Privacy Policy

Last updated 18 October 2026.

Banana is made by Abrega, Inc. (“we”). This policy says what the app and this website do with information, in plain words. We are responsible for the information described here; write to support@abrega.com about any of it.

What stays with you

• Your calendar. Banana reads and writes your Google Calendar from your device. Your events never pass through a server of ours (see “Your Banana account” for what we do hold).
• Your meals, workouts, sleep, notes, routines and listening. Kept on your devices and in your own iCloud account, which keeps them in step between your devices. This includes meal photos you add and, if you turn it on, where you listened. We can't see any of it.
• Apple Health. With your permission, Banana reads your workouts (with heart rate, energy, distance and routes), sleep, steps, active energy, exercise minutes, flights climbed, walking speed, heart rate, resting and walking heart rate, heart rate variability, breathing rate, VO2 max, weight, height, body fat, lean body mass and BMI. Your iPhone keeps a copy of this in your own iCloud account so your iPad and Mac can show it. Banana saves workouts you record with it to Apple Health, with their routes, heart rate, energy, distance and stroke counts. Health data is never sent to us, used for advertising or shared with anyone.
• Places. Trips Banana learns from (if you turn that on) stay on your iPhone for 60 days. Places you save are kept in your iCloud.

What is worked out on your device, or by Apple

Transcripts are made on your device. Meal estimates, reading a food label, understanding an event you type (“Lunch with Sam Friday at 1”) and guessing where an event takes place from its title use Apple Intelligence: on your device, or, where your device can't, Apple's Private Cloud Compute, which works under Apple's privacy terms, keeps nothing and never shows us anything.

What needs the network

• Food and supplements. A barcode Banana doesn't know is looked up in public databases (Open Food Facts, the NIH's Dietary Supplement Label Database and UPCitemdb): only the barcode is sent. Searching for a food or supplement by name sends the words you type to Open Food Facts or the NIH database.
• Podcasts. Searching sends the words you type to Apple's podcast directory; episodes and transcripts come from their publishers. Devices of yours on the same network can pass downloaded episodes to each other directly.
• Weather and travel. Forecasts come from Apple Weather, using your location. Travel times and place searches go to Apple Maps, with the places involved.
• Guests. People you invite to an event are added to it in Google Calendar, which emails them as usual.
• Speech model. If you choose the larger transcription model, it is downloaded once from Hugging Face.

Each of these services sees your device's network address when it answers, as any website does.

Your Banana account

Connecting Google also makes a Banana account, so a change to your calendar reaches all your devices within seconds. For it we keep:

• which Google accounts you connected: their email address and Google's id for them;
• Google's permission for your calendars (the access you granted Banana, which allows reading and changing events), stored encrypted with the key kept apart from the data. We use it only to ask Google to tell us when the calendars you chose change, and to give it back to Google when you delete your account;
• the ids of the calendars being watched;
• which of your devices to notify: a random id for each, its kind, and the address Apple gives it for notifications;
• a log of account events (connected, disconnected, deleted, Google refused) with their time.

We never keep or read your events. When a calendar changes, Google tells us only that it changed; we pass that on to your devices through Apple's notification service, and they read the change from Google themselves.

Your account and your Google accounts sign in on your other devices through your iCloud Keychain.

Delete the account in Settings › Accounts & calendars: we stop watching, give Google's permission back to Google, and delete everything we hold about you, usage counts included. We keep only a line saying that an anonymous account was deleted and when, with no email, Google id or device in it.

Usage counts

To know whether Banana is working for people, the app counts a few things on your device and, now and then, sends us the counts: that the app was opened on a day, how far the first run got, which features were used (for example “a meal was logged by scanning a barcode”), and what failed. Each batch also says the kind of device, the app's version, where it was installed from (App Store or TestFlight), whether a calendar is connected, and the week the app was first opened.

Once a day it also counts how the app is set up, each fact on its own and numbers as ranges: which parts of Banana are switched on, how many Google accounts and calendars are connected, whether busy blocks are on, which permissions are granted, whether a Watch is paired, whether Apple Intelligence is available, roughly how many routines, podcasts, notes, saved foods and supplements there are and how many meals and workouts in the past week, the system version, region and language, text size and light or dark mode.

With a Banana account, these counts are also kept per account, so we can see how the app works for each person over time. Without one, we keep only daily totals across everyone.

Never: what you logged, any calendar, health, meal, place or note content. We don't store your IP address. You can turn this off in Settings › About › Share usage.

Google user data

Banana's use and transfer of information received from Google APIs adheres to the Google API Services User Data Policy, including the Limited Use requirements.

• What Banana reads: your list of calendars and their events.
• What Banana writes: events you create or change in Banana, and, unless you turn it off, “Busy” blocks that copy the time (not the title or details) of a plan on one of your calendars to your other calendars.
• Where it is kept: events are kept on your device to show your day, and are not sent to us. Our server holds only what “Your Banana account” lists.
• What it is used for: showing and planning your day in the app, and telling your devices when a calendar changed. Event titles may be read by Apple Intelligence as described above, only to help you.
• Never: used for advertising, sold, shared, read by people at Abrega, or used to develop, improve or train AI or machine-learning models.

Who helps us

Our server and this website run on Cloudflare, which processes them for us under its data processing terms; information there may be handled in the United States and other countries. Apple provides iCloud, notifications, Apple Weather, Apple Maps and Private Cloud Compute, and Google provides Google Calendar, each under their own privacy terms. We don't share information with anyone else.

How long we keep it

• Your Banana account and its usage counts: until you delete the account.
• Daily totals across everyone: kept, as they say nothing about any one person.
• On your devices and in your iCloud: until you delete it there.

Why we use it

We use the account and Google's permission to provide the app you asked for, and usage counts because we have a legitimate interest in knowing Banana works, which you can turn off at any time.

No ads, no selling

Banana has no advertising, and we don't sell or share information with anyone.

Your choices and rights

• Turn off usage counts in Settings › About.
• Delete your Banana account in Settings › Accounts & calendars.
• Disconnect Google in Settings › Accounts & calendars, and remove Banana's access at myaccount.google.com/permissions.
• Deleting the app removes what's on that device; your iCloud data can be removed in Settings › your name › iCloud.
• You can ask us for a copy of what we hold about you, to correct it, to delete it or to stop using it, at support@abrega.com. You can also complain to your data protection authority.

This website

bananatheapp.com sets no cookies and has no analytics or trackers. Cloudflare, which serves it, handles your network address to deliver the page.

Children

Banana isn't directed at children under 13.

Changes and contact

If this policy changes, the new version will be here with its date. Questions: support@abrega.com.