Abraxas
Privacy policy
Abraxas doesn't collect personal information. Everything you keep in the app is stored only on this iPhone and is never sent to anyone, including the developer.
At a glance
- What you keep in the app stays on this iPhone.
- The developer never receives, sees or stores what you keep in the app.
- There's no account, server, advertising, analytics or third-party SDK. The app doesn't connect to the internet.
1. What's stored on your device
Only what you write or choose while using the app is stored on your device.
- Eggs: the name, the one-line vow, the next step, the size and color, the day it was made, where it is now (the nest, the drawer or Abraxas), and which egg it is among those made in the same place
- Cracks: the day of each crack, its spot on the shell, and any note you left on it
- Opened eggs and eggs set down: the day it opened or was set down, and the line you wrote under "What came out?"
- Settings: haptics, sound, short hold, the day and time for "Ask me once a week", and whether you've already seen the intro and the line from Demian
Your records are kept in one file, and your settings in the app's settings storage. Both live in an app group space on your iPhone. The app group is a space that lets the Abraxas app and its widgets read the same records. The widgets and Shortcuts only read these records on your device and never send them anywhere.
2. What isn't collected
Abraxas doesn't collect your name, email, phone number, contacts, location, photos, device identifiers, advertising identifiers or usage history. It doesn't track you for advertising. Since nothing is collected, nothing is shared with or sold to third parties.
3. Notifications
The app never sends notifications on its own. It asks for notification permission only when you turn on "Ask me once a week" in Settings, and then one notification, "Did something move this week?", arrives on the day and at the time you chose.
This is a local notification scheduled on your device, so it never goes through a server. Turning it off also removes the scheduled notification.
4. Photos (add only)
When you save the share card of an opened shell to Photos, iOS may ask for permission to add photos. This permission is used only to add the card to your library. The app never reads the photos in your library.
The share card shows the opened shell, the dates from the first crack to the day it opened, and the line under "What came out" if you wrote one. It doesn't include the egg's name. You choose where the card goes.
5. Export and import
"Export backup" and "Export as Markdown" in Settings create a file only when you tap them, and the file goes only where you choose. After that, how it's stored and shared is governed by the policies of the place you put it (for example, the Files app, iCloud Drive or Mail).
"Import backup" reads only the one file you choose.
6. Information that passes through Apple features
- iPhone backups: if iCloud Backup or computer backups are on, your Abraxas records may be included in that backup, like any other app's data. That backup is between you and Apple, and the developer can't see what's in it.
- Crash reports: if "Share with App Developers" is on in your iPhone's settings, Apple may pass the app's crash reports to the developer. These contain technical details such as the device model, iOS version and where the app stopped, and are handled under Apple's policies.
- Siri and Shortcuts: so that Siri can recognize your eggs' names, iOS reads them on your device. When you open the nest or show an egg with Siri, Apple handles the voice processing under its own policies.
7. Deleting your records
- One egg: on the egg's screen, tap More (…) at the top right and choose "Delete egg". For an egg in Abraxas, swipe it left and tap "Delete", or use More (…) on its shell screen.
- All records: deleting the app deletes all the records on your device along with it.
Deleted records can't be restored. The developer has no copy either, so they can't be recovered for you. Please delete any backup files you exported and any iPhone backups separately.
8. Children's privacy
Abraxas doesn't collect personal information from anyone, of any age.
9. Changes to this policy
If this policy changes, the updated version will be posted on this page with a new effective date.