Effective date: October 8, 2026
1. Overview
Omniscient is a private check-in app that helps trusted connections share live awareness with one another. Depending on your settings and permissions, the app may process location, motion activity, selected wellness data, profile information, and connection information so the people you've connected with can see your current status.
Important: Not a Safety, Medical, or Emergency Service
Why we built Omniscient. How many times have you called someone you love, gotten no answer, and felt your mind start to wander? You text them, you call back, and maybe you pull up a location-sharing app you might already be using to see where their phone is sitting. But those apps don’t tell you whether that phone has been still for two minutes or two hours — they show you a dot on a map, not a sign of life. We built Omniscient to close that gap. If you can see that your daughter’s phone moved seconds ago, or that your dad’s Apple Watch is showing a normal heart rate, that’s a quiet, meaningful signal that the person you’re worried about is more than likely just busy and will call you back. It doesn’t replace reaching out to them. It just helps keep you from spiraling while you wait.
That said — and this is important —
Omniscient is a peace-of-mind app. It is not a safety, medical, or emergency service, and it is not a substitute for one.
Omniscient shows you signals about people you’ve connected with — when their phone last moved, their general activity, their approximate location, and (optionally) heart rate and step count from Apple Watch or iPhone HealthKit. These signals come from third-party hardware and software that can be inaccurate, delayed, interrupted, missing, or wrong for many reasons — including dead batteries, no cell coverage, Do Not Disturb mode, revoked app permissions, iOS putting the app to sleep, software updates, and Apple Watch not being worn.
Specifically, Omniscient cannot tell you:
- Whether a person is safe, healthy, conscious, or unhurt. A green “Active” indicator does not mean the person is well. They may have set the phone down and walked away.
- Whether a person is in distress or experiencing an emergency. A “hasn’t moved in 4 hours” indicator does not mean something is wrong. They may be asleep, in a meeting, on a flight, or charging the phone in another room.
- An accurate medical reading. Heart rate and step count come from Apple HealthKit. They are consumer-grade signals, not medical-grade measurements, and are not intended for diagnosis, monitoring, or treatment of any condition.
- An exact location. GPS and address data is approximate and can be off by tens or hundreds of meters, especially indoors.
Always reach out directly when it matters. Omniscient is designed to complement how you stay in touch with the people you love — not replace it. If you are worried about someone, contact them. If you cannot reach them and the situation feels urgent, call 911 or your local emergency number. Don’t wait for an app to tell you what a phone call can.
By using Omniscient, you acknowledge that Omniscient, its developer, and its operators have no liability for any decision you make — or any decision you do not make — based on what the app shows you.
2. Information We Collect
Account Information
When you sign in with Apple (iPhone) or Google (Android), Omniscient receives an account identifier and, depending on your choices with that provider, your name and email address. We also store the display name you choose and your private invite code.
Location Data
If you grant permission, Omniscient collects your device location so it can be shared with your approved connections. This can include background location updates when live sharing is enabled.
Motion and Driving Data
If you grant motion permission, Omniscient uses your phone’s motion sensors to detect general activity such as walking, running, cycling, driving, or staying still. While you are driving, and only if Driving Reports are on, the app also notes hard braking, hard acceleration, speeding, and whether the phone was handled, unlocked, or used for a call without a hands-free connection. It notes that a call happened, never who you called or anything that was said, and it never reads your messages or screen.
Health Data
If you opt in, Omniscient reads your step count and heart rate from Apple Health (iPhone and Apple Watch), or your step count from your phone’s own step sensor (Android), to share with your connections.
Device Status
So your connections can tell a quiet phone from a dead one, Omniscient shares your battery level, whether the phone is charging, whether Low Power Mode or Battery Saver is on, and whether background location is allowed. You can turn battery sharing off in the app.
Profile Image Data
If you choose to import your contact photo or upload an avatar, Omniscient stores that image so it can appear on your profile.
Connection and Subscription Data
Omniscient stores who is connected to whom, pending invitations, and whether your account is covered by a subscription (yours or a connection’s). Payments are handled entirely by Apple or Google; we never see your card or payment details.
Push Notification Tokens
To wake the app when a connection opens Omniscient, we store a device push token and deliver silent messages through Apple Push Notification service or Google’s Firebase Cloud Messaging. These messages carry no personal information.
3. How We Use Information
- To authenticate you and maintain your Omniscient account.
- To share your live status with the people you approve.
- To build the optional weekly driving report and daily view your connections can see.
- To enable invite flows, connection management, and shared subscriptions.
- To provide optional wellness context if you choose to share it.
- To operate, secure, troubleshoot, and improve the app.
- To send you a short welcome email after you first sign in, and at most one follow-up if you haven’t connected with anyone. Each one has an unsubscribe link, and we never send marketing beyond that.
4. How Sharing Works
Omniscient is designed around consent and user control. Nobody can see you unless you approve the connection. You can choose full sharing, receive-only, or hide your status from any single connection, and you can switch Driving Reports off at any time, which also hides your past trips from every connection.
5. Background Location
If you enable live sharing and grant “Always” (iPhone) or “Allow all the time” (Android) location access, Omniscient may access your location in the background to keep your approved connections updated even when the app is not open. Frequent updates only happen while a connection is actively looking; the rest of the time the app checks in about every 20 minutes. You can disable this through the app’s settings or your device settings.
6. Health Information
Health data is only accessed if you explicitly grant permission. You can revoke it at any time in your device settings. Health data is never sold, never used for advertising, and only shared with your approved connections according to your in-app settings. Omniscient does not write to Apple Health.
7. Data Storage, Retention, and Providers
Omniscient stores its data with Supabase, which provides our database, sign-in, and real-time sync. Supabase processes that data on our behalf under its own security commitments and applicable law.
Those welcome emails are delivered by Resend, an email service that receives only your email address and the message itself.
What we keep, and for how long
Omniscient is designed to keep as little as possible, for as short a time as possible.
- Your current status — latest location, activity, heart rate, steps, and device status. Each update replaces the previous one. We do not keep a continuous location history or a breadcrumb trail.
- Driving trip summaries, only if Driving Reports are on — for each drive: start and end time, start and end point, distance, top and average speed, and the count of driving events. Automatically deleted after 14 days. This is what powers the weekly report and the daily view. We do not store the route in between.
- Weekly driving totals — miles, trips, and event counts per week, with no places or locations. Kept until you delete your account.
- Connections, saved place labels, and account details — kept until you remove them or delete your account.
What we don’t keep:
- A continuous location history, breadcrumb trail, or the route of any drive.
- Heart rate or step history beyond the most recent value.
- Your data after you delete your account, apart from routine system backups that expire within 30 days.
Our providers keep short-lived technical logs (for example, request logs with IP addresses) for security and troubleshooting.
Crash and Diagnostic Reporting
Omniscient uses the crash reports that Apple and Google provide to developers when you have allowed your device to share them. They contain technical details such as the device model, operating system version, app version, and where the app crashed. They do not include your name, email, location, contacts, health data, or anything from your connections. The app includes Google’s Firebase libraries for push messaging; their analytics collection is switched off.
What We Never Do
- We do not sell, rent, license, or trade your personal data, location, driving, or movement information to anyone, for any purpose, ever.
- We do not use your data for advertising, and the app contains no ads.
- We do not use your data to train AI or machine learning models.
8. Account Deletion
You can delete your account at any time from the Account screen in the Omniscient app; see the account deletion page for the steps. Deleting your account immediately and permanently removes your profile, current status, connections, saved places, driving trips and weekly totals, push tokens, and profile photo from our systems, apart from routine backups that expire within 30 days.
9. Your Choices
- Control location, motion, contacts, and health permissions through your device settings.
- Change your sharing mode, hide your status from any connection, or turn off battery sharing inside the app.
- Turn Driving Reports off, which stops trip recording and hides your trips from every connection.
- Delete your account at any time from within the app.
10. Promotions
If you enter an Omniscient promotion, such as a free-access giveaway, we store the name and email address you submit only to run that promotion and send you your free access. It is never shared or shown publicly.
11. Children’s Privacy
Omniscient is not intended for children under the age of 13, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13.
12. Changes to This Policy
We may update this policy from time to time. If we make material changes, we will update the effective date and publish the revised version here.
13. Contact
If you have questions about this Privacy Policy or your data, email support@omniscient.life or visit the support page.