The one-line version
Unmad needs no account and collects no personal information. Nothing you write or report in the app leaves your phone unless you tap share yourself. Starting with 1.2.0, the one thing it sends is a small daily batch of anonymous usage stats (like “Smash This Crap: started 2”). No words, no device ID, nothing that points back to you.
Nothing you write gets uploaded
No sign-in, no cloud sync, no ad SDK, no third-party analytics, no third-party tracking, no crash reporting, no push. Nothing you write or report leaves this device on its own.
Anonymous usage stats
Starting with 1.2.0, to see which features people actually use and where they get stuck, Unmad sends one small batch of counts a day to its own server (unmad.cn, hosted in Beijing, China): things like “opened 3 times, once after 11 pm” or “Rip the Labels: started 2, finished 1,” plus the date, app version, language, whether switches like sound and vibration are on, and roughly how long ago the app was installed (today, this week, this month, longer, or before 1.2.0). Version 1.1.0 and earlier send nothing.
- Not in it: anything you write, your cool-down box, your rage receipts, your anger levels, any device ID, account, ad identifier or location.
- On the server: each batch is added to daily totals and then thrown away. IP addresses aren’t logged. All that’s left is totals like “this many phones smashed something on Oct 9,” with no way to pick out one phone.
- When it’s sent: after the day is over, the next time you finish a round and land back on the home screen. If it can’t go through (say you’re offline), it won’t try again that day and waits, for up to two weeks. “Erase all local data” deletes anything not sent yet.
What’s stored here
- Your rescue and cool-down records: when they happened, the anger level you reported, and which activities you played
- Your mood notes, and anything sitting in the optional cool-down box
- Your rage receipts: what they did that round, and the line you added
- The lines you put on the pile in Smash This Crap
- Anything you were halfway through writing and hadn’t saved yet
- Your quiz results, and any quiz you left halfway
- The days you tapped “No drama today,” and the secrets you’ve found
- Your preferences: language, sound, vibration, and (in the Chinese version) which home screen you use
- Usage counts that haven’t been sent yet (see above)
All of it lives in this device’s local storage (the app’s own private storage on iPhone, Android or HarmonyOS). Unmad doesn’t sync it or back it up anywhere else, and your records and writing never get uploaded.
Sharing
Quiz results, the monthly rage receipt and the month-end award can be saved as an image and handed to your phone’s own share sheet, where you decide which app it goes to or where it’s saved. The image is made only when you tap that button and carries only what is printed on that screen, none of your own words. Its temporary file is deleted once you are done, and Unmad itself sends nothing. On iPhone, the first time you choose “Save Image” there, iOS asks once for add-only access to Photos. On Android, Unmad asks for no photo or storage permission. Either way, it can never read your library.
Tips
From version 1.4.1 on iPhone, you can buy the officer a coffee (small, medium or large) at the bottom of Me. It’s a voluntary tip that unlocks nothing; everything works the same if you never tip. There are no tips on Android or HarmonyOS.
The payment goes entirely through Apple’s In-App Purchase on your own Apple Account. Unmad never sees your name, card number or any payment details. To show the prices, the app checks with the App Store when you open Me; prices, payment and purchase records stay with Apple and never pass through Unmad. The only thing the app keeps, on this device, is a count of how many drinks you’ve bought the officer.
Backups
On iPhone, starting with version 1.3.1, these records are part of your device backup. With iCloud Backup on, or when you back up to a computer, they go into your own backup along with your other apps’ data, and they come back when you restore or move to a new phone. The backup is made by your iPhone and Apple (or your computer), not by Unmad, and we can’t see what’s in it. To keep them out of iCloud, switch Unmad off in your iPhone’s iCloud Backup settings. A record you delete in the app is left out of the next backup; a backup made before that still has it until a newer backup replaces it or you delete that backup.
Version 1.3.0 and earlier marked Unmad’s storage folder as excluded from backup, so backups made then don’t include these records. After you update to 1.3.1 and open the app once, the mark is gone and later backups include them.
On Android, Unmad turns off app-data backup, so your phone’s cloud backup doesn’t carry these records. Phone-transfer tools and some phone makers’ own backups work differently and may move app data to a new phone; that’s done by your phone, not by Unmad.
On HarmonyOS, Unmad doesn’t hook into the system’s data backup and restore, so phone backups don’t carry these records.
Either way, Unmad keeps no copy of them.
What it never touches
No contacts, no reading your photos, no messages, no location, no microphone, no camera. On Android it uses only normal, no-prompt permissions: internet (for the usage stats above), network state, vibration, and audio settings. On HarmonyOS it uses just two no-prompt permissions: internet (for the same usage stats) and vibration. What you write is shown only to you. Unmad has no send function, so not a single line gets sent on your behalf. The only things you can share are the images above, only when you tap to share them, and neither carries anything you wrote.
Deleting
- Every note you write can be permanently deleted on its own
- “Me → Clear all records” deletes every record and keeps your settings
- “Me → Erase all local data” deletes the settings too
- Delete the app from your phone and this data goes with it
Anything you chose to delete for good is not quietly kept.
Children
Unmad is not directed at children under 13 and does not knowingly collect their information. The only thing on the server is anonymous totals that can’t be traced to anyone, so there are no per-person records to delete, whoever is using it.
Not a medical service
Unmad does not assess, diagnose, or treat anything, and it is not counseling. If you need professional help, please contact a professional. If you are thinking about hurting yourself, please contact your local emergency services or a crisis line right away.
Changes to this policy
If a future version changes what leaves the device, this page will be updated in that same release.
Contact
Questions: hellounmad1@gmail.com.
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