Privacy Policy
Effective 4 September 2026
Goalism has no servers and no accounts. Everything you put into it stays on your iPhone. We could not look at your data if we wanted to, because it never reaches us.
What we collect
Nothing. There is no sign-up, no login, and no analytics. Goalism contains no advertising SDK, no tracking SDK, and no crash-reporting service. We run no server that receives anything from the app.
What stays on your device
- Your goals — the text you write and any photo you attach.
- Your app selections — chosen through Apple's own picker. Apple hands the app opaque tokens, so Goalism cannot read which apps you picked; it can only pass those tokens back to Apple to block them.
- Your statistics — how many times the block screen appeared, how often you chose to go on anyway, your streak, and time spent looking at your goal. Counts and timestamps, nothing more.
- Your settings — schedules, daily limits, colours.
These live in a private container on your device, shared between the app and its block-screen extensions. Deleting Goalism deletes all of it. We keep no backup, because there is nowhere for a backup to go.
Screen Time
Goalism uses Apple's Screen Time (Family Controls) API for one purpose: letting you block your own apps on your own device. Your usage history stays with Apple and is never shared with us. The app cannot browse what you use — it only knows how many times its own block screen appeared.
Photos
If you attach a photo to a goal, a copy is saved inside the app's storage on your device so the block screen can show it. It is never uploaded.
Notifications
Notifications are created locally by the app on your device. There is no push server.
Purchases
Subscriptions and the lifetime unlock are handled entirely by Apple. We never see your name, your payment details, or your Apple Account. Apple tells the app one thing only: whether a valid purchase exists. Apple's handling of the transaction is covered by Apple's Privacy Policy.
Sharing and selling
We share nothing and sell nothing, because we hold nothing.
Children
Goalism is not directed at children under 13, and it does not knowingly collect personal data from anyone of any age.
Changes to this policy
If this policy changes, the effective date above changes with it. We hold no contact details for you, so we cannot write to you individually — this page is the record.
Contact
Questions about this policy can be sent through the support link on Goalism's App Store page.