Privacy Policy

When you sign in with Apple, Dawnlet stores an internal account ID, and the email address Apple provides. If you chose "Hide My Email", that's Apple's private relay address rather than your real one — Dawnlet has no way to see past it.

If you let Apple share your name when you first sign in, Dawnlet stores it so it can greet you and so it survives reinstalling the app. Apple only offers it once, on your very first sign-in. It's used for nothing else — no email, no marketing, no analytics.

Todos, habits, events, journal entries, daily moods, meals, gratitudes, places, books, movies, tracked time, the names of the people you add to them (see Apple Contacts below), and financial data you enter, and the badges you've earned, are stored on Dawnlet's server, tied to your account, so they sync across sessions. Your savings goals (their names, targets and dates) and what you put toward or take out of them are stored the same way as transactions, with the same protections: they are included in Data & Export and deleted with your account. If you choose “Also add to Finance” (or add a transaction to a savings goal), Dawnlet also keeps that contribution as a transaction in Finance, linked to it, and keeps the two in step; deleting either deletes both unless you choose to keep one.

So Dawnlet can still show your day when you have no connection, it keeps a copy of the last version it loaded of some of your content on your device between launches: your todos, habits, events (including their locations and notes), time-tracking activities and the last two weeks of your tracked sessions (their times, names and notes), gratitudes, daily moods, meals (including their notes and who you ate with), your books, movies and places (including their notes, who you watched or went with, and the points you pinned on the Places map), categories and tags, which days you wrote in your journal, and your layout settings (the day your week starts, the screen Dawnlet opens on, and how your Agenda and reports are arranged), and, if weather is on, the last forecast and the rounded point it was for, and the forecasts for places with a trip planned; on Apple Watch, today's habits and todos as the Watch last loaded them. Nothing else goes in it — never your journal entries themselves, your People list, or your financial data. The copy stays inside the app, is encrypted by iOS while your device is locked, is left out of iCloud and computer backups, and is never sent anywhere. It's deleted when you sign out, delete your account, or sign in with a different account.

When you make a change with no connection - checking something off, adding, editing or deleting an item, setting your mood, changing how often to keep in touch with someone, or using the timer - Dawnlet keeps that change on your device until it can send it to Dawnlet's server, so nothing you do offline is lost. Three kinds of change get extra protection, because they're the most private: a journal entry you save offline, a transaction you log offline (its amount, type, category, tags, note and date), and a savings goal or a contribution to one that you save offline (its name, amount, day and note, and the Finance transaction it will be recorded as). Each waits in a file of its own, apart from the other waiting changes, under iOS's strongest file protection, so it can't be read while your device is locked; a transaction, a savings goal or a contribution is never written to your device at all while you're online. Waiting changes stay inside the app, are left out of iCloud and computer backups, are sent only to Dawnlet's server, and are removed from your device as soon as they sync. If a change can't be saved, it waits under Settings until you copy or discard it. Signing out, deleting your account, or signing in with a different account deletes every change still waiting — Dawnlet warns you first when there are any.

Your Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets read a small summary that Dawnlet writes into a container on your device that only Dawnlet and its widgets can open: today's todo and habit counts and the next todo's title, your habits' names and this week's check-ins, your longest streak, the running timer's activity, and today's agenda items — and, with Dawnlet Plus, this month's spending totals and budgets (left out entirely while Finance is locked with Face ID) and a short excerpt from a past journal entry for "On this day". The Control Center controls and the StandBy timer clock read two more small files in the same container: your time-tracking activities' names and the running timer, and your habits' names and whether each is done today. All of it is rewritten as your day changes, left out of iCloud and computer backups, never sent anywhere, and deleted when you sign out.

The filter a Focus applies - the categories and tags you pick and a few switches - is saved only on your device, in the container that only Dawnlet and its widgets can open, so widgets and notifications can follow it. It is never sent to Dawnlet's server or anywhere else, and it's cleared when the Focus ends or you sign out.

So you can find things from your device's search, Dawnlet adds a short entry for each of your people, todos, habits, events, places, books, movies, meals, gratitudes and time-tracking activities to the Spotlight index on your device: its title and a short line such as a date, a place or an author (and, for a meal, its notes and who you ate with). Journal entries (their title and text) and your most recent 5,000 transactions (their note, amount and date) are added only if you turn them on in Settings → Apple Integrations, and transactions never while Finance is locked with Face ID. The index stays on your device and Dawnlet never sends it anywhere. It's cleared when you sign out or a different account signs in, and journal entries or transactions leave it as soon as you turn them off.

If Handoff is on for your devices, Dawnlet lets your other iPhone or iPad signed in to the same Apple Account pick up where you left off. What it hands over is only which screen you're on, or which kind of item you're editing and its internal ID — never its title or contents. Handoff is Apple's, between your own devices; nothing about it reaches Dawnlet's server.

Other apps from the makers of Dawnlet may offer to send things to Dawnlet — for example, places you visited and what you spent there. What they send waits in a space on your device that only those apps and Dawnlet can open, protected so it can't be read while your device is locked. Dawnlet shows you what it received (amounts behind Face ID when Finance is locked), saves to your account only what you choose to add, and then deletes it — also if you cancel. Nothing passes through any server on the way, and each app keeps its own account.

If you link a habit to Apple Health, Dawnlet reads Health data on your device: for each linked habit, only what that habit needs — steps, exercise minutes, stand hours, active energy, walking and running distance, workouts, mindful minutes, sleep, water or weigh-ins — to check it off when you reach its goal; and, on the Health screen, your last four weeks of the data you allowed, to suggest goals. Separately from habits, and only once you've given Dawnlet Health access: Agenda's Health card reads today's steps (and, with Dawnlet Plus, the measures you pick — sleep, exercise minutes, stand hours, active energy, distance, mindful minutes and water) whenever Agenda shows today, and, with Dawnlet Plus, Patterns and Reports read your nightly sleep while they're open, to set it beside your moods. These readings are only held on your device while the screen is showing them; nothing is saved to your account or uploaded, and the only thing Dawnlet remembers is which measures you picked, on that device. Sleep only leaves your device inside a report PDF you choose to share. Dawnlet only reads Health and never writes to it. Your Health data never leaves your device: what's saved to your account is the habit's goal, the check-in (marked as made by Health), and the days you unticked one Health had ticked, so it isn't ticked again. Health data is never used for advertising or shared with anyone, and isn't stored in iCloud by Dawnlet. Unlinking a habit stops it being read and keeps the habit and its check-ins. Turn access off any time in the Health app → Sharing → Apps → Dawnlet.

Look Back (a Dawnlet Plus feature) writes a few sentences about a week or month from numbers Dawnlet works out on your device — things like how often you did your habits, how long you tracked, and your spending (left out entirely while Finance is locked with Face ID) — plus the names of habits, activities, books and badges. Where Apple Intelligence is available, the sentences are written by Apple's on-device model; otherwise Dawnlet uses its own template. Nothing is sent to Apple or to Dawnlet's server for this. The last two dozen reviews are kept on your device so they open instantly, left out of iCloud and computer backups, and deleted when you sign out.

Journal prompts (a Dawnlet Plus feature) are questions drawn from a day, offered when you start a journal entry and on the Journal tab. They are written on your device from names and counts only — such as which habits, activities, books or places the day held, and how many todos, gratitudes or meals — and never from a journal entry, a note, the words of a gratitude, a person or anything in Finance. Where Apple Intelligence is available, Apple's on-device model words them; otherwise Dawnlet uses wording of its own. Nothing is sent to Apple or to Dawnlet's server for this. The prompts are kept on your device for a short while so they open instantly, left out of iCloud and computer backups, and deleted when you sign out.

Chat with Dawnlet (a Dawnlet Plus feature) lets you ask about your days and add things in your own words. What you type, and the data an answer needs — events, todos, habits, counts, the people you've seen, and your spending while Finance isn't locked with Face ID — are handled only by Apple's on-device model, or by Dawnlet's own wording rules where Apple Intelligence isn't available, on your device. Nothing is sent to Apple or to Dawnlet's server for this. Something it adds is saved to your account only after you confirm it, like anything else you add. The chat is kept on your device for 7 days, never synced to your other devices, left out of iCloud and computer backups, and cleared when you start a New Chat or sign out.

Your People in Dawnlet are your Apple Contacts. With your permission, Dawnlet reads your contacts on your device — names, phone numbers, email addresses, addresses and birthdays — to show them in People, on a person's page and with their upcoming birthdays, and to plan birthday notifications on your device. None of that is copied to Dawnlet's server. When you add someone to a meal, a movie or a place (or ask Dawnlet to help you keep in touch with them), Dawnlet saves only their name, the identifier Apple Contacts uses for that contact on the device where you picked them, and how often you'd like to keep in touch — so the people on your meals, movies and places sync between your devices. Which contact each person is on a given device is remembered on that device only. Dawnlet never contacts the people in your address book, and never shares or sells anything about them.

Before version 2.0, Dawnlet could import contacts and save their details (phone numbers, email addresses, an address and a birthday) to your account. From 2.0, Dawnlet no longer reads or shows those copies. The first time you open 2.0, anyone you had added by hand in Dawnlet is added to your Apple Contacts — once, on your device, with the details you had entered — unless your contacts already have exactly one person with that name, who is linked instead. The copies made by earlier versions stay in your account only so that devices still running an older version keep working, and will be removed in a later update; deleting your account removes them at once.

From version 2.2, Dawnlet's server keeps a record of your Dawnlet Plus subscription, linked to your account, so Dawnlet can tell how many members subscribe, stay or let their plan lapse. It holds Apple's transaction number for the subscription (a number Apple gives the purchase, not your Apple ID), which plan it is, whether it's in its free trial, whether it's set to renew, when the current period ends, its state (active, in a billing grace period or retry, expired or refunded) and when that last changed. It reaches the server two ways: Apple's App Store sends Dawnlet's server a signed notice whenever your subscription changes - a subscription bought in the app from version 2.2 carries your Dawnlet account's ID so those notices can name it - and the app sends the signed subscription details Apple keeps on your device. Both are checked against Apple's signature. No price, payment method, receipt or Apple ID is kept. It isn't used for advertising or tracking, isn't shared with anyone, and changes nothing about what you can use: the app still checks with Apple on your device, and that alone decides what's unlocked. If you've never subscribed, there's nothing to record. Deleting your account deletes the record; if Apple sends a later notice about that subscription, it's kept with no link to you.

If you enable this integration, Dawnlet reads your Apple Calendar events and Reminders directly on your device and shows them alongside your todos and habits. Reading is free, and none of what it reads is sent to or stored on Dawnlet's server — with one exception you choose, below. You choose which of your calendars Dawnlet shows (Birthdays start off), and, with Dawnlet Plus, which calendar its events are added to; both choices stay on your device. Writing outwards is a Dawnlet Plus feature. With "Also add to Apple Calendar" on, Dawnlet adds your events to Apple Calendar and keeps the identifier Calendar gives each one alongside your Dawnlet event, so later edits update the same one, and marks each with a link that opens it in Dawnlet, so it isn't shown twice. With "Also sync with Apple Reminders" on, Dawnlet keeps your todos in a "Dawnlet" list in your iCloud Reminders; changes made in that list, and reminders you add to it, are saved to your Dawnlet account as todos. Those reminders live in your iCloud account, under Apple's terms, and each carries a link that opens its todo in Dawnlet. So several devices can sync without making duplicates, Dawnlet's server keeps which reminder belongs to which todo, with the title, due date and done state it last synced; each device also keeps a small file of what it last saw in the list, which stays on that device, is left out of iCloud and computer backups, and is deleted when you sign out. Reminders in your other lists are only ever read. Turning sync off stops all writing and leaves the list as it is; Remove Dawnlet List from Reminders then deletes the list and Dawnlet's record of which reminder belongs to which todo, and your todos stay. If your Plus subscription ends, these writes stop; anything already added stays as it was.

Weather is the one thing that uses where you are, and only if you turn it on (Plus, Settings — Apple Integrations — Weather): Dawnlet then reads your device's approximate location while the app is open — or uses a city you choose — rounds it to about a kilometre and sends it to Apple's weather service (WeatherKit) to get the forecast. With Plus, when a place of yours has an upcoming trip planned and weather is on, that place's own pinned point — the one already saved with it — is rounded the same way and also sent to Apple's weather service to get the forecast for the days of your trip. This needs no location permission, is only done for places with a trip, and the forecast stays on your device. It isn't sent to or stored by Dawnlet and isn't saved to your account; the last forecast, your choice and the rounded point stay on your device. Dawnlet never reads your location in the background and keeps no location history. You can turn weather off in Settings, or location off in iOS Settings. When you pin a place on the Places map, the point you choose — or the one Apple Maps finds from the place's name and region — is saved with that place, like its name, and synced to your account. Searching for a place sends what you type to Apple Maps. Dawnlet doesn't use advertising identifiers or device fingerprinting.

No third-party analytics, advertising, or crash-reporting SDKs. Nothing about your usage is shared with third parties.

At most once an hour, while you use it, Dawnlet asks Apple's App Store for the newest version number of Dawnlet, so it can tell you when an update is available. The request names only the app and your device's region setting — nothing about you or your content.

Delete individual items at any time from within the app (taking someone off every meal, movie and place they're on removes them from what Dawnlet keeps in use), or permanently delete your entire account and everything in it — including the people on your meals, movies and places, and anything earlier versions saved from your contacts — from Settings. Account deletion is immediate and irreversible — it removes the underlying account record, not just its contents.

The website uses Google Analytics to count visits and see which pages people read. It records the pages you view, your browser and device type, roughly where you are (country or city, worked out from your IP address) and how you arrived, and it sets cookies to tell a returning visit from a new one. Google processes this under its own privacy policy. None of it is linked to a Dawnlet account, and the app doesn't use Google Analytics or any other analytics.

The website also uses HeyCatch, an analytics service, to see which pages people view, which links and buttons they click, and which short links (like dawnlet.app/a) brought them here. It records the pages you visit, your clicks, your browser and device type and how you arrived, and keeps an anonymous ID in your browser to tell a returning visit from a new one. None of it is linked to a Dawnlet account, and the app doesn't use HeyCatch.

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