Privacy
Privacy
An app that asks to watch you exercise in your bedroom owes you a very short, very specific answer about where those frames go.
The short answer
They go nowhere. Camera frames are analysed on your phone, in memory, and discarded. They are not written to your photo library, not saved to disk, not queued for upload, and not sent to any server for processing or review. There is no cloud vision service anywhere in the rep-counting path.
What leaves your device
Only if you use the social features. In local-only mode, nothing does.
Leaves your device
- Which movement you did
- How many verified reps
- Whether you completed the session
- The date, and whether it was on time
- Your streak count
- Which Circle or challenge should receive it
- A coarse region identifier, only if you enable the local league
Never leaves your device
- Camera frames, video, or any image of you
- Precise location or coordinates
- Your exact alarm or wake time, unless you choose to show it
- Audio you record as a custom alarm sound
- Your contacts
How we decided this
Local-first, not local-optional
The alarm and the rep counting work with no network at all. The social layer sits on top and can fail without affecting whether you wake up. That ordering is an architectural decision, not a setting.
Permissions asked in context
Camera access is requested when you first need to verify a workout, not during onboarding as part of a wall of dialogs. Location is only ever requested if you open the local league.
Share cards are generated, not captured
The card you post after a morning is drawn from your result data — movement, reps, streak. It is never a screenshot of the camera view, and by default it does not carry your wake time or location.
An account is optional
You can use Wakeletics without one. Alarms, verification, history and streaks are all local. Sign in only if you want friends and challenges.
Deletion means deletion
Deleting your account removes your profile and social records, not just your access to them.
Why be this specific
Because 'we take your privacy seriously' is what every company says and it means nothing. A camera pointed at you in your bedroom deserves a claim narrow enough to be checked — and narrow enough that we would be caught if it were untrue.