Privacy Policy

This policy covers the Okaybit iPhone app and this website (okaybit.app), provided by Karol Bąk, trading as WebTie Agencja Interaktywna Karol Bąk. For privacy questions or requests, write to hello@okaybit.app.

1. What stays on your phone

Okaybit keeps a small database in its own storage on your device with:

• Glimmers: the text you write, the optional mood you pick, when you added it, and the part of day and season it was added in.
• Mood check-ins: the pebble colour you pick for a day on Today, if you pick one, and when you picked it. They fill the calendar of pebbles in You and nudge which activity is suggested.
• Activity history: which suggested activities were shown, done or swapped, and when. It is used on your phone to vary suggestions.
• Settings: whether you have finished the welcome screen, the intentions you picked (for example “Feel calmer”), your region (for temperature units) and your hemisphere (to get the seasons right).
• Stories: a cached copy of today’s stories so they still show without a connection, and a list of the stories you hid.
• Letters to future you: what you write, the day it opens, a copy of a glimmer you chose to tuck in, and when you opened it. The app keeps a letter sealed until its day; on that morning a notification scheduled on your phone says a letter is ready, without its words.
• The note wall, if you use it: whether you want to see it, the random key it uses (see below), when you agreed to the wall terms, the notes you hid, and a copy of the notes you put up so you can take them down.

None of this is uploaded, synced or shared, apart from the notes you choose to put on the wall. We have no copy of the rest and cannot see it.

The app also shares today’s quote and activity, which come from Okaybit’s built-in content, with its widgets on the same phone, and the jar widget gets the number of glimmers in your jar. Nothing you write is shared with widgets.

Okaybit asks for a permission only when you choose the feature that needs it, and every one is optional: notifications for the daily reminder, approximate location for weather-aware ideas, and photos or the camera when you add a photo to a glimmer (the photo is copied into the app and never uploaded). It never asks for your contacts, microphone or health data.

On Sundays, Today can show a few glimmers from the week before. If you choose to share them as a picture, the picture is drawn on your phone and handed to the iPhone share sheet, so you decide where it goes. Okaybit sends it nowhere itself and removes its temporary copy afterwards.

2. What travels

Today’s stories

To show the day’s good stories, the app asks our news service for the stories for the date on your phone (for example 2026-10-12). The request carries no account, device identifier, glimmer, mood, setting or location. The stories are the same for everyone.

Hiding a story

If you hide a story, the app removes it from your screen straight away and sends our news service the story’s id and the reason you picked: it upset you, something is wrong with it, or another reason. Nothing about you is included. We use reports to take another look at a story. The current service keeps only a count of reports against the story itself.

The note wall, if you use it

The note wall is off until you choose to look at it. Then the app asks our service for the latest notes. Each request carries a random key that the app made on your phone the first time you opened the wall. It isn’t your name, your device’s identifier or your Apple ID, and nothing else about you is sent with it. As soon as it arrives, our service turns the key into a one-way code (a SHA-256 hash) and only ever stores that code, never the key itself.

• Notes you put up: the text, the colour, the time, the code for your key, and the scores from the automatic check below. Your note is shown to everyone who opens the wall, with no name and nothing that links your notes together. A note is deleted 30 days after you put it up, or straight away when you take it down (an empty record stays until the end of that day, only so the two-a-day limit still counts it).
• Notes that bounce: every note is checked before it goes up: for links and contact details, against a list of words and topics kept off Okaybit, and by an AI classifier (Cloudflare Workers AI). A note that doesn’t pass is not stored at all.
• Pebbles and reports: which notes your key gave a pebble to or reported, and the reason you picked. They are deleted with the note. A note reported by enough people is taken down automatically and deleted the next day.
• Blocks: the code for your key and the code for the key of the person you blocked, so their notes stay off your wall. They are not told.

We use this only to run the wall: to show notes, keep the daily limit, act on reports and apply blocks. We don’t use it to work out who you are, and with no account we can’t. Hidden notes stay on your phone; hiding sends nothing.

Weather, if you turn it on

Weather is off until you choose it. With your approximate location or a city you pick, the app rounds the position to about 10 km and asks Apple Weather (WeatherKit) for the current conditions, so it only suggests going outside when it’s light and dry. The request goes from your phone to Apple, not to us, and Apple’s privacy policy covers it. The last hour’s weather is kept on your phone so the app doesn’t ask again too often. Your position is not stored and is sent nowhere else.

What any internet request reveals

Like every internet service, our hosting provider receives technical connection information with each request, such as your IP address, the time, the address requested and your device’s user agent. We use it only to deliver the service and protect it from abuse. Our news service is configured not to keep request logs or traces, and so is this website. Cloudflare may still keep its own security and operational records under its own policies.

Reading a full story

When you open a story, it loads from the publisher’s website in an in-app browser. That website, not Okaybit, decides what it collects, under its own privacy policy. We do not add anything about you to the link.

3. Service providers

• Cloudflare hosts this website and our service for the news and the note wall, and runs the AI classifier that checks stories and notes (Workers AI) on that same service. See Cloudflare’s Privacy Policy.
• Apple distributes the app through the App Store. If you have chosen to share analytics with app developers in your iPhone’s settings, Apple may give us crash reports and aggregated App Store statistics that do not identify you. See Apple’s Privacy Policy.
• Email providers process your address and message if you write to us. Please share only what helps us answer.

Stories are prepared on our service before anyone asks for them. No personal information is involved in choosing or summarising them. Notes are checked on the same service when you post them, and the classifier is not given your key or anything else about you.

4. No advertising, analytics or tracking

The app contains no analytics, advertising or tracking software, and we do not sell or share personal information. This website sets no cookies and uses no scripts, analytics, tracking pixels or embedded third-party content.

5. Your choices

• See everything: in Settings → Export my data, Okaybit creates a readable file of everything it stores and opens the share sheet, so you decide where it goes.
• Delete everything: Settings → Delete everything removes your glimmers, letters, mood check-ins, activity history, settings, cached stories, hidden-story list and note wall key from your phone, and cancels its notifications. If you put notes on the wall, it first asks our service to take them down. It cannot be undone. Deleting the app also removes its data from your phone, but can’t take your notes down, so take them down first if you want them gone before their 30 days are up.
• Backups: your iPhone or iCloud backups may include Okaybit’s data, under your own backup settings. We cannot reach or delete those.
• The note wall: take any of your notes down from the wall at any time, or turn the wall off at the bottom of it. The random key is left out of the export so a shared file can’t be used to post as you.
• Offline use: apart from the day’s stories, the note wall and the pages they link to, Okaybit works without a connection.

Because we hold no account or profile, we can’t link a report, a pebble or a note to a person. The only thing on our side that comes from you is what you put on the note wall, which you can take down in the app. If you can’t, for example after deleting the app, write to us with the note’s words and we’ll remove it. You can contact us about any other request too, including about emails you have sent us. Depending on where you live, you may also have the right to complain to your local data-protection authority.

6. Support emails

If you write to us, we keep your message while we help and for any follow-up. Ask us to delete it at any time, unless we are required by law to keep it. Please don’t send glimmers or other private details unless they help explain the question.

7. Children

Okaybit is made for adults and is not designed for children. It does not knowingly collect information from anyone, including children.

8. Security

Connections to our service and this website use HTTPS. Data on your phone is protected by iOS. Keeping your phone locked with a passcode helps keep your glimmers private.

9. Changes to this policy

We will update this page and the date above when our practices change, and before any change to what the app sends.