Morning — Privacy Policy

Effective 29 July 2026

Morning is an alarm clock. It has no accounts and no servers of its own. Almost everything it knows about you never leaves your phone. The one exception — the morning briefing — is described below in full.

What stays on your device

Morning has no user accounts and no backend. These live only on your phone, are never transmitted, and are deleted when you uninstall the app:

• Alarms, snooze settings, and the sounds you pick
• The notes you write for your morning self, and their history
• Your wake streak, wake history, badges, and challenge times
• Calendar events read for the morning briefing — read at the moment they are shown, never copied off the device
• A summary of notifications that arrived overnight, if you enable that feature — counted and shown on the device, never transmitted
• App settings and permission states

What leaves your device

Two things use the internet: the morning briefing, and — only while you leave it switched on — anonymous diagnostics.

• Weather — if you tap “Enable location”, your approximate coordinates are sent to Open-Meteo (open-meteo.com) to fetch the current conditions for where you are. Morning does not store them.
• Local news — those same coordinates are sent to BigDataCloud (bigdatacloud.net) to turn them into a city name, so headlines can be local. Morning does not store them.
• News headlines — fetched from public RSS feeds (Google News, BBC, Reuters). As with any web request, those providers can see your device’s IP address.
• Crash reports and usage counts — if “Help improve Morning” is on (Settings), anonymous crash reports and counts of things like alarms set and mornings earned are sent to Google Firebase, so alarms that fail can be found and fixed. No account, no advertising ID, and never anything you typed: not your notes, not your alarm labels. Turn it off in Settings and nothing is sent.

No identifier of any kind is attached to the three briefing requests above: no account, no advertising ID, no device ID. Morning cannot connect them back to you, and neither can we — we never see them at all, because they travel from your phone to those services directly.

If you never enable location, no coordinates are ever sent. With the morning briefing unused and “Help improve Morning” off, Morning makes no network requests at all.

Permissions we ask for, and why

• Alarms & reminders / exact alarms — so your alarm fires at the exact minute you set.
• Notifications — the ringing alarm, the wake-up check, a nightly reminder if tomorrow has no alarm, and warnings when a permission breaks.
• Ignore battery optimizations — so your phone doesn’t silence the alarm to save battery.
• Do Not Disturb access — so the alarm rings through DND.
• Display over other apps (optional) — lets the alarm take over the screen even while you’re using the phone.
• Location, approximate (optional) — only for the weather and local news in the morning briefing. See “What leaves your device” above.
• Calendar (optional) — to show your next events in the morning briefing. Read on the device; never uploaded.
• Notification access (optional) — to summarise what arrived while you slept. Read on the device; never uploaded.
• Camera (optional) — only if you choose the QR-scan or photo-pair dismissal challenges; images are processed on-device and never stored.
• NFC (optional) — only for the NFC-tag dismissal challenge.

Every permission marked optional can be refused, and Morning keeps working as an alarm clock without it.

Children

Morning is not directed at children, and we do not knowingly collect anything from them.

Purchases

Premium is offered as a subscription processed entirely by Google Play. We never see or store your payment details.

Changes

If a future version ever collects anything else, this policy will say so explicitly before that version ships, and the app’s Play listing data-safety section will be updated to match.

Who we are

Morning is made by 212Studio.

Contact

Questions: 212helps@gmail.com