Privacy policy

Last updated: July 2026 · Deskellence

The short version

Deskbound is built to know as little as possible about you.
The list of apps you block lives only on your device, inside Apple's Screen Time system, and it is technically opaque even to the app itself: Deskbound cannot read which apps you selected, and neither can we.

What stays on your device

Your list, your daily credit, your pending removals, the counts behind the weekly report and your settings are stored locally on your device and are never uploaded anywhere.
Deskbound does not track what you do inside the apps you block: it cannot see the accounts you open, what you scroll past, or what you watch in the YouTube reader.

Anonymous product analytics

Deskbound does record anonymous events about your use of Deskbound itself, so that we can tell where the app is confusing or broken.
Those events are: that a setup step was completed, that the Screen Time permission was granted or refused, that a first session ran, that a first craving was intercepted, that a credit was spent, that the YouTube reader was opened for the first time, that a weekly report was opened, and that an account moved from free to Founder.
They carry no app identities, no content and no addresses, and none of them describes anything you did inside the apps on your list.

Your account

An account is required to use Deskbound.
On it we store your email address, the answers you gave during setup (your name, your age bracket, what you do, what you expect from Deskbound, roughly how much time you were spending on social, and how you heard about us), and whether your subscription is active.
That is the whole list.
We do not store the apps you block, we cannot, and we do not record what you do inside them.
Nothing is sold, and nothing goes to advertisers.
You can delete the account from inside the app at any time, and deletion removes your data permanently rather than deactivating it.

Purchases

Subscriptions are processed by Apple and managed through RevenueCat, which receives an anonymous identifier and your purchase state in order to validate the subscription.
We never see your payment details.

Notifications

The weekly report is generated on your device from events the app itself recorded, and the notification permission is requested only when the first report is due.
No notification data leaves your device.

Contact

For anything about this policy, write to support@getdeskbound.app.