Spurt

Privacy policy

Updated 30 October 2026

This policy covers Spurt, the to-do app for iPhone and iPad, and this website, spurt.day. Spurt is made by edboapps in South Africa, which is responsible for your data under this policy. Questions about it go to support@spurt.day.

In short

What Spurt collects, and why

Your account. You sign in with Apple. Apple gives Spurt a private user ID and, only if you choose to share them, your name and email address; Apple can hide your real email behind a relay address. These are used to sign you in and keep your tasks yours.

Your tasks and lists. Your tasks, notes, items, lists, settings, streak and counts, and milestones are stored in Google Firebase, in its London region, and on your device, so they sync between your iPhone and iPad and work offline.

What you share. On a shared list, everyone on it sees the list’s items, who joined and the name you chose for that list. When you send a task, the person receives its title, note, items, length, energy and suggested day, with your name. Invite codes last 7 days. Spurt keeps a record of the people you’re connected with, which is what lets you send to them again. If you report a list or a task, its name and words reach us with your account’s ID and the other person’s, so it can be looked into.

Notifications. Task reminders and the daily reminder are scheduled on your device and nothing about them leaves it. If you allow notifications, your device’s notification token is stored so a task someone sends you can reach you; it’s deleted when you sign out.

Adding several tasks. On an iPhone or iPad with Apple Intelligence, Add several can use Apple’s on-device model to split your text into tasks and set how long each one takes. The text stays on your device; none of it is sent anywhere.

How the app is used. Google Analytics for Firebase records events such as “task added” or “Spurt started”, with your device model, iOS version and your account’s ID. Firebase Performance Monitoring records how fast screens and requests load. Firebase Crashlytics records crash reports with the same device details and your account’s ID, so a crash can be matched to a problem you report. This is used to fix bugs and improve the app, not to identify you to anyone else.

Feedback. What you write in Send feedback is stored with your account’s ID, so a reply or a fix can reach you. A Problem also carries your device model, iOS version and Spurt’s version, and says so before you send it. An Idea carries only your words.

Ads. The free version shows ads from Google AdMob. Google and its partners use device identifiers, your IP address and similar technologies to show and measure ads; your device’s advertising identifier is used only if you allow tracking when iOS asks, and otherwise the ads aren’t personalised. Google may estimate a rough location from your IP address to choose ads; Spurt never asks for your location. In the UK, the EU and Switzerland you make your choice in Google’s consent form, and you can change it in Spurt’s Settings under Ad privacy options. Google explains how it uses this data at How Google uses information from sites or apps that use our services.

Purchases. Spurt Pro is sold by Apple. Spurt never sees your payment details; the app asks Apple on your device whether Pro is active.

Settings from Firebase. Spurt fetches a few settings from Firebase Remote Config to switch features on or off. No personal data goes with it.

This website. spurt.day counts visits with Cloudflare Web Analytics, which uses no cookies and records the page, the site you came from, your country and your browser, without identifying you. The invite page reads the code in its link and sends it nowhere.

What Spurt doesn’t do

Spurt doesn’t sell your data, doesn’t read your contacts or photos, doesn’t ask for your location, and doesn’t track you across other companies’ apps unless you allow it.

Who handles your data

Google (Firebase and AdMob), Apple (Sign in with Apple, purchases and notification delivery) and Cloudflare (this website’s visit counts) process data for Spurt under their own privacy terms. Your tasks and lists are stored in Google’s London region; Google and Apple may process some data on servers in other countries.

How long it’s kept

Deleting your account

In Spurt, go to Settings and choose Delete account. After you confirm with Apple, Spurt stops its Apple sign-in and deletes your tasks, lists, Recently deleted, feedback, notification tokens and account straight away. It takes your name off shared lists and hands a list you started to the person who joined it first, or deletes it if you’re alone on it; your invites and the tasks you sent that nobody has added go too. Items you added to a shared list, and a task someone already added from you, stay with them; email us and they’ll be removed.

Your rights

You can ask to see, correct or delete your data, or object to how it’s used. Email us and you’ll get a reply within 30 days. In South Africa you can also complain to the Information Regulator; in the UK or EU, to your local data protection authority. If you allowed tracking and change your mind, turn it off in iOS Settings under Privacy & Security, Tracking.

Children

Spurt isn’t meant for children under 13, and their data isn’t knowingly collected.

Changes

If this policy changes, this page and the date at the top change with it.