Privacy Policy

Effective date: November 8, 2026

Gillie helps you lock distracting apps and earn screen time back with real-life habits. We built it so that your personal data stays on your iPhone.

The short version

No account, no sign-up, no ads, no tracking.
Your habits, photos, steps and lock settings stay on your iPhone.
The only data that leaves your device is what's needed to check your subscription, plus anonymous usage statistics and anonymous ad measurement. None of it identifies you, and none of it is used to follow you across other apps or websites.

Apps you lock and allow. You choose them with Apple's Screen Time. Apple gives Gillie anonymous tokens for them, not app names, and they never leave your device.
Habits, pearls, streaks and focus sessions. Stored only in Gillie on your iPhone.
Habit photos. Taken with your camera inside Gillie and stored only in Gillie on your iPhone. Gillie checks them on your device (for example, that a photo isn't a duplicate). Photos are never uploaded.
Steps (Apple Health). If you allow it, Gillie reads your daily step count. Gillie only reads steps; it never writes to Apple Health. Health data is used only to give you pearls, stays on your device, is never used for advertising and is never shared with or sold to anyone.
Notifications. Reminders such as "time's up" are scheduled on your iPhone. If you allow notifications, Gillie may also send occasional messages (for example a tip or an update) through PostHog. For that, your device's push token, a random code from Apple that only lets messages reach this app on this phone, is stored at PostHog with the same anonymous ID. It is not linked to your name or used for advertising. Turning notifications off for Gillie in Settings stops them.

Subscription status. Purchases are processed by Apple. Gillie uses RevenueCat to confirm your subscription. RevenueCat receives your purchase and transaction details and a random, anonymous app user ID created on your device. It does not receive your name, e-mail address, health data, photos or the apps you lock. See RevenueCat's privacy policy: www.revenuecat.com/privacy
Anonymous usage statistics. Gillie uses PostHog (EU cloud) to count things like "onboarding finished" or "a 10-minute unlock started", and RevenueCat sends PostHog your subscription events (trial started, renewed, cancelled) with the same anonymous ID. PostHog never receives your name, habits, photos or the apps you lock, does not look up your location from your IP address, and is not used for advertising. See posthog.com/privacy
Ad measurement. If you installed Gillie from an ad, Apple's privacy-preserving systems (AdServices, SKAdNetwork and AdAttributionKit) may tell the ad network, delayed and in aggregate, that an install, a trial or a subscription happened. No device identifier is shared, and Gillie does not ask to track you.
Apple. If you chose to share analytics with app developers in your iPhone settings, Apple may share anonymous usage and crash data with us. You control this in Settings > Privacy & Security > Analytics & Improvements.

We do not sell your data, we do not use it for advertising, and we do not track you across apps or websites.

You can turn off Health access or Screen Time access at any time in iOS Settings.
Deleting Gillie deletes all data stored on your iPhone.
To ask about or delete the anonymous subscription record held by RevenueCat, e-mail us at [email protected].

Gillie does not ask for or collect personal information from anyone, including children.

If this policy changes, we'll update this page and its effective date.