Balance

What it is

Balance holds the parts of a household that two people have to keep in step: what needs doing, what is already in the diary, what the house needs, and where the important documents are. One place, both phones, the Mac, kept in sync.

CalendarYour real diary. Connect Google, and the calendars already on your phone appear beside it.
TasksWith who's doing them, how long they take, and what repeats.
A daily planToday's work laid into the gaps between your appointments. Worked out on your device — nothing is sent to an AI to make it.
GroceriesA list that learns the rhythm of what you actually buy, and never changes it without asking.
Notes & documentsWritten, scanned or brought in from Notion. Shareable by link when you want them to be.
A vaultPasswords, policies, account numbers — encrypted on your device before it ever leaves.

Privacy

Last updated 22 August 2026

The short version

Balance keeps your household's information so your household can use it. That is the whole purpose. There is no advertising, no analytics, no tracking, nothing is sold or shared for marketing, and nothing you write is used to train an AI model. You can delete everything from inside the app, and when you do, it is gone.

What Balance stores

Your name and the account identifier Sign in with Apple gives us. Apple lets you hide your real email address, and Balance works perfectly well if you do.
Everything you put into the app: tasks, notes, documents, photos you attach, shopping lists, the things you own, and the household you belong to.
A copy of the calendar events Balance needs to plan around — see below.
Device tokens, so notifications can reach your phone, and nothing else about your device.

What it does not do

No advertising, and no advertising identifiers.
No analytics or usage tracking of any kind. Nobody is watching which screens you open.
Your information is never sold, rented, or shared with anyone for their own purposes.
Nothing you write is used to train an AI model — not ours, not anybody's.
Balance's daily plan is worked out on your own device. It is arithmetic, not artificial intelligence, and your day is not sent anywhere to produce it.

Your calendar

If you connect Google Calendar, Balance asks for permission to read your events and to create the ones you make in Balance. It keeps the times and titles it needs to show your day and plan around it. If you also point Balance at a Google Drive folder, it reads only the folder you choose. You can disconnect at any time in Settings, which deletes the connection and hands the access back to Google. Calendars already on your Apple device are read on the device itself.

Balance's use of information received from Google APIs follows the Google API Services User Data Policy, including its Limited Use requirements.

The vault

Anything you put in the vault is encrypted on your own device, with a key derived from your passphrase, before it is uploaded. What is stored is unreadable without that passphrase — including to us. That also means we cannot recover it for you if you forget it, which is the trade you are making and the reason the app says so before you start.

Who else is involved

Supabase — the database and file storage that hold your household's information, hosted in the United States (Northern California).
Apple — Sign in with Apple, and the delivery of notifications to your devices.
Google — only if you connect a Google account, and only for the calendars and the one Drive folder you choose.
Notion — only if you use "move in from Notion", and only to read the pages you pick.

Each of these holds information because Balance needs them to work. None of them is given anything for their own purposes.

How long it is kept

Until you delete it. Deleting a note deletes it; deleting your account deletes your account. If you are the only person left in your household, deleting your account deletes the household and everything in it as well — the app tells you which of those two things is about to happen before you confirm.

Deleting everything

In the app: Settings → About → Delete your account. It happens immediately and it cannot be undone. If you would rather ask us to do it, write to us and we will.

Children

Balance is made for adults running a household and is not directed at children under 13. We do not knowingly collect information from them.

Changes

If this policy changes in a way that matters, the date at the top changes and the app will say so. It will not change retroactively for information already collected.

Terms of use

Last updated 22 August 2026

This is a beta

Balance is unfinished software being tested by a small number of households. It will have bugs. Features will change and some will be removed. Please keep your own copy of anything you could not stand to lose, and do not rely on Balance alone for something with real consequences — a medication schedule, a legal deadline, a flight.

Your account

One account, one person, and you are responsible for what happens under it. Everyone in a household can see and change everything in that household — that is the point of it — so only invite people you mean to share your life with.

What you write is yours

Your content belongs to you. You give us only the permission needed to store it, sync it between your devices, and show it to the people in your household. Nothing more, and nothing after you delete it.

Using it reasonably

Don't use Balance to break the law, to store other people's information without their knowing, or to attack the service. Don't try to get at other households' data.

No promises, and no liability

Balance is provided as it is, without warranty of any kind. It may be unavailable, it may lose data, and it may be discontinued. To the fullest extent the law allows, we are not liable for any loss arising from using it. Nothing here limits liability that cannot be limited by law.

Ending it

You can delete your account at any time, from inside the app. We can end access to the beta — with notice where we reasonably can, and immediately where the terms above are being broken.

Where this applies

These terms are governed by the laws of the State of California, United States.

Getting in touch

Questions, problems, a request to delete your information, or a feature you wish existed — a real person reads all of it.

From inside Balance

Settings → Tell us something. This is the fastest route and the one to use if you can: it sends your build number along, which usually saves a round of questions about which copy of the app you are looking at.

Or if you cannot reach the app — locked out, or you have already deleted it:

hello@balanceplanner.app