Privacy
Privacy Policy
The short version
Exercise Snacks has no account, no server, and no analytics. Your data stays on your iPhone and Apple Watch unless you deliberately choose to send or export it.
Exercise Snacks Pro is an optional subscription. Apple handles the payment - we never see your card details, and buying it sends none of your snack data anywhere.
What data the app stores
All data is stored locally on your iPhone and Apple Watch, using iOS secure storage and a shared app group so the two stay in sync. Nothing is uploaded automatically, ever.
The app stores:
App settings - your active time window, snack count, snack duration, snooze duration, active days, warm-up preference, and notification preferences
Custom activities - any exercise names you add yourself. They are stored on your iPhone, shared with your Apple Watch so it can show what's next, and never sent anywhere else
Snack records - completion timestamps, effort ratings, which exercise you did, and the peak heart rate for snacks completed on Apple Watch
Diagnostic logs - a short rolling log of app events, and crash summaries produced by Apple's on-device MetricKit framework, kept locally to help troubleshoot problems
Blocked-app choices - if you're a Pro subscriber and you turn on app blocking, the apps you chose. iOS never gives us their names or icons, only opaque identifiers that mean nothing outside your device, and those are all we store
The app does not store your subscription status. Whether Pro is active is asked of the App Store each time it's needed, so there is nothing about your purchase held in the app's own storage.
Purchases and subscriptions
Exercise Snacks is free to use. Exercise Snacks Pro is an optional auto-renewing subscription that unlocks your history before the current week; everything else - the core loop, reminders, logging, the whole Apple Watch app, and all the educational content - stays free.
Apple processes the payment, not us. Purchases go through the App Store using Apple's own StoreKit framework. We never receive, see, or store your card details, billing address, or Apple Account credentials.
How the app knows you're subscribed. The app asks StoreKit whether your Apple Account has an active subscription. That check is made by Apple's framework on your device and communicates only with the App Store - never with us, and never with anyone else. Restoring a purchase does the same thing on request.
No purchase data is shared. Nothing about your subscription is sent to us automatically, and none of it is shared with any third party. There is no third-party payment processor, subscription-analytics SDK, or attribution service in the app. The one exception is one you make yourself: if you send a problem report from Settings → Help, the app logs attached to it record whether the subscription check said you were subscribed, expired, or in a billing retry - never your card details, billing address, or Apple Account, which the app never sees at all.
What we can see. Apple provides developers with aggregated sales and subscription reports in App Store Connect. These come from Apple, describe totals rather than individuals, and we do not combine them with anything in the app.
Managing it. Cancel or change the subscription at any time in Settings → Apple Account → Subscriptions on your device, or from the "Manage subscription" row in the app under Settings. Cancelling never deletes your snack history - it stays on your device, and this week's view stays free.
Apple's handling of your purchase is governed by Apple's own privacy policy (opens in a new tab).
Apple Health
The Apple Watch app uses Apple Health (HealthKit). It asks for permission once, from the watch's idle screen, and both uses are optional:
Reads heart rate and active energy while a snack is running, so the app can show your peak heart rate for that effort and save the workout with the energy you burned.
Saves each completed snack to Health as a High Intensity Interval Training workout, together with the energy you burned, so it counts towards your Activity rings.
Running a workout session also lets the watch deliver reliable completion haptics during exercise.
You can decline Health access, or change it later in the Watch app under Privacy → Health. Snacks still work if you decline - you simply won't get a peak heart rate or a saved workout. Health data is never transmitted off your device by Exercise Snacks, is never shared with third parties, and is never used for advertising or marketing. Health data is never used to decide what you are shown about the subscription.
App blocking (Pro)
App blocking is an optional Pro feature. If you turn it on, the apps you choose are held behind a lock screen while a snack is due, and doing the snack unlocks them. It uses Apple's Screen Time system (the Family Controls, Device Activity and Managed Settings frameworks), and iOS asks for your permission once before anything can be blocked. We ask for it as an adult managing your own device - never as a parent supervising someone else's - and everything the feature does applies to the iPhone it's running on.
You choose the apps in Apple's own picker, and we never see the list. iOS shows the picker; it hands back opaque identifiers rather than names, icons or bundle identifiers. The app can count how many things you picked, and that is genuinely all it can know about them.
Those identifiers stay on your device. They are stored on your iPhone and in the app's own shared storage area, which is what lets the small Screen Time helper bundled inside Exercise Snacks put the lock screen up and take it down. That helper is part of this app, not other companies' code, and nothing else on your device can read them.
They are never exported, never written to logs, and never included in a problem report. If you send us a problem report it says whether blocking is on, which mode, and how many apps it covers - never anything that could identify them.
You are never stuck behind it. The lock comes down when you complete the snack that's due, when your daily window ends, or when you switch blocking off. Removing Screen Time access in iOS Settings also switches blocking off and takes the lock down. In Strict mode, switching it off during your window takes effect at the end of that window rather than straight away - that delay is the point of the mode, and you agree to it when you choose it. Outside your window it switches off immediately.
Permissions the app requests
Notifications (iPhone) - used to remind you to move throughout the day. You can deny this permission; the app still works, but you won't receive reminders.
Health (Apple Watch) - as described above. Entirely optional.
Screen Time (iPhone) - as described above. Entirely optional, and only for Pro subscribers who turn app blocking on.
Data sharing
Exercise Snacks does not share any data with third parties. There are no analytics tools, no advertising SDKs, and no third-party crash reporting services embedded in the app. Exercise Snacks does contain several small helper components - the Apple Watch app, its complication, and the Screen Time helpers that run app blocking - but these are all parts of Exercise Snacks itself, written by us, and sharing data between them is not sharing it with anyone else.
The app has no backend of its own and no networking code of its own: none of the data listed above is uploaded, and there is no server for it to go to. The one thing that does reach the network is Apple's StoreKit framework, which the app uses to offer the subscription and to check whether it's active. Those requests go to the App Store and carry no snack, settings, or health data.
Crash and performance diagnostics. The app uses Apple's on-device MetricKit framework to record crash and performance summaries. These stay on your device and are not sent anywhere automatically.
Feedback and problem reports. Under Settings → Help, "Send feedback" and "Report a problem" open a draft email in your own Mail app, addressed to support@exercisesnacks.fit. "Report a problem" attaches a diagnostics file so we can work out what went wrong. It contains your app version, device model, OS version and time zone; your settings; today's snack schedule, including which snacks you completed and any effort rating you gave them; the reminder times already scheduled for the coming week; your app-blocking setup - whether it's on, which mode, and how many apps it covers; recent app logs, which include your subscription status; whether an Apple Watch is paired, has the app installed and can currently reach it; and any retained crash reports. It does not include your heart rate data, which exercises you did, any custom activity names you've added, or anything identifying the apps you chose to block - the identifiers iOS gives us for those are meaningless outside your device and are never put in the file. Nothing is sent unless you review the draft and tap send yourself - you can edit or cancel it.
Heart rate data
Heart rate is read on Apple Watch during a snack, with your permission, and is used solely to show your peak BPM for that effort. It is stored alongside the snack record on your device and is never sent to us or to anyone else. If you use iCloud Backup, it is included in your device's encrypted backup along with the rest of the app's data - that backup is Apple's, under Apple's terms, and we have no access to it.
Children
Exercise Snacks is not directed at children under 13 and does not knowingly collect data from children.
Changes to this policy
If this policy changes materially, the updated version will be published at the same URL with a revised date at the top.
Contact
Questions? Reach out at support@exercisesnacks.fit
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