Privacy

The short version

• We collect nothing. There is no sign-up, no login, no profile, no email list.
• No analytics, no tracking, no advertising identifiers, no third-party SDKs, no crash reporter.
• Your calendar data is read on the device and never leaves it.
• Speech is transcribed on the device. Audio is never uploaded and never stored.
• Your subscription is handled entirely by Apple. We never see your payment details.

What stays on your device

All of it. Specifically:

• Meetings. Clearhour reads your calendars through Apple's calendar framework each time it draws your day. Meetings are never copied into the app's own storage and never transmitted anywhere.
• Tasks, steps, notes and outcomes. Stored in the app's private database on the device, inside your iPhone's app sandbox, and included in your own encrypted iPhone or iCloud device backup if you use one. That backup is between you and Apple; we have no access to it.
• Wrap dictation. Speech recognition runs with on-device recognition required. Neither the audio nor the transcript is sent off the phone, and the audio is discarded as soon as the words appear on screen.
• Settings — work hours, alert offsets, which calendars count as work — in the app's own preferences on the device.

Permissions, and exactly why

• Calendar (full access). Reading is what puts your real meetings on your timeline and lets Clearhour find genuine free gaps. Write access is needed only for the optional feature below; iOS grants read and write together, which is why the prompt asks for full access.
• Notifications. Required for transition alarms and the meeting-end prompt. All notifications are scheduled locally on the device. Clearhour has no push server and no push certificate.
• Speech recognition and microphone. Used only while you are actively dictating on the wrap screen, and only on-device.

Calendar write-back is off until you turn it on

If you enable it, Clearhour creates one calendar named “Clearhour” on your device and writes your own task blocks to it, so your focus time is visible to you elsewhere. It never touches your other calendars, never modifies or deletes anyone else's events, and offers a one-tap “remove everything Clearhour created” action. The setting is off by default.

Payments

Subscriptions are purchased and managed through Apple's In-App Purchase system. Apple processes the payment; we never receive your card number, name, address or Apple Account details. Apple gives developers aggregated, anonymised sales and subscription reports — counts and totals by country, never individuals. Entitlement is checked on your device against Apple's receipt; no purchase information is sent to us. Apple's own privacy policy governs that transaction.

The server parse endpoint (currently disabled)

Clearhour turns what you dictate into a short list of commitments. It does that on your device: Apple's on-device language model where your iPhone supports it, and a plain text parser everywhere else. Neither uses the network.

A third fallback exists in the code — a request to our own endpoint at /v1/parse. It is switched off in this version and the app does not call it. We are describing it because it exists, not because it runs.

If it is ever enabled in a future version, we will say so in the release notes and in this policy, and these limits apply:

• It would receive only the short text you explicitly submitted on the wrap or breakdown screen — never your calendar, never audio, never your task history, never anything gathered in the background.
• That text is processed in memory to produce the draft list and is never stored, never logged, and never used to train any model. Request bodies are excluded from logging by design.
• To stop abuse we count requests per device per day. We store a one-way SHA-256 hash of an Apple-issued device token together with a date and a number. The hash cannot be turned back into a device or a person, and it is never linked to any content.
• Nothing about it is optional-by-omission: it would be a fallback that only runs when both on-device routes fail, and there would be a switch to refuse it.

Children

Clearhour is a work tool for adults. It is rated 4+ because it contains nothing objectionable, but it is not directed at children and we knowingly collect no data from anyone of any age.

Your rights

Under the GDPR, the UK GDPR, the CCPA and comparable laws you may ask to access, correct, export or delete the personal data a company holds about you. In our case the answer is structural rather than procedural: we hold none, so there is nothing to hand over, nothing to correct and nothing to delete. We do not sell or share personal information, because we have none to sell. Deleting the app removes everything Clearhour stored on your device (turn off calendar write-back, or use the remove-all action, first if you want the calendar entries gone too).

Changes

If a future version changes what leaves your device, this page will change before that version ships, with a new effective date, and the change will be named in the App Store release notes. We will not quietly start collecting something.

Contact

Questions, or a claim on this page you'd like tested? Write to support@clearhour.app. A real person answers, usually within a few days.

Data controller: Kjetil Dyrland, Norway. Reachable at the address above.