Privacy

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Nothing was built to respect your attention. Your privacy follows the same idea.

Last updated · July 2, 2026

Effective date: July 2, 2026

This Privacy Policy explains how the Nothing app ("Nothing", "the app", "we", "us") handles your information. Nothing is developed and operated by Anton Lev.

If you have any questions, contact us at hi@trynothing.app.

The short version

Nothing is a calm, single-purpose app for doing nothing. We built it to respect your attention — and your privacy follows the same idea.

  • No sign-up. No email, no password. The app quietly creates an anonymous account — a random identifier — so your journey can be backed up. You never give us your name or contact details.
  • Your journey is privately backed up. Your sessions and the notes you write are stored on your iPhone and securely backed up to our servers in the EU, so they survive reinstalling the app or changing phones.
  • You can delete everything, any time. "Delete account" in the app's settings permanently removes your data from your device and from our servers.
  • We never see which apps you block. App blocking uses Apple's Screen Time framework, which runs entirely on your device. We have no access to it.
  • Voice notes are transcribed, not stored. When you dictate a note, the audio is streamed for real-time transcription and discarded — only the resulting text is saved as your note.
  • We use privacy-friendly analytics to understand how the app is used, in aggregate. Your notes are never part of analytics.
  • We do not sell your data, show ads, or track you across other apps or websites.

The sections below explain each point in detail.

1. Your journey: on your device, with a private backup

The app works offline-first: everything lives on your iPhone (in the app's on-device database) and the app never waits on a server.

To make sure your journey isn't lost if you delete the app or change phones, some of it is also backed up to our servers:

  • Backed up: your "do nothing" session history (times, durations, how you felt) and the notes you write after sessions.
  • Not backed up — device only: your app settings and preferences, your onboarding answers, and the list of apps or categories you choose to block.

The backup is tied to an anonymous account the app creates automatically — a randomly generated identifier, with no name, email, or password. It is hosted for us by Supabase on servers in the European Union (Ireland), encrypted in transit, and access is restricted so that only your own account can read your rows.

Deleting the app removes only the copy on your device — the backup stays so your journey can come back if you return. To permanently erase everything, use "Delete account" in the app's settings: it removes your data from your device and from our servers, immediately and irreversibly. You can also email us and we will delete it for you.

2. Screen Time and app blocking

Nothing's app-blocking feature is built on Apple's Screen Time / Family Controls (DeviceActivity) framework. This is a privacy-preserving system: the selection of apps you block is handled entirely by iOS on your device. Nothing — and therefore we — never receives the identities of the apps you select, your app usage data, or how long you spend in any app. We only ask iOS to enforce the limits you set.

3. Voice notes (Deepgram)

When you tap to speak a note, your microphone audio is streamed in real time to Deepgram, a speech-to-text service, which returns the transcript as you talk. The audio is used only to produce that text and is not stored by us — only the final text is saved as your note. Deepgram may process the audio on servers in the United States, relying on appropriate safeguards for the transfer. Dictation is always optional; you can type instead.

4. Analytics (PostHog)

To understand how people use the app and to improve it, we collect anonymous product-usage analytics through PostHog, hosted on PostHog's EU servers.

What this includes:

  • App events, such as which screens are viewed, onboarding progress, and which features are used.
  • Anonymous, aggregate onboarding answers (e.g. selected focus areas, screen-time band, age band) used to understand who the app helps.
  • Basic technical information: device model, operating-system version, app version, and language/region.
  • A randomly generated, anonymous device identifier that lets us measure things like retention without knowing who you are.

What this does not include:

  • Your name or email address (the app never asks for them; the backup account is a random identifier).
  • The content of your notes or your dictated audio.
  • Precise location.
  • Screen or session recording — session replay is disabled.
  • The specific apps you block or your app-usage data (see Section 2).

We do not create an identified personal profile for anonymous users.

5. Crash and error reporting (Sentry)

To find and fix bugs, we use Sentry to collect crash reports and error diagnostics. These reports may include technical details such as the device model, operating-system version, app version, and a stack trace describing what the app was doing when the error occurred. They are used solely to keep the app stable. They do not include the content of your notes.

6. Subscriptions and payments (Apple & RevenueCat)

Some features require a paid subscription. All payments are processed by Apple through the App Store — we never see or store your payment-card details.

We use RevenueCat to manage and verify subscription status. RevenueCat receives an anonymous app-user identifier and your transaction/subscription information (such as which plan you have and whether it is active) so the app can unlock the right features. This is not linked to your real-world identity.

7. If you email us

If you contact us at hi@trynothing.app, we will see your email address and whatever you put in your message. We use it only to respond to you.

How we share information

We do not sell your information and we do not share it for advertising.

We use the trusted service providers ("processors") described above to operate the app:

We may also disclose information if required by law, or to protect our rights, safety, or property.

International data transfers

Your backup and our analytics are stored on EU servers. Where data is processed outside your country (for example voice transcription in the United States), our providers rely on appropriate safeguards (such as Standard Contractual Clauses) for any transfers.

Data retention

  • On-device data stays until you delete it or uninstall the app.
  • Your backed-up sessions and notes are kept until you use "Delete account" in the app (or ask us by email) — then they are permanently deleted from our servers.
  • Analytics and crash data are retained only as long as needed for the purposes above, in line with each provider's retention practices.

Your rights

Depending on where you live (for example under the EU/UK GDPR or the California CCPA), you may have the right to access, correct, delete, or restrict the processing of your personal data, and to object to certain processing.

The simplest way to exercise deletion is built into the app: Settings → Delete account permanently removes your data from your device and from our servers. Note that merely deleting the app removes only the on-device copy — your backup waits for you unless you delete the account. To exercise any other right, or to ask a question about your data, email hi@trynothing.app and we will respond within a reasonable time.

Children

Nothing is not directed at children under 13 (or the minimum age of digital consent in your country), and we do not knowingly collect personal information from them.

Security

We use reputable providers and reasonable technical measures to protect information — your backup is encrypted in transit and guarded by per-account access rules on the server. However, no method of transmission or storage is completely secure, and we cannot guarantee absolute security.

Changes to this policy

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. When we do, we will revise the "Effective date" above. Significant changes will be highlighted in the app or on our website.

Contact

Anton Lev

Email: hi@trynothing.app

Website: trynothing.app