Privacy policy

What the app stores

Everything you put into Memento Mori is saved on your device, in the app’s own storage: your birth date and life expectancy, the country and gender you picked for the averages (both optional), the name shown on your grid, your journal entries and moods, milestones, the people you add (name, relationship, birth year, how often you see them, logged visits and notes), your vows and letters to your future self, your time-accounting sliders, your lifestyle-quiz answers and your settings.

There is no Memento Mori account and no Memento Mori server. I never receive any of it.

Health-related answers

The lifestyle quiz asks about sleep, exercise, diet, drinking, smoking or vaping, stress, close relationships and a rough body-weight range. Under the GDPR these answers can count as health data. They are kept like everything else: on your devices and, with sync on, in your private iCloud. They are never sent to me or to anyone else.

iCloud

iCloud sync is on unless you turn it off in the app’s Settings. When it is on and you are signed in to iCloud, Memento Mori keeps a copy of everything listed above in its private iCloud database, so it reaches your other devices and comes back if you reinstall the app. Apple stores that copy under your Apple ID. I can’t see it. Apple’s privacy policy applies.

Turning sync off stops new changes from going to iCloud. It doesn’t delete what is already there.

Purchases

Apple handles payment for Memento Mori Pro. To check whether Pro is active, the app talks to RevenueCat each time it starts. RevenueCat receives a random app user ID, your purchase receipts and basic device details such as the iOS version. It does not get your name, email, payment details or anything you write in the app, and neither do I.

Fonts

Versions before 1.0.2 load their typefaces (EB Garamond, Inter and JetBrains Mono) from Google Fonts when they start, which means Google receives your device’s IP address. Google’s privacy policy applies to that. From 1.0.2 on, the fonts ship inside the app and nothing is loaded from Google.

Notifications

The daily quote, the Sunday journal reminder, milestone reminders, visit reminders and vow letters are scheduled by iOS on your iPhone and never pass through a server. You can turn each kind off in the app’s Settings, except vow letters, which only exist if you write one.

In 1.0.1, iOS can ask for notification permission as soon as the app first opens. From 1.0.2 on, it only asks at the end of onboarding, if you choose to turn notifications on, or later when you switch a reminder on.

A notification can show a person’s name or the text of your letter on the lock screen. To hide that, open the iPhone’s Settings, then Notifications, Memento Mori, and change Show Previews.

Sharing and export

Share cards, such as your time accounting or the tail-end wallpaper, are drawn as images on your iPhone. Quotes and your yearly reckoning can be shared as text. Nothing leaves the app until you tap Share and choose where it goes.

Export, under Data safety in Settings, puts all your data into one JSON file and hands it to the share sheet, so you decide where it is saved. The file isn’t encrypted. Keep it somewhere private.

From 1.0.2 on, share cards and the export are first saved as a file in the app’s cache folder on your iPhone, then the share sheet opens. That file stays on the device.

No tracking

Memento Mori has no analytics, no ads and no tracking SDKs, and it doesn’t use the advertising identifier. The request for an App Store rating is Apple’s standard prompt. If you have chosen to share analytics with app developers in iOS Settings, Apple shows me anonymous, combined figures such as installs and crash reports, never anything you wrote.

Deleting your data

In Memento Mori, open Settings (the gear on the Grid screen) and tap Reset all data under Data safety. That erases your profile, journal, milestones, people, vows, time accounting and quiz result on this device. Your settings and Pro status stay.

From 1.0.2 on, with iCloud sync on, reset also clears that data in iCloud, and your other devices with 1.0.2 or later clear it on their next sync.

In 1.0.1, delete the iCloud copy first: open the iPhone’s Settings, tap your name, then iCloud, Manage Account Storage, Memento Mori, and delete the data there. Then reset Memento Mori on each device that has it, or entries still kept on one can sync back.

Deleting the app removes the data on that device, but not the copy in iCloud.

About the numbers

The country averages come from the World Bank’s 2024 life expectancy figures. Your number of weeks, the lifestyle estimate and the tail-end figures are tools for reflection. They are not medical advice and not a prediction about you or anyone you add.

Children

Memento Mori isn’t aimed at children and doesn’t collect personal information from anyone, children included.

Your rights

Under the GDPR you can access, correct and delete your personal data, take a copy of it, restrict or object to its use, and complain to a data protection authority. Because Memento Mori keeps your data on your devices and in your iCloud, you can do most of this yourself: edit it in the app, export it, or reset it. For purchase records held by Apple or RevenueCat, write to me and I’ll help.

This website

This site sets no cookies, runs no analytics and loads nothing from other servers. Its fonts are served from here. The week grid on the home page runs in your browser, and the birth date you enter there is neither sent nor saved.

Contact

The controller responsible for Memento Mori is Alex Galkin. Write to alex.galkin.dev@gmail.com, or by post to Tristanstr. 2, 45473 Mülheim an der Ruhr, Germany. If this policy changes, the new version will be posted on this page with a new date.