Last updated 15th October 2026. This covers the website, the waitlist and how syncing works. The app's own privacy notice will be published before it ships.
If you join the waitlist we keep your email address for one purpose: telling you when Ovrdue is ready to try. We don't sell it, share it or add you to anything else. Reply to any email, or write to [email protected], and we'll remove it.
The site is static and sets no cookies of its own. It's hosted on GitHub Pages, which records standard server logs (IP address, browser, pages requested) under GitHub's privacy statement. Fonts are loaded from Google Fonts.
Ovrdue has no server. When the Mac helper works out when you last spoke to someone, that date is written into your own iCloud account, in what Apple calls the app's private database. Your iPhone reads it from there. That's the whole journey.
Three things follow from that. First, we can't see it: the private database is yours, tied to your Apple ID, and nothing in it is visible to us or to anyone else using Ovrdue. Second, what's in there is small and dull on purpose: a name, the phone number or email you already have on their contact card, and dates. Never a message, never a call recording, never who said what. Third, Apple encrypts it on the way and while it's stored, and if you've turned on Advanced Data Protection for your iCloud account it is end-to-end encrypted, so even Apple can't read it.
If you'd rather not sync at all, you can run the iPhone app on its own and log catch-ups by hand. The Mac helper is optional.
Ovrdue is built so that your contacts, your friends and the dates you last spoke stay on your own devices and in your own iCloud. The Mac helper reads when messages and calls happened, never their content, and nothing is sent to us. The full notice will say exactly that in more words.
Ovrdue is made in Southampton, UK. Questions to [email protected].