Privacy Policy

What stays on your devices

All of it, apart from the one exception in the next section. Ease keeps the following in its own storage on your iPhone — shared with its own widgets, its share extension and, through your iCloud, the Ease app on your Apple Watch:

• Tasks, their times, durations and repeat rules, and whether you completed, skipped or moved them
• Your daily check-ins and how the day felt
• Pictures you attach to a task, and any text read out of them
• Voice notes recorded in the evening check-in
• Focus session history, and the patterns Ease works out from it
• Your settings — theme, accent, start and end of day, sound mix

None of this is sent to Ease. There is no Ease account to attach it to, and no server of ours that holds it. It does sync between your own devices — your iPhone and your Apple Watch — through your Apple Account, which is described under iCloud below.

The one thing that leaves your device

The Plan screen turns a spoken or typed description of your day into a list of tasks. To do that well, it sends what you wrote to the Ease co‑planner — a server operated by Ease, running an open‑weight AI model on Cloudflare Workers AI. Ease asks you before it sends anything. The first time you send something on the Plan screen, the app states what will be sent and who it goes to, and you choose. If you say no, Ease sorts your words into tasks on the device instead and the Plan screen carries on working. The same switch — Send to the AI co-planner — is in the app under Settings → Privacy & permissions, and you can turn it off again at any time.

Exactly what is sent

• The text you spoke or typed on the Plan screen
• The current date and time, and the date you are planning for
• Your time zone (for example Europe/London) and country or region code (for example GB) — so “tomorrow at 8” resolves to the right moment
• A random identifier made by Ease on your iPhone, used only to count your planning allowance
• Whether you subscribe to Ease Plus, so the right allowance applies

What is not sent

No name, no email address, no account, no Apple Account details, no advertising identifier, no device identifier, and no precise location. The random install identifier is not linked to you or to anything else about you; it is kept in your iPhone’s keychain and not shared with anyone. Because it is in the keychain, it stays the same if you delete and reinstall the app, so a used free trial stays used.

What happens to it

The text is passed to the model, the resulting task list is returned to your iPhone, and the text is discarded. It is not stored and it is not logged. The only thing kept on the server is how much of the planning allowance that random identifier has used — a single number, and nothing else about you. For the free trial there is one such number; for Ease Plus there is one per day. Each is deleted automatically once it goes unused — a free trial’s 90 days after it was last used, and an Ease Plus day’s one day after.

Who else is involved

No one. The model is open‑weight and hosted by Cloudflare, so there is no third‑party AI company involved and your text does not leave Cloudflare’s network. Ease uses no advertising networks, no analytics providers and no third‑party tracking software — there are no third‑party software libraries in the app at all.

If you would rather it didn’t

Say no when Ease asks, or turn Send to the AI co-planner off under Settings → Privacy & permissions. Ease then understands you on the device instead — the Plan screen still works, and the rest of the app is unaffected. Using it with no connection does the same thing. Apart from the optional cancellation answer described under Subscriptions, nothing else in Ease ever contacts a server of ours.

Speech and dictation

When you speak a task, the recognition is performed by Apple’s speech framework on your device. The audio is not sent to Ease and not sent to Apple. What you get back is text, in the app, on your phone. If that text is then used to plan a day, the section above applies to the text and not to the recording.

Voice notes you record in the evening check-in are saved as files on your device and are never transmitted.

Calendar

If you allow it, Ease reads your calendar so existing events appear on the timeline as fixed blocks to plan around. Access is read‑only — Ease never creates, edits or deletes an event. Your events are never transmitted and are never stored by Ease; they are read for display and nothing more. You can decline, or withdraw access later in the iPhone Settings app, and Ease keeps working without it.

Photos

You can turn a picture into a task. Pictures go through Apple’s system photo picker, which runs outside the app — Ease has no access to your photo library, never asks for it, and only receives the single image you pick. Ease does not use the camera and does not ask for camera access.

Reading text out of a picture uses Apple’s on‑device Vision framework. Images are stored in Ease’s own storage on your iPhone and are never uploaded.

iCloud

If you are signed in to iCloud, Ease keeps your tasks and check-ins in the private area of your own Apple Account, so the same day appears on your iPhone and your Apple Watch. This is what makes the watch app work at all: a watch is a separate device and cannot read your phone’s storage directly.

This is your iCloud, not ours. The data sits in the private database of your Apple Account, which Ease cannot read, query or administer — we have no way to see your tasks and no server that receives them. Apple handles the storage and transfer under Apple’s privacy policy, and Ease never sees your Apple Account details.

You can turn it off. In the iPhone Settings app, under your name → iCloud, switch Ease off and it goes back to keeping everything on the device alone. The app works exactly the same, except that your Apple Watch will no longer receive your day.

Ease also uses iCloud key‑value storage for one small thing: remembering whether you have already claimed the free month offered for sharing the app. That is a single flag and a single date, tied to your Apple Account so the offer works once rather than once per device.

Subscriptions and payment

Ease Plus is an auto‑renewing subscription sold through Apple’s App Store. All payment is handled by Apple. Ease never sees and never receives your name, payment card, billing address or Apple Account. The app only asks Apple whether a valid subscription exists, and gets back yes or no. Managing, cancelling or requesting a refund for a subscription is done through Apple, in the iPhone Settings app under your name → Subscriptions.

If you cancel from inside Ease (Settings → Cancel subscription), the app first asks why, from a short list, before handing you to Apple. Answering is optional. If you pick one, that choice is sent to Ease’s server — for example “I’m taking a break”. If you pick “missing features” or “too hard to use”, a second page offers a few follow-up options to tap and room for a short note (up to 280 characters); whatever you tap or write there is sent too, and you can skip it. Nothing else goes with it: no identifier, no account, nothing about your device. Answers are kept for three months to see what needs fixing, then deleted automatically. They are not linked to you — so please don’t put your name or email in the note; if you’d like a reply, write to the address at the bottom of this page instead. Answering does not affect your subscription.

What Ease does not do

• No accounts, no sign‑up, no password, no email address collected
• No analytics, telemetry, crash reporting or usage measurement — the optional cancellation answer above is the one thing kept
• No advertising, no advertising identifier, no advertising networks
• No tracking of you across apps or websites, by anyone
• No selling, renting or sharing of your information — there is nothing held to sell
• No profiling, and no automated decisions that have any legal effect on you

Children

Ease is a general‑audience productivity app and is not directed at children. It knowingly collects no personal information from anyone, of any age.

Your control over your information

Because everything lives on your own devices and your own Apple Account, you control it directly:

• See it — it is all visible in the app
• Export it — Settings → Export my data, which writes your tasks and check-ins to a file you choose where to save
• Delete it — Settings → Erase all data permanently removes every task and check-in on the device. Deleting the app removes everything, your settings included, except the random planning identifier and your free allowance count, which iOS keeps in the keychain
• Withdraw a permission — microphone, speech and calendar can each be turned off at any time in the iPhone Settings app

If you are in the UK, EU or another region with data protection rights — access, correction, erasure, portability, objection — those rights are satisfied by the controls above, because the only things Ease holds anywhere else are the allowance count described above, which is tied to a random identifier and to nothing about you, and anonymous cancellation answers, which are tied to nothing at all. If you believe something has been missed, write to the address below and it will be dealt with.

Changes to this policy

If this policy changes, the revised version will be posted on this page with a new effective date. Material changes will also be described in the app’s release notes. The date at the top of this page always tells you which version you are reading.

Contact

Questions about this policy, or about anything Ease does with your information:

qangdev@gmail.com