Privacy policy.

What stays on your iPhone

Your saved places, their locations and boundaries, your arrival log, your focus history, your intentions and notes, and the apps you choose to block never leave your iPhone. Focusbound uses your location only to notice when you arrive at or leave a place you saved. App choices are handled by Apple’s Screen Time, and Focusbound cannot see which apps you picked.

Accounts (optional)

Crews need an account, created with Sign in with Apple. We store your name (first name only) as the display name your crewmates see, the email address Apple gives us (which may be a private relay address), and an account ID. You can change your display name at any time. Without Crews, there is no account.

Crews

While you are in a crew, we store your crews, their names and members (and who the owner has made an admin), and the start, planned end and end times of your focus sessions, so crewmates can see when you are focusing and for how long. When the owner or an admin starts a crew session, we store who started it, when it ends and how strict it is, and whether your session joined it, so the crew can see who is in. If you end a crew session early, its host and admins are told who ended early and how long was left, never why. The apps you always allow during a Lock everything session stay on your iPhone. We never store or share where you are, or which apps you block. When you leave your last crew, your session times are deleted.

Notifications

If you allow notifications and join a crew, we store a push token for your device and your app language, so crewmates’ lock-in alerts reach you. Alerts are delivered through Expo and Apple’s push notification service, and contain a crewmate’s name, the crew’s name and the time left in their session.

Safety

If you report someone, we store the report, including the names involved at the time, so we can review it. The person reported is not told who reported them. If you block someone, we store that so they stay hidden from you.

Purchases

Subscriptions are handled by Apple and RevenueCat. We check whether you have Focusbound Pro using an anonymous RevenueCat ID, to apply crew limits. Apple’s advertising attribution token may be sent to RevenueCat so an install can be matched to an Apple Ads campaign; it is not used to track you across other apps.

Usage data

To see which features people use and where the app gets in the way, Focusbound sends anonymous usage events to PostHog, an analytics service, stored in the EU. For example: a screen was opened, a place was saved, a session started or ended, or the upgrade screen was shown. These events carry a random ID, the app version, your phone’s model, iOS version, language and time zone, and whether you have Pro. They never include your places or their names, your location, the apps you block, your intentions or notes. Your IP address is not stored and no location is worked out from it. They are not used for ads or shared with anyone else. Turn this off in Settings, under Share usage data.

Crash reports

When something in the app crashes or fails, Focusbound sends a report to Sentry, an error-reporting service, stored in the EU. A report says what went wrong and includes the app version, your phone’s model and iOS version. It never includes your places or their names, your location, the apps you block, your intentions or notes, and no screenshots. Turn this off in Settings, under Share usage data.

Service providers

Convex (database and server), Expo (push notification delivery), Apple (Sign in with Apple, push notifications, payments), RevenueCat (subscription status), PostHog (anonymous usage analytics) and Sentry (crash reports).

This website

focusbound.app is a static site. It sets no cookies of its own. Website analytics are not currently configured; if they are switched on later, they will be limited to anonymous page and button events, will not record invite codes or full invite links, and this section will be updated first. Invite pages at /join show only the code in the link you opened and never load any crew data.

Deleting your data

Delete your account in Focusbound under Settings, then Account, then Delete account. This removes your account, crews, session times, push tokens, reports and blocks, and revokes Sign in with Apple. Places and history on your iPhone stay until you delete the app.

Age

Crews are for people aged 13 and over.

Changes

If this policy changes in a way that matters, the date at the top will change and the app will point to the new version.

Contact

Email support@focusbound.app. Replies usually come within a few days.