Privacy policy

Last updated 23 October 2026

I made WhoFree to share as little as possible. There are no ads, no tracking, no analytics, and nothing is ever sold. This page explains exactly what the app stores, who can see it, and how to delete it.

The short version

You sign up with just a name. No email, phone number or password.
Only your crews and the friends you add can see your name and status, and you choose which of them see your real status.
Delete your account in the app and everything goes, straight away.

What I store

Your account: A random account ID the app creates for you. It isn't linked to your email, phone number or Apple ID.
Your name: The name you type in. It can be a nickname.
Your avatar: Which of the app's pixel avatars you picked, if any, and its colour and gold border if you've unlocked them. It's just the name of one of the app's own pictures: you can't upload photos.
Invites: Who invited you to WhoFree, if anyone, and the dates you've set a status (just the dates, not the statuses), so the app can tell real invites from fake accounts. It's used for nothing else.
Your status: Free, Maybe, Busy, Recharging or Away, any Day / Night / Come join choice, and when you set it (and when you went Away). It resets each morning (except Away), but your latest one is kept until you change it.
Your time zone: From your phone's settings, so the daily reset happens at 5am your time and alerts respect your quiet hours. I never collect your location.
Crews and friends: Which crews you're in (up to 8), each crew's name and invite code, your friend code, and who you're friends with, plus anyone you've blocked.
Your settings: Which crews you get alerts from, whether the daily reminder is on, and who sees your real status: which of your crews, and whether your friends do. Which crews you've muted or hidden your status from is only ever visible to you.
Notification token: Only if you allow notifications: a code from Apple or Google that lets me send alerts to your phone. It's used for nothing else.
Alert history: A record of which alerts were sent and when, so nobody gets the same one twice, plus short-lived counters that stop the app being spammed.
Crash reports: If the app crashes, a report with your phone model, system version, app version and what went wrong. It doesn't include your name, statuses or who your friends are.

Your sound and theme choices, and which crew you were last looking at, are saved on your phone only and never leave it.

Who can see it

Your crews see your name, avatar and status. If you've hidden your status from a crew, its members see you as Busy instead, unless they're also in a crew you show your status to.
Friends you've added see your name, avatar and status. If you've turned Friends off under "Show my status to", or they're in a crew you've hidden from, they see Busy instead.
Whoever invited you sees your name in their invite list, and whether you've set a status on 2 different days yet. You see their name too. Nothing else about you is shown to them.
Nobody else. There are no public profiles, no search, and no way to find people except by a code or invite link they've shared.

Invite links (like whofree.app/join/K7P2QX) contain only a crew or friend code, plus the sender's friend code so they get the credit for inviting you. Nothing else about anyone. The page they open on this website has no cookies or tracking.

Services I use

These companies handle data for me, only to run the app:

Supabase hosts the database and your account.
Expo, together with Apple and Google, delivers notifications.
Sentry receives crash reports.
Vercel hosts this website, which uses no cookies and no analytics.

Some of these services store data outside Australia.

Deleting your data

In the app, tap your name, then Delete account. Your account, name, avatar, statuses, crew spots, settings, friendships, blocks, who invited you, the dates you set a status, notification token and alert history are deleted immediately and can't be recovered. If you were the last person in a crew, that crew is deleted too.

Removing the app from your phone doesn't delete your account, so use Delete account first. If you've already removed the app, email me and I'll delete it for you. Crash reports are kept for up to 90 days, then deleted automatically.

Children

WhoFree isn't meant for children under 13, and I don't knowingly collect their data.

Changes

If this policy changes, I'll update this page and the date at the top. For big changes, I'll tell you in the app too.

Contact

Questions, or want your data deleted or a copy of it? Email harry@whofree.app.