Last updated: July 4, 2026
Yearlit has no accounts and no sign-in. Your habits, notes, and moods stay on your device and in your personal iCloud. We never see them.
What does leave your device: anonymous usage statistics (so we know which features matter), and anonymous purchase information (so your premium unlock works). Never your habit content, and never your health data.
Yearlit (also published as "My Year") is a visual habit tracker for iPhone made by Mykhaylo Tymofyeyev, an independent developer. This policy explains what data the app handles, where it lives, and what — if anything — leaves your device.
Everything you track in Yearlit — habit names, check-ins, counts, notes, moods, milestones — is created and stored by you, on your device. Widgets read the same data from shared storage on your device.
If iCloud is enabled on your device, your habit data syncs between your devices through your private iCloud database (Apple CloudKit). That data belongs to your Apple account. We have no access to it and cannot read, view, or recover it.
The app also keeps automatic local backups of your data on your device, so recent history can be restored if something goes wrong.
Your habit content is never sent to us or to any third party.
You can connect certain calendars to Apple Health. If you do, Yearlit asks for read-only access to the specific metrics you choose: steps, active energy, exercise minutes, walking or running distance, and flights climbed.
Health data is used for one thing only: filling in the Apple Health connected calendars you created. It is never:
You can revoke access at any time in the Health app or in iOS Settings → Privacy & Security → Health.
Yearlit collects anonymous usage analytics through PostHog, so we can see which features are used and improve the app. This is tied to a random identifier generated on your device — not to your name, email, or Apple ID, none of which we have.
What it includes: events like "a habit was checked in" or "a paywall was shown", plus context such as app version, device language, whether premium is active, and aggregate counts (for example, how many calendars you have).
What it never includes: habit names, notes, mood entries, health values, or anything you typed. Session recording, screen capture, and automatic interaction tracking are disabled.
Payments are processed by Apple through the App Store. We never receive your payment details.
To validate purchases and unlock premium features across your devices, Yearlit uses RevenueCat, which processes an anonymous app-specific identifier and your App Store purchase information on our behalf. This identifier is linked to the anonymous analytics identifier so we can understand which features matter to paying users — neither identifies you personally.
The app also uses Apple's AdServices framework (via RevenueCat) to know whether an install came from an Apple Search Ads campaign. This is Apple's privacy-preserving attribution — it does not identify you or build an advertising profile.
The app includes an optional feature request board. If you submit an idea, comment, or vote, the text you write and an anonymous identifier are sent to our feature request service so your submission can be shown and counted. Don't include personal information in feature requests.
When you share your progress as an image or wallpaper, the image is rendered on your device and only goes where you send it. Saving to your photo library uses Apple's add-only permission — Yearlit cannot see or browse your existing photos.
Reminders and milestone notifications are local: they are scheduled and delivered entirely on your device. Yearlit does not send remote push notifications, and notification content never leaves your device.
Your habit data is under your direct control: you can view, edit, export by sharing, or delete it in the app at any time, delete the app entirely, and manage iCloud data through your Apple ID settings.
Analytics and purchase data is pseudonymous — we cannot link it to you by name. If you want it deleted anyway, contact us at the address below and we will remove what we can identify. You also have the right to access, rectify, or port your data, and to lodge a complaint with your local supervisory authority.
Yearlit is not directed at children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect personal data from children.
If the app's data practices change, we will update this policy and the date at the top of this page.
Questions about this policy: mykhaylo.tymofyeyev@gmail.com