Daytrove hands you one real-world prompt a day, then gets out of the way so you go live it. Your days are private by default. Only friends you choose see the days you share. We do not sell your data, show ads, or track you across the internet. This policy explains exactly what we keep and why.
Daytrove ("Daytrove", "we", "us") is the operator of the Daytrove app and website at daytrove.netlify.app. You can reach us any time at daytrove@gmail.com.
You can use Daytrove without an account at all. In that case your days live only on your device and we collect nothing.
No location, no contacts, no microphone, no browsing history, no advertising or tracking identifiers, and no third-party analytics or ad SDKs. We do not build a profile of you.
Your two daily notifications never leave your phone. The 9:00am and 8:00pm reminders are scheduled by iOS on the device itself. Nothing about your day is transmitted to send them, and they arrive with no signal at all.
A friend showing up is the one notification that travels, and it carries almost nothing. If someone likes or comments on a day you shared, we send your phone a short message through Apple's notification service: their first name and which of the two things happened. It never contains the words they wrote, your note, your day, or a photo: those are read inside the app. To stop them, turn notifications off in iPhone Settings → Notifications → Daytrove: that takes effect immediately, and the next time we try to send one Apple tells us the address is no longer in use, so we delete it. Signing out or deleting your account removes it from our database straight away.
Solely to provide the app: to store your days, sync them privately across your devices, sign you in, send the password-reset email if you request one, and, if you add friends, to power the circle described below. That's it.
Daytrove has no public internet feed and no followers. Your days are never visible to strangers, and nothing you write is readable by people outside the app. By default, a friend you add can only ever see a single dot of light meaning “lived today,” plus a count of how many days you've lived. If you choose to turn on circle sharing (Settings → Sharing), the friends you added can also see, for each day you seal, the task you completed and the note you choose to include, and they can leave likes and comments on those days, visible only within the circle. This is mutual: you see your friends' shared days only while your own sharing is on, and turning it off immediately removes your shared days along with the likes and comments on them. Your photos are never visible to anyone but you, in any mode.
The one thing that reaches past your circle is Together, and it is worth being precise about. Everyone using Daytrove gets the same small task each day. If you tap “I did it”, your first name and @username appear on that day's wall, visible to every signed-in Daytrove member: not only the friends in your circle. That is the entire contents: a first name and a time. There is no text to write, so nothing you have written can appear there; your days, your notes and your photos are never part of it. It is never visible on the open internet, never indexed by search engines, and never shown to anyone without an account. The wall lasts exactly one day and is then permanently deleted. It is not archived, and there is no way to read it back. It is entirely optional: you can use Daytrove completely and never open Together. Anyone you have blocked does not appear on your wall, and you do not appear on theirs.
Your grove. Your page shows a tree that grows from the number of days you have lived: the same count your circle could already see, drawn as a picture. Friends who have added you see it in the tree and season you chose, and underneath it, the shapes of any trees friends have planted for you, with a count. The names of the people who gave them, and anything they wrote, are never shown to anyone but you. Those words were written by one person for one person, and publishing them on a page a third friend can read is not something we will do. A tree you have put away disappears from your page as well as from your own grove.
Days in a row. Next to your name, a small sun shows how many days you have lived in a row, and friends who have added you see it on your page, as you see theirs. It is a single number derived from which days you sealed, and nothing more: not which days, not what you wrote, not what you did. It is never ranked, never listed and never compared: there is no leaderboard and no way to sort anyone by it; you see it only by opening one person's page. A run of fewer than two days does not appear at all, and if you would rather nobody saw yours, you can remove them from your circle.
Founding member. If you joined while the founding window was open, a small mark appears next to your name where friends and other members can see it, and your page says you are a founding member. It is derived from the date you joined and nothing else.
Almost everything in Daytrove disappears when you delete your account. A tree you planted in someone else's grove does not, and we want you to know that before you send one rather than after.
A gift is meant to be kept. If it could be withdrawn (by cancelling, by deleting your account, by falling out) it would not be a gift, it would be a loan. So:
If you would rather a tree carried no words at all, leave the line blank: that is a complete gift, and nothing of yours is stored but the tree, the date, and your name.
Daytrove Plus is optional and changes only how your grove looks. Everything that helps you live a day, or records that you did, is free.
Apple takes the payment, not us. Purchases are made through your Apple Account using Apple's in-app purchase system. We never see, receive, or store your card number, your billing address, your Apple ID, or any other payment detail.
To know whether your membership is currently active, we use RevenueCat, a subscription-management service. Your device sends RevenueCat the purchase receipt Apple issued, an anonymous identifier for that installation of the app, and basic device and country information. We do not send them your email address, your name, your days, your notes, your photos, or anything about your circle: they exist only to answer one question: is this membership active, yes or no. Their privacy policy is at revenuecat.com/privacy.
Cancelling is done in your Apple Account settings, not here, and refunds are handled by Apple under their policies. If you cancel, you keep any look you had already chosen. Nothing about your grove is taken away from you.
Finding people. Creating an account requires choosing a @username, so anyone who types it into the in-app friend search can find you; the search shows only your username, display name, day count, and whether you lived today, and only to people who are signed in. Blocking someone hides you from their search.
Suggestions. Under “Find your friends”, the app suggests people to add: first people who share a friend with you, then people with circle sharing on, then anyone else with a @username. So other signed-in people may see you suggested too. A suggestion shows only what the search already shows (your username, display name, day count, and whether you lived today), never your days. Blocking someone hides you from their suggestions too.
The Climb. If you have added friends, the app shows your circle's day counts ordered side by side. It is limited to people you have added (there is no global or public ranking) and it uses only the day count those friends can already see on your page.
Your days are stored on your device and, if you have an account, in a private database hosted by Supabase (our infrastructure provider), encrypted in transit. Access is protected by row-level security, meaning only your authenticated account can read your own data. Supabase processes this data only to host it for us.
Two other companies are involved, and only in narrow ways. Apple delivers notifications to your device, signs you in if you choose Sign in with Apple, and, if you buy Daytrove Plus, takes the payment. RevenueCat tells the app whether your membership is active, as described under “Payments and Daytrove Plus” above. Neither of them receives your days, your notes, or your photos.
A fourth company, Anthropic, writes your daily steps, and only once you have said yes: see “Steps written for your goal” below. Together those four are the complete list of companies that process anything of yours. There are no analytics providers, no advertising networks, and no data brokers.
Daytrove asks Anthropic to write your daily steps for your own goal, and it asks you first. The question is on the screen where you name your goal. Nothing is sent until you say yes, and nothing is sent at all until you have an account. If you say no, turn it off later, or Anthropic cannot be reached, your steps come from a set we wrote ourselves, which ships inside the app and is never sent anywhere.
When the app asks Anthropic (the company behind the Claude AI model) to write your steps, exactly five things are sent:
Nothing else is sent, ever. Not your notes. Not your photos. Not your name, your @username, or your email address. Not your friends, or anything they have sent you. Not your account identifier. Not the proof of a single day you have lived.
It happens only when you need new steps: when you first name your goal, when you reach each new chapter, when you have done most of the steps you have, and if you change your goal. That is usually two or three times a month, and never more than twelve times in thirty days. The steps that come back are stored on your device, so they keep working with no signal at all. Anthropic uses what is sent only to write those steps; they do not use it to train their models. Their privacy policy is at anthropic.com/legal/privacy.
You can turn it off at any time (Profile → Steps written for you), and nothing further is ever sent. The steps already on your device stay there and keep working. Two roads are never sent anywhere at all, whatever this setting says: the one for breaking a habit, and the one for people who have not named a goal yet.
We never sell your personal data and never share it with advertisers or data brokers. We may disclose data only if required by law (for example, a valid legal order), or to our hosting provider strictly to operate the service.
We keep your days for as long as your account exists. When you delete your account, your data is removed immediately and permanently. If you use the app without an account, nothing is ever sent to us.
The Together wall is one exception, and it is shorter. A record that you did a day's shared task is deleted once that day has passed, whether or not you delete your account.
Trees given to other people are the other exception, and it runs the other way. A tree you planted in someone else's grove is kept for as long as their account exists, because it is theirs now. If you delete your account, your name is erased from it at that moment and the tree is no longer connected to you. If they delete theirs, it goes with them.
Daytrove is rated 16+ and is not intended for anyone under 16. We do not knowingly collect data from people under 16 anywhere in the world. We set the age this way deliberately: Daytrove is a social app (you can add friends, exchange comments on shared days, and appear on a wall alongside members you have not added), and 16 is the highest age of digital consent used across the EEA and UK, so the same simple rule holds everywhere. If you believe someone under 16 has provided us data, contact us at daytrove@gmail.com and we will delete it.
Data is encrypted in transit (HTTPS/TLS) and protected by database row-level security, so your days are readable only by your own signed-in account. Every request that touches another person's data goes through a checked server-side function rather than direct database access. No system is perfectly secure, but privacy is built into how Daytrove is designed. Your days, notes, and photos have no path to the open internet at all, and the only thing that reaches beyond your circle is your first name on a wall, and only on a day you chose to tap.
If we update this policy we will change the effective date above and, for material changes, note it in the app. Continued use after an update means you accept the revised policy.
Questions or concerns: daytrove@gmail.com.
See also our Terms of Use.