Strides privacy policy

Last updated: 1 October 2026

Strides is made by Pennylume. It has no account, no ads, no analytics and no tracking.

What stays on your phone

Your step history, water log, check-ins, goals and settings are stored only on this phone.
We never receive them. There is no Strides server that holds user data.
Strides opts out of Android cloud backup, so this data is not copied to your Google account.
Settings → Export data saves a CSV file only when you ask, to wherever you choose to share it.

If you connect Health Connect, Strides reads steps, distance, active calories and floors climbed. It never writes to Health Connect.
This data is used only to show your progress in the app. It is never sent anywhere, sold, or used for advertising.
You can remove access at any time in Health Connect settings.

If you choose the phone's step sensor, Strides asks for the Physical activity permission and counts steps on the phone.

Strides makes only these requests, without any identifier:

Weather (optional): if you turn it on, your approximate location, rounded to about 10 km, is sent to Open-Meteo (open-meteo.com) to get the forecast. Your exact location is never read or sent.
City search (optional): if you type a city instead of sharing your area, that name is sent to Open-Meteo's geocoding service (geocoding-api.open-meteo.com) to find it. Only the rounded position is kept.
Bottle sponsor: a small file (sponsor.json) is downloaded from our website to show an optional sponsor logo. Nothing is sent back and no views or taps are counted. If the sponsor has a link, it opens in your browser only when you tap it.

Settings → Erase all data deletes everything Strides stored. Uninstalling the app does the same.

Strides is not directed at children under 13.

Questions: open an issue at github.com/PennyLume-dev/strides-step-tracker.