Hodie — Privacy

No Hodie account, advertising or analytics. Planning inputs stay on your device. Optional calendar import and the paired Watch summary are described separately below.

Version scope: This policy describes Hodie 2.0, released on the App Store on 1 November 2026. Earlier installed versions may have different features; check your installed version and the controls it provides.

Manual planning and saved records

You can enter a time window, a task duration, transition time and busy intervals manually. You decide whether your commitments are fully recorded; an empty calendar is not treated as proof of a free day. Calculations run on the device.

Saving a manual draft is an explicit action. The draft stores the entered times and durations in a separate local file. Reopening it requires a fresh confirmation that the commitments are complete. The stored confirmation is not reused as a current decision. Existing settings and practice records are kept separately; the update does not erase them or reinterpret a previous minimum-block setting as transition time.

You can explicitly delete a saved manual draft in Hodie. This does not erase other records or the inputs currently on screen. Local files may be included in backups according to your Apple device settings; Hodie does not operate a cloud backup service.

Optional calendar access

Calendar import is optional. You can decline or revoke access in iOS Settings and continue planning manually. Hodie requests access only when you choose to import calendar times.

Within your selected window, at most 48 hours, the import uses event start/end times and availability/canceled status. Titles, participants, locations, notes, URLs and calendar names are not accessed by the import code. Hodie does not create, move, edit or delete calendar events.

Events explicitly marked free or canceled are excluded. Busy all-day events can occupy the selected window. Overlapping busy times are counted once, including events that started before the window. Calendar import is not a complete record of your responsibilities: travel, care and other missing commitments still need your input.

Imported ranges are kept in the current planning screen. If you explicitly save that plan as a manual draft, its time ranges are included without event titles or identifiers. Reopening the draft does not restore a live calendar connection. Detected calendar changes, a changed time window or returning to the app require re-importing or removing imported ranges before using them for a new decision.

Paired Apple Watch

A short calculation summary can be transferred through Apple WatchConnectivity to your paired Apple Watch: the conditional answer, a bounded reason, requested duration and summary time metrics. It includes a calculation time and a short validity period. Event titles, participants, locations, notes and individual busy intervals are not included.

The Watch shows when the calculation was made. A background device transfer can arrive without a live interactive connection; the displayed answer is a recent phone calculation, not proof of the calendar’s current state. Expired or undated answers are not displayed. Changing the phone inputs invalidates the previous summary.

Purchases and Apple services

Hodie uses Apple StoreKit for the purchase options shown in the installed app and for restoring eligible purchases. Apple processes payment and account information under its own policies. Hodie does not receive payment-card details and has no purchase-validation server of its own. Existing purchase and restore rights are not changed by this planning update.

Hodie has no own server, analytics SDK, advertising identifiers or sign-in. This does not mean the operating system makes no connections: Apple’s StoreKit, paired-device communication, backups and diagnostics follow your Apple settings and Apple’s policies.

Access and controls

The planning update does not request location, contacts, reminders, photo-library, microphone or camera access. Calendar access is optional and read-only in Hodie’s implementation. You can continue without it.

Build checks and targeted tests help verify these boundaries. They do not constitute a guarantee that software can never contain a defect. If behavior differs from this description, contact us with the installed version; please avoid sending calendar contents or other sensitive records.

Contact and changes

If you choose to email support, your message and any information you include are received at hello@norea.studio. Do not include payment-card details or private event contents. This policy will be updated when relevant product behavior changes.