Last revised 15 August 2026
The short version: everything you put into Dustly lives on your devices and in your own private iCloud, which we cannot read. The app has no account system, no analytics, no third-party code, and makes no network requests of its own. We never see your data — there is nothing of yours for us to see, sell, or lose.
Dustly keeps, on your devices and in your own iCloud: your rooms and chores, when you completed them, household member names you typed in, checklists and checklist progress, optional notes and photos you attach to chores, and your settings (like the daily summary hour). This data is written to the app's own storage and is included in your normal device backups and Apple's phone-to-phone transfer, under the protections those already have.
Dustly syncs between your devices through your own iCloud, using CloudKit’s private database. That database is readable only by you, signed in with your Apple Account, on your own devices — Apple does not expose its contents to us. We cannot see, retrieve, or delete these records; there is no server of ours involved at all. Apple is the processor here, under Apple’s privacy policy.
To turn sync off, disable Dustly under iOS Settings → your name → iCloud → Apps Using iCloud. The app keeps working locally.
Dustly's own code contains no networking — the only thing that ever leaves your device is the iCloud sync above, carried by Apple's CloudKit framework to your private database. The app makes no requests to our servers (we run none for the app) or anyone else's, and it embeds no third-party SDKs — no analytics, no crash reporting, no advertising, no tracking of any kind. Because there is nothing to track, the app never shows Apple's tracking-permission prompt.
There is nothing to sign up for. Dustly never asks for your name, email address, or any other identifying information.
Dustly requests no access to your location, contacts, camera, microphone, or photo library. When you attach a photo to a chore, you pick it through Apple's photo picker, which runs outside the app — Dustly receives only the single image you chose, never access to your library. The only system permission the app asks for is notifications, and only if you keep the daily summary on.
The daily summary is scheduled and delivered entirely on your device using local notifications, and its content (a count of chores that are ready) never leaves your phone. The app’s background “remote notification” capability exists solely so iCloud can silently tell the app that data changed on another of your devices — it is not marketing push, and there is none.
Dustly Plus is sold through Apple's App Store. Apple processes the payment; Dustly never sees your payment details. The app checks your subscription status through Apple's StoreKit on the device. If the app asks you for a rating, it does so through Apple's own review prompt, which tells us nothing about you.
The home-screen widgets read the same on-device storage as the app, shared through an App Group. That sharing happens inside your device; nothing is transmitted.
Because the app is distributed through the App Store, Apple handles downloads and payments and may show us aggregated, anonymised statistics (such as download counts by country). That is Apple's collection under Apple's privacy policy, and it never includes anything you put into Dustly.
Settings → “Start over” inside the app erases everything Dustly stores, everywhere it syncs. Deleting the app removes its data from that device; the copy in your own iCloud can be removed under iOS Settings → your name → iCloud → Manage Account Storage. Since we hold no copy of your data, a data-access or erasure request to us has a simple, honest answer: the set of data we hold about you is empty.
Dustly is a household utility for a general audience and is not directed at children. It collects no data from anyone, children included.
If Dustly ever gains a feature that changes this policy, it will be updated here first, with a new revision date, before the feature ships. The claims above hold for the version of the app that links to this page.
Questions about privacy: dustly@frekvens.ai