Privacy policy
Last updated: September 4, 2026
Sphere draws your day on the sun's arc. It is made by Mason Garcera d/b/a Smidgecraft, it has no account, and there is no server of ours anywhere in it.
The short version
- No account, no sign-in, no ads, no analytics, no trackers.
- Your calendar is read on your device and never sent anywhere.
- One thing leaves: a coordinate rounded to about a kilometre, so a public weather service can say what the sky is doing.
- If you send feedback, what you wrote is emailed to one person.
Your calendar
Sphere asks for calendar access so it can lay your events along the day and let you add and edit them without leaving the app. It reads events only — never reminders — and it reads the title, the times, and the colour of the calendar each one came from. It does not read notes, locations, attendees or invitations.
Events are read into memory to draw with, and the only copy kept is a small summary your widgets read, stored in Sphere's own container on your device. That summary holds the times and colours of today's events and the title of the next one, which is what the widget prints. If you have widgets on your Lock Screen, that title is visible to anyone holding your phone — the same as any other calendar widget.
No part of your calendar is ever transmitted. If you refuse calendar access, Sphere still draws the day; there is simply nothing on it.
Where you are
The arc is the sun's path for a particular place, so Sphere asks for your location while you are using it. It asks once, at about a kilometre's accuracy, and keeps no history — only the most recent fix, and only for as long as the app is running. You can also type a place instead, in which case that place is remembered on your device.
Two things follow from asking. Your device sends the fix to Apple to turn it into a place name, and typing in the place field sends what you type to Apple to suggest matches; both are handled by Apple's own services under Apple's privacy policy. And Sphere sends a coordinate to Open-Meteo , a public weather service, to fetch the forecast the sky is drawn from. That coordinate is rounded to two decimal places — about a kilometre — before it is sent, and it goes on its own: no name, no identifier, no device information, nothing from your calendar. Refuse location and Sphere falls back to a default city.
If you send feedback
The menu has a feedback form. It is the only other place Sphere sends anything anywhere, and only when you tap Send. What goes is what you wrote, the mood you picked if you picked one, your email address if you chose to give one so a reply can reach you, and the app version, device model and iOS version so a bug report makes sense. It is delivered as an email by Formspree , a form-to-email service, and it is read by one person. Nothing about your calendar or your location is included, and the form is never sent on its own.
What Sphere stores, and where
Your settings, which calendars you have hidden, a place you typed if you typed one, and the summary your widgets read. All of it lives on your device, in Sphere's own storage. Like any app's settings, it is included in your device backups if you make them.
What Sphere doesn't do
- No analytics, no crash reporting, no advertising, no tracking of any kind.
- No third-party SDKs. Sphere is built from Apple's frameworks and nothing else.
- No advertising identifier, and no tracking prompt, because there is nothing to track.
- No account, no profile, no data sold or shared. There is nobody to sell it to.
- No in-app purchases and no subscription.
Children
Sphere is not directed at children and collects nothing that could identify anyone, of any age.
Changes
If this policy changes, the date at the top changes with it, and anything that alters what leaves your device will be said plainly rather than folded into a paragraph.