Why an account is a strange thing to ask for here
A record of when a person needed to calm down, how often, and at what time of day is unusually revealing — more revealing than most of what people worry about handing over. Tacet's answer is not to secure that record well. It is not to create it.
There is nothing to sign up for, which means there is no password to leak, no email list to be sold or breached, and no profile to be joined to anything else later.
What stays on the phone
- Your streak and which days you practised.
- The session length you used last.
- Your vibration strength and screen preference.
- Your reminder time, if you set one.
- How many free sessions remain this week.
None of it is uploaded, and none of it is tied to a person, because the app does not know who you are.
What leaves the phone, stated rather than assumed
Tacet collects anonymous usage statistics — the kind that answer "did people finish their sessions" and "which screen loses them" — so the app can be fixed where it is actually broken. It never collects your name, your location, or anything that identifies you, because it never asks for any of it. The privacy policy lists what is collected rather than leaving you to infer it, and it is written to be read.
Purchases are handled by the App Store and Google Play, not by us: we never see a card number, and a subscription is restored on a new device through the store's own record rather than through an account we hold.
Discretion is a design constraint, not a policy page
Privacy from companies is one half of it. Privacy from the people in the room with you is the other, and it is the half most apps ignore:
- The screen goes dark for the whole session, so nothing is visible over your shoulder.
- There is no audio at all, so nothing is audible next to you.
- The name and the icon are deliberately plain — a glance at your home screen says nothing about you.
- The optional reminder carries the app name and a neutral line, and nothing else, so a lock screen seen by a colleague reveals nothing personal.
You can complete an entire session with no sound, no visible screen and no outward sign — and explain nothing afterwards.
Free, without the usual trade
Three sessions a week are free at full length with the whole mechanic, and the free tier costs you no account and no trial timer. It is not funded by knowing more about you; unlimited sessions are a subscription, which is the entire business model and is stated as plainly as this.