Honey Badger is built to work without an account, a server, or a way to identify you. This page explains, plainly, the few places data leaves your device and why — and everywhere it doesn't.
There is no Honey Badger account, login, or server that stores your habits. Your habit history, journal, and settings live in local storage on your device (and, for the widget, in an App Group container shared only between the app and its own widget). Three things in the app talk to anything outside your device, each of them optional and under your control:
Subscription purchases (Honey Badger Premium) are handled entirely by Apple through StoreKit — Honey Badger never sees or stores your payment details.
By default, everything you enter — habit names, streaks, quantity progress, failure notes, weekly reflections, journal entries, achievements, and app settings — is stored locally on your device using standard iOS storage. None of it is transmitted to us, because we don't operate a server for it. There is nothing for us to see, lose, or be asked to hand over, because it never leaves your device in the first place.
If you use the Home Screen or Lock Screen widget, the same data is shared between the main app and the widget through an iOS App Group — a private container that only Honey Badger's own app and widget can read. This does not leave your device either.
You can export a full backup of this data (as a JSON file you control), import a backup, or permanently reset all local data at any time from Settings → Data in the app.
| Integration | What happens | Your control |
|---|---|---|
| Apple Health | Honey Badger reads today's step count for a step-based quantity habit. It never writes anything to Health, and never reads any other Health data. | Off by default; enabled per-habit; revoke anytime in iOS Settings → Privacy & Security → Health. |
| Screen Time / Family Controls | For a "No Social Media"-style habit, you can choose apps or categories to shield. The selection and shield state are managed by Apple's on-device Screen Time APIs and stored locally. | Off by default; requires your explicit authorization and app/category selection; can be turned off per habit. |
If you invite a friend by code or QR, Honey Badger publishes a small presence record to the public database of an iCloud container so the two of you can see each other's weekly badger race. This record contains:
This record is readable by anyone who holds the matching invite ID — that's how your friend's device finds it — but it isn't linked to your name, email, or Apple ID, isn't used for advertising or cross-app tracking, and exists only to make the friend race work. If you don't add friends, none of this is created or shared.
Honey Badger Premium is an auto-renewable subscription processed entirely by Apple through StoreKit. Your payment method, billing details, and transaction history are handled by Apple under Apple's own privacy policy — Honey Badger only receives confirmation of whether a subscription is active, never your card details or Apple ID.
Subscriptions renew automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period, and can be managed or cancelled anytime in your Apple ID account settings.
Honey Badger has no analytics SDK, no advertising network, no crash-reporting service, and no third-party tracker of any kind. We don't collect your name, email, phone number, precise location, contacts, or financial information. We don't sell data, because we don't have any to sell.
Honey Badger is rated 4+ and isn't directed at children specifically, but doesn't knowingly collect personal information from anyone, of any age, beyond what's described above. If you believe a child has shared identifying information through the Friends feature, contact us and we'll remove it.
If what Honey Badger collects or shares changes, this page will be updated and the effective date above will change accordingly. Material changes will also be reflected in the app's "What's New" notes for that release.
Questions about this policy or your data can be sent to realsanimeak@gmail.com.