Privacy Policy

Last updated: May 16, 2026

Startr is built to respect your privacy. Your habit data lives on your device. We — the makers of Startr — do not collect, sell, or share your habit data.

What lives on your device

• The habits you create (name, emoji, goal, unit, schedule).
• The taps and entries you log, including timestamps.
• Your in-app preferences, achievements, and progress records (reminder time, sort order, theme, earned trophies, and in-app challenge completions).

None of this leaves your device unless you explicitly opt into a group feature. See Group features below.

What Startr does not collect

• No accounts. Startr has no sign-up or login required to use the app.
• No first-party analytics pipeline. We do not operate a server that receives your habit names, entries, streaks, or goals.
• No contacts, photos, microphone, or camera access — ever.

Website launch list

If you enter your email on startrapp.com to get launch updates, we store that email address, along with basic request details needed to protect the form from abuse: timestamp, IP address, referring page, and browser user agent. This information is stored in a server-side file outside the public website root and is used only to send Startr launch updates and prevent spam. It is not sold or shared with advertisers.

To be removed from the launch list, email hello@startrapp.com.

App Privacy — what's on the label

Apple requires every app to disclose what data it collects, and which SDKs collect it. Here is every item that will appear on Startr's App Privacy nutrition label, explained plainly.

Identifiers — Advertising ID (IDFA)

Collected by: Google AdMob (powers free-tier ads).
Why: To serve ads and measure whether they were seen or tapped.
How to opt out: Startr sends non-personalized ad requests by default unless Apple's App Tracking Transparency (ATT) status says tracking is authorized. If Startr offers a personalized-ads option later, you can decline Apple's ATT prompt, or change your choice in Settings → Privacy & Security → Tracking.
Startr Pro removes all ads, so the IDFA is not used at all once you upgrade.

Usage Data — ad interactions

Collected by: Google AdMob.
Why: Standard ad-serving measurement — impressions, taps, and basic interaction signals.
Not included: Your habit names, entries, streaks, goals, or anything you logged in the app. AdMob sees an ad unit identifier and a device; it cannot see your habits.

Diagnostics — crash reports

Collected by: Apple, at the iOS system level — only if you have "Share iPhone & Watch Analytics" enabled in your device's Privacy Settings.
Startr does not run its own crash-reporting SDK. Any diagnostics Apple receives go through their standard platform agreement. We cannot see individual crash logs tied to your device.

Group features — what gets shared

Startr's accountability group features are entirely opt-in, and sharing is controlled per habit. Nothing is shared until you mark a habit public and join or create a group.

When you add a habit to a group, the other members of that group can see:

• The habit name — the name you gave the habit you chose to share.
• Whether you logged it today — a ✓ or ✗. Not the time; not the count.
• Your current streak — the number of consecutive days you hit your goal for that habit.
• Your display name — the name you chose when you joined the group.

Group members cannot see:

• Any other habit on your list — only the ones you explicitly added to that group.
• The time of day you logged.
• How many times you tapped for multi-rep habits — only whether you hit your goal.
• Your Apple ID, email address, or phone number.
• Your location or any other device information.

You stay in control: Remove a habit from a group at any time in Habit Settings → Groups. Leaving a group removes your shared data from other members' views immediately.

Group sync is powered by Apple's CloudKit. Your data travels through Apple's servers under their privacy policies — not a Startr-operated server. We never see the contents of your CloudKit container.

Advertising

The free version of Startr includes ads served by Google Mobile Ads (AdMob). Ads appear as banners and, occasionally, brief interstitials — no more than once per day, and never until you've had a chance to explore the app first. Startr does not share your habit names, entries, streaks, or goals with advertisers.

Upgrade to Startr Pro to remove all ads.

Optional permissions

Startr may ask for the following permissions. Each is optional and can be revoked at any time in Settings → Startr:

• Notifications — so Startr can remind you to log a habit on a schedule you set. Reminders are scheduled locally on your device and are not processed by any server.
• Location (when in use) — if you set a habit to require a specific location (for example, a hike that can only be logged at the trailhead), Startr checks your location when you attempt to log that habit. Location is checked on your device at the moment of logging and is not stored, transmitted, or tracked between taps.
• Apple Health (HealthKit) — if you link a habit to a health type, Startr writes your logged data to Apple Health on your device (e.g., linking a water habit writes your tap count as fluid ounces). Supported types: water intake, steps, exercise minutes, mindful minutes, and active calories. Startr writes to Health only — it does not read your existing Health data. This data is stored in Apple's Health app and is subject to Apple's privacy policy. It is never transmitted to Startr or any third party. Health linking is entirely optional and configured per habit.

Children

Startr is not directed to children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect data from children.

Changes to this policy

If we make material changes, we will update the date at the top of this page and, where appropriate, notify you in the app.

Contact

Questions or concerns? Email hello@startrapp.com.