Soulvana
Privacy policy · updated 12 October 2026

What happens to your data

In short: Soulvana has no account, no servers, no ads and no tracking software. Everything you keep in the app stays on your own device. We never get to see it.

This policy covers Soulvana on iPhone and on Android (coming soon to Google Play). Using Apple Health or Health Connect? Read how Soulvana handles health data.

Who we are

Soulvana is an app by Vibecode Studio: Gert Hoetmer (eenmanszaak, a Dutch sole proprietorship), trading as Vibecode Studio, registered with the Netherlands Chamber of Commerce (KvK) under number 64176541, Smaldelerstraat 4, 2645 KL Delfgauw, the Netherlands. We are responsible for this policy. Please send any privacy questions to support@vibecode-studio.nl.

What stays on your device

Your check-ins, journal, bright spots, settings, favourites and progress are stored only on your device, inside the app's protected storage. Soulvana has no account and no server, so nothing is sent to us. The weekly report is put together on your device.

This data is included in your device's normal backup, such as an iCloud backup or a backup to your computer on iPhone, or the Android backup. That backup sits under your own Apple or Google account and their terms. We have no access to it.

What we don't do

No account or sign-in, no analytics software, no third-party crash reporting software, no tracking, no advertising ID and no ads. We don't sell or share any data, because we don't have it.

Health data: Apple Health and Health Connect

Soulvana works fine without any connection to health data. Connecting is your choice: everything is off by default and you give permission for each kind of data separately. Your device asks for this itself.

iPhone: Apple Health

  • Saving mindful minutes. After you finish an exercise, Soulvana writes its length to Health as mindful minutes.
  • Reading sleep and activity. Soulvana reads your sleep, steps and exercise minutes to show them next to your check-in, set them beside your check-ins in your weekly report and suggest an exercise that fits.

Android: Health Connect

  • Reading sleep. Soulvana reads your sleep to show it next to your check-in, set it beside your check-ins in your weekly report and suggest an exercise that fits.
  • Reading steps and exercise. Soulvana reads your steps and your exercise sessions for the same purposes.
  • Saving mindfulness sessions. After you finish an exercise, Soulvana writes the session (start and end time) to Health Connect as a mindfulness session, on devices that support it.

What happens to this data

Whatever Soulvana reads from Apple Health or Health Connect is only used at that moment, in your device's memory, and then discarded. It is not stored, not exported, not shown in notifications, not used for the review or for advertising, and never sent to us or anyone else. Soulvana uses this data only for the features described above. You can withdraw your permission at any time: in the app, in the Health app under Sharing, Apps, Soulvana, or in Health Connect under App permissions, Soulvana. Anything Soulvana wrote to Health or Health Connect earlier can be viewed and deleted there.

Reminders

Reminders are scheduled on your device itself. There is no push server and no message goes through us. You decide whether you want them and can switch them off at any time. Notifications never contain health data.

Purchases

Soulvana Plus is a one-time purchase: on iPhone through Apple's App Store, on Android through Google Play Billing. Apple or Google processes your payment and your data under their own privacy policies. We receive no name, email address or payment details from you. The app checks on your device whether you have made the purchase, through StoreKit (Apple) or the Google Play Billing library (Google). For the purchase and that check, StoreKit and the Billing library contact Apple or Google services themselves; Soulvana sends no data of its own along with it. On iPhone you can share Soulvana Plus through Family Sharing. On Android, family sharing is not available for this purchase: the purchase belongs to the Google account you made it with. Which items you have already tried in the taster is remembered only on your device.

Content and the internet

The audio, images and texts are built into the app. Soulvana sends no data about you or how you use it over the internet. Only for the Soulvana Plus purchase do Apple's or Google's systems connect, see Purchases. If you open an external link from the app, such as this page, it opens in your browser and the usual rules of the web apply.

AI

Lumi's voice was made with AI (ElevenLabs) during production. The images were made with AI (Google Gemini) during production, and the background music was made with AI too. None of your data is sent to any AI service.

In the Coming Home programme, Lumi is your personal self-care coach. Lumi is an AI character, not a professional coach or healthcare provider. The tips follow fixed rules on your device, with no AI model behind them. Soulvana does not replace medical advice.

On an iPhone with Apple Intelligence, the weekly report can write a short review based on what you wrote in your journal yourself. This is done by Apple's language model on your device itself: nothing is sent to Apple, to us or to anyone else. The review is labelled as generated automatically on your device. On devices without Apple Intelligence, the weekly report shows only the facts.

Contacting us

If you email us, we use your email address and your message only to answer your question. We keep that email no longer than we need to help you and share it with no one.

Exporting and erasing

In the app, My data lets you export all your data, as JSON and as readable text. Erase everything removes it all in one go. If you delete the app, all your data on the device is gone. Any backup you made earlier yourself is managed through Apple or Google.

Children

Soulvana is not intended for children under 16.

Your rights

Under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) you have the right of access, rectification, erasure, restriction of processing, data portability and objection. Because we keep none of your app data, there is nothing with us to access or delete; you do that yourself in the app with Export and Erase everything. If you still have a question or request, for example about an email you sent us, please email support@vibecode-studio.nl. You can also lodge a complaint with the Dutch Data Protection Authority (Autoriteit Persoonsgegevens), autoriteitpersoonsgegevens.nl, or with the data protection authority in the country where you live.

Changes

If Soulvana gets new features that change anything in this policy, we update this page before that feature reaches the app. The date at the top shows when the policy was last updated. This policy is also available in Dutch; both versions have the same content.