Privacy Policy

Tally is a budgeting app for iPhone and Mac. Everything in it is typed in by you: amounts, dates, category names, the shop a purchase came from, notes, tags, and any debts you choose to track. There is no bank connection and none is planned.

That information is stored in a database on your device. If you are signed in to iCloud, it is also stored in your own private iCloud account, so it is available on your other Apple devices.

None of it is sent to the developer. Tally has no server, no account to create, no analytics, no advertising, and no third-party software development kits of any kind. There is nowhere for your budget to go except your device and your own iCloud.

None. Apple defines collection as data transmitted to the developer. No data is transmitted to the developer, so nothing is collected, stored, sold, shared, or used for advertising or profiling. Tally does not track you across apps or websites and contains no tracking technology.

Tally lets you share one budget with one other person — a household budget for two. Sharing uses Apple's iCloud sharing: you send an invitation, and once it is accepted, that person can see and edit everything in the shared budget, including transaction descriptions and notes. The invitation and the shared records are handled by Apple, not by the developer. You can stop sharing at any time from within the app, which removes their access.

When your budget changes on one device, Apple's servers send a silent signal to your other devices so they can fetch the change. The signal itself carries no budget content and is handled by Apple under its own privacy policy. Any notification you see is written on your device from data already on it.

Tally can add a transaction or report what is left to budget through Siri and the Shortcuts app. Those requests are handled on your device. Anything you say to Siri is processed by Apple under Apple's privacy policy, not by Tally. Widgets read a small summary file stored on your device and never send it anywhere.

You can export your budget as a JSON or CSV file, and import one. Files you export are saved wherever you choose to put them, and from that point they are outside Tally's control — a file placed in a cloud folder is subject to that service's terms. Files you import are read on your device.

Your budget is kept for as long as you keep the app. There is no server-side copy for the developer to retain or delete.

Laws such as the GDPR and the CCPA give you rights to access, correct, export and delete personal information a company holds about you. The developer holds none, so there is nothing to request: your data is already in your hands, and the export and deletion steps above give you access, portability and erasure directly. Data held in your iCloud account is subject to Apple's privacy policy and to Apple's own process for such requests. Tally does not sell or share personal information, and there is nothing to opt out of.