Privacy Policy
Kyros helps you measure, see and score your time. Your time is personal, so Kyros is built to keep it with you. There's no Kyros account and no Kyros server, and we never see your data.
This policy covers the Kyros app for iPhone and iPad, including its widgets, Live Activities and Siri shortcuts, and this website. In this policy, "Kyros", "we" and "us" refer to the developer of Kyros.
What Kyros stores, and where
Activities, sessions and goals
When you use Kyros, it stores the information you create: activity names, icons, colors and focus rules; tracked sessions with their start and end times; running timers; manual entries; and goals with their targets and history.
This information is stored on your device. If iCloud is turned on for Kyros, it is also stored in your private iCloud database using Apple's CloudKit, so it stays in sync across your iPhone and iPad signed in to the same Apple Account. Data in your private iCloud database is protected by your Apple Account and can't be accessed by us.
Widgets, Live Activities and Siri
To show your activities and running timers in widgets, Live Activities and Siri, Kyros keeps a copy of the information they need in a shared container on your device. It doesn't leave your device through these features.
Insights
Insights are calculated entirely on your device from sessions already stored there. On devices that support Apple Intelligence, Kyros may use Apple's on-device language model to write short headlines. That model runs on your device, and Kyros does not send your data to any online AI service. Insight suggestions you choose to keep don't contain your session records or Health information.
Apple Health
Importing from Apple Health is optional. If you turn it on, Kyros asks for read-only access to the categories you choose: workouts, sleep and mindful sessions. Kyros uses the start and end times of those records to add them to your activities, so you can review them alongside the rest of your day.
- Kyros never writes to Apple Health or changes data in it.
- Imported Health sessions are stored only on the device that imported them. They are not stored in iCloud and are not synced to your other devices.
- Health data is never sent to us or to any third party. It is never used for advertising, marketing or data mining.
- You can change or revoke access at any time in the Settings app under Privacy & Security → Health → Kyros.
Screen Time and the Time Score
The Time Score is optional and requires Screen Time access, which you grant through Apple's Family Controls permission. Kyros uses Apple's Screen Time frameworks (Family Controls, Device Activity and Managed Settings) to measure time spent in the apps, categories and websites you mark as distractions and, if you turn on off-phone mode, phone pickups during your tracked sessions.
- Screen Time usage is processed by an Apple-sandboxed extension on your device. Apple's system prevents this data, and the score calculated from it, from leaving that extension, even to us.
- The apps, categories and websites you select are stored as opaque tokens issued by Apple. They are saved with your activity, including in your private iCloud database, so your focus rules work on each of your devices.
- If you turn on Share Across Devices in Screen Time settings, Apple may share usage from your other devices with this device. Kyros only reads what Apple provides on the device.
- You can revoke access at any time in the Settings app under Screen Time → Apps with Screen Time Access. Tracking keeps working without it, but no score is shown.
Purchases
Kyros Pro is a one-time in-app purchase handled entirely by Apple. Apple processes your payment; we never receive your name, payment details or Apple Account information. Kyros uses Apple's StoreKit on your device to verify that you own Kyros Pro.
Things you choose to share
When you share a History chart, Kyros creates an image on your device and opens the iOS share sheet. The image goes only where you send it.
If you email us, for example through Send Feedback in Kyros, we receive your email address and whatever you write. We use it only to reply to you. Kyros doesn't attach your sessions, Health data or diagnostics to the email.
What Kyros doesn't do
- No accounts or sign-in.
- No advertising, analytics, profiling or tracking across apps and websites.
- No third-party code that collects data.
- No selling, renting or sharing of your data.
- No location, contacts, photos, camera or microphone access.
Kyros uses Apple's background notifications only so iCloud can let the app know new data has synced. If you've chosen in iOS to share analytics with app developers, Apple may give us anonymous crash reports and usage statistics. You can change this in the Settings app under Privacy & Security → Analytics & Improvements.
Keeping and deleting your data
Your data stays until you delete it. Kyros doesn't automatically delete records, and Kyros Pro only changes how much history you can view, never how much is saved.
- In Kyros: you can delete sessions, activities and goals. Deleting synced information removes it from your private iCloud database and your other devices too.
- Health imports: removing an imported session from Kyros doesn't delete anything from Apple Health.
- Deleting the app removes the data stored on that device, including its imported Health sessions.
- iCloud: you can delete Kyros's iCloud data in the Settings app by tapping your name, then iCloud, then managing your account storage.
Because we never receive your Kyros data, there is nothing for us to access, export or delete on our side. If you have a question or request about your privacy, email us and we'll help.
Children
Kyros isn't directed at children under 13. Kyros doesn't collect personal information from anyone, including children.
Changes to this policy
If this policy changes, we'll publish the new version on this page and update the effective date. If a change affects how your data is handled, we'll describe it clearly here and in the app's release notes.
Contact
Questions about privacy or this policy? Email support@kyros.page.