Privacy policy

What Steady stores, and where

Everything Steady knows about you lives in a local database on your phone. It is never uploaded, synced or backed up by us. If you delete the app, it is gone.

• Your onboarding answers and the plan built from them (fasting window, start time, the hour you said is hardest, your 90-day goal in your own words).
• Your fasts: when each started, when it ended, and the hours held.
• Your check-ins: mood, energy, the words you tapped, any note, and how far into a fast you were.
• Your conversation with the coach.
• Timed delays the coach offered and whether you rode them out.
• Your answer to the medication question. This one never leaves the phone in any form — see below.

What leaves the device when you use the coach

The coach is a language model (Claude, made by Anthropic) running behind a small server we operate. When you send the coach a message, or when Steady checks in with you during a fast, the following is sent for that one reply and nothing else:

• The state of the current fast: window length, hours elapsed, the current stage.
• Your reasons for being here, your 90-day goal, and your own words for the quit feeling, as you gave them in onboarding.
• Mood check-ins from the current fast, and a summary of your history (number of fasts, completion rate, how often mood improved later). Not the individual entries from past fasts.
• The last few turns of the current conversation, so the reply can follow on.
• Your message, if you typed one.
• An anonymous subscription identifier (see Purchases). It is used to confirm you have an active subscription and to limit how many requests a single subscription can make per minute. It is not a name, email or device identifier.

What happens to it

The server does not have a database. It does not store the request, the reply, or your message, and it does not log their contents. Anthropic processes the request to generate the reply under its API terms, which do not permit training on that data.

Your answer to the medication question is not sent. The server receives only a yes-or-no style flag saying whether fasting carries a raised risk for you, so the coach can be more careful. Which medication, if any, stays on your phone.

Purchases

Payment is handled by Apple. Steady never sees your card, your Apple ID or your name. Subscription status is managed through RevenueCat, which holds an anonymous identifier for this install and the state of your subscription. That identifier is the only thing about you that exists outside your phone.

Notifications, the lock screen and the widget

All notifications are scheduled on the device. There is no push server and no notification token is created or sent anywhere. The Live Activity and home-screen widget read the running fast from a store shared only between Steady and its own widget on your phone.

What Steady does not do

• No analytics, crash reporting or usage tracking of any kind.
• No advertising, and no data shared with advertisers or data brokers.
• No access to Apple Health. Steady measures nothing about your body.
• No account, and no way for us to look up an individual user.

Your control

Settings has an Export that hands you everything Steady holds as a single file, a Restore that reads such a file back, and a Delete that erases all of it and returns the app to its first screen. Uninstalling the app has the same effect as Delete. Because nothing is stored on our servers, there is nothing for us to delete on your behalf — and nothing we could recover if you asked.

Backups and moving to a new phone

Steady never uploads your data, but your phone might. Steady’s database sits in the app’s own storage, which Apple includes in your iCloud device backup like any other app — so setting up a new iPhone from that backup brings your history with it. That copy is between you and Apple, under Apple’s privacy terms; we have no access to it and no way to read it.

Deleting and reinstalling the app does not restore from a device backup, and nor would moving to Android. Export the file first if you are doing either — it is the only copy that is yours to move.

Age

Steady is not intended for anyone under 18 and does not knowingly collect information from anyone under 18.

Changes

If this policy changes, the date at the top changes with it and the new text ships in the app. We will not quietly widen what leaves the device.

Who we are

Steady is published by ChamsDel Online LLC. If you have any questions about this policy or how Steady handles your data, email privacy@chamsdel.online or write to: