Refrain collects nothing.

Refrain is a personal app that shows you one saying at a time. It has no account, no analytics, no advertising and no tracking of any kind. This page explains, in plain words, what that means.

What stays on your phone

The sayings, including any you add or edit.
Which sayings you have marked as favorites.
Your reminder times and whether reminders are on.

This information is stored only on your device, in a private storage area shared between the app and its Home Screen widget so both show the same line. It is not sent to us. The one exception is your own iCloud, if you buy Every Line (below). If you delete the app, the copy on your phone is deleted with it.

New lines without an update

About once a day the app asks content.refrainyourmind.com whether there is a newer set of sayings or a short message to show. It is a plain download: the app sends nothing about you or your device, and the server keeps no logs of who asked.

iCloud (Every Line)

If you buy Every Line, your favorites and the lines you wrote or edited are also saved to your own iCloud account through Apple's iCloud key-value storage, so they appear on your other devices. That copy belongs to your Apple Account and is protected by Apple. We cannot see it.

Purchases

Every Line is bought through the App Store. Apple handles the payment and tells the app only that the purchase exists. We never receive your name, email address or payment details.

What we never collect

We do not collect your name, email address, location, contacts, photos, usage statistics, device identifiers or anything else. There is nothing to sell, share or lose, because nothing about you ever reaches us.

Notifications

If you turn on daily reminders, Refrain asks iOS for permission to show notifications and schedules them locally on your phone. No notification passes through any server. You can turn them off at any time in the app or in iPhone Settings.

Sharing a line

When you share a saying as an image, the image is created on your phone and handed to the iOS share sheet. Where it goes from there is entirely your choice and is governed by the app you share it to.

Children

Refrain is not directed at children under 13 and collects no information from anyone.

Changes

If this policy ever changes, the new version will be posted on this page with a new effective date. Because the app collects nothing, we do not expect it to.

Contact

Questions about privacy: support.