Privacy Policy

The short version

Steady uses only the data each feature needs. Your goals, commitments, plans, and reflections stay on your devices and sync through your private iCloud database. You do not need to create a Steady account. Steady may send limited, pseudonymous product-usage events to PostHog so we can understand onboarding, permissions, core actions, and widget use.

Product analytics

When analytics is enabled in the app build, Steady sends PostHog events for onboarding progress and completion, notification and calendar permission outcomes, day planning and closure, commitment and goal changes, weekly reviews, widget configuration, and widget snapshot updates. Widget snapshot analytics are sent only when at least one known Steady widget is configured.

These events may include a pseudonymous app identifier, app and device metadata, event timestamps, and coarse state such as a permission status or count. PostHog uses the same RevenueCat app-user identifier: RevenueCat’s anonymous SDK-generated identifier until a verified App Store transaction is available, then the same deterministic, pseudonymous identifier derived from that transaction. Steady does not send goal or commitment titles, notes, reflections, raw calendar events, or RevenueCat purchase, product, entitlement, or customer data to PostHog. PostHog processes this information under its own Privacy Policy.

Data stored by the app

Steady stores the goals, commitments, plans, preferences, check-ins, and reflections you create in a local database on your devices and syncs that data through your private iCloud database. Insights are calculated from that local record. Steady does not sync this journal to a Steady-operated server.

You can delete your Steady data from within the app. Removing the app may also remove locally stored data, subject to how iOS handles app backups and restoration.

Optional calendar access

If you enable calendar-aware planning, Steady reads the relevant calendar window to estimate open and uninterrupted time. Raw event titles, identifiers, attendees, and event intervals are not stored in Steady’s database.

If you separately choose to create planning or review rituals, Steady writes those events to the calendar you select. You can turn either feature off and manage calendar access in iOS Settings.

Notifications

Notifications are optional. Steady schedules planning and review reminders through iOS. Reminder text avoids including goal or commitment titles on the lock screen.

AI assistance

AI assistance is optional and can be turned off. When available, Steady uses Apple’s Foundation Models interfaces to create editable suggestions and reflection prompts from limited context supplied by the app. Depending on device and system availability, Apple may process a request on your device or using Private Cloud Compute.

Apple’s handling of that processing is governed by its own policies. You can read Apple’s Private Cloud Compute Security Guide and Privacy Policy.

Purchases

Steady uses Apple’s App Store and RevenueCat to offer and manage subscriptions. RevenueCat receives an anonymous or pseudonymous app-user identifier together with purchase, product, and entitlement information needed to provide and restore access. When a verified App Store transaction is available, Steady derives that identifier from the transaction. Steady does not send your journal content to RevenueCat.

Apple and RevenueCat process this information under their own terms and privacy policies. See Apple’s Privacy Policy and RevenueCat’s Privacy Policy.

This website

This is a static website. It does not set advertising cookies, run behavioral analytics, or include contact forms. The hosting provider may process routine request information, such as an IP address, user agent, requested URL, and timestamp, to deliver and protect the site.

Changes and questions

We will update this policy when Steady’s data practices change and will revise the date at the top of this page. For privacy questions, contact Steady support.