Privacy-first baby tracking: what it actually means
Your baby generates a lot of sensitive data. Here is exactly what Plumi does — and does not — do with it.
When you track a baby, you’re recording some of the most sensitive information there is: feeding and sleep patterns, growth measurements, health events, photos of your child. It’s worth asking where all of that actually goes.
For a lot of apps, the honest answer is: to their servers, and sometimes to third parties. We built Plumi to give a different answer.
On-device by default
When you log something in Plumi, it’s saved on your phone. That’s it. There’s no Plumi account, no sign-up, and no server quietly collecting your baby’s data in the background.
You can use the entire app — logging, growth charts, checklists, milestones — without ever connecting to the internet. It works in airplane mode, in a basement nursery, on a flight.
No analytics, no ads, no selling
We don’t bundle third-party analytics SDKs. We don’t show ads. And we don’t sell, rent, or share your data with anyone. There’s no business model hiding in your baby’s nap schedule.
What about backup?
Some families want their baby’s data backed up safely, or on more than one device. So Plumi offers an optional iCloud backup.
The key word is optional:
- It’s off by default.
- It uses your own private iCloud account, not our servers.
- You turn it on only if you want it.
Your backup lives in Apple’s iCloud the same way your photos and notes do — encrypted, and tied to your Apple ID, not to us.
What about syncing across devices?
The one feature that reaches our servers is Pro sync and partner sharing — so your iPhone and iPad stay in step, and your partner can keep the same record from their own phone.
Here’s how we keep it tight:
- It’s off by default, and only on if you subscribe and turn it on.
- It’s end-to-end encrypted: your data is encrypted on your device with a key that never leaves your devices, so our servers only ever hold ciphertext we can’t read.
- Everything else stays on your phone.
If you never turn on sync, nothing ever leaves your device.
Your data, your call
We think privacy shouldn’t be a premium feature or a buried setting. It should be the default, and it should be the boring, obvious truth about how an app works.
With Plumi, what you track is yours. You can export it, you can delete it, and you never have to wonder who else is reading it.
Have questions about how we handle data? Read our Privacy Policy or email us any time at privacy@plumi.app.