Effective date: September 13, 2026
Tinnitus Diary is built and maintained by Mohamed Hosam (referred to below as "I," "me," or "the developer"). This page explains, in plain language, exactly what the app does and doesn't do with your information.
The short version: your journal is yours alone — it stays on your device, and also in your own private iCloud if you turn on sync. I don't run a server that stores it. There is no account. There are no ads and no ad-network trackers. I cannot see what you enter and I do not want to. The app does send usage statistics — which screens get opened, whether a purchase succeeded — so I can tell what to fix and what to build next. Nothing from your journal is part of that, and no name, email or Apple ID is attached, because the app never learns them. Section 4 says exactly what is sent and what it is tied to.
When you use Tinnitus Diary, the app saves the following information locally on your device, and also in your own iCloud if you turn on sync:
That is everything. The app does not collect your name, email address, phone number, contacts, photos, browsing history, or advertising identifier, and it asks iOS for no location — none of this is in the usage statistics described in section 4 either.
On your device, and in your own iCloud if you turn on sync. All entries are saved locally using Apple's SwiftData framework, in the app's sandboxed storage on your iPhone.
Tinnitus Diary offers optional iCloud sync. It is off until you turn it on — the app asks once, and you can change your answer any time in Settings. When sync is on, your entries, symptoms, triggers, medications and pitch-match result are stored in your own private iCloud database, so they appear on every device signed in to your Apple ID and where you've turned sync on — each device answers the prompt (or the Settings toggle) for itself, so turning sync on on one device does not turn it on anywhere else. This data is held in your personal iCloud account under Apple's terms; I operate no server and have no ability to read it. If you turn sync off, that device stops syncing and keeps the data it already has, and the copy already in iCloud is left in place so your other devices do not lose anything — you can remove it yourself from iOS Settings → your name → iCloud → Manage Account Storage. Export and Import remain available whether or not sync is on.
The app's pitch-matching tones and masking sounds — white noise, pink noise, brown noise, rain, ocean, fan, and your personalized notched-noise track — are generated mathematically on your device in real time. No audio is streamed, downloaded, or recorded.
The app never accesses your microphone.
To play audio, the app requests an audio session from iOS using the standard playback category. This is how every audio app on iOS works and does not transmit anything off your device.