Effective November 12, 2026
Steady Heron is a personal calorie and activity tracker. It is designed so your health information stays on your device. This policy explains what the app accesses and what it does with it.
Steady Heron can read weight, body fat, workouts, and active energy from Apple Health, but only if you grant permission. It uses that data to show calories burned alongside the food you log, and to estimate your base metabolic rate. The app never writes anything to Apple Health, and it never sends your Health data anywhere. You can change or revoke Health access at any time in the iOS Settings app, under Privacy & Security, then Health. The app works without Health access — you can enter weigh-ins and workouts by hand.
Everything you log — food entries, workouts, weigh-ins, favorites, and custom meals — is stored only on your iPhone, in the app's local database. Nothing is uploaded to a server, because there is no server. Export and import are entirely under your control: the app can export your data to a file you choose, and import a file you choose. The app has no account system, so there is nothing to sign into and no password to protect.
If you use the Apple Watch app, your daily balance syncs between your iPhone and your watch directly over WatchConnectivity. That sync goes only between your own devices — no server is involved.
The nutrition-label scanner uses the camera to read a label so you can add a food faster. The camera image is processed on your device and is not saved or sent anywhere.
You can delete everything Steady Heron has stored — food entries, workouts, weigh-ins, favorites, custom meals, saved workouts, and settings — from Profile, then Data, then Remove all personal data. This does not touch your Apple Health data; that stays in the Health app unless you delete it there.
Steady Heron is not directed at children under 13, and it collects no information from anyone, of any age.
If this policy changes, the updated version will ship with the app and will also be posted on the App Store page. Continued use of the app after a change means you accept the updated policy.
Questions about this policy can be sent to [email protected].