Effective September 19, 2026

Your steps, respected.

Stridely is an iPhone app that turns daily step counts into friendly challenges with people you invite. This page explains what the app collects, why, and how you stay in control. There is no advertising, no third-party analytics or tracker in the app (this website keeps Cloudflare's cookie-free count of page views, which cannot identify you) and nothing for sale.

Your day leaves your phone as a numberYour daily step total, and only after you agree to share it with a specific circle or with friends. Distance, floors and individual Health samples never leave your iPhone, and our servers never see a coordinate: a walk's route stays on your phone, and a loop or a route you draw asks Apple Maps for directions, not us.

PremiumIf you subscribe, Apple takes the payment. Stridely receives only a signed receipt with the subscription's id and expiry, kept with your account so the extras work; never a card, a name or an address.

Never for advertisingHealth data is never used for marketing, never sold, and never shared with anyone other than the circle members and friends you choose.

Never written backStridely never writes to Apple Health and never stores Health data in iCloud. Its local copy is excluded from device backups.

Health and motion data

With your permission, Stridely reads step counts, walking distance and flights climbed from Apple Health, or step counts from your iPhone's motion sensor. This data is used only to show your progress and to run the challenges you join. The app keeps your steps by the hour on your phone, so a circle that counts only certain hours can be scored there; only the resulting day's number is sent. If you turn on the live count, the app asks Health for the latest sample between its regular reads and keeps nothing from it.

What the service stores

When you connect with friends, Stridely creates an account on our server and stores:

The display name and avatar you choose. A profile photo, if you add one, stays on your phone and is never uploaded.
Daily step totals for the days covered by each circle you join, and, if you turn on friend sharing, your recent daily totals for accepted friends. For a circle that counts only certain hours or caps a day, the number sent is the one that circle scores.
Photos you choose to share with a circle. Each is resized on your phone, stripped of location and camera metadata, kept for 30 days, then deleted.
A circle's icon, if its host chooses a photo for it. It is cropped and re-encoded on the host's phone with no metadata, shown to the circle's members, and kept until the host replaces or removes it or the circle is deleted.
The way each circle is scored: its dates, mode and goal, any trail it follows, any hours it counts and any daily cap.
Circles you belong to, friend connections, cheers you send and receive, blocks and reports you make.
If you sign in with Apple, the identifier Apple provides. Stridely does not receive your email address unless you choose to share it.
If you enable notifications, a device token so cheers can reach your phone. Notifications never contain step counts.
If your account is new and you join a circle from someone's invite or add someone from their friend link, a note that they brought you in. It is one mark, set once in your first two weeks, never shown in the app, and used only so we know how many people arrive by word of mouth. Deleting an account clears that mark from everyone it invited.

When an invite or add-a-friend link is opened in a browser, our server counts that it was opened: which link, the country Cloudflare reports, and the time. Nothing about the person who opened it is kept, no address, no browser, no cookie.

Stridely does not collect your contacts, email, phone number, or any other Health categories. There is no third-party analytics service in the app; the invite mark and the link count above are the only usage numbers we keep, and they stay on our own server.

Location is optional and off until you allow it. It is used only while a walk you asked to draw on a map is running, including with the screen locked, and it stops when the walk ends. The route is saved on your iPhone and is never uploaded to us. If you send a route to a friend, it travels inside the link itself, not through our service. Nothing about a followed walk reaches us or your circles. When you ask for a loop from where you stand, draw a route on the map, or ask for a way back to a route during a walk, the points you pick (where you are, the corners the app lays out, the points you tap) go to Apple Maps for walking directions, the same as asking the Maps app; Apple's Maps privacy applies, the request is not tied to your Apple ID, and Stridely never sees it.

Who can see what

Members of a circle can see each other's display names, avatars, shared daily totals, standings, the team each person picked when the host has split the circle into teams, the circle's icon and shared photos for that circle. When a host runs a circle again, the people from the last season see an invitation and nothing of theirs is shared until they accept it. Accepted friends can see each other's recent daily totals. Nobody else can. There is no public profile or directory. Blocking someone hides you from each other.

Where data is stored

The service runs on Cloudflare Workers and Cloudflare D1, which store data on our behalf under Cloudflare's privacy and security commitments. Apple delivers notifications, Sign in with Apple, and walking directions from Apple Maps when you ask for a loop, draw a route or ask for a way back. No other third party receives your data.

Retention and deletion

You can turn off sharing, leave any circle, remove any friend, export your data and delete your account at any time from Settings in the app.

Deleting your account removes your profile, step totals, memberships, friendships, cheers, photos, device tokens and the note of who invited you immediately, and removes you from the invite marks and link counts of the people you brought in. Circles you host are deleted too, along with their icons, unless you transfer hosting first. Walks, routes and day photos are stored only on your phone and go when the app does.

Sign-in sessions expire after 90 days. Data is kept only while your account exists.

Children

Stridely is not directed at children under 13 and does not knowingly collect information from them.

Changes and contact

If this policy changes, the new version will be posted here with a new effective date. Questions or requests: staticdevmail@gmail.com.