Privacy Policy

Last updated 18 August 2026

Chronicle has no account and no server of its own. Your journal is written as ordinary files on your iPhone. We do not receive it, and we could not read it if we wanted to.

What we collect

Nothing.

Chronicle has no sign-up, no user accounts, and no backend service. Your entries, your photos, your workouts, your routes, and your documents are stored on your device and in whatever folders you choose. None of it is transmitted to the developer of Chronicle.

Chronicle contains no analytics, no advertising SDKs, no crash reporting, and no third-party trackers. We do not know how many times you opened the app, what you wrote in it, or whether you use it at all.

Where your journal lives

Chronicle keeps a complete working copy on your iPhone, in the app's own storage, as a folder of dated files.

You may additionally connect one or more destination folders through the iOS Files app — a folder in iCloud Drive, Google Drive, Dropbox, OneDrive, or any other file provider you have installed. Each enabled destination receives a full copy of your journal, so that reinstalling the app doesn't lose it.

Copies in a cloud service are governed by that service, not by us. When Chronicle writes to a folder belonging to iCloud Drive, Google Drive, Dropbox, or OneDrive, that provider uploads and stores the copy under your account with them, subject to their privacy policy and terms. We have no access to it, no visibility into it, and no ability to retrieve or delete it. Choosing a cloud destination — and accepting the risks of storing personal journal content there — is your decision.

Chronicle never deletes files from a destination when you disconnect it. If you want copies removed from a cloud service, you remove them yourself, through that service.

What leaves your device, and when

Three things can send data off your iPhone. Each happens only when you use that specific feature.

Google Photos

Only if you connect it, and Chronicle works fully without it. It exists so that you can put pictures from your Google Photos library into your own journal entries.

Signing in happens on Google's own website; Chronicle never sees your Google password. Chronicle requests a single read-only permission, photospicker.mediaitems.readonly, which lets it receive the photos you pick through Google's own picker — and nothing else. It cannot browse your library and cannot see photos you did not select.

The photos you pick are downloaded from Google's servers directly to your device and saved into your journal. The sign-in token is stored in the iOS Keychain. Because Chronicle has no server, no Google user data is ever transmitted to the developer or to any third party. You can disconnect Google Photos at any time in Settings. Whatever Google records about that activity is governed by Google's privacy policy. Google is the only account Chronicle connects to.

Limited Use disclosure. Chronicle's use and transfer of information received from Google APIs to any other app will adhere to the Google API Services User Data Policy, including the Limited Use requirements. Specifically: Google user data is used only to provide the user-facing feature you invoked — adding your chosen photos to your journal — and is never used for advertising, never sold, never transferred to third parties except as required by law, and never read by any human.

Journal destinations

Described above: the provider that owns the folder uploads the copy under its own terms.

Place search

When you search for a place to attach to an entry, the text you type and your approximate location are sent to Apple Maps so that it can return suggestions. This is handled by Apple and covered by Apple's privacy policy.

Nothing else is sent anywhere.

Permissions Chronicle asks for

Chronicle requests each of these the first time you use the matching feature, and never before. You can change or revoke any of them at any time in iOS Settings.

Photos — to show pictures from a selected day so you can choose which ones belong in your journal.
Health — to read workouts, and the optional GPS routes attached to them, that you choose to include.
Location — to suggest nearby restaurants, parks, and other places when you choose to add a place.
Notifications — to deliver the daily journal reminder, if you turn one on. Reminders are scheduled locally on your device.

Health data read by Chronicle is used only to build your journal. It is never used for advertising, never sold, and never shared with anyone.

Locations and routes

GPS routes and saved places are sensitive. A route can reveal where you live, where you work, and when you are away from both.

Because of that, Chronicle treats precise route files — GPX, GeoJSON, .LOG, and .SNS — differently from everything else. They stay on your iPhone and are not copied to any destination unless you separately turn on Back up precise routes in Sources & Accounts. Turning that setting off keeps future routes local, but it cannot remove routes that were already copied to a destination.

What Chronicle never does

It never copies material you didn't select. Photos, health data, documents, and locations are added only by your explicit choice, one at a time.
It never deletes originals from Photos, Health, or a connected service.
It never uses your content for advertising, profiling, or training anything.
It never sells or shares your data, because it never receives it.

Children

Chronicle is not directed at children under 13 and knowingly collects no information from anyone, of any age.

Your rights

Rights to access, correct, export, or delete your personal data generally apply to data held by a company. We hold none of yours. Your journal is in your own files: to export it, copy the folder; to delete it, delete the folder and remove the app. If you have stored copies with a cloud provider, that provider's own tools and policies apply to those copies.

Changes to this policy

If this policy changes, the updated version will be posted on this page with a new date. Since we have no way to contact you, please check back here if it matters to you.

Contact

Questions about privacy in Chronicle: iamsuperlative+chronicle@gmail.com.