Last updated 29 August 2026
This is written to be read, not survived. If anything here is unclear, email [email protected] and it will be fixed.
Tidy Life has no server. There is no account, no login, and nowhere for us to store anything about you, because we do not run anything to store it on.
Everything you do in the app — your rooms, your tasks, your history — is a file on your phone. Deleting the app deletes it.
The exceptions are photographs, your calendar and your bank, and each one is off unless you switch it on. All three are explained in full below.
All of it, unless the next section applies:
This lives in a database on your device. It is not backed up to us, because there is no "us" to back it up to. It may be included in your phone's own encrypted backup, which is between you and your phone maker.
Tidy Life turns one photograph of a space into a list of small tasks. Reading that photograph needs an AI model, and you decide which one — or none.
If you turn on "photos never leave this phone", no photograph is ever transmitted. Tasks come from templates built into the app. They are more general, because nothing has seen your room.
If you connect your own Claude, ChatGPT or Gemini account, then when you take a photo:
The photo does not pass through any system we operate, because we do not operate one. What the provider does with it is governed by your agreement with them: Anthropic, OpenAI, Google.
Disconnect any of them in Settings, in one tap. That deletes the key from your device's keychain immediately.
If you connect Spotify, Tidy Life asks it to start and stop playback while you work. It requests three permissions and no more: read what is playing, control playback, list your playlists. It does not read your listening history, profile, email or library. The token lives in your device's keychain and is deleted when you disconnect.
The meal planner needs to know which evenings you have nothing left. By default it does not touch your calendar: you tell it your shift pattern once, and that is enough.
If you do switch calendar access on, then for the seven days it is planning it reads only when events start and end — to tell an eleven-hour shift from a day off. It keeps one number per day: hours worked. It does not read, store or transmit event titles, attendees, locations, notes or invitations, and nothing about your calendar leaves your phone.
Money works entirely by hand: you enter what comes in and what goes out, once. That produces the "safe to spend" figure the rest of the app uses. No bank, no third party, nothing transmitted.
If you connect a bank instead, it is read-only and goes through a regulated aggregator using your bank's own sign-in page:
Tapping a shopping link opens a search page on Amazon or Walmart in a browser view. That is an ordinary request from your phone to them, and their privacy policy applies. Tidy Life sends nothing about you along with it. Nothing is ever purchased inside the app.
Specifically, because "we don't collect much" is not a commitment:
Because there is no analytics, we genuinely do not know how many people use Tidy Life or what they do in it.
| Permission | Why |
|---|---|
| Camera | To photograph a room, a car, a cupboard or an odometer. Asked for at the camera, not at launch, and the app works without it. |
| Calendar | Optional, off by default. Only event start and end times, only for the week being planned. Nothing leaves the phone. |
| Photo library | Only if you choose an existing photo instead of taking one. |
| Notifications | Optional. If you allow it, leaving mid-session posts one notice saying the session is held and where it stopped. It is the only notification Tidy Life can send — there is no scheduler in the app, so no message can reference a missed day, a broken streak, or being behind. Decline it and nothing else changes. |
Tidy Life is not directed at children and we do not knowingly collect anything from anyone. There is no account and no data collection, so there is nothing to delete on request — but if you have a concern, write to us.
Because Tidy Life stores nothing about you on any server, most data rights resolve on your own device:
If you are in the EEA or UK, our lawful basis for processing a photograph is your consent, given by connecting a provider, and you may withdraw it at any time as above. If you are in California, we do not sell or share personal information as those terms are defined by the CCPA and CPRA, and we do not have the data with which to do so.
If this policy changes in a way that affects what leaves your phone, the app will say so before the change takes effect. The date at the top always reflects the current version.