Ahonui
Privacy Policy
Last updated 21 September 2026
The short version. Ahonui collects the health entries you log and the goals you set, so they survive a new phone. It does not track you, does not advertise, and does not use your health data to train any model. Nothing is sold, and no one who handles your data may use it for their own purposes. Nobody sees your day unless you connect with them and you both agree, and even then they see a short, fixed summary rather than your entries. Deleting your account deletes what is on it. This website counts visits, and the app can count which screens you use, each only if you allow it and neither carrying any health data.
Subscriptions
When you subscribe, Apple processes the payment and we never see your card details. Your device sends us Apple's identifier for the purchase so we can ask Apple whether the subscription is still active. We store that identifier, the plan, its renewal date and its status. We do not receive your name, email or payment method from Apple through this.
Who we are
Ahonui is operated by Bijou Labs LLC, a Delaware limited liability company ("Bijou Labs", "we", "us"). Bijou Labs LLC is the data controller for everything described here. For privacy questions, including any request about your data, write to privacy@ahonui.app.
What Ahonui collects
Account information
When you create an account we store your email address, your name if you provide one, and an identifier from your sign-in provider. If you use Sign in with Apple and choose to hide your email, we receive and store Apple's private relay address rather than your real one. If you allow notifications, we also store the token Apple gives us for sending one to your phone.
Health and activity entries
Stored on our backend so they reach your other devices and survive reinstalling:
| Category | What is stored |
|---|---|
| Meals | Photo, optional note, meal type, timestamp, and whether it broke a fast |
| Nutrition | Calories, macronutrients, and the foods you picked from search for each meal |
| Fasts | Start time, planned length, end time, and whether it was completed or broken |
| Water | Amount and time of each log |
| Weigh-ins | Weight, time, and where the reading came from |
| Workouts | Activity type, start and end time, duration, energy burned, distance, and the source app |
| Sleep | Session start and end, duration, sleep stages, and the source app |
| Movement, by day | The day's totals for the movement readings your habits use, and only those |
| Medication, by day | For each medication habit, how many doses were due and how many were logged. Never the medication's name or dose times |
| Goals and settings | Calorie and macro targets, each habit's goal, source, milestones and schedule, and display preferences |
| Block activity | Your rules, which habits were met on a given day, and a record of each time you passed a block: which habit, when, how far short you were, how long the block had been up, whether strict mode was on, what streak it ended, and whether you used a friend's pass. Never which app |
| Friends | Your username, who you are connected to, the invite codes you have out, a display name and picture, the nudges sent between you, and the quests you join |
Apple Health
If you grant access, Ahonui reads workouts with their distance, sleep, water, body weight and the movement readings your habits use, wheelchair pushes and distance pushed among them, and writes water back. It reads nothing else.
If you set a habit on a medication, Ahonui also reads the dose records of the medications you share with it in Health's own prompt: when each dose was due and whether it was logged as taken or skipped. The medication's name and dose times stay on your phone.
You can revoke any of it in iOS Settings under Health; revoking does not delete what Ahonui already recorded. Health data is never used for advertising, never sold, and never shared with a third party for their own purposes.
Screen Time and the apps you block
Choosing apps to block uses Apple's Family Controls framework, which hands the app an opaque token for each selection rather than a name or identifier. Neither we nor anyone holding our data can tell which apps you picked. The tokens are meaningful only to iOS, on your device.
Photos
Meal photos are stored with the meal. They are not analysed and go nowhere else. Ahonui reads nothing in your photo library beyond the images you select.
Pointing the camera at food, or circling it in a screenshot, works the same way. The picture is read on your phone, never stored, never attached to a meal and never sent anywhere. Only the words it suggests are searched, exactly as if you had typed them.
Usage analytics, only if you turn them on
Off unless you say otherwise. Ahonui asks once during setup, the switch starts off, and you can change it any time in Settings under Who sees you. Until you turn it on, nothing is collected, nothing is sent, and no identifier is created.
With it on, our analytics provider records which screens you reach, where you tap and where you stop: finishing setup, whether you granted Screen Time, whether you chose apps to block, reaching the subscription screen and subscribing. Each of those is the fact that it happened, never a number attached to it.
It also records your screens as a masked replay. Every word, number and picture is blacked out on your phone before a frame is sent, so what arrives is layout, colour and taps: where people get stuck, never what they were reading.
It never receives your health data, which apps you block, your name or your email address. It does receive your Ahonui account identifier, a random string that means nothing outside our own database, so the same person is counted once rather than once per device.
Turning it off in Settings stops collection and clears the stored identifiers. Deleting your account ends it.
What Ahonui does not collect
- No advertising identifier, and no tracking across apps or websites
- No location data
- No contacts, calendar, or microphone access
- No browsing history, and no record of which apps you use
This website
Everything above is the app. This site asks separately and collects nothing unless you allow it at the banner, and saying yes here says nothing about the app or the other way round. Our analytics provider's code loads on every visit so that the support chat can work for anyone who wants it, but it records nothing at all until you say yes, and declining leaves it switched off. With your consent, our analytics provider records the pages you open here, how you arrived, your browser, device type and IP address, and stores an identifier in your browser so a second page counts as the same visit. It receives nothing from your Ahonui account, and an invitation code is taken out of the address before anything is sent. Change your answer at the Cookies link in any footer.
The chat on our support page is run by the same provider, which is why it only appears once you have said yes. If you start a chat we receive what you write, anything you choose to tell us in it such as your name or email address, and the page you started it from, and we keep the conversation so we can answer it and so a later message reads as part of the same thread. Nothing from your Ahonui account is attached to it, and we do not record your screen. If you would rather not use it, write to support@ahonui.app, which needs no consent and no cookies.
Why we process it
Every category above exists to run features you asked for. Where the GDPR applies, our legal basis is performance of our contract with you for account and app functionality, and your explicit consent for health data, which you give through the iOS permission prompts and can withdraw in iOS Settings.
Sharing with a friend rests on a separate consent: the invitation you send or accept, and the switch that governs passed blocks. Remove the friend or turn the switch off and the sharing stops.
Who else processes your data
Our providers are listed by role. Each operates in the United States, processes data only on our instructions, may not use it for its own purposes, and is bound by a data processing agreement with us.
| Who | Purpose | What it receives |
|---|---|---|
| Our sign-in provider | Sign-in and account security | Email address, name, and sign-in credentials |
| Our analytics provider | Website analytics, and the chat on our support page, both only with your consent | Pages opened on this site, how you arrived, browser, device type and IP address; and for a chat, what you write in it and any name or email you give |
| Our backend host | Database and file storage | Everything listed under "What Ahonui collects", including meal photos |
| A licensed nutrition database | Food search | The search terms you type when looking up a food. Sent without your name, email or account identifier. Your meal photos are not sent. |
| Our analytics provider | Counting visits to this site, and use of the app, each only if you allow it | On the site: the pages you open, how you arrived, your browser, device type and IP address. In the app: which screens you reach, where you tap and where you stop, and a replay of your screens with every word, number and picture blacked out, with your Ahonui account identifier and no health data |
| Apple | Sign in with Apple, and app distribution | Your Apple sign-in, handled by Apple under Apple's privacy policy |
We do not sell your personal information, and we do not share it for cross-context behavioural advertising, as those terms are used in California law.
Connected tools
You can connect AI assistants and other tools, such as Claude, to your Ahonui account. Each starts with an authorization screen where you sign in and approve that specific tool. Nothing is connected unless you approve it.
A tool you connect can read the health data on your account and your habits, including each day's result for a medication habit, and your streaks, gems, medals and badges. It can read your friends list and the quests you are in or invited to, with what the app shows you there: each member's name, total and place, a stranger on a public quest named by first name and last initial, and a member's days only if they are your friend. Beyond what a quest shows, it reads nothing about a friend's day. On your instruction it can log meals, water, fasts and check-ins, correct or delete what was logged, save foods, change your habits, goals and settings, and start, join, leave, edit or end quests and invite friends to them. It never sees meal photos, cannot change which apps are blocked or open one, and cannot send or spend a friend's pass. Everything it does is marked as its work in your event history.
A connected tool acts as your agent, on your authorization, not as our service provider, and what it does with the data you let it read is governed by that tool's own privacy policy. You can disconnect a tool under Settings, then Connected tools.
Friends
Connecting takes both of you: one person asks and the other accepts, and nothing is shared in between. You can be found by username, which you can turn off under Settings, then Friends. A lookup shows only the name and picture you set. There is no directory, and no search by name or email address.
A friend sees a short, fixed summary of your day: for each habit, whether it was met, rested or paused, how far along it is today as a fraction of your goal, and the run it is on; your streak, which is how many days in a row every habit was met; plus your name and picture. They never see the numbers behind it, your meals or photos, your notes, why you paused a habit, or your email address. They never see a habit set on a medication at all, not even as part of a count.
A quest is a group of friends taking on one thing for a set number of days: a habit, or an amount of particular workouts. Joining one shows the other members whether you met it on each day of the quest, and only those days, on a leaderboard the members of that quest can see, with your total and your place on it. Nothing else about your day crosses, and a quest can never be about a medication. Where a quest is about movement, the other members also see the minutes it counts on each of its days: your minutes moved, or your minutes of the workouts it names.
Some quests are public: Ahonui publishes them and anyone with a subscription can join from the catalogue. Joining one does not make you friends with anybody. On a public quest's leaderboard, people who are not your friends see your first name, the initial of your last name, and your total for the quest, and nothing else; your friends in it see you as they always do. Your days are not shown to strangers.
A quest's host can give it a badge with a picture they upload. That picture is shown to everyone in the quest and, once earned, on the profile of everyone who earned it, to their friends. Uploading one is choosing to show it that way; it is deleted with the host's account.
With Show passed blocks on, which is off until you choose it, friends also see when you walked past a block, which habit it was and how far short you were, and can respond to it. Never which app.
Friends can send you a pass or a short message chosen from lines Ahonui wrote, which can appear on your block screen. Sending or giving one shares the sender's name and nothing else about their day. Removing a friend is immediate: they stop seeing your day, and anything either of you sent the other is deleted. What another person does with what they see is not something we can control.
Where your data is held
Our backend and our providers operate in the United States. If you use Ahonui from outside the United States, your data is transferred there. Where the GDPR or UK GDPR applies, those transfers rely on the European Commission's Standard Contractual Clauses in our agreements with our providers.
How long we keep it
Day-to-day entries are kept for 400 days and then deleted automatically: meals and photos, nutrition analysis, fasts, water, weigh-ins, workouts, sleep, movement and medication totals, pauses, settled days, and the record of blocks you passed.
While your account exists we keep your goals and the record of when you changed them, so a past day is judged against the goals you held then, plus your streaks and your gems. A pass a friend gave you is kept while you are friends. Messages from friends are kept for 30 days.
Deleting your account removes all of it immediately in the app, and from routine backups within 30 days.
Your choices and rights
- Delete everything. Settings, then Delete account. It is permanent and needs no email to us.
- Turn off Apple Health access in iOS Settings, under Health, at any time.
- Turn off Screen Time access in Ahonui's settings. Everything is unblocked immediately.
- Disconnect a connected tool in Settings, then Connected tools.
- Get a copy, correct it, or object. Depending on where you live you may have rights of access, correction, deletion, portability, restriction and objection, and the right to complain to your data protection authority. Write to privacy@ahonui.app and we will respond within 30 days.
We will not treat you differently for exercising any of these rights.
Security
Traffic between the app and our backend is encrypted in transit, and data is encrypted at rest by our providers. Our backend identifies you from your verified sign-in on every request; the app cannot claim to be someone else.
The friends feature above is the only way one account can read anything belonging to another, and it stops the instant either of you removes the other. No system is perfect.
Children
Ahonui is not directed to children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect their data. If you believe a child has created an account, write to privacy@ahonui.app and we will delete it.
Changes to this policy
If this policy changes in a way that matters, we will update the date at the top and tell you in the app before the change takes effect.