Privacy Policy

Last updated: 26 July 2026 · Operated by Alexey Shuliakouski

Throughline is a routine app that runs entirely on your device.

Throughline collects nothing. There is no account, no server, and no analytics. Your routines, steps, timings and history never leave your iPhone unless you deliberately export them.

We are not being coy here — there is no data collection to describe because there is no mechanism for it. Throughline makes no network requests of any kind.

What stays on your device

Everything you create in Throughline is stored locally, in Throughline's private app storage:

routines, steps and durations
your daily items and their completion history
settings and comfort preferences
whether you have purchased Pro

This data is included in your iPhone's own backups (iCloud Backup or encrypted local backup) if you have those enabled. That is Apple's backup of your device, controlled by you — we have no access to it.

What we never do

No accounts, sign-ups, email addresses or passwords
No analytics, telemetry, crash reporting or usage statistics
No advertising, ad identifiers or ad networks
No third-party trackers or SDKs that phone home
No selling, sharing or transferring of data — to anyone, for any purpose
No location, contacts, photos, microphone, camera or health data access
No profiling, and nothing used to train any AI model

Notifications

Throughline schedules local notifications so your routine steps arrive on time. These are created and delivered by iOS on your device. Nothing is sent through a server, and no push tokens exist.

Live Activities

If you start a routine, Throughline can show a Live Activity on your Lock Screen and Dynamic Island. This is rendered on-device by iOS from data already on your device.

Purchases

Throughline Pro is sold through the App Store. Purchases are handled entirely by Apple — we never see or receive your payment details. Throughline asks StoreKit a single question: whether this Apple Account owns Throughline Pro. Apple's handling of purchase data is covered by Apple's Privacy Policy.

Apple provides us with anonymised, aggregated sales figures. These cannot identify you.

Exporting your data

Settings includes a backup export that writes your data to a file you choose. Once you export it, that file is yours and is outside Throughline's control — if you put it somewhere shared, the usual care applies. Throughline does not upload it anywhere.

Deleting your data

Delete the app. Everything Throughline stored goes with it. There is no server-side copy to request deletion of, because there is no server. If you would like to keep your routines first, export a backup before deleting.

Children

Throughline is a general-purpose tool and is safe for all ages. It collects no data from anyone, including children, and contains no ads, no external links to unmoderated content, and no communication features.

Your rights (GDPR, UK GDPR, CCPA and similar)

Rights of access, correction, deletion, portability and objection all concern data held by us about you. We hold none. Your data is in your possession, on your device, and you can export or delete it yourself at any time without asking us.

We do not sell or share personal information as those terms are defined under the CCPA.

Changes to this policy

If Throughline ever gains a feature that changes any of the above — for example the optional AI step breakdown planned for a future version — this policy will be updated before that feature ships, and the change will be described plainly in the app's release notes. Any such feature will be opt-in, off by default, and clear about what it sends and where.

Contact

Questions about privacy: support@throughline.today