Nothing leaves
Privacy
Short, because there is not much to say. If any of it stops being true, this page changes with it.
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There is no account
You do not sign in. No username, no password, no profile.
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There is no server of ours
Nothing you do in the app is sent to us. We never see your contacts, calendar, notes, photographs, what you listen to or what you read.
Three
No analytics, no SDKs
No crash reporter, no product analytics, no advertising identifier. On the iPhone, nothing embedded from anybody else; Android is below. Outbound requests are ones you start: a feed, an episode, a page. Map tiles, place searches and directions go to Apple as part of MapKit. Podcast searches go to Apple's podcast directory, and words typed into the browser's address row go to DuckDuckGo as a search. The weather comes from MET Norway, which is sent your position rounded to about a kilometre: when you open the weather or the morning paper, and after that at most once an hour as you come back to 1bit, so the weather on the launcher and on the paper's front is current. A paper delivered to the Today widget asks once more on the morning it arrives. The weather widget, if you put it on your home screen, asks for itself at most once an hour, even with 1bit closed, about the place 1bit last noted and only while location is allowed. Until you have opened the weather or had the paper delivered with it, nothing is sent.
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Sync is your iCloud
Switch it on and small records travel through your iCloud, not ours, and so do the photographs you take in the app if you switch them on. There is a switch per kind of thing, and photographs start off. Recordings stay on the phone that made them.
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Your files are your files
Notes are plain text. Voice memos are .m4a. Photographs and music you dropped in live in folders you can open over USB or in Files.
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Permissions
Every permission is asked for by the screen that needs it. Refusing one breaks nothing else. 1bit sends you no notifications you did not ask for. The morning paper is one silent note a day at the hour you pick, only if you allow it when it asks, and settings, today stops it. The other is a phone where alarms were refused: a timer there falls back to an ordinary notification, and asks first.
On the iPhone, the gate asks for Screen Time on settings, gate, and nowhere else. 1bit is never told which apps or sites you pick or how long you spend in them. Apple's own sheet names them. The only part of 1bit that sees a name is the page the gate shows in front of one, which prints it and keeps it nowhere. What the gate keeps is Apple's sealed tokens, its own counts of the times you turned back or went in, and when each pass ends. They stay on the phone and do not sync.
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On Android
The same rules, with Google where the iPhone has Apple. Sync, if you switch it on, travels through a hidden folder in your own Google Drive, and so does the day your trial began. That date is also kept in Google's Block Store, a few bytes held with your Google account so a reinstall remembers when the trial started. Android's own backup, if it is on for your phone, copies the app's settings and files to your Google account the way it does for every app. The purchase goes through Google Play, and Google Play's own library reports its diagnostics to Google. A rating box, if one is ever shown, is Google Play's.
The map is drawn from OpenFreeMap's tiles. A place search, and directions, go to Geoapify with your position, so it can answer with what is near you, or to LocationIQ when Geoapify cannot answer. Podcast searches go to Apple's podcast directory, and words typed into the browser's address row go to DuckDuckGo as a search. The town's name over the weather comes from the phone's own geocoder, which is sent your position and is Google's on a phone with Google. Nothing else leaves the phone except the feeds, pages and episodes you open.
Showing another player's music, like Spotify's, needs notification access, which you turn on yourself. 1bit reads no notifications with it, and what is playing stays on the phone.
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Deleting it
What 1bit keeps on the phone goes when you uninstall it. On Android, files in the phone's shared folders stay, as your own files do: songs, downloaded episodes, and pictures you saved to the gallery. On Android, what sync carried stays in your Google Drive until you delete it, and you can do that yourself: open Google Drive on the web, go to Settings ▸ Manage apps, find 1bit, and choose Options ▸ Delete hidden app data.
To stop 1bit reaching your Drive at all, remove it in your Google Account under Security ▸ Your connections to third-party apps and services.
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