Privacy Policy
Last updated: November 6, 2026
In short
reelieve has no account and no ads. What you set up and how long you use which app in reelieve stays on your iPhone. We never see any of it. Only anonymous counts of which steps in the app are used are collected.
What is stored on your iPhone
Your settings (apps, limits, quiet hours, mode) and your usage (minutes per day and network, opens, your answers to “What are you here for?”). This data only leaves your device if you export it yourself. You can delete it in Settings at any time.
The networks in reelieve
reelieve shows the network’s website, such as instagram.com. You sign in directly with the network; reelieve never sees your password. What you do there is processed by the network under its own privacy policy. Sign-ins and cookies are kept in the app’s storage on your iPhone.
Several accounts
If you add another account for a network in reelieve, reelieve keeps the sign-in of the current one (its cookies) in your iPhone’s keychain, encrypted and on this device only, and puts it back when you switch. reelieve does not read these sign-ins and sends them nowhere. If you remove an account, reelieve deletes its sign-in.
Safari extension and Focus
The Safari extension works only on the networks’ websites you allow it on: it checks the page’s address and offers to open it in reelieve. It stores nothing and sends nothing. The Focus filter only tells reelieve what you set for a Focus while it is on.
Subscription and payment
You subscribe through the App Store. Apple handles the payment; we receive no payment or contact details. reelieve only asks StoreKit on your iPhone whether a subscription is active.
Redirecting the networks’ apps (Screen Time)
If you turn on the redirect, reelieve uses Apple’s Screen Time interface. iOS keeps the apps you choose: reelieve only receives encrypted identifiers it cannot read itself, and stores them on your iPhone. reelieve does not learn how long you use other apps and sends nothing about it to us. How often the redirect was used is counted on your iPhone only. Your whole iPhone’s screen time under Review is shown by iOS itself. reelieve never receives these numbers. You can turn it off in Settings at any time; if you delete reelieve, iOS lifts it.
Up-to-date filter rules
So feeds stay hidden even when a network changes its website, reelieve fetches the current filter rules from its website every few hours. Nothing about you is sent; as with any visit to a website, the server only sees the technical connection (IP address), which is neither stored nor analysed.
Notifications, Face ID, camera, photos
reelieve schedules reminders on your iPhone, without a push server. Face ID is checked by iOS itself; reelieve only learns “confirmed” or “not confirmed”. A website in reelieve uses the camera or microphone only when you start it there and allow it. reelieve saves to your photos only what you press and hold and save yourself; it never reads your library.
Anonymous statistics, no tracking
So we can see where the app gets stuck, reelieve counts anonymously which steps are reached: for example a step of the introduction, the subscription screen, a started subscription, an opened network (only which one), a loosened setting (only what kind, such as “With Feed” for a quarter of an hour) or a return after a few days (only roughly, such as “4 to 7 days”). If you say so in the introduction, it also counts how you heard about reelieve. Short messages go to TelemetryDeck (servers in the EU). They contain no name, no device ID, no advertising ID and no content; every session gets a new random identifier that links nothing together. You can turn the statistics off anytime in Settings under “Data”. reelieve contains no advertising or tracking software and sells no data.
Who is responsible
Marius Oliver Dörfler, c/o PostCloud, Otto-Kraus-Straße 10, 90411 Nürnberg, Germany, hello@reelieve.app. You have the right to access, correction and deletion, and to complain to a data protection authority. Since we hold no data about you, there is usually nothing to hand over.