The short version: what you write is kept on our server so the iPhone app and the website show the same goals, with a copy on the device you're using. In the iPhone app you can also go without an account, and then nothing leaves the phone. Nothing is sold, and nothing is tracked.
Your goals and their tasks and sittings, your week, your name and photo, the notes you gave during setup about past attempts, and your reminder settings. A photo is only ever one you choose: with the system picker on the iPhone, or your browser's file picker on the website. Neither can see anything else you have.
In the iPhone app, on the phone, always. If you sign in, a copy is also kept on our server, hosted by Supabase, so it can be restored on a new phone and kept the same across your devices. Without an account nothing leaves the phone. Your own iCloud or device backups are covered by Apple's terms, not ours.
The website, my.drafttheory.app, always needs you to sign in, so there your data is kept on our server. A copy for your account is also kept in your browser's own storage, so the site opens quickly and keeps working if the connection drops. Signing out leaves that copy in the browser for when you come back; deleting your account removes it. The browser also keeps your sign-in and a few settings for that browser alone: light or dark, whether you've seen the introduction, and a focus timer while one is running. There are no cookies for tracking or advertising, and the site's fonts and icons come from the site itself, not from anyone else.
drafttheory.app asks a few questions — something you've been meaning to do, how many times you've started it, what usually happens, and one question more about that — and then for an email address to join the early-access line. Where you choose “Something else”, the words you write are kept too, and read by the founder to learn what the questions missed. Those answers and the address are kept on our server, along with your place in line and, for a day, a scrambled form of your connection's address that only serves to stop one computer signing up hundreds of times. The goal you typed may drift past other visitors as an unsigned note; nothing else about you is shown, and you can ask for it taken down at the address below. We send one email to that address, through Resend, to confirm your place. Ticking the box about talking to the founder means we may email you to arrange that, and nothing more.
drafttheory.app and my.drafttheory.app are served by Cloudflare. Like any host, it handles what every visit to a website carries, such as your IP address and browser, to deliver the pages and keep them safe.
You can sign in with an email address and password, with Google, or, in the iPhone app, with Apple. With Apple or Google we receive only what they pass on to identify you: a token, and the name you allow them to share. In the iPhone app, Google's sign-in uses Google's own software for that step alone; on the website it takes you to Google's own page and back. The emails that carry your sign-up and password-reset codes are delivered by Resend, an email service; it handles your address and the code, nothing else.
You can add a goal from a CSV file. Draft Theory reads only the file you pick or drop in, when you do. Planning that file with an AI assistant happens outside Draft Theory, in whatever assistant you choose: neither the app nor the website sends anything to any AI service, and neither has AI features of its own.
No analytics, no tracking, no advertising identifiers, and nothing about how you use Draft Theory. There are no advertising or analytics tools in the app or on the website.
Only sent by the iPhone app, only if you turn them on, only about sittings you scheduled, and only from your own phone. Turning them off deletes the ones queued up. The website sends none.
Delete account, on the You page in the app or on the website, deletes your account and everything under it from our server, revokes your Apple sign-in if you used one, and then clears the device you did it from. A copy on another phone or browser you used stays there until you remove it on that device. Without an account, Delete everything wipes the phone. None of it can be recovered afterwards, by you or by us.
Questions about any of this: support@drafttheory.app.