Wakeling

Privacy Policy

Wakeling 1.0.0 · updated August 2026

The short version

Wakeling has no accounts and no login. It does not know who you are.

The camera is used by two of the missions. Those images are processed on your phone, are never uploaded, and are never written to disk.

Two kinds of data leave your phone, and one switch turns off both: anonymous crash reports, and anonymous counts of things like alarms set and mornings completed. Neither is tied to you. Purchases go through Apple.

The camera

The Squat Mission uses the front camera to count squats, and the Target Scan uses the rear camera to recognise a household fixture you chose during setup. Both run entirely on your device using Apple's on-device Vision and pose frameworks.

Camera frames are held in memory only for as long as it takes to process them. Nothing is recorded, saved, or transmitted. There is no code in this app that uploads an image.

Target Scan stores a mathematical fingerprint of the fixture you scanned so it can recognise it again. A fingerprint is not an image and cannot be turned back into one. It stays on your device.

Motion sensors

The alarm listens to the accelerometer to tell whether you are moving, which is what makes the sound duck when you get out of bed. This is read continuously while an alarm is ringing and never at any other time.

Motion readings are used in the moment and discarded. They are not stored and not sent anywhere.

What is stored on your phone

Your alarm, your settings, your pets and rooms, your wake history and your love balance are stored locally on your device.

One value is kept in the iOS Keychain: the date your free trial started. It is there so that reinstalling the app does not silently grant a second free trial. It contains a date and nothing else.

Deleting the app removes the local data. The trial date in the Keychain may persist, by design, for the reason above.

Usage counts

Wakeling counts a small, fixed list of moments so we can tell whether the app actually works: an alarm being set, an alarm ringing, a morning being completed, the trial being offered, taken or declined, and a purchase. That is the whole list — there is no general-purpose tracking and nothing is collected that is not on it.

The events carry no personal data. No camera or scan information of any kind. No absolute times or dates: when you set an alarm we record only which hour of the day it is for, so 6am and 7am can be told apart without recording your mornings. No name, no email, no advertising identifier.

This is processed by PostHog on servers in the United States. You can turn it off with the same switch as crash reports: Settings → Privacy → Analytics.

Crash reports

Wakeling uses Sentry to report crashes and errors, so that a failure at 6am is visible to us rather than invisible. Reports contain the error, where in the code it happened, and your device model and iOS version.

They are configured to exclude screenshots, the view hierarchy, session replay, and any personal identifiers. File paths that could reveal your saved scan data are stripped before sending.

You can turn this off: Settings → Privacy → Analytics. Turning it off stops error reports immediately. A small session ping — that the app was opened, with no further detail — stops from the next time you launch the app.

Purchases

Wakeling Pro is sold through Apple's In-App Purchase, and purchases are managed with RevenueCat. Apple handles payment; we never see your card details.

RevenueCat receives an anonymous identifier for your install and what you bought, so that Restore Purchases can give your items back on a new phone.

What we do not do

No advertising, and no advertising identifiers.

No selling or sharing of personal data.

No location tracking. No contacts, no photo library, no microphone.

No accounts in the app, so no email address and no password.

The website

This policy covers the app. The Wakeling website has one form on it: a box where you can leave an email address to be told when the app is released.

That address is used to send you launch news and nothing else. It is not sold, not shared, and not connected to anything you do inside the app — the app has no account and cannot know who you are, so the two cannot be joined up even in principle.

Every email has an unsubscribe link, and you can ask us to delete the address at any time by replying to one.

Children

Wakeling is not directed at children under 13 and collects no information capable of identifying anybody.