Privacy.
Last updated 22 September 2026
By default, your income never leaves your iPhone. The app has no account and no server of its own. It only sends, anonymously, which screens you open and which options you touch — so I know what to improve.
A second setting, off out of the box, additionally sends your real settings: income, hours, working days, contract dates and the names of the units you create. It only turns on if you decide so, and both switch off at any time.
What the app stores, and where
To work out your counter, Uptick keeps on the device: your income and the kind of work you do, your hours, your working days, any contract dates, the display unit you picked, and your appearance preferences.
These live in the app’s private storage on your iPhone. Some of it is shared with the app’s widget through Apple’s mechanism made for that, which also stays on your device.
Usage measurement, in detail
Uptick is written by one person, with no feedback at all on what actually helps. To fix that, the app can send anonymous usage events to PostHog, hosted in the European Union (Frankfurt).
Nothing is sent until you have answered. On first launch a screen asks, with both settings off. Continuing without turning anything on is a complete path: the app is identical afterwards.
What is sent:
- which screen you open, and how long you stay on it;
- which options you change — theme, digit movement, language;
- the kind of unit you pick or create: currency, crypto, object;
- whether the background counter started, and why it stopped;
- an anonymous, hashed device identifier that cannot be traced back to you.
What is never sent through this channel:
- your income in any form — not the amount, nor anything that could reconstruct it;
- your working hours and your exact working days;
- your contract or mission dates;
- the name, emoji and price of the units you create.
That isn’t a marketing promise: in the code, this usage data travels through a closed list of keywords. An amount has literally no path to that channel, and an automated test checks it on every change.
The second setting: share my settings too
Off out of the box. If you turn it on — and only you can — the list above changes: your income, your hours, yourexact working days, your contract dates and thename, emoji and price of the units you create are sent as well.
It has to be said plainly: that information is no longer anonymous. An income, a set of hours and precise working days form an almost unique combination. This setting exists because it helps me enormously to understand who I am writing this app for — but there is nothing to gain by accepting, and the app works exactly the same if you leave it off.
Both switch off in the same place: Settings →Improving the app. Turning off Share my usage stops everything, including the second one. Sending stops immediately.
What the app still does not have
- No account, no sign-up, no password.
- No ads, no advertising trackers, no targeting identifier.
- No screen recording, no capture of what you type.
- No sale or sharing of data with anyone.
iCloud backups
If your iPhone backs up to iCloud, Uptick’s data is part of that backup, like every other app’s. The backup is handled by Apple under your own account; I have no access to it. It is the only case where your settings exist anywhere but your phone, and it is your choice in the iOS settings.
The background counter
When you switch it on, Uptick keeps computing your amount while the phone is away, and iOS shows it on the Lock Screen. That computation happens entirely on the device: the amount itself is sent to nobody. Only the fact that tracking started, and the reason it stopped, count among the usage events above.
Your rights
European law gives you rights of access, correction and erasure over your personal data. What that means here depends on the setting you chose.
If you only turned on usage measurement — the default state — the data is anonymous: I have no way to find yours among everyone else’s, so no way to show it to you or delete it individually. That is the price of anonymity, and it is deliberate; the real lever is the switch, which stops all sending at once.
If you also turned on sharing your settings, that data is no longer anonymous, and your rights apply in full.Write to me: I will tell you what I hold, and erase it if you ask. So that I can find your submissions, tell me roughly when you turned the setting on.
To stop everything: switch measurement off, then delete the app.
The processor
PostHog processes usage events on my behalf, on its European infrastructure. It is the only third party the app talks to. No other provider is involved: no advertiser, no ad network, no data broker.
Children
The app asks for no age, no name, no address, and has no way of knowing who uses it. Usage events are anonymous for a child as for an adult.
If this page changes
It is dated at the top. If the app ever does something else — an in-app purchase, say — this page is updated the same day, and the date will say so.
Contact
A question about this text, or a doubt:thomasraynal.pro@icloud.com.