GrowingUp for iPhone

Privacy Policy

Last updated: October 29, 2026

GrowingUp is an app for watching the people you love grow up: it shows their age, counting up live, and their next birthday, in the app and in its widgets. It is made by Danis Ziganshin, who is responsible for your information as described here. This policy explains what the app does with your information.

Information stored on your device

The people you add, with their names, dates and times of birth, photos and settings (such as which people the widget shows), are stored only in the app’s storage on your iPhone, which the app shares with its own Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets. They are not uploaded to any server, and I have no access to them. They are included in backups of your iPhone that you make with iCloud or a computer, under your backup settings. Deleting the app deletes this information from your iPhone.

When you add a photo, you can take one with the camera or choose one from your photo library. If you allow access to your library, or to selected photos only, the app shows those photos so you can pick one, and keeps a copy of the photo you pick and the parts of it you frame. It never uploads your photos.

Widgets show names, ages and photos on your Home Screen and Lock Screen, where anyone who sees your iPhone can see them. You choose who appears there in the app.

Usage statistics and crash reports

To see which parts of the app are used and to fix crashes, the app sends anonymous usage events and crash reports. The widgets send nothing.

What is sent

• Usage events: which screens and actions were used, such as “person added”, “photo picked” or “opened from a widget”, with facts about the action only, for example whether a photo or a time of birth was set, whether the person is shown on the widget, and where the screen was opened from. Opening, closing, installing and updating the app are recorded too.
• Counts: how many people you have added and how many the widget shows. These travel with every event and crash report as numbers, never as the people themselves.
• Crash reports: when the app crashes, hangs or runs into an error it cannot handle, a report with the technical details of the failure (the code path, the error type and the same counts) and the names of the last few usage events before it. Crash reports contain no screenshots and no screen contents.
• Device details every such report carries: iPhone model, iOS version, app version, language and time zone, and a random installation identifier created by the reporting library and stored only on your iPhone. The identifier is not derived from your device or Apple account and is deleted with the app. Like every internet request, reports also carry your IP address; the app asks PostHog not to derive a location from it, and both services are set not to store it.

The app never sends names, birthdays, ages, photos, widget contents or anything else you typed or picked, and no event reveals a birthday by when it is sent. Reports are not linked to you, and I have no way to find which ones came from your iPhone.

Where it goes

• PostHog (PostHog, Inc.) receives the usage events and stores them on its servers in the European Union, under the PostHog Privacy Policy, for up to one year.
• Sentry (Functional Software, Inc.) receives the crash reports and stores them in the European Union (Germany), under the Sentry Privacy Policy. Sentry deletes each report within 90 days after it arrives.

I use both services only to understand how the app is used and to fix problems. Neither of them shows ads or shares the reports with anyone else for their own purposes.

Information from Apple

If you choose to share analytics with app developers in your iPhone’s settings, Apple may give me crash reports and aggregated usage statistics that do not identify you. If you test a TestFlight build, Apple also gives me the crash reports and feedback you choose to send.

What I do not do

• I do not sell your information or share it for advertising.
• I do not track you across apps or websites.
• I do not use your information to train AI models.

Your choices and rights

• Edit or remove any person in the app, or delete the app to remove everything from your iPhone.
• Usage statistics and crash reports are anonymous, and the app has no switch to turn them off.
• Depending on where you live, you may have the right to access or delete your personal information, or to object to how it is used. Because usage and crash reports are anonymous, there is usually nothing to look up, but email me and I will help, including forwarding your request to PostHog or Sentry.
• You can also complain to your local data protection authority.

Children

People often use GrowingUp to follow their children’s ages. The children whose names, birthdays and photos you add do not use the app themselves, and their details never leave your iPhone: usage statistics and crash reports contain no names, birthdays, ages or photos. GrowingUp has no accounts, and nothing stored in the app is shared with me.

Changes to this policy

If the app’s handling of information changes, I will update this page and the date above before the change takes effect.

Contact

For questions about privacy in GrowingUp, email zigdanis@gmail.com.