The short version
The content you create lives on your device, not on our servers - because we do not run servers that hold your data. We have no user accounts, we never sell your data, and we do not run ads or track you across other apps.
Most Flowstate apps are offline-first and never need a connection at all. A few, like HogWatch, are clients for a service you already use and connect to it directly with your own credentials. Either way, nothing routes through us.
Who we are
Flowstate Industries LLC is a one-person studio based in the United States. If you have any questions about your privacy, you can reach us at support@flowstateindustries.com.
What we store, and where
The information you create in our apps is stored locally on your device using Apple's on-device storage. It is not uploaded to us, and we do not run servers that hold it.
Some apps connect to a third-party service that you configure with your own credentials, such as an API key. Those credentials are stored in the iOS Keychain on your device, and we never receive them or the data they return.
Where an app blocks other apps, as Rizen does after you wake up, it is built on Apple's Screen Time framework. You choose which apps to block in Apple's own picker, and the app receives only anonymous tokens standing in for them. It cannot see which apps you open, how long you use them, or anything inside them.
Photos and other content you add stay in each app's local storage on your device. The only time some apps reach the network for your content is to search for a place, where they use Apple Maps; that search is handled by Apple.
Because this data lives on your device, it is included in your own device backup, so a new phone restores it. That backup belongs to you and, if you use iCloud Backup, to your iCloud account. We never receive it and cannot read it.
Anonymous analytics
To understand which features are used and to fix problems, some of our apps collect anonymous, privacy-preserving product analytics through PostHog. These analytics:
- Are tied only to a random, per-install identifier - never your name, email, or an account.
- Carry no content you write. Notes and photos are reduced to a simple presence flag, and the money you enter is reported only as a range, such as $100-200, never as an exact figure.
- Are never used to track you across other apps or websites, and involve no advertising identifier.
Two narrow exceptions are worth naming plainly. A short label you choose from or type to categorize your own entries, such as a job title like Server or Bartender, can be included so we know which parts of an app get used. And in some apps the price and Apple transaction identifier of a purchase are recorded exactly, because those come from the App Store rather than from you; other apps record which plan you chose and no amount at all.
The analytics library also records the ordinary technical context that comes with any app event: which screen was opened, app launches and backgrounding, your device model, iOS version, app version, locale, and time zone. And as with any request to any internet service, PostHog's servers see your device's IP address at the moment an event arrives. None of it is joined to a name or an account, because there is no account to join it to.
Several of our apps collect no analytics whatsoever. Summit has never contained an analytics SDK, and Clocked had its one removed outright in a 2026 update - not disabled, deleted, along with every line of code that called it. Neither app has an analytics switch in Settings because neither has anything to switch off. Where an app does still collect analytics, there is currently no in-app toggle either; the app discloses what is collected in its own settings. If that matters to you, say so and it will move up the list.
Payments
Purchases and subscriptions are processed by Apple through the App Store. We never see or store your payment details. Apple's privacy policy governs that transaction.
Who else is involved
We keep third parties to a minimum:
- Apple - the App Store handles payments, and some apps use Apple Maps for place search and your own iCloud where you choose to use it.
- PostHog - receives the anonymous product analytics described above, for the apps that use them. In HogWatch, PostHog is also the service your own API key connects to; that is your data moving between your phone and your own PostHog account, and it never passes through us.
For completeness: PostHog's iOS library also links a crash-reporting component, PLCrashReporter. Our apps leave crash capture switched off, so no crash data is collected or sent. Some apps bundle openly licensed datasets, such as GeoNames peak data and geoBoundaries map boundaries under CC BY 4.0. Those ship inside the app and are never contacted while you use it.
We do not share your information with anyone else, and we do not sell data to anybody.
Your control over your data
Because your content lives on your device, deleting an app removes its data from that device. There is no account to close and we hold no copy, so there is nothing for us to delete on our end. If you made a device backup before deleting, that backup still holds the data until you delete or replace it; that backup is Apple's and we have no access to it.
One honest caveat about the anonymous analytics described above: events already sent are held by PostHog, tied only to that random per-install identifier, which disappears the moment you delete the app. Deleting the app therefore stops all future events immediately, but we have no way to find or remove the past ones, because nothing links them back to you.
Several apps also let you export your data directly, for example as a CSV file. Where export exists it is free, and it stays free after a subscription lapses. You can always get your data out.
Children
Our apps are not directed at children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from them.
Changes to this policy
We may update this policy as our apps change. When we do, we will update the date at the top of this page.
Questions about this policy?
support@flowstateindustries.com