The short version
TRACE is a memory game about movement: a point travels across the screen, and once it is gone you reproduce the same path, at the same tempo, in one continuous gesture. It has no account, no analytics, no advertising and no tracking, and it never connects to a server run by the developer. Everything you do in TRACE stays on your iPhone or iPad.
Need help instead? See the TRACE support page.
Information we do not collect
The developer does not collect, receive or store any of the following:
- Name, email address, phone number or physical address
- Contacts, photos, location, or microphone or camera input (TRACE uses none of these)
- Payment card or financial account information
- Advertising identifiers or device identifiers used for tracking
- Analytics, crash reports collected by the developer, or usage behaviour
- The gestures you draw — they are scored on your iPhone and not saved
Information stored on your iPhone
To work, TRACE keeps the following on your device only, in two small files inside the app's own storage:
- Which challenges you have reached and completed, your best score and rating for each, and how many attempts you have made
- Your daily workout results (the best score of each of the day's three movements) and the 2.0 Daily TRACE results you already had, from which your streak is counted
- Your weekly Memory Check results
- Your Endless best and Chain best, and how many Endless and Chain runs you started on recent days
- Movement Memory: for each day you played, the values of your best few attempts — a number, not the attempts themselves
- Skill averages: for each day you played, the running average of the four parts of your score (shape, direction, rhythm, timing)
- The days on which TRACE asked Apple to show its rating prompt, so it asks rarely
- Your settings (sound, haptics, reduced motion, appearance, Relaxed Pace, Bolder Lines)
None of this is transmitted to the developer or to any third party. Your iPhone's own backups may include it, as they do for any app.
Sharing a result
After an attempt, a daily workout, a Chain run or a Memory Check you can tap Share. TRACE draws a picture of your result on your device and hands it to the standard iOS share sheet. Nothing is uploaded by TRACE; where the picture goes is up to you and the app you choose.
Purchases
TRACE Complete is a one-time purchase processed by Apple through the App Store. The developer never receives your payment details. TRACE asks the App Store whether your Apple Account owns TRACE Complete so it can unlock it on your devices, and — so that everyone who bought TRACE 1.0 keeps everything without paying again — which version of TRACE your Apple Account first downloaded. That check happens between your iPhone and Apple; nothing is sent to the developer.
Ratings
Now and then, after something goes well, TRACE may ask Apple to show its standard rating prompt. Whether it appears is decided by iOS, and any rating you leave goes to Apple, not to the developer.
Permissions
TRACE asks for no permissions. It uses the touchscreen, the haptic engine and the speaker, none of which require one. It sends no notifications.
Third parties
TRACE contains no third-party SDKs, analytics services, advertising networks or tracking code. The developer does not sell, rent, trade or share any user data, because no user data is collected.
Deleting your data
Settings ▸ Reset Progress deletes your campaign progress, best scores, streak, workout days, Memory Check results, Endless and Chain bests, skill averages and Movement Memory, and keeps your settings and purchases. Deleting the app removes everything it stored on your iPhone.
Children
TRACE does not knowingly collect personal information from anyone, including children, because it does not collect personal information at all.
Scores are not a medical measure
Movement Memory, the Memory Check and every other score in TRACE are measures within this game. They are not a medical or cognitive assessment and make no claim about memory, attention or health.
Changes to this policy
If a future version changes how information is handled, this page will be updated and the date above will change.
Contact
Questions about privacy: murathanoran1@gmail.com