Apple about you at all.
What comes back is whether the unlock is owned, and the price to show on the button. The developer sees none of it: not your Apple Account, not your name, not your payment details. Apple handles the sale end to end and never passes those on.
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.
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.
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.
Only when you choose Report an Issue… (in the Help menu on the Mac, or Settings, then Support), Cadence opens a report form hosted by SnagFrog, our issue tracker, and passes along the app version and build, your operating system version, device model, processor type, language and how much memory the device has. None of your notes, plans, photos or anything else you keep in Cadence is included, and no picture of the screen is taken. What you type into the form, and any screenshots you attach, are used only to answer you and fix the problem.
Reports are stored in the EU (Frankfurt), and replies are emailed through Resend in the US. SnagFrog's own privacy policy has the detail.
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.
Apple's App Store will tell the developer how many copies were downloaded and roughly where from, and how many people bought the sync unlock. It is Apple's own reporting, it arrives aggregated, and it never identifies you — the developer never sees your name, your email address or your payment details, because Apple handles the sale and never passes them on.
Everything above is about the app. The website you are reading, cadencelife.app, is the one place Cadence does count anything: it uses PostHog, hosted in the EU (Frankfurt), to record anonymous page views and which links and buttons get clicked. It runs without cookies and stores nothing on your device, not even in local storage, and your IP address is not kept. There is no session recording, no tracking across other sites, and nothing is sold. The developer sees it as counts of visits per page and uses it for nothing beyond knowing whether anyone read the page. Nothing here is tied to the app, and nothing about you in the app ever reaches the site.
The “Report a bug” button on these pages opens the same SnagFrog form; it includes this page's address, your browser and any recent page errors.
If you would rather not be counted, a content blocker or your browser's tracking protection stops the script and the site works exactly the same without it.
Cadence is not aimed at children, and the app collects nothing from anyone, of any age, beyond a problem report somebody chooses to send.
If the app ever starts doing something this page does not describe, this page changes first, and the date at the top changes with it.
Questions about any of this go to gorgekara@gmail.com, or through karakabakov.com.