Most "no tracking" claims are written by lawyers. This one is written by the person who would otherwise be doing the tracking, so let me be specific about what I gave up. I cannot see which screens you open. I cannot see how long you stay. I do not know which features are popular, which buttons get missed, or whether you ever came back after the first day. The dashboards that most developers stare at every morning simply do not exist here.
Why I find this uncomfortable, and do it anyway
I will not pretend the blindness is free. When I redesign a screen, I am guessing. When two features compete for my weekend, I pick with my gut and with the emails people send me, not with a usage chart. Analytics vendors are right about one thing: data would make some of my decisions better. What they skip over is the price tag, and the price is not paid by me. It is paid by you, in the form of a permanent record of your behavior sitting on servers you never chose, governed by policies that can change after the fact.
The apps this studio makes see pay stubs, sleep schedules, medication-adjacent pet records, dividend portfolios, and private journals. For that catalog, "we only collect anonymized events" is not a comfort. The category of data is sensitive enough that the only setting I trust is zero.
What replaces the dashboard
Three things, none of them glamorous. First, support email, which I answer myself. A single thoughtful complaint about a confusing screen is worth a thousand anonymous taps, because it comes with a reason attached. Second, App Store reviews, which are public, voluntary, and blunt. Third, my own daily use. I am inside these apps every day as a user, and friction I feel twice gets fixed.
How you can check any app, including mine
Do not take my word for any of this. Every App Store listing has a privacy label, and the honest summary of a label is the section called "Data Not Collected." Then look at the app itself: does it work before you make an account? Does it work in airplane mode? Apps that function offline and never ask you to sign in have very little room to be secretly phoning home. Mine pass that test, and any app holding your sensitive life should too.
Flying blind is a real cost, and I would rather pay it than make you pay the other one. That is the whole policy, and it fits in a sentence: if the data never leaves your phone, nobody, including me, has to be trusted with it.
— JC Mobile App Studio