The short version. The app has no account, no analytics and no server of mine. What you type into it stays on your iPhone or iPad, unless you turn on iCloud sync — and then it goes to your own iCloud account, not to me. This website is the one place anything is measured: it runs Google Analytics, which sets cookies and counts visits. The two are entirely separate — nothing you enter in the app reaches this site.
This covers the Last Time app and lasttimeapp.com. Last updated 11 September 2026.
Your events, the dates they last happened, the history behind each one, the notes you attach, and the icons and colours you choose are kept in a database on your device.
There is no sign-up, no login and no profile. I never receive any of it and have no way to read it.
Sync is off until you turn it on, under Settings → iCloud Sync.
With it on, your events, their history and notes, and their icons and colours are copied to the private iCloud storage of the Apple Account signed in on that device, so your other devices signed in to the same account can read them. Apple holds that data under Apple's privacy policy; it is not sent to me, and I cannot see it. Turn sync off and the copying stops.
While sync is on, the app asks iOS to wake it when iCloud has changes waiting. Those wake-ups come from Apple and carry none of your content.
The morning digest is worked out on your device from the events already on it, and handed to iOS to show at the hour you picked. Nothing about your events is sent anywhere to produce it, and it is off until you turn it on.
Exporting as CSV hands the file to the system share sheet, and where it goes from there is your choice. Once it leaves the app, whatever you send it to has its own policy.
With App Lock on, the app asks iOS to confirm it is you before showing your events. iOS offers Face ID or Touch ID and falls back to your device passcode.
That check is done entirely by the system. The app is told yes or no; it never sees your face, your fingerprint or your passcode, and it stores none of them.
The app ships an Apple privacy manifest saying the same thing: no tracking, no tracking domains, and no collected data types.
Earlier versions of this page listed Google Analytics, Fabric and Crashlytics as collecting from inside the app. Those SDKs were taken out of it, and this page had not caught up until now. The Analytics described below runs on this website only, and never in the app.
Settings can open a mail draft to me, my Twitter, and the app's App Store page. Following one of those hands you to another app or website with its own privacy policy, which I do not control.
lasttimeapp.com is a handful of static pages hosted by Netlify, which keeps ordinary server logs — including IP addresses — to serve and protect the site.
The pages run Google Analytics (GA4). It sets cookies in your browser — _ga and one more beginning _ga_ — and reports to Google which pages you looked at, where you arrived from, roughly where in the world you are, and what browser and device you used. I read it as totals: how many people came, and which pages they read. It is not tied to anything in the app, because the app sends nothing here, and there is no account to tie it to. What Google does with it is covered by Google's privacy policy.
The pages also load their typefaces from Google Fonts, so your browser fetches those files from Google and Google sees that request too.
If you would rather none of that happened, any content blocker stops both, and Google publishes a browser add-on that opts you out of Analytics. The pages work the same either way — nothing here needs the script or the fonts to be readable.
The app collects nothing from anybody, children included. There is no account to create and nothing for me to receive.
If the app changes what it does, this page changes with it and the date near the top moves.
Questions or corrections: hello+lasttime@sarunw.com.