tally · last updated 28 August 2026
Tally does not collect your data. There is no account, no server, and no analytics service. Your calendar is read on your iPhone, and the reading stays there.
Tally needs to read your calendar to add up where your week went. It asks for full calendar access, and the reason is worth stating plainly rather than glossing over: iOS does not offer a read-only calendar permission. Apple's two options are write-only and full, so any app that needs to read your events must request full access. There is no narrower permission to ask for.
What Tally does with it is narrower than what the prompt allows. It fetches the events in the current week from the calendars you have left switched on, adds them up, and stops. It contains no code that creates, edits or deletes an event, and there is no feature anywhere in the app that writes to a calendar.
Event titles, attendee names and organiser names are read into memory to work out categories and the ranked list of who takes your time. They are not written to disk and are not kept — only the totals described below survive after the app closes.
You can revoke access at any time in Settings › Tally › Calendars. The app will still open; it simply will not be able to read anything.
Tally saves the following locally, using Apple's on-device database:
This data never leaves your device. It is not backed up to any server operated by us. If your iPhone is included in an iCloud or encrypted local backup, this data may be included in that backup, under Apple's control and covered by Apple's privacy policy.
Deleting the app deletes all of it, permanently. Your calendar is untouched by that, because Tally never wrote to it in the first place.
Tally requests no permission other than the calendar. It does not use the microphone, camera, photo library, contacts, location, health data or notifications, and it holds no entitlement that would let it. There is no advertising, no third-party SDK, no tracking pixel, and no cross-app or cross-site tracking. The App Tracking Transparency prompt is never shown because there is nothing to ask you about.
Tally makes no network requests of its own. It contains no networking code at all. The only time the app causes any network traffic is when you open the subscription screen and the App Store fetches current prices, which is handled by Apple's own code, not ours.
Tally Pro is sold through Apple's In-App Purchase system. We never see your payment details, your name, or your Apple Account. Apple tells the app one thing only: whether a valid subscription is currently active. Apple's handling of purchase data is governed by Apple's privacy policy.
Tally is rated 4+. Because the app collects no data at all, it collects no data from children either. There is no messaging, no user-generated content, and no way for one user to contact another.
Regulations such as the GDPR and the CCPA give you rights to access, correct and delete personal data held about you. We hold none, so there is nothing for us to return or erase. The data described above is on your own device and entirely under your control — you can see it in the app and delete it by deleting the app.
If this policy changes, the updated version will be posted at this address and the date at the top will change. If a future version of Tally ever collects anything, that change will be described here before it ships, and in the app's release notes.
Questions about this policy: allenjoshsamson99@gmail.com