Wakira Privacy Policy

What Wakira records

On your phone. What leaves it, and when, is set out under When something leaves your phone, below.

• Your sleep. When each measurement began and ended, how long you slept, how long you took to fall asleep, and your average resting heart rate that night. From a device that measures your heart rate, also one reading a minute for the length of the measurement.
• Your device. The name and Bluetooth address of the device that measures your heart rate, so that Wakira can find it again. Wakira reads the heart rate live over Bluetooth, from a device that broadcasts it.
• Your alarms. Times, repeat days, labels, sounds and wake windows.
• What you log. Meals, with a small picture and a copy of the photo of each meal you photograph. Drinks, alcoholic ones among them, and water. Weight, workouts, and a menstrual cycle if you switch that on. The packet labels you scanned, so that you can log them again.
• Each day's totals. One small record a day: calories, caffeine and the time of the last caffeinated drink, alcoholic drinks, water, steps, workout minutes, a nap's length, the morning's readiness, and whether a background sound played that evening.
• What you tell Wakira. Your conversations with Wakira and what you ask it to remember. The monthly summaries Wakira writes when you ask for them. Your answers about alcohol and about how alert you feel, and the notes and reasons you add to your nights.
• Your evenings. How much light reached the phone before you slept, and whether it lay still, charging and unused, which Wakira uses to tell when you went to bed. If you allow usage access, Wakira also reads, on your phone and at that moment, which apps were open in the evening, to count the minutes the screen was in use before you slept. It keeps only the minutes, never which apps.
• Your daytime naps. If you allow heart rate in Health Connect and usage access, Wakira reads, on your phone only, your heart rate and the times your screen went on and off and was unlocked, to find a nap you took during the day. It keeps when each nap began and ended. Saying you did not nap removes one, and it is not found again.
• Your shifts. If you use shift work: the kinds of shift you set up, with their names and hours, and the shifts in your roster. A shift you add from your calendar keeps the event's times, never its title.
• Your profile. A first name if you give one, and age, sex, height and weight if you fill them in. If you set them, also a weight goal, the food restrictions you keep, which can include kosher or halal, and the hours you eat. They set the calorie budget and the calories of a workout you log, and the sex you give decides whether the cycle feature is offered at all.
• Logs of how the app ran. When an alarm was changed or rang, how your bedtime was detected, and when night recording listened. They stay on your phone, in no backup, and only the most recent entries are kept.
• Readings from Health Connect and your calendar. See the two sections below.

How long each is kept:

• The summary of each night: until you delete it, for up to twenty years.
• The reading a minute from the device, meals with their pictures and photos, drinks, workouts, naps and how alert you felt: 30 days.
• Each day's totals: until you delete your data.
• Weight: a year. Shifts: sixty days. Night recordings: 30 days.
• Your conversations with Wakira and what it remembers: until you delete them, or your data. The monthly summaries: the last twelve.
• Alcohol answers and scanned packet labels: the last 60 of each.
• Your profile, alarms and settings: until you change or delete them.
• The copy in your account and the meal photos there: until you delete them, your data or your account. They are not deleted because you stop using Wakira or uninstall it.
• Night recordings you backed up: deleted from your account when they leave your phone, and in any case at most 31 days after they were uploaded.

How to delete any of it is under Deleting your data, below.

Health Connect

If you allow it, Wakira reads from Health Connect: sleep sessions, heart rate, resting heart rate, heart-rate variability, breathing rate, skin temperature, steps, distance, active and total calories, exercise sessions, weight, height, body fat, hydration, nutrition and menstruation. It uses them to show you what your device measured rather than what Wakira estimated, and to count the meals, water and periods your other apps recorded.

If you also allow it, Wakira reads in the background about once an hour, to bring in a night your device wrote while Wakira was closed, and reads records older than 30 days. It asks for no permission that no feature reads.

Wakira writes to Health Connect what you enter yourself: the food, water and drinks you log, your weighings, your height, the workouts you enter, and a period you mark. Where another app has already written the same thing, Wakira skips it. The exception is your height, which Wakira writes as one record and replaces when you change it. Wakira also writes the sleep session it measured, and only when no other app has already written that night.

Health Connect is a store on your phone that belongs to you. Reading from it and writing to it sends nothing anywhere. What Wakira has read leaves the phone only in the cases below: in your backup if you sign in, and with a question or a summary you ask for. You can withdraw any permission at any time in Health Connect's own settings, and Wakira notices and stops.

Your calendar

If you switch on alarms from your calendar and allow Wakira to read it, Wakira reads the events in the calendars you leave ticked: when each begins and ends, its title and its place. It reads them on your phone, to offer an alarm and a bedtime before an early start, a plan before a flight, and shifts that look like yours. It never writes to your calendar. It keeps no title and no place: it keeps which event it made an offer for, what you chose, and for a flight, the time zone the plan was for.

Nothing from your calendar is sent anywhere, except in these ways, each of which you choose:

• An alarm you set from an offer is labelled with the time of the event, and an alarm's label is in your backup if you sign in.
• If you switch on showing the event's name on its alarm, which is off until you switch it on, the event's name, shortened to fit, becomes that alarm's label. It is kept with the alarm and in your backup like any label. It shows on the ringing alarm, over the lock screen, where anyone who can see your phone can read it.
• A shift you add from your calendar keeps the event's times in your roster, which is in your backup.
• The spoken morning briefing can say when your first event begins, never its title. If you choose a voice made online, that sentence is sent with the rest of the briefing to be spoken, as When something leaves your phone describes.

The microphone

Wakira uses the microphone for two things, and both are optional: listening for sounds while you sleep, and turning what you say into text. Everything else in the app works without it.

Night sounds. Wakira can keep short recordings of sounds while you sleep. The morning after, each one is named snoring, speech or other noise. Recording ships switched off, nothing in the app invites you to switch it on, and while it is off the microphone is never opened for it.

A recording can hold the voice of anyone in the room. If someone sleeps or stays in the room with you, tell them before you switch recording on, and switch it off if they do not agree.

If you switch it on, the microphone opens when your device shows that you have fallen asleep. It can open earlier, from the moment you start night mode, if that is between 7 pm and 5 am. Until you are asleep, everything it hears is dropped without being kept.

The microphone closes when you unlock your phone after falling asleep, when you leave night mode, or when the night's measurement ends. If the measurement ends before 5 am while night mode is still on, it can open again until 5 am or until you leave night mode, keeping nothing. Whenever your device shows that you have fallen asleep again, after an unlock or in a new measurement, it opens again and keeps sounds as before.

A recording is kept only of a sound clearly louder than the room's own steady sound that night, such as a fan, lasting several seconds. Each recording is at most about half a minute long. On those nights Wakira also keeps one figure for how loud the room was, to compare your nights: a number, not a recording.

Recordings stay on your phone for 30 days. They are left out of Android's own backup and are not copied to a new phone by it. They leave the phone in two cases only: if you share one yourself, or if you switch on backing up the night's recordings to your account, which is described under Your account and its backup. Switching night recording off closes the microphone at once and deletes every recording and the list of sounds.

Sorting the recordings. The morning after a night, Wakira sorts the recordings it kept into snoring, speech and other noise, with a model that runs on your phone. Nothing leaves the phone for this. What each recording was sorted as stays in the list of sounds on your phone, in no backup. Once a night is sorted, Wakira keeps the clearest recording of each stretch of sound and deletes the others. The time, length and kind of every sound stay on the night's timeline.

Speaking instead of typing. You can say a meal aloud, dictate a question to Wakira, or talk with Wakira in a spoken conversation. The microphone is open only until you finish speaking. Wakira never receives a recording and never keeps one: Android's speech recogniser turns what you said into text, and Wakira receives only the text.

Wakira asks for the recogniser on your phone first, and where your phone can do it, nothing leaves the phone. Where your phone cannot do it in your language, or its recogniser fails, Android sends the sound to its own speech service, which on most phones is Google's. For a meal and a dictated question, the screen says which of the two happened; the spoken conversation does not say it.

A dictated question waits in its field until you send it. In the spoken conversation, what you said is sent as soon as you finish speaking. Neither starts while night recording has the microphone open. A meal you said is then read like a typed one, and a question is sent like a typed one, as When something leaves your phone describes.

When something leaves your phone

Only in these cases, and in each one you have chosen to use what sends it:

1. If you sign in: a copy of your data, kept in your account. It is described under Your account and its backup, below.
2. A meal or a label: to Google's Gemini API, to be read.
3. A question to Wakira: to the same service, to be answered.
4. A monthly summary you ask for: to the same service, to be written.
5. A voice made online: the words to be spoken, to the same service.
6. Speech your phone cannot turn into text itself: the sound, to Android's speech service.
7. Sleeping together: what you switch on, to the person you link with.
8. A wearable account you connect: a request for your data, through Wakira's own server.

A meal or a label. When you scan a meal or a packet's label, the photo is sent to Google's Gemini API to be read. So is a meal you describe, typed or said aloud, and a device's name when Wakira writes setup instructions for it. The photo sent is a new picture made from yours on your phone, without the details a camera app adds to the file, such as where and when it was taken. A meal goes with any food restrictions you have set, so that the answer can say when it conflicts with one. Wakira keeps the numbers that come back. For a photographed meal it also keeps, on your phone, a small picture and a copy of the photo, at most 1280 pixels on its longer side, for as long as it keeps the meal: 30 days.

A question to Wakira. A question, typed or said, goes to the same service with every figure Wakira holds from the last 30 days, Health Connect's included: your nights, energy and readiness, meals, water and drinks, activity and weight, how many night sounds were kept, your screen time, and what Health Connect holds about your activity, your body and your cycle. With them go the conversation's earlier questions and answers, what you asked Wakira to remember, the time on your phone, how the app is set to address you, and, if you are signed in, your account's sign-in token, which the service checks.

Your name is not sent unless you type it: Wakira sends a mark in its place, and your phone puts the name back. Before your first question, Wakira shows you what would be sent, and you can open it again at any time. A question that sounds like you may be in danger is answered by the app itself: it is never sent to the service and never stored in any form. If you said it aloud on a phone that cannot turn speech into text itself, Android's speech service heard it first, as it hears anything said to Wakira on such a phone.

A monthly summary. When you ask for one, that month's nights go to the same service, with a summary of the month before: when each night began and ended, how long you slept, and, on nights your device measured, the stages, the efficiency, the score and the wakings. With them go how the app is set to address you, and your sign-in token if you are signed in. A summary is written only when you tap for it, after the same notice a question shows.

A voice made online. If you choose one, for the spoken morning briefing or for Wakira's spoken replies, the words to be spoken are sent to the same service. The sound comes back and is played, and Wakira does not keep it. The briefing's words are a greeting, one thing about your night against your usual nights, how well your body recovered, said in words, the time to stop caffeine, and when your first calendar event begins, each only where Wakira has it. A spoken reply is the reply you see on screen, without your name. Voices made online are part of Wakira Plus. With the phone's own voices, nothing is sent.

Speech. When your phone cannot turn what you say into text itself, Android sends the sound to its speech service, as The microphone describes. What that service does with it is set by its own policy.

How requests are checked. Each request Wakira itself sends to Firebase or to the Gemini API carries a token from Firebase App Check, which asks Google Play's integrity service whether it comes from the genuine Wakira app on a genuine phone. A request to the Gemini API without a valid token is refused. The check sends Google Play facts about the app and the phone, and nothing you recorded. Like any request over the internet, each one also carries your phone's IP address, and Firebase receives the phone's model and Android version with it. A request to a wearable service also carries an identifier that Firebase gives this installation of Wakira.

Apart from these cases, and what you share yourself, Wakira sends nothing anywhere. It contains no advertising code, no analytics and no crash reporter.

Sharing. Wakira can share a picture of a night, or a sound it recorded, to an app you choose, and save the picture to your phone's pictures. It does so only when you tap for it. What you share or save is then outside Wakira, and is not deleted with Wakira's data.

Android's own backup is not one of these cases, and whether it runs is your choice. If it is switched on in your phone's settings, Android copies apps' data to your Google account, Wakira's among them, the small meal pictures included. Wakira leaves out of it the night recordings and the list of sounds, the copies of the meal photos, and the settings that belong to this phone alone. Among those are your answers when you first set the app up, the night recording switch and its backup switch, what night mode may do, a connected wearable account, your calendar choices, your smart home devices, your link with a partner, the spoken morning briefing's settings, and whether you accepted the notice shown before a question.

Your account and its backup

Signing in is optional. Without it, the alarm, sleep tracking, Health Connect and everything kept on the phone work; the backup, Sleeping together, backing up night recordings and connecting a wearable account need an account. You sign in with an email address and a password, or with your Google account. Firebase Authentication, Google's sign-in service, then holds the account: an identifier, your email address, and with a Google account its name and picture. Wakira itself keeps no password.

While you are signed in, Wakira keeps a copy of your data in your account, with Google Firebase, so that a new phone can restore it. The copy is replaced as you record. It holds:

• your nights, and the reading a minute behind the last 30 days of them;
• your alarms, meals, drinks, weighings and workouts, and each day's totals;
• your water and step goals, your profile and first name, your weight goal, food restrictions and eating hours, your units and the 12 or 24 hour clock;
• the device's name and Bluetooth address, with the rest of the alarm settings;
• your shift roster, the date you began using Wakira, and when you accepted the terms and this policy;
• your conversations with Wakira and what you asked it to remember;
• what you told Wakira about your nights: the alcohol answers, how alert you felt, the notes and reasons you added, an experiment you are running, which nights began in night mode, which alarm rang on which morning, and the naps Wakira found, with the ones you said were not naps;
• your other choices: whether the bedtime reminder, the notice of a measured change and the sound Wakira plays when it opens are on, which daytime notifications you switched off, the nights you left out of the better nights, and an alarm move you declined.

Meal photos. While you are signed in, the copy of each photographed meal's photo is kept in your account too, for as long as the meal is kept, and is deleted from it with the meal.

Night recordings, only if you switch it on. The switch "Back up the night's recordings to the account" is in the night recording settings, and needs an account. It is off until you switch it on, and nothing in the app suggests it. If you switch it on:

• each recording a night kept is sent after the morning's sorting, over Wi-Fi only, never during a night;
• with it go when it began, how long it lasted and how loud it was, but not what it was sorted as;
• a recording may hold the voices of anyone in the room;
• a recording's copy is kept in your account at most 31 days after it was uploaded;
• a recording's copy is deleted from your account when the recording leaves your phone, when you switch this backup off or switch night recording off, when you delete your data and when you delete your account;
• a deletion that cannot be made at once, because the phone is offline or signed out, is made the next time the phone is online and signed in to that account, and until then the setting says how many are still to be deleted;
• restoring onto a new phone brings the recordings back, and the switch stays off there until you switch it on;
• nothing of a recording reaches a partner in Sleeping together.

What the copy does not hold. The small meal pictures, the menstrual cycle, the monthly summaries, your calendar choices, your smart home devices, anything of Sleeping together, the spoken morning briefing's settings, how the app addresses you and the sleep target you gave when you set it up.

Who can open it. No other account can read the copy. It is not end-to-end encrypted, so Wakira's developer, who runs the Firebase project that holds it, could open it. Nothing in Wakira reads it except your own phone, to restore it.

Restoring. When you sign in, Wakira reads the copy back. On a phone that holds nothing, it is restored straight away. On a phone that already holds data, Wakira asks first. Replacing the phone's data with the copy first saves a file of everything the phone held to your Downloads folder, which stays there until you delete it. A restore never empties the alarms on the phone.

Sleeping together

If you link your phone with another person's in Sleeping together, your two accounts are linked in Google Firebase. Both of you need to be signed in, and one of you gives the other a code that works once, for about 15 minutes. If you scan the code, Google Play services' code scanner reads it on your phone, and Wakira receives only the code.

Each of you shares only what you switch on, and every switch starts off. There are four:

• that a night is being measured, and when it ended;
• the times your device showed you awake in the night;
• for each sound night recording kept: when it started, how long it lasted, how much louder it was than your room, whether it was snoring, and whether your device showed you asleep then;
• your next alarm's time and wake window.

No recording, no name, no email address and no heart-rate reading is shared. Your partner's app does see your account's internal identifier, which is how the link works. The name you give your partner stays on your phone. Your partner sees only what you switched on, and only while it is on. Switching one off deletes what it shared from the account. Only about the last two weeks of what you share are kept there.

Unlinking, from either phone, deletes what both of you shared and the link itself. Deleting your data or your account unlinks first. If you uninstall Wakira without unlinking, the last nights you shared stay visible to your partner until either of you unlinks.

A wearable account

If you are signed in and connect a wearable account, today Oura, Wakira asks that service for the sleep and heart-rate data it holds for you. The request goes through Wakira's own server, which keeps your authorisation and whether you are connected. The authorisation never reaches your phone, and the server stores none of the data that comes back. While you are connected, the server renews that authorisation by itself. You connect it yourself, and you can disconnect it at any time from its row in Settings, which deletes the stored authorisation. To withdraw access at the service itself too, also remove Wakira in that service's own settings.

Your home

Switcher devices. If you add a Switcher device, Wakira finds it by listening on your home network for the announcements the device makes, and sends it commands directly over your home network. Nothing goes through the internet or through Switcher's own servers. Wakira keeps each device's name, its address on your network, its identifier and its key, and the token you paste in if your device needs one. They stay on your phone only, in no backup, and the token is sent to nothing but the device.

Moments for Tasker and Home Assistant. If you switch on a moment, Wakira tells the Tasker or Home Assistant app on your phone when it happens: bedtime, the wake window opening, the alarm stopped, and night mode switched on or off. It sends the time, and for the wake window the time the alarm is set for. It never sends a heart rate, a stage or a score. What that app does next is up to you and to that app.

Google Home. This version of Wakira does not connect to Google Home.

Plans

Wakira has a free plan and a paid one, Wakira Plus. Nothing is sold in the app today, and everyone has every feature. If you are signed in, Wakira reads from your account whether it was given Plus at no charge, which only Wakira's developer can grant, and keeps the answer on your phone. How many questions and scans you used in a week is counted on your phone alone. If a subscription is ever sold, it will be bought through Google Play, and this policy will say what that involves before it is.

Who receives your data

Only these, and only in the cases above:

• Google Firebase, which holds the account, the backup, the meal photos, the night recordings if you switch their backup on, and the link with a partner and what you share. It passes a meal, a question, a summary or the words to be spoken to the model, and a request to a wearable service. It runs the app check, and holds whether your account was given Plus.
• Google's Gemini API, which reads a meal, a label, a question, a month's nights or a device's name and writes the answer, and speaks the words a voice made online is given. Under the terms Google applies to paid use of the Gemini API, which is how Wakira uses it, Google keeps what it receives for a limited time to detect and prevent misuse and to meet legal obligations, and does not use it to improve its products or to train its models. Wakira's own Firebase project keeps no copy of what is sent. During testing before release, until 2 October 2026, it kept prompts and answers for monitoring, and those stay until the project's logs expire.
• Google Play, whose integrity service checks the app and the phone for the app check, and whose code scanner reads a partner's code on your phone if you scan one. Google Play services may send Google its own information about how these ran, under Google's terms.
• Android's speech service, which on most phones is Google's, when you speak to Wakira on a phone that cannot turn speech into text itself.
• The person you link with in Sleeping together, if you link with someone: only what you switched on, and only while it is on.
• The wearable service you connect, if you connect one: only that one, and only while it is connected.

Google Firebase, the Gemini API and Google Play's integrity service process what they receive on Wakira's behalf, for these purposes only. The person you link with, the wearable service you connect and Android's speech service are not Wakira's providers: what they do with what they receive is up to them, and, for a service, set by its own policy. Nothing is sold, and there are no advertisers, no analytics and no crash reporting. What is sent is encrypted on the way. Tasker and Home Assistant, if you switch on a moment, are apps on your own phone, and receive only what Your home describes.

Where your data is processed. Google Firebase and the Gemini API process data on Google's servers, mainly in the United States, under Google's data processing terms, and Wakira's own server runs in the United States. Google may also hold what it receives briefly in other countries where it has facilities. This means your data is processed outside the country you live in.

Deleting your data

Settings has two deletions, and they delete different things. Both ask for a confirmation you hold.

Deleting your data. In Settings, under Data, the row "Delete everything on this phone", which reads "Delete the data on this phone and its copy in the account" while you are signed in. It deletes everything Wakira keeps on your phone, at once, and cancels the alarms. If you are signed in, it also deletes the copy in your account: the backup runs at once and replaces the copy with the emptied phone, and the meal photos and night recordings held there are deleted. If you are linked with a partner, it unlinks first. Your account itself stays, and you stay signed in. A measurement running at that moment is still saved in the morning.

If the phone is offline at that moment, the copy in your account is replaced only when Wakira next saves something while the phone is online and you are signed in; until then the old copy stays in your account. The meal photos and night recordings there are deleted once the phone is back online.

Deleting your account. In Settings, on the account row, "Delete the account and its stored copy". It unlinks you from a partner, deletes the copy in your account, then the meal photos and night recordings held there, and then the account. Everything on your phone stays as it is. Within a day, Wakira's server also deletes what it held for any wearable service you connected: the authorisation, and the record of whether it was connected and when that changed. Within a day too, it deletes the record that your account was given Plus at no charge, if it was.

If a step fails, for example when the phone is offline or you need to sign in again, the deletion stops before the account is deleted, and the screen says it did not succeed. What was already deleted stays deleted, but while you stay signed in, Wakira backs your phone up to the account again, so try again, or sign out.

What neither deletion removes. Records Wakira wrote to Health Connect stay there until you delete them in Health Connect; deleting a single meal, drink, weighing or workout in Wakira deletes its record too. Files you downloaded, and a file saved before a restore, are in your Downloads folder and are yours to delete. A file in Downloads can be read by any app you allowed to read your files, so delete it when you no longer need it. A copy Android's own backup already holds stays in your Google account until Android next backs up, or until you delete it in your phone's Google settings. What you shared or saved outside Wakira stays where you put it. Deleting your data leaves a wearable account connected; you disconnect it from its own row in Settings.

Without the app. If you no longer have the app, write to support@wakira.app from the address you signed in with. The account and everything held under it are deleted within 30 days of your confirmation. Uninstalling the app deletes what it kept on the phone.

Location

Wakira does not ask for location access. The Bluetooth scan it uses to find the device that measures your heart rate is declared as never being used to find your location. A photo Wakira sends leaves without the place a camera app may have written into the file, as A meal or a label describes.

If you switch the calendar on, Wakira reads each event's place on your phone, to offer a plan before a flight, and neither keeps the place nor sends it anywhere. It keeps the time zone of a flight it made an offer for.

When Wakira shows helplines, after a question that sounds like you may be in danger, it reads which country your mobile network and your SIM card belong to, and the time zone and region set on your phone. It uses them to show the lines for the country you are in and for your home country. This is read on your phone at that moment, and is not kept or sent anywhere.

Your choices

• Do not sign in. Nothing is backed up, and Sleeping together and a wearable account are not available.
• Do not connect Health Connect. The alarm and sleep tracking still work.
• Leave night recording off, which is how it starts.
• Do not ask Wakira questions or ask for a monthly summary. Your nights and figures are then never sent to the model.
• Keep the phone's own voices for the briefing and the replies. Nothing is then sent to be spoken.
• Leave the calendar, Sleeping together and the smart home off, which is how they start.
• Save your data to a file at any time, with "Download my data" in Settings, under Data. The file is yours. Wakira does not read it back, so only the copy in your account can be restored.
• Delete your data, or your account, from Settings, as Deleting your data describes.
• Withdraw any permission in Android's own settings, at any time.

Writing to us, and this website

If you write to support@wakira.app, your address and what you write are kept to answer you and for a record of what was asked, and are used for nothing else. The website wakira.app is served by Firebase Hosting, which, like any web server, receives your IP address and your browser's details with each page it serves. The website stores nothing in your browser, and has no analytics and no tracking.

Who is responsible, and your rights

HeiselSmart, which makes Wakira, is responsible for the data this policy describes. You can reach it at support@wakira.app.

You can ask to see the data held about you, to have it corrected, or to have it deleted, by writing to support@wakira.app. Most of it you can also see, correct and delete yourself in the app. No law requires you to give any of it: giving it is your choice, and without it only the feature that needs it does not work. If you think your data has been mishandled, you can complain to Israel's Privacy Protection Authority, or to the data protection authority where you live.

Children

Wakira is intended only for people aged 18 or over, and is not directed at children.

Contact and changes

support@wakira.app

If this policy changes, the date at the top changes with it, and the policy in the app changes with the app's next update. If what a question or a monthly summary sends changes, Wakira shows you its notice again before your next one.