Your feelings. Your space.

Your journal stays on your device

Dat Feel stores your check-ins, reminder preferences, and chosen appearance locally. The app has no account, advertising, analytics SDK, tracking, or cloud sync. We do not receive your journal entries or use them to build a profile about you.

What the app stores

Each check-in contains its date, part of the day, intensity, and any emotion, situation, or coping skill you choose to enter. Reminder preferences contain the days, times, enabled pauses, and sound option you choose.

Reminders and permissions

Reminders are off by default. Dat Feel requests notification permission only when you enable them. Notifications are scheduled locally through Apple's system services and never include your journal notes. You can turn reminders off in the app or change notification permissions in system settings.

Backups and sharing

You can export a readable JSON backup and choose where to save or share it. That file contains your personal journal notes. Files you export or share are handled by the destination you choose and remain there until you remove them. Device backups may also contain app data, according to your Apple backup settings. Journals on iPhone, iPad, and Mac are separate.

Retention and deletion

The app retains check-ins until you delete them. Delete an individual check-in from its editor, or use Delete all check-ins in Settings to remove the current device's journal and recovery copies kept by Dat Feel. This does not remove exports you saved elsewhere or existing device backups. Restoring a backup replaces matching moments and preserves other entries. If the existing journal is unreadable, Dat Feel preserves a recovery copy before restoring it.

The website and support

The datfeel.com website does not receive journal entries. Hosting providers process basic request information to deliver the website. The website has no advertising, analytics integrations, or marketing cookies. It saves your Light, Dark, or System appearance choice in this browser’s local storage. That preference stays in your browser and is not sent to us. If you choose to contact support, the information you send is used to respond to your request. You do not need to include private journal notes.

Questions

See Dat Feel support for help with your journal, backups, and reminders.