Privacy Policy
Last updated 31 July 2026
Rouse does not collect your data. There is no account to create, no server to send anything to, and no analytics or tracking of any kind. This policy explains what that means in practice.
Who is responsible
Rouse is made and published independently by a developer based in Norway. Questions about privacy can be sent through the support page.
What Rouse stores, and where
Everything Rouse stores lives on your iPhone, in the app's own storage. It is never transmitted, and I have no way to read it. It consists of:
- Your alarms: times, repeat days, labels, chosen missions and difficulty.
- A record of which mission was used recently, so the app can vary them.
- Whether a mission is currently owed, so an alarm that rang while the app was closed is not forgotten.
- Small preferences, such as whether you have completed the introduction and whether you have seen the alarm-volume explanation.
Deleting Rouse from your iPhone deletes all of it. There is no copy anywhere else.
Motion and step data
If you choose the Shake or Walk mission, Rouse asks iOS for access to Motion & Fitness. This is used for one purpose: counting your movements or steps while a mission is on screen, so the app knows when you have finished it.
Motion and step data is read live while the mission is running and used only to advance the counter on screen. It is not written to disk, not retained after the mission ends, and not transmitted anywhere.
You can decline this access, or revoke it later in Settings › Privacy & Security › Motion & Fitness. Declining it means the Shake and Walk missions are unavailable; the Maths mission still works and the rest of the app is unaffected.
Alarms and notifications
Rouse schedules alarms through AlarmKit, an Apple system framework. Your alarm times are handed to iOS so it can ring them, in exactly the way the built-in Clock app does. That information stays on your device and within Apple's system services.
Purchases
Subscriptions are processed entirely by Apple through the App Store. Rouse never sees your name, payment card, billing address or Apple Account details. The app asks Apple one question, whether an active subscription or trial exists on this device, and receives a yes or no. That answer is verified on the device itself; there is no Rouse server involved at any point.
Apple's own handling of your purchase is covered by Apple's Privacy Policy.
What Rouse does not do
- No accounts, sign-in, or email collection.
- No analytics, crash reporting, or usage measurement.
- No advertising, and no advertising identifier (IDFA).
- No third-party SDKs of any kind. Rouse contains only Apple frameworks and its own code.
- No tracking across apps or websites, and no data shared with data brokers.
- No location access. Rouse never asks for it and cannot use it.
Because nothing is collected, there is nothing to sell, share, or hand over, and no profile of you exists to be built.
Your rights
Data protection law, including the GDPR as it applies in Norway and the EEA, gives you rights to access, correct, export and erase personal data held about you. I hold none, so there is nothing for me to produce or delete. The data on your iPhone is under your control and is removed completely when you delete the app.
Children
Rouse is not directed at children and collects no information from anyone, including children.
Changes to this policy
If Rouse ever starts collecting anything, this policy will be updated before that version ships, and the change will be described in the app's release notes rather than made quietly. The date at the top always reflects the current version.
Contact
Reach out through the support page.