What “Data Not Linked to You” means for Escape
On the App Store, every app has to publish a privacy label. Escape's reads “Data Not Linked to You.” In plain terms, whatever you do in the app stays anonymous and is never tied to you. It is a deliberate stance, and it is not one most apps in this space can take.
What the label means for you
No account. The app never asks for your email. Your streak, your journal, your notes, and your blocklist stay on your phone. Nothing you do in Escape is attached to your name or your identity. You stay anonymous, start to finish. The label is simply Apple's way of putting that on the record, where anyone can read it before they trust the app with something this private.
Why most apps here cannot say the same
Most recovery and blocker apps run on an account and a server. You sign up to use them, and from that point your streak, your activity, and often what you blocked live on their systems, tied to you. It is not that those apps are careless. It is that their design links your data to you by default. Escape's does not, and that is the difference the label captures. When there is no account and no server holding your identity, there is nothing to link in the first place.
You do not have to take our word for it
The privacy label is public. Open any app's App Store page, scroll to the privacy section, and read it in about a minute. Escape's says “Data Not Linked to You.” Checking it yourself, and comparing it against the others you are considering, is the whole point of the label existing. The piece on how to read an App Store privacy label shows you what to look for.
The most private way to quit is the one where there is nothing tied to you to begin with. No account, no profile, nothing on a server with your name on it. Escape is built that way on purpose, and the App Store label is the short version of the whole idea.
Escape blocks porn in Safari for free, extends to every browser with Deep Block, and adds a 90-second urge ritual, practice games that retrain how you meet an urge, and 27 short courses on identity and the long arc of recovery. No account, no personal tracking.
More on this topic in Privacy in recovery apps, or go deeper with the Who you became in private course.