Account & data deletion
Leaving on your own terms.
Your account, your pages, your call. Two paths to delete — in-app or by email — and a clear note on what leaves with you.
Option 1 — From within the app (fastest)
- 1.Open Dear Thoughts on your phone.
- 2.Tap the Profile tab (bottom right).
- 3.Scroll to the bottom of the profile → tap Delete account.
- 4.Confirm. Your account and every entry, voice note, and check-in are removed from our servers within 24 hours.
The in-app delete is final and immediate. There is no recovery window. Export your entries first if you want to keep a copy.
A note on the panic wipe: it clears this device only. Your account and encrypted entries remain on our servers until you delete the account — that deletion is what removes them everywhere.
Option 2 — By email
If you can’t access the app, write to us from the email address you used to sign up:
privacy@dearthoughts.comUse the subject line Delete my account. We respond within 1–2 business days and complete deletion within 30 days (usually 24–48 hours).
What is deleted
- •Your profile (email address, display name, preferences)
- •Every journal entry you have written (free-form pages, templates, prompt responses)
- •Voice notes attached to entries
- •Photo attachments
- •Foundation check-in answers and personalised practice plans
- •Future Self letters (delivered, scheduled, and drafts)
- •Streak history, mood timeline, anniversaries — all derived data
- •Analytics events linked to your account (Dear Thoughts uses privacy-first analytics; nothing personal is sold)
What we keep, and for how long
By default, nothing personal stays. Two small exceptions exist for the reasons below:
Anonymised sign-in timestamps required by our auth provider (Supabase) to detect abuse. No journal content. Auto-purged.
If the app crashed for you, we may keep an anonymised stack trace to fix the bug. No entries, no email, no identifier that ties it back to you. Auto-purged.
Delete only some data, not the whole account
You don’t have to leave to clean house. From inside the app you can delete:
- •An individual journal entry (long-press → Delete)
- •A voice note (open the entry → trash icon)
- •A photo attachment (open the entry → tap the photo → Delete)
- •A Future Self letter before it is delivered (Letters → Pending → swipe to delete)