Privacy Policy

Spoon Manager is designed to be private by default. This policy explains what the app does and does not do with your information.

The short version

Spoon Manager does not collect, transmit, sell, or share any personal data. Spoon Manager has no server of its own — everything you enter stays on your device. The app works offline; the only time it connects to the internet is an optional integration you choose to turn on (see Optional Google Calendar), and even then your data is not sent to us.

What we collect

Nothing. Spoon Manager has no user accounts, no analytics, no advertising, and no third-party tracking SDKs. Spoon Manager operates no server that could receive your data. The app makes network requests only for the optional Google Calendar connection described below, and only if you enable it.

Data you create

To-dos, habits, routines, journal entries (including a daily mood), your daily energy (“spoons”) check-ins, and any health information you choose to log — such as symptoms, post-exertional malaise (PEM) episodes, and the medications you add, schedule, or check off — are stored locally on your device using Apple's on-device storage (SwiftData).

This includes health-related information, which is treated exactly like everything else you enter: it stays on your device, is never transmitted to us (Spoon Manager has no server), and is never sold, shared, used for advertising, or used for research. Any doctor report or data export you generate is created on your device and shared only through the destination you pick in the iOS share sheet.

This data is included in your device's standard encrypted backups (iCloud or iTunes/Finder) only if you have those backups enabled — that backup is managed by Apple, not by Spoon Manager.

Device permissions

Spoon Manager requests the following permissions only when you use the related feature, and the resulting data never leaves your device:

• Microphone & Speech Recognition — used for on-device voice capture of tasks. Audio is processed on your device and is not uploaded.
• Calendar — read-only access to display your existing events alongside your day notes. Spoon Manager never creates, edits, or deletes calendar events.
• Notifications — used only to deliver reminders you opt into (tasks, habits, and routines) and a gentle daily journal prompt.
• Camera — used only for the optional pulse check-in, where you rest a fingertip over the rear camera and flash for about 30 seconds. The camera frames are analyzed on your device as they arrive and are never recorded, stored, or uploaded; only the resulting heart-rate number is saved, on your device.

You can revoke any of these permissions at any time in the iOS Settings app.

Apple Health

Spoon Manager offers an optional Apple Health connection, which is off unless you turn it on. If you turn it on, Spoon Manager asks Apple Health for read-only access to three things: last night's sleep, yesterday's exercise minutes, and your resting heart rate.

• These are used for one purpose — suggesting how many spoons to start your day with, and showing whether your sleep tracks with your energy over time. The suggestion is never a number set for you, and it is not medical advice.
• Spoon Manager never writes to Apple Health. It requests no write access of any kind.
• Your health data stays on your device. Spoon Manager has no server, so health data is never transmitted to us, and it is never used for advertising, marketing, or data mining, and never sold or shared with anyone.
• Health data is not used for research, and Spoon Manager does not disclose it to third parties.
• You choose exactly which categories to share when Apple's permission sheet appears, and you can change or revoke that at any time in the Health app, or turn the whole integration off in Spoon Manager's Settings.

The heart rate produced by the optional camera pulse check-in described above is treated the same way: it stays on your device. It is a wellness estimate, not a medical measurement.

Optional: Google Calendar

Spoon Manager offers an optional Google Calendar connection, which is off unless you turn it on in Settings. If you connect it, Spoon Manager signs you in to Google directly (using Google's standard OAuth flow) and requests read-only access to your calendar events. Those events are fetched directly from Google to your device and displayed alongside your day — they are never sent to Spoon Manager, because Spoon Manager has no server. Your Google sign-in tokens are stored securely in the iOS Keychain on your device. Spoon Manager never creates, edits, or deletes Google Calendar events, and you can disconnect at any time in Settings, which removes the stored tokens. Google's handling of your data is governed by Google's Privacy Policy.

Spoon Manager's use of information received from Google APIs adheres to the Google API Services User Data Policy, including the Limited Use requirements. Google Calendar data is used solely to display your events within the app; it is never transferred to others except as required to provide this feature, is never sold, is never used for advertising, and is never used to develop, improve, or train AI or machine-learning models.

Children's privacy

Spoon Manager does not collect data from anyone, including children.

Changes to this policy

If this policy changes, the updated version will be posted at this URL with a revised "Last updated" date.