Scope
This policy covers the Worry Later app for iPhone, its widget and Control Center control, and the Worry Later pages on synapsecore.ai. Worry Later is a self-awareness tool, not a medical service, diagnostic system, treatment, emergency resource, or substitute for a qualified professional.
What the app stores on your iPhone
Your worries
Each worry can include an identifier, the date you put it down, an optional date it happened, your original words, how heavy it felt from 0 to 10, your two revisit answers (whether you can act on it or it is a what-if, and whether worrying gave you a next step or kept you circling), an optional note, and the date you revisited it. These are kept in the app’s local database.
Your worry plan
During setup you can answer a few questions: a first name, how often and when worries show up, what they tend to be about, how you usually respond, how they affect your sleep, your usual bedtime, how many worries you expect to come true, and your goal. Worry Later uses these answers on the device to suggest a daily worry time and length. The answers, your plan, and your reminder setting are stored in the app’s local settings. The name is optional and only used to address you in the app.
Emergency contact
If you choose to save an emergency contact in Help, its name and phone number are stored locally. Calling it hands the number to your iPhone’s Phone app.
App state
The app also stores small settings such as whether setup is complete, whether a rating request has already been shown, and whether you have access from an earlier version of the app.
Worry time reminders
If you turn on reminders, Worry Later schedules a local notification with iOS for your daily worry time. The notification shows how many worries are waiting and how long your worry time lasts. It never includes the text of a worry. Reminders are scheduled on the device, not sent from a server, and you can turn them off in the app or in iOS Settings.
Widget and Control Center
The Lock Screen widget and Control Center control only open Worry Later so you can put a worry down. They do not display or store your worries.
Locking and hiding the app
Worry Later covers its content whenever it leaves the foreground, so worries do not appear in the app switcher. You can also require Face ID for the app using Apple’s system app lock (touch and hold the app icon, then choose Require Face ID). Face ID is handled entirely by iOS; Worry Later never receives biometric data.
Subscriptions and purchases
Worry Later offers auto-renewing subscriptions. Purchases, renewals, cancellations, and refunds are processed by Apple through the App Store; SynapseCore never receives your payment details or Apple Account information. The app reads Apple-signed purchase status on the device to unlock features and keeps a protected local copy of that status in the iOS Keychain so it keeps working offline. SynapseCore does not operate a purchase, account, or receipt server. Manage or cancel subscriptions in your Apple Account settings.
People who used Worry Later before subscriptions were introduced keep access to the worries they already saved.
Ratings
Worry Later may ask whether you would like to rate the app using Apple’s standard rating prompt. Apple decides whether the prompt is shown and handles any rating or review you submit. SynapseCore does not learn how you responded unless you publish a review on the App Store.
Data from earlier versions
Earlier versions of Worry Later offered an optional on-device Patterns feature. If you used it, any Pattern data it created stays on your iPhone. Worry Later 1.1 does not create new Pattern data and does not send it anywhere.
Backups and device protection
Worry Later uses Apple’s complete file-protection class, so its data is encrypted while your iPhone is locked. App data may be included in your normal encrypted iPhone backup according to your Apple backup settings. SynapseCore cannot access or restore that backup.
CSV export
You can export your worries as a CSV file from Settings. It contains the worry fields listed above, including your notes. It does not contain your worry plan, onboarding answers, or emergency contact. After export, the file is controlled by the destination you choose.
Deleting your data
- Delete any individual worry from its detail screen.
- Turn off worry time reminders at any time.
- Delete the app to remove all of its data from your iPhone. Copies may remain in earlier iPhone backups you control.
Collection, analytics, and tracking
Worry Later contains no developer-operated backend, behavioral analytics, advertising SDK, or cross-app tracking, and it does not make network requests to SynapseCore. SynapseCore does not collect worries, notes, onboarding answers, contacts, usage events, device identifiers, or diagnostics through the app. Information processed only on the device is not collected by SynapseCore. If you choose to share crash reports or app analytics with developers in iOS Settings, Apple provides SynapseCore with aggregated, anonymized reports under Apple’s own privacy terms; they do not contain your worries.
Children
Worry Later is not directed at children under 13, and SynapseCore does not knowingly collect personal information from anyone, including children.
Website and support email
This website uses no analytics, advertising trackers, contact forms, or marketing cookies. It is delivered through Firebase Hosting, whose infrastructure may process standard network information such as an IP address to securely deliver the site and prevent abuse.
Email sent to support is handled by our email provider only to respond to and document your request. Please do not include private worries unless necessary. Support correspondence is kept only as long as needed for support or legal obligations; you may request deletion.
Changes
If Worry Later’s data practices change, this policy and the App Store privacy details will be updated before the change ships, and the effective date above will change.
Questions
Email support@synapsecore.ai with a privacy question or support-correspondence deletion request.