Privacy

Privacy policy

Last updated 27 August 2026

Steadwell has no accounts and no server. There is nowhere for anyone who makes Steadwell to look at what you've filed, and there is no plan for one. What follows is the whole picture, including the parts where data does leave your phone.

What is collected about you

Nothing. There is no analytics, no crash reporting, no advertising or tracking of any kind, and no third-party service watching what you do. Steadwell has never asked for an email address or a sign-in and does not have one to ask for. That includes this page: nothing on steadwell.dev runs a script to watch who visits.

Where your house lives

Everything you enter — properties, rooms, the things you own, maintenance, notes, photos — is stored in a database on your device. That is the original, and the app works completely with no network at all.

Sync, if you turn it on

Sync is off until you switch it on, in More → Sync. When it's on, Steadwell keeps a copy of your house in your own iCloud, in a private database that belongs to your Apple Account. It is the same arrangement as Notes or Reminders: Apple stores it for you under their own privacy policy, and the person who makes Steadwell cannot read it, list it, or recover it.

While sync is on, your phone also registers with Apple's push service so it can be told something changed and go and fetch it. That notification carries no information about your house — it is a tap on the shoulder, nothing more.

Turning sync off leaves everything on your phone exactly as it was. Nothing is deleted locally, and nothing further is sent.

Sharing a house with someone

You can share one property with another person — the one you live with, usually. When you do, that house is readable and editable by them, and a copy of it reaches their iCloud account. This is the one place Steadwell data reaches a person other than you, and it only ever happens because you invited them by name.

Ending a share does not delete anything from their phone. The two copies simply stop updating each other, and each of you keeps what you have. There is no way to reach into someone else's device and take it back, and Steadwell will not pretend otherwise.

Photos

A photo you add is copied into Steadwell's own storage and made smaller on the way in. That re-encoding strips the metadata the original carried, including GPS location — so where a photo was taken is not kept, even if your camera recorded it. Your camera roll is never modified. If sync is on, photos are part of what's copied to your iCloud.

Contacts

When you add a tradesperson or supplier, you can pick them from your contacts instead of typing. Steadwell uses the system picker, which hands back only the one contact you choose — the name, and whichever of the phone, email and address you keep. Steadwell never has access to your address book as a whole and never reads contact notes.

Notifications

If you allow them, Steadwell schedules reminders on the device itself, a few times a year. Nothing about what they say leaves your phone.

Deleting things

Deleting something in Steadwell hides it and keeps it recoverable for about thirty days, so that a mistake is undoable — you'll find it under More → Recently deleted. After that window it is permanently erased from the device, along with any photos attached to it. If sync is on, the deletion travels to your other devices the same way any other change does.

Backups and exports

Steadwell can write a complete backup file, or a set of spreadsheets, and hand it to you to put wherever you like. Those files are not encrypted. Once one leaves the app it is an ordinary file on your phone, and whatever you do with it — AirDrop it, put it in a shared folder, email it — is governed by wherever you put it rather than by Steadwell.

Separately, if you use your device's own iCloud Backup, that may include Steadwell's files the same way it includes any other app's. That backup is Apple's, under their policy, not Steadwell's.

Children

Steadwell doesn't knowingly collect information from anyone, of any age, because it doesn't collect information.

If this ever changes

If Steadwell ever does something new with your data, this page is updated first, it says plainly what changed, and anything that sends data somewhere new is off until you turn it on. That promise is what the rest of this page rests on.

Questions

support@steadwell.dev, or see getting help.