Tallyist Privacy Policy

Last updated: September 24, 2026

Tallyist does not collect your data. Nothing you log leaves your control.

This page is the authoritative version of the policy for the Tallyist app on iPhone, iPad and Apple Watch. The same policy ships inside the iPhone and iPad app, under Settings → About → Privacy Policy. It stays in English even where the app’s interface is translated, so that what it claims can be checked against the app’s privacy manifests and entitlements.

What Tallyist stores

• The drinks you log: type, size, strength, when, and the region you logged each one under.
• Days recorded as alcohol-free — by you, or by another app that recorded zero drinks in Apple Health.
• Your settings, such as which region’s standard-drink definition your totals use.
• A short diagnostic record, such as when your log last synced, when a widget last logged a drink, and when the app last read from Apple Health. It holds none of the figures read for Apple Health on Trends, and it is never sent anywhere.

All of it is stored on your device, in the app’s own storage. If you use Tallyist on Apple Watch, the watch keeps its own copy of your log in the same way. There are no accounts and no sign-up.

Where your data can go — always under your control

• iCloud. If your device is signed into iCloud, your log syncs through your own private iCloud database so it follows you across your devices. That database belongs to your Apple Account; the developer cannot read it, and no server other than Apple’s is involved. Sync stops if you sign out, and the app keeps working locally. Your settings are not synced through iCloud.
• Apple Health. With your permission, drinks you log are saved to Health as “alcoholic beverages”, and Tallyist reads that same category back — including drinks that other apps recorded there, which then appear in your Tallyist log, clearly labeled, and days they recorded as zero drinks, which appear as no-alcohol days. You can grant, refuse, or revoke this at any time in the Health app, or in the Settings app under Privacy & Security.
• Apple Health on Trends. Only if you turn it on, Tallyist also reads four other kinds of Health data: resting heart rate, sleep, heart rate variability, and sleeping wrist temperature, along with the unit your Health app shows temperature in. Each has its own switch in Settings, under Apple Health on Trends, and all four are off until you turn them on there or from a card on Trends that asks once. The data is read on your device when Trends shows it, used only to show your own averages on nights you logged drinks and nights you recorded as no alcohol, and then discarded. None of it is saved in the app, synced to iCloud, written back to Health, or sent anywhere. You can turn a switch off, or revoke access in Health, at any time. Tallyist reads no other Health data.
• Apple Watch. If you use Tallyist on Apple Watch, your iPhone sends two settings straight to your paired watch: your region and what the plus button logs, with the time it sent them. Nothing else about you travels that way, and no drink ever does; your log moves between your devices only through iCloud, as above. The watch app reads and writes no Health data. Drinks you log on the watch are saved to Health by Tallyist on your iPhone or iPad, if you allow it there, the next time you open it after they have synced.
• Widgets and complications. The home-screen widget shares the app’s storage on the same iPhone or iPad, and the watch complications share the watch app’s storage on your watch. Nothing about that sharing leaves the device.
• Export and sharing. Settings → Export log turns your whole record into a CSV file, and the calendar can render a month or a year as an image. Both are created on your device, only when you ask, and go only where you send them through the system share sheet. The app keeps no copy, adds no identifier, and does not record whether or where you shared anything.

What Tallyist does not do

• No analytics, and no crash-reporting SDKs.
• No advertising, and no tracking of any kind.
• No third-party services. The app contains no networking code of its own; the only network traffic related to Tallyist is Apple’s iCloud sync described above, the two settings your iPhone sends to your own watch, and, if you open the tip jar or leave a tip, Apple’s own App Store product and purchase processing.
• No selling, sharing, or transfer of your data to anyone, because the developer never has it in the first place.

In App Store terms: Data Not Collected.

Tips

Tallyist has an optional tip jar (Settings → Buy me a drink). Payments are processed entirely by Apple through your App Store account, exactly like any App Store purchase: Tallyist never sees your payment details, and Apple tells the app only that a purchase completed. Tips unlock nothing, and nothing about tipping — or not — appears in or affects your drink log. Recurring tips can be cancelled any time in your App Store subscription settings, and the app offers a local reminder a week before each renewal so you can cancel before being charged.

Deleting your data

• Any entry you logged can be deleted in the app, individually. A drink or a no-alcohol day that another app recorded in Apple Health is deleted in that app or in the Health app, and Tallyist follows.
• Deleting the app removes everything it stored on that device. On Apple Watch, deleting the watch app removes the watch’s copy.
• iCloud copies can be removed in the iOS Settings app under your Apple Account → iCloud → Manage Account Storage.
• Data saved to Health is yours in Health: delete it there under Browse → Other Data → Alcohol Consumption. Nothing Tallyist reads for Apple Health on Trends is ever stored, so there is nothing of it to delete.

Changes to this policy

This policy is kept under version control; every change to it, and its date, is recorded. If a future version of the app ever collects data — for example, if a server component is added — this policy and the App Store privacy labels will change before that version ships.

Contact

Questions about this policy can be sent to tallyist@gmail.com.