Almost nothing. Your alarms, timers, sounds, and preferences are stored only on your device. Peal has no user accounts and never asks for your name, email address, or phone number.
Everything you create in Peal stays on your device. There is no Peal server behind the app — your data is never uploaded to us or to anyone else, and we have no way to see it.
Audio you add through “Choose from Files” is read from your device so it can play as a ringtone. Imported files are copied into the app’s private storage and never leave your device.
Peal requests a few system permissions only to do its job: Scheduled Alarms so alarms ring at the system level even when the device is locked or silenced, Notifications as a fallback way to alert you, Local Network, used by the on-device alarm framework, Motion & Fitness to count steps for the Steps wake task, and the Camera for the Photo wake task — to register a spot and to check the shot you take in the morning against it.
Photos taken for the Photo task are compared on your device and never leave it. Peal does not use the microphone, your contacts, your location, or your photo library.
Peal contains no advertising, no analytics SDKs, and no advertising or tracking identifiers. Nothing you do in Peal is tracked across apps or websites, and nothing is used to build a profile of you. We do not sell, rent, or share your data — there is nothing to sell. The one thing Peal does send off the device is a crash report, described next.
When Peal crashes or hits an internal error — an alarm that fails to schedule, a sound that won’t play — it sends a diagnostic report to Sentry, a crash-reporting service, so the fault can be found and fixed. An alarm clock that quietly fails is the one thing we cannot afford not to know about.
A report contains the technical trace of the failure, your device model and OS version, the app version, and a short trail of what the app was doing beforehand — for example “alarm fired”, “snooze pressed”. It also contains a random identifier generated on your device, which lets us tell one phone’s repeated crash from many phones’ single ones; it is not linked to you, to your Apple Account, or to anything outside this install, and it is destroyed when you delete the app.
Reports may include a screenshot of the app at the moment of failure. Every piece of text and every image in that screenshot is blacked out on your device before it is sent, so what we receive is the layout of the screen and nothing you wrote or photographed.
Deliberately excluded: your alarm labels, your sound filenames, imported audio, camera images, registered photo spots, your name, your email address, and your IP address.
Separately, if you have turned on “Share With App Developers” in iOS, Apple may also send us anonymized, aggregated crash logs through the App Store. You can turn that off any time in iOS Settings → Privacy & Security → Analytics & Improvements.
Peal is a general-purpose utility and is not directed at children. It collects no personal information from anyone, including children.
You are always in control. Deleting Peal removes every alarm, timer, imported sound, and preference from your device. You can also remove individual imported sounds from the sound picker at any time.
We may update this policy as Peal evolves; the current version is always available in the app. Questions about privacy? Email aaron.zheng.dev@gmail.com.