Your training is yours. Workouts, food, bodyweight and weigh-ins are stored on your iPhone and are never uploaded anywhere.
One part of the app is shared on purpose: if you choose a username, your ranked lifts can appear on a leaderboard your friends can see. That is opt-in, you pick what it shows, and you can turn it off or delete it from inside the app.
The app shows a banner ad, served by Google AdMob. That is the one thing in here that involves another company, and iOS asks your permission before it can use anything that follows you between apps. You can say no, and the app works exactly the same.
There are still no analytics in this app. Nothing you log is ever sent to an advertiser.
Log My Lift is made by Matthew Baker, an independent developer, under the name Baker Innovation and Technology Solutions (BITS). If you need to reach a person about anything on this page, email logmyliftsupport@bitsbybaker.com.
All of this is stored in the app's own database on your device. It is never sent to me, and it is never sent to anyone else:
If you delete the app, all of it is deleted with it. It is included in your iPhone backups, which are yours and are covered by Apple's privacy policy, not this one.
The app is completely usable without any of this. You never have to pick a username, and nothing below happens until you do.
Choosing a username publishes it, and only it, so friends can find you. Your real name is not published. Usernames are stored in a public database that Apple operates as part of iCloud, called CloudKit, in an area belonging to this app.
If you turn on sharing, the app publishes, for each ranked lift: the exercise name, your estimated one-rep max, your best set's rep count, and the set it came from, for example 225 × 5.
If you choose pound-for-pound instead, it publishes a single ratio and nothing else. Never both. Your bodyweight itself is never published in either mode, because a ratio published beside the numbers it came from would give your bodyweight away exactly. That is why the two modes cannot be on at the same time.
Turning sharing off removes what was published.
You can send a friend a workout, ask them for one, or propose a time to train together. Those messages contain who sent it, who it is for, and either a workout (its name, its exercises and how many sets each) or a date and time. There is no way to type a message to another person in this app. There is no free-text field anywhere in that feature, by design. Messages are removed automatically about 30 days after they are sent.
If you report someone, the app records the username you reported, your username, and the reason you wrote, so I can act on it. Reports are readable only by you and by me.
Open Profile and use Delete my profile. It removes your username, your published numbers and your messages from the public database, and frees the username for someone else. Your workouts, food and weigh-ins are untouched, because they were never part of it. They stay on your iPhone.
The app can photograph a nutrition label and read the numbers off it. That happens entirely on your iPhone using Apple's built-in text recognition. The photo is not uploaded, not sent to any service, and not saved. The app reads the numbers, fills in the form, and the image is gone.
The app shows one banner, served by Google AdMob. It is how a free app with no subscription pays for itself. Everything below is what actually happens, rather than what a privacy policy usually says about advertising.
To decide which ad to show and to count that it was shown, Google's software receives from your device: your device model and iOS version, your rough region, your language, the fact that it was this app asking, and, only if you allow it, Apple's advertising identifier, which is a number iOS gives to apps and which you can reset or switch off at any time in Settings. Google's own description of this is in its Business Data Responsibility and partner sites pages.
Nothing you log. Not a workout, not a set, not a weight, not a food, not your username, not your friends. The advertising code has no access to the app's database and is never handed anything out of it. It is a rectangle at the bottom of the screen with no view into the rest of the app.
The first time it matters, iOS asks whether Log My Lift may track you across other companies' apps and websites. Say no and nothing follows you. You still get a banner, it is just chosen without knowing anything about you. Nothing in the app is withheld, nagged for, or degraded because you declined. You can change the answer later in Settings → Privacy & Security → Tracking, and you can turn tracking off for every app at once in the same place.
iOS 14.5 and later require that prompt before any app may use the advertising identifier. If you have already told iOS to refuse all tracking, the prompt does not appear and the answer is no.
The shared parts of the app run on Apple's CloudKit. Apple stores those records and, to keep the feature honest, tells the app which iCloud account created a record so that nobody can send a message pretending to be your friend. That identifier is meaningless outside this app and is not linked to your name or email. Apple's handling of it is covered by Apple's privacy policy.
Log My Lift is not directed at children under 13 and does not knowingly collect anything from them. The advertising is configured to treat this app as unsuitable for child-directed ad content.
If what the app does with data changes, this page changes with it, and the date at the top changes too. Anything significant, advertising in particular, will be described here before it ships.
Questions, corrections, or a request to remove something: logmyliftsupport@bitsbybaker.com. It is one person reading these, so please allow a few days.