Privacy
Your countdowns are yours
Eventide is built so that what you count down to stays between you and the people you choose. This page explains, in plain English, exactly what happens to your information.
Last updated 6 November 2026
No account
Nothing to sign up for, no password, no email address.
In your iCloud
Your countdowns live on your devices and in your own iCloud. There are no Eventide servers.
No tracking
No ads, no analytics and no third-party code in the app. Nothing is sold or shared.
You're in control
Delete a countdown and it's gone from every device and from iCloud.
Where your data lives
Eventide is made by Kieran Crown. It doesn’t collect your data: there are no Eventide servers, so your countdowns, folders, photos and settings never pass through anything I run.
- On your devices. Your countdowns are stored on your iPhone, iPad and Apple Watch, where the app and its widgets read them.
- In your iCloud. To keep your devices in step, Eventide saves your countdowns to your private iCloud database using Apple’s CloudKit. Only your Apple Account can read it; I can’t. Apple’s privacy policy covers how iCloud stores it.
Sharing with friends
When you invite friends to a countdown, it’s shared using iCloud sharing. The people you invite can see that countdown, its comments and reactions, and the names of everyone in it. You can stop sharing, or remove someone, at any time.
Your name is the one you type into Eventide. It’s saved in your iCloud, and published as a small profile in Eventide’s public iCloud database so friends see it next to your comments. The profile is tied to a random ID, not to your Apple Account, email or phone number. You can change your name in Settings at any time.
Public codes
If you choose to publish a countdown with a code, a copy of it goes into Eventide’s public iCloud database, where anyone with the code can see it. That copy has the countdown’s title, emoji, dates and style, including any background photo you picked for it, and the names of people who joined. For a birthday, nothing from the contact is published: not their name, birth year or contact photo, so the public copy shows initials instead of a face. The title goes out as you wrote it, so only publish what you’re happy for others to see. Removing the code, or deleting the countdown, takes it down.
Public profiles and published countdowns can be seen by anyone using Eventide with the code, and by me through Apple’s CloudKit tools, which is how I’d handle a report of abuse.
What the app asks for, and why
Eventide only asks when you use a feature that needs it, and everything below is used on your device.
- Contacts
- To count down to birthdays. Only names, birthdays and contact photos are read, and only for the people you add. They’re saved as countdowns in your own iCloud, and never published with a code. Nothing else in Contacts is read.
- Calendars and Reminders
- To turn an event or a due date into a countdown. Only the ones you pick are saved.
- Location
- Approximate location only, to work out sunrise and sunset for Daylight countdowns. It’s kept on your device for your widgets and never sent anywhere.
- Photos
- Through the system photo picker, so Eventide only ever sees the photo you choose for a countdown. It’s saved with that countdown in your iCloud.
- Notifications
- Reminders before your countdowns end, scheduled on your device.
Purchases
Eventide Pro is bought through the App Store. Apple handles the payment; I never see your card or billing details. The app only asks the App Store whether you own Pro.
This website
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Deleting your data
- Delete a countdown in Eventide and it’s removed from all your devices and from iCloud.
- To remove everything at once, open Settings on your iPhone, tap your name, then iCloud, Manage Storage, Eventide, and delete its data.
- Leave a shared countdown, or stop sharing one you own, from the countdown itself.
- For anything in the public database you can’t remove yourself, such as your profile, email me and I’ll delete it.
Children
Eventide doesn’t collect personal information from anyone, including children. Anything a child adds stays in their own iCloud, like everyone else’s.
Your rights
Under UK and EU data protection law you can ask what information is held about you, and ask for it to be corrected or deleted. Because your data lives in your own iCloud, you can do most of this yourself. For anything else, including your public profile, email me and I’ll reply within 30 days.
Changes to this policy
If this policy changes, this page will be updated and the date at the top will change. If a change affects what happens to your data, it’ll also be called out in the app’s release notes.
Contact
Questions about privacy? Email support@eventideapp.com, or see Support.