Last updated: July 1, 2026
TL;DR — Hurdle collects nothing. Everything stays on your iPhone.Hurdle helps you manage screen time by locking apps you choose behind tasks you choose. All of it happens on your device.
None. Hurdle has no accounts, no analytics, no advertising, and no tracking. The app makes no network requests on its own — the single exception is if you choose to send feedback from Settings, which transmits only your message and, optionally, the app and iOS version. Feedback goes to our private issue tracker, is read by the developer, and is never shared or used for anything except improving the app. Everything else never leaves your phone.
Hurdle uses Apple's Screen Time frameworks (Family Controls, Managed Settings, Device Activity) to lock and unlock apps. By Apple's design, the apps you select are represented by opaque tokens — Hurdle cannot see which apps you picked. Usage summaries shown in the app are rendered inside an Apple-sealed extension; the numbers are never readable by Hurdle's own code, never stored by us, and never transmitted anywhere. Hurdle does not use Screen Time data for advertising or share it with anyone, in accordance with Apple's Screen Time API policies.
If you create a health-goal task, Hurdle reads today's totals (such as steps or exercise minutes) from Apple Health, with your permission, solely to check whether you've met the goal you set. Health data is read on-device, compared against your target, and discarded. It is never stored by Hurdle, never transmitted, and never used for any other purpose. You can revoke access at any time in the Health app.
Tag-tap tasks read an NFC tag's serial number to verify it's your registered tag. That identifier is stored only on your device.
"Ask a person" tasks store only a cryptographic hash of your partner's code, on-device. The code itself is never stored or transmitted.
Hurdle is designed for individuals managing their own screen time and does not knowingly collect any information from anyone, including children.
If this policy ever changes, we'll update this page and the date above. Since the app collects nothing, changes would most likely describe new on-device features.
Questions? support@gethurdle.app