Dialed privacy policy

Effective date: 2026-08-06. Applies to Dialed for iOS version 3.0 and later.

Dialed is a private journal. The shortest true summary: your data stays on your device, and we cannot see it.

This page is the policy. The app links here from the About card in the You tab, there is no separate copy inside the app, and this is the document that governs.

What the app stores, and where

Everything you log lives in the app's own storage on your device. That includes your doses and the compounds you defined, meals, protein and calories, weight, mood, food noise, water, caffeine, energy check-ins, workouts, wins, tape measurements, GI entries, injection sites and site reactions, any observation modules you chose to turn on and what you recorded in them, vial inventory and the prices you entered, your reminders, your profile, your progress photos, your DEXA scan records, and your settings.

There is no account and no sign-up. The developer operates no server and has no way to read, receive, or recover anything you enter.

Progress photos are written so they stay unreadable while your phone is locked. DEXA scan records are kept in a separate store that is never written to iCloud, by design.

Deleting the app deletes this data. Erase all data, in the You tab, removes your journal, your progress photos, your scan records, and the iCloud copy if you had one.

What the app collects and transmits

Nothing. The app contains no analytics, no advertising, no crash reporting service, and no tracking of any kind. It links no third-party SDK of any sort. The developer never collects or receives any data from the app.

The app makes no network connections at all, with one optional exception described in the next section.

Barcode lookup, the one optional network feature

When you scan a food barcode, the app can look the barcode up on Open Food Facts, a public food database, to prefill the meal form. This lookup is off until you turn it on, and the first scan asks you before anything is sent.

When you allow it, here is the entire exchange: the app sends the scanned barcode digits to world.openfoodfacts.org over an encrypted connection and receives public nutrition facts back, which since version 3.0 can include a caffeine figure. Only the barcode is sent. No name, no account, no device identifier, no location, no health data, and none of your logs. The request identifies the app, never you, and the connection stores no cookies. Looked-up products are cached on your device so a repeat scan works offline.

The app also carries a small table of published caffeine figures for common drinks, which ships inside the app and is read from your device. Matching against it involves no network connection of any kind, whether or not barcode lookup is turned on.

Open Food Facts is an independent nonprofit project; its own privacy policy is at https://world.openfoodfacts.org/privacy. Like any internet service it can see the network address a request comes from while serving it. The developer receives nothing in any case.

You can turn barcode lookup off at any time in the You tab under Privacy. Off means the app makes zero network calls of any kind.

Apple Health

If you connect Apple Health, the app reads what you allow it to read. Nothing is written back: the app asks for read access only, and it has never asked to write.

The readings it can draw are weight, sleep, heart rate, heart rate variability, respiratory rate, steps, workouts, and active and resting energy. Reading a workout includes its route, which is location data, and the permission sheet says so in as many words. The connection screen carries a toggle per reading, so you can allow one and refuse the rest.

Everything read from Apple Health is read on your device and used to draw your charts. It is never transmitted anywhere, it is never written into the app's own storage, and it is never included in an export file or an iCloud copy. You can revoke access at any time in the Health app, and the You tab has a Disconnect that stops the app reading and says plainly what iOS will and will not let it forget.

Copies in your own iCloud Drive

The app can keep an automatic copy of your journal in its own folder inside your iCloud Drive. This is off until you turn it on.

What that means precisely:

• The copy goes to your own iCloud storage, under your own Apple Account. It is not a developer database and there is no server involved. The developer cannot read it, cannot list it, and does not know it exists.
• One copy, not a history. The folder holds the latest one and nothing else.
• The bytes are the same export file the share sheet hands you, so it is a file you can read and import yourself.
• Progress photos are left out unless you separately turn them on. Turning that back off removes the images from the copy at the next write, not just future ones.
• DEXA scan records are never included, under any setting.
• Turning the feature off deletes the copy in your iCloud Drive. Turning it off never requires a purchase.
• Restoring from a copy is available to everyone.
• The file is protected by your Apple Account and by Advanced Data Protection if you have it on, not by a passphrase this app holds. That is Apple's protection, not ours, and it is worth knowing before you turn it on.

Getting your data out

You can export at any time from the You tab: your whole journal as one file, a CSV per section, or all of the CSVs in one archive with a plain-language guide to every column. You can also produce a PDF summary for a date range to hand to a prescriber.

Export uses the standard iOS share sheet, so the file goes only where you send it. Importing a backup or a CSV from another tracker uses the standard iOS file picker and is equally local. The developer never sees any of it.

Purchases

Dialed Pro is an optional purchase, made through Apple. Apple processes the payment; the developer receives no personal information from it and no payment details of any kind. Whether you have it is checked on your device, directly with Apple, and the app talks to no purchase or subscription service beyond Apple itself.

No purchase is required to log, to export, or to restore.

Reminders

You can write your own reminders in the You tab: your text, the days you pick, and the time you set. iOS delivers them on your device and they never leave it. You are asked for notification permission only when you create your first one.

The app never works out a time for you. It does not look at your doses, your logs, or anything else to decide when a reminder should appear, and the reminder shows the words you typed and nothing more. By default a notification does not name a compound on your lock screen; that is a switch you can turn on. Deleting a reminder stops it.

Controls on this device

Some settings change only what is displayed or who can open the app. None of them move any data anywhere.

• App lock: Face ID, Touch ID or your passcode in front of the journal.
• Quiet mode: hides every weight readout across the app while logging stays open. Nothing is deleted, filtered or rewritten.
• Covered names: compound names stay covered until you reveal them, which is the default. With app lock on, Face ID guards the reveal.
• Notification detail: whether a reminder may name a compound on your lock screen.

What the app does not do

• No accounts and no passwords.
• No analytics, advertising, or tracking SDKs.
• No selling, sharing, or monetization of data, which is easy to promise because no data ever reaches the developer.
• No push notifications. The app has no server and cannot send you anything. The reminders described above are delivered by iOS on your device.

This website

dialedjournal.app is separate from the app. The only thing it collects is the email address you choose to submit on the home page, plus the optional "what are you tracking" answer. It is stored to invite you to the beta and for nothing else: no newsletter, no advertising, no sale or sharing, no third-party marketing service. Ask at support@dialedjournal.app and we will delete it.

Children

The app is not directed at children and is intended for adults tracking their own journal.

Changes to this policy

If a future version of the app changes what is stored or transmitted, this policy will be updated first and the change will be called out in the release notes for that version.

Contact

Questions about this policy: support@dialedjournal.app