One QuestionPrivacy policy
1. Summary
One Question (One Question a Day Journal on the App Store) is a private journal. Your entries stay on your devices and in your own iCloud account. We run no server that receives your entries, and we cannot read them. The app sends limited usage data to analytics providers, described in section 4.
2. Your journal
- Entries (answers, moods, optional place) are stored on your device and, if iCloud is on, synced through your private iCloud database. Only you can access them.
- Location is optional. A place is saved only when you tap “Add place” or turn on adding places to entries. It is never collected in the background and is never sent to our analytics. Coordinates are sent to Apple Maps to name and display the place.
- Features that use Apple Intelligence (chapters, reflections, and the few words shown after you write) and Image Playground (chapter covers) run on your device. Your writing is not sent to us or any third party for them.
- A journal you import from another app, or from your own files, is read on your device and never uploaded. Imported entries join your journal like everything you write.
3. Apple Health
Apple Health is off unless you turn it on in Settings. When it is on, One Question saves to Health the time you spent writing an entry, as Mindful Minutes, and your mood, as State of Mind, with what the day was about (like Work or Family), worked out on your device. Your words are never sent to Health, and One Question reads nothing from it.
4. Analytics we collect
We use Firebase (Google) and Amplitude.
- Firebase Analytics: app usage events (such as screens opened and features used, the mood you marked, and how long an answer was, never its words), device and app information (model, OS and app version), approximate region, and a random app-instance identifier.
- Firebase Remote Config: fetches app settings, such as which design to show.
- Amplitude: usage events, sessions, taps and interactions, device information, and a random device identifier. Amplitude Session Replay records screen replays of how the app is used, to find usability problems. Views showing your journal text and place names are excluded from replay.
These identifiers are random. We do not connect them to your name, email or Apple account.
Their policies: Firebase, Amplitude.
5. Purchases
Subscriptions are processed by Apple. We never receive your payment details. We learn only whether a subscription is active, and we record that a purchase screen was viewed or a purchase completed, not who made it.
6. Your choices
- Location is optional for every entry, and you can remove a saved place from an entry at any time.
- Apple Health is optional. You can turn it off in One Question’s Settings or in the Health app.
- Deleting an entry removes it from your devices and your iCloud copy.
- You can export every entry as plain text from Settings.
- You can turn off iCloud sync for the app in iOS Settings.
7. This website
This website sets no cookies, runs no analytics or ads, and loads nothing from other companies’ servers. It is hosted by Cloudflare, which processes basic request data, such as IP addresses, to deliver pages and keep the site safe.
8. Changes
Updates are posted on this page, with the date above.