The short version
Quiet has no account, no server of its own and no analytics. It contains no advertising, no tracking, and no third-party software development kits of any kind. There is exactly one thing it can send anywhere, it is off until you switch it on, and where it goes is your own iCloud — described below.
What is stored, and where
Quiet keeps eight things, on your phone, in the iOS keychain:
- your daily limit, any change you have queued for a later day, and the wait in force;
- how much of today you have used;
- the furthest point in time the app has seen, which is how it notices a clock that has been moved backwards;
- the day you set it up;
- the day, if any, on which you have asked it to forget all of this;
- the last figures your other devices reported, if you have switched that on — without which forgetting them would forget time you have already spent;
- the day you told it you were starting from, which is the number the chart measures against and nothing else;
- how long each day since has been, which is what the chart draws.
They are stored so that they survive the app being closed, and deliberately so that they survive the app being deleted — a limit you can lift by reinstalling is not a limit. Nothing else is in there. No name, no email address, no contacts, nothing about what you looked at.
Separately, in the ordinary place iOS apps keep settings, Quiet remembers how you like it: the shape of its row, whether it warns you as the day runs out, whether the daily reminder is on and at what time, and whether the setting below is on. Those are preferences rather than promises, so they go when the app goes.
Your other devices
Carry it between my devices, in the panel, is off unless you turn it on, and it is the only setting in the app that sends anything anywhere. With it on, Quiet writes one small record into your own iCloud: your limit, the wait in force, today’s date, and how many minutes have been spent on each of your devices. A few hundred bytes. It exists so that two phones are not two allowances.
That record is in your iCloud account, readable by your devices and by nobody else. It does not pass through any server belonging to the developer, because there is none. Turning the setting off deletes the record — leaving a copy up there that you had no way to reach would be the opposite of the point.
Each device writes its own figure under a random name made when Quiet was first opened on it. The name identifies nothing: it is not your Apple Account, not your phone’s serial number, and not an advertising identifier. Erase the device and it comes back as a different, equally meaningless name.
The daily reminder
Quiet can put one notification a day on your phone, at an hour you choose, saying that the window is open — and it skips a day you have already opened Instagram on. It is off until you ask for it, iOS asks your permission before the first one, and each one is scheduled on the device by the device. Nothing about it is sent anywhere. It cannot tell you a message arrived, because only Instagram knows that, and Quiet never logs in as you anywhere.
Camera, microphone and photos
iOS requires an app to declare, in words, why it might ask for these. Quiet declares all four and uses none of them itself. They are there so that a tap on Instagram’s own page — attaching a photo, recording a voice message — does not end the app instead. If a permission prompt appears, it appeared because of something you tapped on Instagram, and what happens after it is Instagram’s.
The way out
Make Quiet forget everything, in the panel, is how you stop. It is deliberately not instant — an off switch you can reach in the moment you want five more minutes is not a limit — so it takes the same wait that stands between you and a bigger number, a week unless you have changed it. On that day Quiet throws away all six of the things above, and the copy in iCloud with them, and what is left is an app that has never been run. Until then nothing changes, and calling it off costs nothing. Your Instagram sign-in is a separate button and is not touched.
Quiet shows Instagram’s own mobile website inside the app. While you are using it you are using Instagram, and Meta’s privacy policy governs what happens there — the same as it would in Safari. Quiet does not read, record or transmit anything on those pages.
You sign in on Instagram’s own page. Your password is typed into Instagram’s form and goes to Instagram. Quiet never sees it, never stores it, and has no way to.
The signed-in session lives in the app’s own web storage, exactly as it would in a browser. Sign out of Instagram in the panel clears it — cookies, storage and caches — from this app.
What Apple sees
If you installed Quiet from the App Store, Apple knows that, as it does for every app. Quiet itself sends Apple nothing.
Children
Quiet collects no personal data from anyone, of any age.
Changes
If this ever changes, this page changes with it, and the app’s version history says so. The source is public: you can check rather than take our word for it.
Who is responsible, and how to reach them
Quiet is made and published by:
- Connexa GmbH
- Wilerstrasse 82, 8370 Sirnach, Switzerland
- Company number CHE-196.465.062
- Privacy: privacy@connexa-gmbh.ch
- Support: support@connexa-gmbh.ch, and connexa-gmbh.ch/support
Swiss data protection law (DSG) and the GDPR give you the right to ask what is held about you, to have it corrected, and to have it deleted. In Quiet’s case the answer is unusually short, and the page above is the whole of it: nothing about you reaches Connexa GmbH, so there is nothing here to hand over or to erase on request. What the app keeps is on your own phone and in your own iCloud, and Make Quiet forget everything in the panel erases all of it without asking anybody. Write to the address above anyway if you want that in writing, or if you think this page is wrong.
Connexa GmbH’s general privacy statement covers the company’s website — server logs, the contact form, cookies. It does not describe this app, and this page is not a summary of it: where the two could ever seem to disagree about Quiet, this page is the one about Quiet.