Back to Gym privacy policy

Effective Fri 6 Nov 2026. This page: https://backtogym.app/privacy

Back to Gym is published by Sushanth Ramesh. In this policy "we" means Sushanth Ramesh.

The short version

• We don't collect your data. Back to Gym has no account, no server, no analytics, no ads and no tracking.
• Your profile and your log stay on your iPhone.
• Apple Health is optional. Back to Gym reads steps, weight, sleep and heart rate, and saves workouts, weight, waist, water and protein.
• The free 28 days and the unlock are App Store purchases. Apple handles the payment, and the app checks what you've bought on your iPhone.
• You can export everything, and you can delete it.

What we collect

Nothing. We can't see your profile, your log or your Health data.

• No account. You don't sign up or sign in.
• No server. Back to Gym makes no network requests of its own. The program, the food lists, the packaged-food list for barcodes and the exercise drawings are built into the app. Only Apple's App Store is reached, by Apple's own purchase code (StoreKit), when the app checks your purchases or you start your free days, buy the unlock, restore purchases or redeem a code.
• No analytics, crash reporting, ads or tracking. The app has no third-party code (SDKs). Its privacy manifest declares no tracking and no collected data.

Four things can still reach us or someone else, and only if you choose them:

• Email. If you write to support@backtogym.app, we get your address and what you send. We use it only to answer you and fix what you report.
• Apple's reports. If you agreed to share with app developers (Settings → Privacy & Security → Analytics & Improvements), Apple may send us crash reports and usage statistics. If you test Back to Gym through TestFlight, feedback and screenshots you send reach us through Apple. These come from Apple under Apple's privacy policy, not from code in Back to Gym.
• Purchases. Apple's sales reports tell us how many people started the free days or bought the unlock, and in which countries. They don't tell us who.
• Links. Food → Food guide links to USDA FoodData Central, the Open Government Licence, Open Food Facts and the Open Database License, the sources of the food values and their licences. Plan → Settings → Help and privacy links to this policy and the support page on backtogym.app, and to our support address. Tapping a link opens your browser, or your mail app for the address. The food sources' sites have their own policies.

What Back to Gym keeps on your iPhone

• Your profile: age, sex, height, start and goal weight, pace, waist, estimated maintenance calories, your calorie goal (lose, keep your weight or gain) and the days you switched it, diet, gym time, meal times, your daily targets, starting weights, the kit your gym has, where you train, your program and the days you switched it, your session length and the exercise versions you marked Prefer this or Rather not. Every field is optional.
• Your answers to the setup questions: your goal and a date to aim for, your training history, the days and time you have, the health questions and when you said your doctor gave the OK, joints that hurt or old injuries and the exercises you chose to see anyway, why you stopped before and why now, how sure you are, the question about food, and whether calorie numbers and your weight are hidden. Every answer is optional.
• Your food life: what you mostly eat (Indian, international or both), food allergies, foods you'd rather not eat, your fasting days and how you fast, each with your own words if you add them. Every answer is optional.
• Your training log: each session's readiness answer (good to go, sore, or slept badly / run down), sets, reps, weights, effort, cardio and notes.
• Your daily check-in: weight, steps, sleep, water, walk minutes and the food you log, a day you mark as a fasting day, and the meals you swap in the week's plan.
• Your weekly check-in and checks: the four ratings (energy, hunger, stress, soreness) and the one change you pick each week, and the waist, chair stand and push-up counts you measure. Each one optional.
• Saved meals: the meals you save in Food, with their foods and amounts.
• Your packaged foods: the name, barcode and values of any pack you enter from its label when a scan finds nothing or the values look wrong.
• Settings: reminder times, weigh-in days, the protein check amount, when your calorie target last changed, and the rest timer's sound and vibration.
• Switches for Apple Health, each reminder and numbers on the Lock Screen, the day you last tapped Not now on a calorie suggestion or a plan suggestion (or Keep, or Keep going), the day you last answered what's getting in the way, and what you've ticked on the shopping list.
• What the widgets show, in a small file of its own: see "Widgets, Siri and Shortcuts" below.
• Your purchases as last read: the day your free days started and whether you've unlocked, so the app knows where you stand before the App Store answers. See "The free days and the unlock" below.

It's kept in the app's own storage on the iPhone, in two databases. Your daily check-in, your weekly check-in and checks, your saved meals and packaged foods, your profile's body measurements (age, sex, height, start and goal weight, pace, waist, estimated maintenance calories and your calorie goal with its switches), your health answers (the health questions and your doctor's OK, joints and injuries and the exercises shown anyway, why you stopped and why now, how sure you are, the question about food and the switches that hide calorie numbers and your weight) and your food life (what you mostly eat, allergies, foods you'd rather not eat, fasting days) are in one that never syncs.

iCloud. Back to Gym doesn't sync through iCloud. Nothing it stores goes to iCloud through the app.

Backups. If you back up your iPhone to iCloud or to a computer, the backup includes Back to Gym's data, as it does for most apps. Apple and your computer handle those backups. We can't read them.

The free days and the unlock

Everything is free for 28 days, then logging sessions and food needs a one-time unlock. Both are App Store purchases: the 28 days are a free one, the unlock a paid one.

• Apple handles the payment. The app never sees your card, your Apple Account or your name. Apple's privacy policy covers the purchase.
• The app checks your purchases on your iPhone, from the record Apple signs for each one (StoreKit 2), and tells no one. There's no receipt server and no purchase service of ours or anyone else's.
• It keeps the last record it read (the day your free days started and whether you've unlocked) in the app's own storage, so the right screen shows at launch. It isn't in your log or your exports, and deleting the app removes it.
• People who used the app before it was in the App Store are unlocked without paying. The app sees that from the dates its own databases stored your records on, read on your iPhone.
• Family Sharing: if someone in your family group bought the unlock, Apple tells the app on your iPhone that you can use it.
• Restore purchases and Redeem a code (Plan → Settings → Purchases) open Apple's own screens.

That's why the App Store label says "Data Not Collected": nothing about your purchases reaches us from the app.

Apple Health

Apple Health is optional. Back to Gym asks in setup, or when you tap Connect Apple Health in Plan → Settings. Apple's permission sheet lets you allow or refuse each type.

What Back to Gym reads

• Steps, weight and sleep, to fill in today's and yesterday's check-in: steps so far, the day's first weigh-in, and the night's sleep. They're saved in your check-in on the iPhone.
• Heart rate, the average and highest during your cardio, shown on cardio day. It isn't saved.

What Back to Gym saves to Health

• A finished session as a workout: strength training on lifting days, or the cardio machine's activity on cardio day.
• A weight you type in the check-in, or log with Siri or Shortcuts.
• The day's water and protein.
• Your waist, when you enter or change it in your profile. Health asks once whether Back to Gym may save it.

Back to Gym doesn't save calories to Health.

Each entry Back to Gym saves is marked as its own for that day. Changing a value replaces the entry. When a day's weight, water or protein goes back to nothing, or you clear a session, Back to Gym removes the entry it saved. Back to Gym never changes or deletes Health data from other apps.

We don't use Health data for advertising or marketing, and we don't share it with anyone. It leaves your iPhone through Back to Gym only in a file you export yourself.

To change it: Plan → Settings has switches to stop filling the check-in or stop saving to Health on this phone. To change what Back to Gym can read or save, open the Health app, tap your picture, then Apps, then Back to Gym.

Typed meals, photos, barcodes and the camera

Food → Add food can read a meal you type or say, a photo of one, or the barcode on a packet, and suggest foods from the food lists for you to check. It's all read on your iPhone: by Back to Gym's own rules and, on iPhones with Apple Intelligence, by Apple's on-device model. Back to Gym doesn't use Apple's Private Cloud Compute or any online service for this, and nothing you type, say or photograph is sent to us or anyone else.

• Saying a meal uses your keyboard's dictation, which is part of iOS and covered by Apple's privacy policy. Back to Gym gets only the words.
• Taking a photo asks for the camera the first time. Back to Gym uses the camera only when you tap Take a photo.
• Choosing a photo uses the system's photo picker. Back to Gym sees only the photo you pick and can't see the rest of your library.
• Photos aren't kept. A photo is read and then let go. Back to Gym doesn't save it or add it to your library.
• Scanning a barcode uses the camera too, only while the scanner is open. Apple's scanner reads the barcode on your iPhone, and Back to Gym looks it up in the packaged-food lists built into the app (India, the US and the UK). Nothing about what you scan is sent anywhere, and the camera picture isn't kept. A label you enter for a pack stays on this iPhone; it isn't sent to Open Food Facts.

To stop Back to Gym using the camera: Settings → Privacy & Security → Camera.

Reminders and the rest timer

Reminders are notifications your iPhone schedules for itself. No server sends them. There are three: lifting days, weigh-in days and an evening protein check. You can change their times or turn each off in Plan → Settings.

The rest timer sends a notification when your rest is over and shows a Live Activity on the Lock Screen, and in the Dynamic Island on iPhones that have one.

Notifications can show on your Lock Screen. Some include the weight you'll lift first or the protein you've logged so far. To hide their text, go to Settings → Notifications → Back to Gym → Show Previews.

Widgets, Siri and Shortcuts

What the widgets show. Today's session with its first lift and the weight to use, or the cardio or rest day; the phase, with the days left in it and in the block; and the protein you've eaten today, with calories unless you've hidden calorie numbers.

Where that comes from. Widgets can't open Back to Gym's databases, so each time you change something Back to Gym writes a small file with only what the widgets show, for today and the next 13 days. It holds no profile, no body measurements and no log. The file is kept on your iPhone in a storage area that only Back to Gym and its widgets can open (an App Group container). It isn't sent anywhere, and deleting the app removes it. Like the rest of Back to Gym's data, it's included in backups of your iPhone.

Who can see them. Anyone holding your iPhone can read the widgets on its Lock Screen without unlocking it. The same goes for Home Screen widgets you add to Today View (swipe right on the Lock Screen) or that show in StandBy. To keep the numbers off the Lock Screen, turn off Plan → Settings → Widgets → Numbers on the Lock Screen: Lock Screen widgets then show the session and phase, but no weights, protein or calories. To stop Today View opening from the Lock Screen, go to Settings → Face ID & Passcode (or Touch ID & Passcode) → Allow Access When Locked → Today View and Search.

Siri and Shortcuts. Back to Gym adds three actions: Log my weight, Log water and Start today's workout. Log my weight and Log water save to today's check-in, and to Apple Health if Back to Gym saves there, as typing them in does. They ask you to unlock your iPhone first. Start today's workout opens Back to Gym on today's session. Back to Gym gets only the action and the amount. What you say to Siri is handled by Apple, under Apple's privacy policy.

Exporting your data

Exports happen only when you tap one.

• Plan → Your log → Export everything (JSON): your whole log, saved meals, packaged foods you entered, settings and profile.
• Plan → Your log → Export training log (CSV) and Export daily log (CSV).
• Plan → Profile → Export your plan file: your profile, targets, start date and starting weights, with your answers to the setup questions, health answers included.

The share sheet sends the file where you choose. These files hold your health and body details, so anyone you send one to can read them.

Deleting your data

In the app

• A session: Train → Clear this day's session. This also removes the workout Back to Gym saved to Health for that day.
• Food: tap an entry in Food, then Take it out of the log. The day's protein in Health follows what's left.
• A saved meal: Food → Add food, tap the meal, then Delete this meal.
• A check-in value: blank it. For weight and water this also removes the entry Back to Gym saved to Health.
• Your waist or any setup answer: Plan → Profile. Blanking the waist also removes the entry Back to Gym last saved to Health.
• Your gym: Plan → Profile → Your gym → Clear.

There's no button that deletes everything at once.

Delete the app. Deleting Back to Gym from your iPhone removes everything it stored there: your profile, log, saved meals, settings and the widgets' file.

What deleting the app doesn't remove

• What Back to Gym saved to Apple Health. Open the Health app, tap your picture, then Apps, then Back to Gym. From there you can delete the data Back to Gym saved.
• Backups of your iPhone, until they're replaced or you delete them.
• Files you exported. Delete them wherever you saved or sent them.

We hold none of your data, so there's nothing for us to delete. If you emailed us and want that email deleted, ask at support@backtogym.app.

Children

Back to Gym is a training program for adults. It isn't meant for children. If you give an age under 18, setup says the programs aren't made for you and to talk to your doctor first; it doesn't stop you or check your age. It collects no data from anyone, children included.

This website

backtogym.app has no cookies, no scripts, no analytics and no ads, and loads nothing from other sites. Cloudflare hosts it and handles each visit under its own privacy policy, which can include short-lived records of addresses to keep the site secure.

Changes to this policy

If a new version of Back to Gym changes how it handles your data, for example by syncing through iCloud, we'll update this page before that version is released. The date at the top shows when it last changed.

Contact

Questions about this policy: support@backtogym.app.

Help with the app: https://backtogym.app/support.