Privacy Policy

With your permission, Everstep reads the following from Apple Health so your daily plan and progress screens reflect your real activity:

• Steps, distance, flights climbed, calories, and workouts
• Heart rate and heart rate variability
• Weight, height, and body measurements
• Sleep, stand hours, walking speed, and walking steadiness

This data is read directly from HealthKit on your device and is used only to power the app's own screens (Home, Progress, Apple Watch). It is never transmitted to us, to any server, or to any third party.

When you log a weight entry or complete a walk in the app or on your Apple Watch, Everstep writes that entry back to Apple Health, with your permission, so your records stay consistent across apps.

The Everstep watch app shows your steps, streak, heart rate and progress. It receives these figures from the app on your iPhone and reads your live heart rate from Apple Health while a page that shows it is open. Nothing is sent to us.

When you start a tracked walk, Everstep uses your location to draw the route map and calculate distance and pace, including while your screen is locked so the recording isn't interrupted. This route data is stored only on your device (and, if you use iCloud, may sync privately across your own devices via Apple's infrastructure). It is never uploaded to us and is only shared if you explicitly choose to share a walk or a progress card.

With your permission, Everstep uses the camera to scan a food barcode, to photograph a meal so its calories can be estimated, and to take a photo for a progress card you share. Meal photos are analysed on your phone and are not uploaded. Photos you don't explicitly choose are never accessed.

Meals you log (names, calories and nutrients) are stored on your device. When you scan a barcode, only that barcode number is sent to the Open Food Facts database to look up the product; no other information is sent.

Nova answers questions about your own Everstep data using Apple's on-device model. Your questions and data stay on your phone. Nova is not medical advice.

If you talk to Nova by voice, Everstep uses the microphone and Apple's speech recognition to turn your speech into text. Recognition runs on your device when your language supports it; otherwise Apple may process the audio on its servers under Apple's own privacy policy. Everstep does not record or keep your audio.

Your profile, goals, weight history, walk history, and streaks are stored locally on your device using Apple's on-device storage (and, if enabled, synced privately between your own devices via your personal iCloud account — Apple's infrastructure, not ours). We do not operate a database of user data and cannot see it.

Everstep uses a privacy-respecting analytics tool (TelemetryDeck) to understand which features are used, so we can improve the app. It uses a random anonymous identifier that is not linked to you, and it does not collect your IP address. This is limited to anonymous product events (for example, “onboarding completed” or “walk logged”) and never includes your name, health data, location, weight, or any other personal or identifying information. We do not use this data for advertising, and we do not build cross-app or cross-site profiles of you.

Everstep Essential is offered as a monthly or yearly subscription, with a free trial for new subscribers, or as a one-time lifetime purchase. Payment is handled entirely by Apple through the App Store's In-App Purchase system. We never see or store your payment details. See Apple's own privacy policy for how App Store purchases are handled.

Purchases are managed with RevenueCat, which receives your App Store purchase receipt and an anonymous app identifier so we can unlock Essential on your devices and restore it if you reinstall. It does not receive your name, health data or location.

If you enable reminders, Everstep schedules a local notification on your device at your chosen time. This is handled entirely by iOS on-device and involves no server or push service.

You can delete all data Everstep has stored at any time from Settings → Delete account. This permanently removes your profile, weight history, walk history, food log, streaks, and plan from your device. It does not delete data already written to Apple Health — you can manage or delete that separately from the Apple Health app, under your own control.

Everstep is not directed at children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect data from children under 13.

If this policy changes, we'll update the effective date above. Continued use of the app after a change means you accept the updated policy.