Privacy policy
Last updated October 21, 2026
Bunchly is built so that your family's information stays yours. Most of it never leaves your iPhone, and what does leave is locked so that we can't read it. There are no ads, no tracking and no analytics in Bunchly, and we never sell or share your information.
What stays on your iPhone
- Your family: names, birthdays, allergies, routines, reminders, notes, meals and lists.
- Your calendars, read from the calendars you choose on your iPhone.
- Apple Fitness activity rings, read from the Health app to show on Today. Bunchly never writes to Health.
- Your location. Bunchly uses it on your iPhone to show the weather, work out when to leave, and notice when you're at a store that has reminders waiting.
- The morning brief and other suggestions, written by Apple Intelligence on your iPhone. Nothing is sent to an AI service.
Sharing with your family, babysitters and groups
When you share Bunchly with your family, a babysitter or grandparent, or a group like a trip, each change is locked (end-to-end encrypted) on your iPhone with a key that only the phones you invited have. Our server stores the locked copies so the other phones can pick them up. We can't read them.
To pass changes along, the server does see a random ID for each phone (no name, email or phone number),
which groups that ID belongs to, the size and time of each change, and your internet address. Invite links
carry the key after the #, which browsers and apps never send to a server. The server keeps only
a scrambled form of each invite code, and every invite expires after 48 hours.
Babysitters and grandparents get a separate key and see only what helpers need: names and allergies, the routine, emergency contacts, planned meals, notes marked for caregivers, and reminders that aren't a parent's.
When you stop sharing, your phone leaves the group. When the last person leaves, everything stored for that group is deleted from the server.
Daycares, schools and clubs you follow
If you follow an organizer with their code, Bunchly downloads their public posts. Following doesn't tell the organizer, or us, who you are.
Organizers who post updates sign in with their email address. We keep that email and the organizer's name, city, website, phone and posts, and show the posts to families who have their code.
Apple and other services
- Weather comes from Apple Weather, which receives your approximate location.
- Maps searches (restaurant ideas, nearby stores) go to Apple Maps.
- Calendar links you add, like a school's calendar, are downloaded from that address.
- Restaurant links to Yelp, Google, Tripadvisor or Reddit open their sites, where their own privacy policies apply.
- Our server runs on Supabase in the United States.
Children
Kids don't have accounts in Bunchly. Parents add kids' details, which stay on the family's phones and in the locked copies described above.
Your choices
- You can turn off location, calendars, Health and notifications for Bunchly at any time in Settings on your iPhone.
- Deleting Bunchly removes everything it stored on that iPhone.
- To have something deleted from our server, or with any question, email hello@bunchly.app.
Changes
If this policy changes, we'll update the date at the top. If a change affects what leaves your iPhone, we'll tell you in the app first.