Your data and privacy
Your training stays on your devices and in your own iCloud. The app has no account and no ads. It connects to the internet for iCloud sync, purchases, crash reports, the programs and workouts you share, the session reports you send, and usage analytics if you turn them on.
What the app keeps
Your training data lives in the app, on your iPhone or iPad:
- Your sessions: the count, when each jump landed, your heart-rate readings, the rounds, the rope you held, the calories and the weight they came from.
- Your ropes, your workouts and folders, and your programs with where you are in them.
- Your settings, such as your weight, units, paired strap, voice and weekly goal.
- Your badges, worked out from your sessions. The app only remembers which ones you’ve already seen.
To count your jumps, the app reads your headphones’ head motion during a session. It does that on your device. It keeps the jumps it counted and, for your last five headphone sessions, the motion itself, so you can send one in a session report. That motion stays on the device that recorded it.
None of it is sent to us or to anyone else, unless you share a program or a workout, or send a session report. Your iCloud keeps a copy for your other devices, which we can’t read: see iCloud sync.
Without Pro, Progress › Sessions lists your last 14 days. Older sessions are hidden, never deleted, and Pro shows them all.
On Apple Watch
The Watch keeps its own settings and its own paired strap. Finished sessions with counted jumps are sent to Progress on the paired iPhone and saved to Apple Health when allowed. Separately, if you share usage analytics, the activity events described below pass through the iPhone to PostHog; they contain no session measurements.
What leaves the app
These features send data outside the app:
- Apple Health, if you connect it, gets your sessions as workouts, with their calories and heart rate. The app reads your weight from it. See Apple Health.
- Purchases go through Apple. The app never sees your payment details.
- If you turn on Settings › Share usage analytics, PostHog measures onboarding steps, session starts and ends, selected feature actions, AI setup shortcuts, imports, saves, weekly goal choices, reminders turned on and opened, technical error categories and Pro purchases/restores. A goal choice carries the number of sessions a week and where you set it, never your reminder days or time. Events include timestamps, action categories, iPhone/Watch, Pro status when known, app/device information and a random installation identifier. Purchase attempts also include the displayed price and currency. Watch events pass through the paired iPhone. No session measurements, Apple Health data, custom names, program contents, import links, AI prompts or raw errors are sent. Screen recording, automatic interaction capture and location enrichment are disabled. The switch stays off until you turn it on. The app asks you once, after onboarding, and nothing is sent until you say yes. Your choice covers your paired Watch, and turning it off stops the sending. Events already sent stay in PostHog.
- Sentry receives technical crash reports from the iPhone app: stack traces, failure details, app version/build, device and OS information, and app-session diagnostics associated with a random installation identifier. Reports are processed in the United States. We do not attach workout or Apple Health data, screen recordings, screenshots, interaction histories, network requests, or custom user profiles. Reports already sent are stored separately from local app data.
- A session picture leaves when you share it. See shared pictures.
- A program or a workout leaves when you share it, as a copy this site keeps. See shared programs and workouts.
- A session report leaves when you send it. See session reports.
- Copy app & device info, at the foot of Settings, puts the app’s version, your iPhone’s model and its iOS version on the clipboard, for a support message. It goes only where you paste it.
Permissions
iOS asks your permission before the app uses each of these:
| Permission | What for |
|---|---|
| Motion & Fitness | Counting your jumps from your headphones’ head motion |
| Bluetooth | Reading your heart-rate strap |
| Apple Health | Reading your weight and saving your sessions |
| Photos, add only | Saving a session picture to your library. The app can’t see your photos. |
| Notifications | Reminders toward your weekly goal, if you turn them on. They’re planned on your device. |
You can turn any of them off in the Settings app, under Privacy & Security.
iCloud sync
When your iPhone and your iPad are signed in to the same Apple Account with iCloud, the app keeps them the same: your sessions, ropes, workouts and folders, and your programs with where you are in them. Your training settings come along too: units, the weight you typed, the program you follow, the rope in hand, session and voice settings, your weekly goal, and the badges you’ve already seen. A session saved on one device shows up on the others shortly after, and a session you delete leaves all of them. Sessions from your Apple Watch reach your iPhone first, then your other devices.
Each device keeps its own appearance, language, analytics choice, Apple Health connection, paired strap and reminders.
The copy lives in your iCloud, where we can’t see it, and it counts toward your iCloud storage. In the app, the iCloud row in Settings says where sync stands: Up to date, Syncing…, Not signed in to iCloud or iCloud storage is full.
Without iCloud, everything stays on the device. If you sign out of iCloud, what the app synced leaves that device too, and comes back when you sign in again.
Backups
Like any app’s data, it’s also part of your device’s backup, in iCloud or on your computer. Restore that backup on a new iPhone and your sessions come back, even without iCloud sync.
Delete your data
To delete one session, swipe left on it in Progress › Sessions and tap Delete, or open it and tap Delete session. A sheet asks you to confirm with Delete session. If Apple Health is connected, the session’s workout, calories and heart rate leave Apple Health too. See deleting a session.
Deleting the app removes what it kept on that device. Your iCloud keeps its copy for your other devices, and for when you install the app again. To delete that copy too, open the Settings app, tap your name, then iCloud, and delete the app’s data from the list of what uses your iCloud storage. What the app saved in Apple Health stays there until you delete it in the Health app. Analytics already sent to PostHog are stored separately.
Shared pictures
A picture leaves the app only when you share it, and it carries nothing beyond what it shows.
- Story shows the app’s name, the session’s name and date, your count and pace, the time, your best run, then your average heart rate and your calories when the session has them. It ends with jumpropeprotocol.app.
- Full report shows the session’s whole report, with its charts, the rope you held, what counted your jumps and the strap that read your heart rate.
In apps that take text, like Messages or Mail, the picture comes with one line: “Every jump counted by Jump Rope Protocol: https://jumpropeprotocol.app/s”. That link is the same for everyone and says nothing about you.
Shared programs and workouts
When you share a program or a workout, the app sends a copy of it to jumpropeprotocol.app, which keeps it so the link works. The copy holds the name, the weeks, and each session’s day, name and settings. Nothing about you goes with it: no session, no account, no device.
Anyone with the link can see the copy, on the site or in the app. Sharing the same program again gives the same link, and changes you make later don’t reach it. To have a copy you shared deleted, write to support@jumpropeprotocol.app with its link.
When you open a link someone shared, the app reads the copy from the site. Nothing is kept until you save it.
Session reports
A session report leaves only when you tap Send report. It holds the motion your headphones recorded during that session, its timeline (jumps, pauses, phases, audio and app changes), its settings, your headphones’ model (never the name you gave them), your note and jump count if you give them, the app’s version and language, your iPhone’s model and its iOS version. It holds no account, email address, heart rate or Apple Health data.
This site keeps it until a week after we download it, 90 days at most, and a summary with your note goes to our private Discord channel. It’s used only to fix counting. To have one deleted sooner, send us its code. See Send us a session that went wrong.
The AI connector
When your AI writes a program or a workout through the connector, it comes back inside a link. On the site’s import page, it sits after the # in the link. Browsers never send that part to a server, so the site never receives what your AI wrote. The connector keeps nothing either.
The app never talks to the connector. A program or a workout reaches the app only when you open the link on your iPhone and save it in the editor or the creator. See Connect your AI.
Privacy policy
The privacy policy has every detail, this website included. It also opens from the app: Settings › Privacy policy.