A porn recovery app that doesn't track you
Your recovery is the most private thing about you. How many days, what triggered the slip, what you wrote at 2am when it was bad. Most recovery apps take all of that, attach it to an account, and keep it on a server. It is worth asking whether an app you are trusting with that is quietly tracking it, and whether there is a version that simply does not.
What "tracking" actually means in a recovery app
Two different things, and they are worth separating. The first is your own recovery data, your streaks, journals, relapses, and triggers, logged to a server and tied to your account so the app can show it back to you across devices. Convenient, and also a permanent record of your worst nights sitting on someone else's computer. The second is third-party tracking, ad networks and analytics SDKs baked into the app that report your behavior to other companies. The first is a trade-off. The second is usually just the business model.
Why on-device is the only real answer
You cannot promise data will never leak once it is on a server. You can only promise it never gets there. An app that keeps your recovery on your phone, with no account and no server copy, is not making a smaller version of the cloud promise. It is making a different one. There is no database to breach, no account to subpoena, nothing to sell in an acquisition, because the sensitive part never left your hand. More on the on-device versus cloud difference.
Even the smart features can stay on the phone
The usual argument for sending data to a server is that the clever features need it, insights, summaries, pattern-spotting. That was true for a while and is not anymore. Escape writes your recovery summary using on-device intelligence, right on a recent iPhone, without uploading your entries. So you get the read-back on your patterns without the patterns ever leaving the device. More on the private, on-device summary.
Where Escape lands
Escape keeps your recovery on your phone. No account, no email, no server holding your streak or journal. The App Store privacy label reads Data Not Collected for personal data. The one thing that leaves is anonymous, aggregate product signals with no identifiers and no cross-app tracking, never tied to you and never sold, which is how we tell whether a feature works without knowing anything about who you are. Escape is on the App Store, free to download, no account.
If you want to check this for any app, not just ours, here is how to evaluate a recovery app's privacy in ten minutes. And for the blocking side of the same promise, the private porn blocker.
Escape is a porn blocker that works in every browser, 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.