Privacy Policy

1. Who this applies to

This policy explains how the Mornio iPhone app (“Mornio”, “we”, “us”) and the website at mornioapp.com handle information. By using Mornio you agree to this policy.

2. No account required

Mornio has no sign-up. You don’t create an account, and you don’t give us an email address or password to use the app. Because there’s no account, there’s no profile for us to hold on a server and nothing for you to “log out” of.

3. What information Mornio stores, and where

Everything below is stored locally on your iPhone, inside Mornio’s private app storage. It is not uploaded to a Mornio server (we don’t run one):

• Alarms: the time, repeat days, label, the reason you pick (for example “Work shift” or “Flight”), and your wake-check delay.
• Saved verification methods: for each QR code or barcode you register, a one-way secure check of the code plus a label you choose (for example “Bathroom mirror”). See section 4.
• Alarm history: how past mornings went (for example whether you woke on the first alarm, needed the backup, or used the emergency exit).
• Preferences: your settings and onboarding state.

4. QR and barcode (Wake Check) data

When you register a code, Mornio does not keep the camera image and does not keep the code’s readable value. Instead it saves a one-way cryptographic hash (a “fingerprint”) of the code, together with the label you typed. In the morning, Mornio hashes whatever you scan and compares fingerprints, so it can confirm you scanned the same code without ever storing the original. A hash cannot be turned back into the original code.

This data stays on your device and is removed when you delete the saved item, erase all Mornio data, or delete the app (see section 14).

5. Camera

Mornio uses the camera for one purpose only: to scan the QR code or barcode you chose, during setup and when you turn off an alarm. The camera preview is live. Mornio does not save photos or video, and does not send any images anywhere. Only the resulting one-way code check (section 4) is stored. iOS will ask for camera permission the first time; you can change it any time in the iOS Settings app.

6. Alarm and notification permissions

Mornio asks iOS for permission to schedule reliable alarms (so an alarm can sound through silent mode, Focus and a locked screen). It may also ask for notification permission to send a small number of supplementary reminders, for example a “charge your phone before your protected alarm” warning, or a heads-up that setup is incomplete. These permissions are used only to run your alarms and reminders. They don’t send any personal information to us.

7. App Group and the Live Activity widget

Mornio’s ringing-alarm widget (a Live Activity) needs to show the same alarm you set. To do that, the app and the widget share Mornio’s private on-device storage (an “App Group” container) so they read the same alarms and steps. This sharing happens entirely on your iPhone; nothing is sent off the device.

8. iCloud

Mornio does not sync your data to any Mornio account or upload it to iCloud itself. If you have iCloud Backup turned on for your iPhone, your device’s encrypted backup, which Apple manages, may include Mornio’s local data along with your other apps. That is controlled by your iOS settings and Apple’s terms, not by Mornio.

9. Purchases (handled by Apple)

Mornio Pro is sold through Apple’s in-app purchase system. When you buy or restore Pro, Apple processes the payment using your Apple Account. Mornio receives from Apple only what it needs to know whether you currently have an active Pro entitlement; we do not receive your full payment details. Apple’s handling of purchases is covered by Apple’s Privacy Policy.

10. Crash, diagnostic and anonymous usage information

Mornio includes no crash-reporting SDK. Crash information reaches us only through Apple:

• During the TestFlight beta, Apple may collect crash logs, basic performance and usage diagnostics, and any feedback you choose to submit, and may share crash/diagnostic data with us, under Apple’s TestFlight terms.
• On the App Store, if you have turned on “Share With App Developers” (or the equivalent analytics sharing) in iOS settings, Apple may give us aggregated, non-identifying crash and diagnostic reports.

This information comes from Apple, not from tracking code inside Mornio, and helps us fix bugs and crashes.

Separately, since version 1.0.1 Mornio sends anonymous usage events to TelemetryDeck (TelemetryDeck GmbH, Germany, an EU-hosted privacy-first analytics service) so we can see how many people reach each step of the app: for example “onboarding completed”, “alarm scheduled”, “scan succeeded”, “stay-awake check completed” or “paywall viewed”. These events are not linked to your identity and are not used to track you across apps or websites. They contain no name, no email, no account, no advertising identifier and no location, and never the contents or hashes of your QR codes or barcodes, your alarm times, labels, wake messages or history. TelemetryDeck anonymises identifiers before storing them. Its privacy policy is at telemetrydeck.com/privacy.

11. Support emails

If you email us at support@mornioapp.com, we receive your email address and whatever you include in the message, and use it only to respond to you. Please do not include the actual contents of your private QR codes or barcodes in a support message.

12. Third-party services we actually use

For the Mornio iPhone app, the third parties involved are Apple (its alarm system AlarmKit, its in-app purchase system StoreKit, and, if applicable, the TestFlight/App Store crash and diagnostics described above) and TelemetryDeck, which receives only the anonymous usage events described in section 10. The app contains no advertising networks, no social-login providers, and no third-party trackers.

The Mornio website (mornioapp.com) is hosted on Vercel, which serves the pages and, like any web host, processes standard technical request information (such as IP address and browser type) needed to deliver the site. The website also uses Vercel Web Analytics to understand aggregate traffic, for example which pages are popular and roughly how many people visit. This analytics is privacy-friendly: it does not set cookies, does not store your IP address, does not build an advertising profile, and does not track you across other websites. It runs only on the website, never inside the app. For details on how Vercel processes this data, see Vercel’s Privacy Policy.

13. No tracking, no ads, no selling data

Mornio does not track you across other apps or websites, does not show advertising, and does not sell or share your personal information for advertising. Mornio does not use your location. The app’s anonymous usage events (section 10) and the website’s privacy-friendly analytics (section 12) only count aggregate steps and visits; neither identifies you, profiles you, nor follows you across other apps or sites.

14. Data retention and how to delete your data

Your on-device data stays until you remove it. You can:

• Delete an individual alarm or a saved verification method inside the app; or
• Open Mornio’s Settings → Erase all Mornio data to permanently delete your alarms, saved verification methods, alarm history and preferences on that iPhone; or
• Delete the Mornio app, which removes its local data from your device.

Because Mornio has no account, there is no separate account to delete. Note that erasing your local data does not cancel an Apple subscription. Manage that in the iOS Settings app under your Apple Account. Purchase records and any Apple-side diagnostics follow Apple’s own retention policies.

15. Children’s privacy

Mornio is a general-audience productivity app and is not directed to children, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from children. If you believe a child has sent us personal information through a support email, contact us and we will delete it.

16. Security

Mornio’s data is held in the app’s private, sandboxed storage on your device and benefits from iOS device encryption when your iPhone has a passcode. Registered codes are stored only as one-way hashes (section 4), not as readable values. Because there is no Mornio server holding your alarms, there is no central database for an attacker to breach. No method of storage is ever 100% secure, but Mornio is designed to keep your information on your own device.

17. International users

Mornio stores your information on your own device, wherever you are located; we do not move your alarm data across borders because we don’t operate servers that hold it. Apple processes purchases and any diagnostics under its own global terms. Depending on where you live, you may have rights under local data-protection laws such as the EU/UK GDPR or California’s CCPA/CPRA. Because Mornio keeps your data on your device and holds no personal data on its own servers, you can exercise the heart of those rights yourself: viewing, correcting and deleting your information directly in the app (see section 14). For data Apple processes, please refer to Apple.

18. Changes to this policy

We may update this policy as Mornio evolves. When we do, we’ll change the “Last updated” date above, and for significant changes we’ll make the update reasonably noticeable in the app or on this page.

19. Contact

Questions about this policy, or a request about your data? Email support@mornioapp.com and we’ll help.