FocusDrop Privacy Policy

This policy covers the FocusDrop app for iPhone, its widgets and its Apple Watch app. It doesn't cover this website.

FocusDrop is an offline-first iOS app. We do not run servers. Your tasks, habits, notes, focus history, and stats stay on your device and, if you use iCloud, in your own private iCloud database. We cannot access that database, and the app never sends your data to us. The only other company involved is Apple, which runs iCloud, the App Store and push notifications. We do not use third-party analytics. We do not track you across other apps or websites.

Everything you create in FocusDrop (tasks, subtasks, notes, habits, focus sessions, streaks, XP, rewards, and the optional name and answers you give during onboarding) is stored on your device using Apple's SwiftData framework. App preferences, such as theme and sounds, are stored on the device too. Some screens read your iPhone's motion sensor for a small tilt effect; those readings are not stored.

Your data is included in your iCloud or computer backups of your iPhone (depending on your backup settings) under Apple's standard mechanisms. We have no access to those backups.

When your device is signed in to iCloud, FocusDrop syncs your data automatically through Apple's CloudKit to your own private iCloud database. This is how your tasks and progress reach your other devices. While a focus session is running, the app also keeps a small record there (the task name, the timer, the device type and a random ID for this install) so your other devices can show the session; the app removes it when the session ends. The data sits in your iCloud account, not on a server we own, and we cannot access it. Apple stores and protects it as part of your iCloud account, under Apple's own privacy policy.

The app has no separate sync switch. To stop syncing, turn off FocusDrop in the list of apps that use iCloud (Settings → [your name] → iCloud). The app shows the current sync status under Profile → iCloud Sync.

Deleting the app does not delete the copy in your iCloud. To remove it, go to Settings → [your name] → iCloud → Manage Account Storage, choose FocusDrop, and delete its data.

If you choose to show today's calendar on your deck and allow access, FocusDrop reads today's events on your device. It uses them to show your next event and to suggest a shorter focus session when an event is close. Events are kept in memory only. FocusDrop never adds, changes, or deletes anything in your calendar, and it never stores or sends calendar data. You can turn access off any time in Settings → Privacy & Security → Calendars.

When Apple Intelligence is available (a compatible iPhone with iOS 26 or later and Apple Intelligence turned on), Co-Focus coaching and AI Task Breakdown are generated on your device by Apple's on-device model. The task text they use stays on your iPhone. Without Apple Intelligence, Co-Focus uses built-in prompts and AI Task Breakdown is not available. Start smaller does not use AI.

The Apple Watch app talks to your iPhone through Apple's WatchConnectivity framework, and keeps a small copy of your next tasks, today's habits and the current session so it can show them quickly. Widgets read a short summary (such as your next task) that the app shares with them on your iPhone through an App Group. The Live Activity on your Lock Screen is updated by the app on your iPhone. None of this goes through a server of ours.

None of your tasks, habits or notes reach us. Two other things can:

• Emails you send. If you write to us, we receive your email address and whatever you include. We use them only to reply to you, and we don't add you to any mailing list.
• Reports from Apple. If you turn on Share iPhone Analytics and Share With App Developers in Settings → Privacy & Security → Analytics & Improvements, Apple may share crash reports and usage statistics about FocusDrop with us. You can turn this off there at any time. Apple also gives us App Store download and sales totals.

• We don't ask for an account, email, or any sign-in. The name you can enter during onboarding is optional and is stored like the rest of your data: on your device and, if you use iCloud, in your own iCloud.
• We don't have a backend. There are no FocusDrop servers receiving your data.
• We don't include third-party SDKs, analytics, advertising, or crash reporters.
• We don't track you across other apps, websites, or services.
• We don't sell or share your data with anyone. The app never sends it to us.

Pro features are unlocked via in-app purchase using Apple's StoreKit. Apple — not FocusDrop — handles your payment information, billing, and renewal. The app only asks StoreKit, on your device, which plan you have and whether you can get the free trial, so it knows what to unlock and which offer to show. We do not receive your name, email, payment method, or any other identifier from Apple. Apple's privacy practices for App Store transactions are described in their privacy policy at apple.com/legal/privacy.

FocusDrop's reminders and session alerts are local notifications. The app schedules them and iOS delivers them on your device. iOS asks for permission when you turn on notifications during onboarding or in Profile → Notifications. You can change this any time in Settings → Notifications → FocusDrop.

The app also registers with Apple's push service. iCloud sync uses this to receive silent notifications from Apple. They are never shown to you and don't need your notification permission. We do not send push notifications from a server.

Apple requires apps to declare why they use certain APIs that could in principle be misused for fingerprinting. FocusDrop's declarations (also visible in our PrivacyInfo.xcprivacy manifest):

• UserDefaults (reason CA92.1) — to read and write our own app's preferences (theme, sounds, last-open date). Same-app use only.
• UserDefaults (reason 1C8F.1) — to share a short summary (such as your next task and session state) between the app and its widgets through our own App Group. The Apple Watch app declares the same reason for its own copy of that summary.

UserDefaults is the only required-reason API declared in the app, widget, and Watch app manifests. The manifests also state that FocusDrop does not track you and collects no data. If we add other APIs in a future version, we'll update both this page and the privacy manifest.

FocusDrop does not collect personal data from anyone, children included. It has no advertising, no social features and no links to user-generated content. The App Store listing shows its current age rating.

Because we hold no personal data on any server, there is nothing for us to delete, export, or correct on your behalf. Your data is on your devices and in your own iCloud, where you control it. To delete everything, delete FocusDrop from each of your devices, then remove its data from iCloud in Settings → [your name] → iCloud → Manage Account Storage. FocusDrop has no data export feature; you can copy a task's text from its details screen. If you have emailed us and want those emails deleted, ask us and we'll delete them.

Residents of the EU/EEA/UK have rights under GDPR; residents of California have rights under the CCPA. None of those rights are reduced by FocusDrop having nothing to give back — but if you're unsure, write to us using the contact details below and we'll respond.

If we ever add features that change this picture — for example, opt-in crash reporting — we'll update this page before shipping the change, bump the effective date, and update the PrivacyInfo.xcprivacy manifest in the app to match.

The current effective date appears at the top of this page.

FocusDrop is made by Kiryl Zhukouski in Poznań, Poland.

• Email: kirylapps@gmail.com
• Web: zhukouski.com/focusdrop.html