What AdaPulse knows about you.
LAST UPDATED 26 AUGUST 2026
We know nothing about you. There is no account, no sign-in, no wallet connection, and no server of ours that holds your data — the number you type stays in the app's own storage on your phone. The free tier does show ads, but never personalised ones: AdaPulse does not ask for the advertising identifier and does not track you across other apps or sites. What the ads do involve is set out in full below. AdaPulse Pro removes them and, with them, the ad requests.
What stays on your device
Everything you enter: the amount of ADA you hold, your average buy price if you add one, any price targets, your portfolio goal, and your settings — display currency, appearance, clock format, whether you want epoch notifications. The app also keeps the last prices it fetched, so it can draw something the moment you open it.
All of it is written to the app's private storage area, which iOS sandboxes to AdaPulse and no other app can read. It is never uploaded, and we do not operate a server that could receive it. If you use the widget, the same figures are shared with it through a private container that belongs to this app alone.
What leaves your device
Requests for public market data, and nothing else we send. None of them carries your holding, your targets, an account, an API key, or any identifier — every copy of the app asks the same question, so there is nothing in the request that could distinguish you.
- Kraken — the ADA price and every chart, about once a minute while the app is open (privacy policy).
- CoinGecko — the global figures: 24-hour volume, circulating supply, the all-time high, about once every fifteen minutes (privacy policy).
- Koios — the Cardano network's own staking yield, asked once an epoch, and only if you have Pro and open the staking forecast (koios.rest).
Like every request on the internet, each of these reaches its provider with your device's IP address and the time it was made, and that provider's own policy governs what it does with that. The Cardano epoch clock makes no request at all: it is arithmetic on your device's own clock, which is why it keeps running with no signal.
Ads, on the free tier
The free tier shows one ad on the Overview and one in Insights, served by Google AdMob (how Google uses data). Every one of those requests is marked non-personalised, in every country — not only where the law demands it. The ad you see is chosen from what the app is about, not from a profile of you, and AdaPulse never asks for your device's advertising identifier. That is also why the app never shows the App Tracking Transparency prompt: it has nothing to ask permission for.
Filling the slot still involves something. Google's SDK receives your device's IP address (from which it infers a coarse region, for language and legal reasons), device and OS information, and whether the ad was seen or tapped. Apple's SKAdNetwork receives an anonymised signal if an ad leads to an install — by design it tells the advertiser nothing about who you are.
We never send Google what you hold. No amount, no value, no target, no setting of yours is included in an ad request. The requests do carry a fixed list of topic keywords — cardano, ada, crypto, finance, investing — which describes the app, not you, and is identical for every user, on every phone.
In the EEA, the UK and Switzerland the app shows Google's consent form on first launch, before the ad SDK starts, because reading anything at all from a device for advertising needs your agreement there — personalised or not. Say no and no ad is requested at all.
With Pro, no ad is ever requested — the ad SDK is not even started, so nothing above happens on your device at all.
Subscriptions and purchases
AdaPulse Pro is an auto-renewing subscription sold by Apple. Payment, renewal and cancellation are handled entirely by the App Store: we never see your card, your name, your e-mail address or your Apple Account. The app asks the store two questions — which of its products this device owns, and which build of the app was first downloaded here — and turns the answers into a yes or no about Pro. That is also how anyone who bought the app when it was Tool for ADA keeps Pro for life without having to prove anything.
Apple gives us the sales and payout reports every developer gets. They are aggregate figures about purchases, not about people, and no one can be identified from them.
Notifications
If you turn on epoch notifications, they are scheduled on your phone by iOS from the epoch arithmetic — there is no push server, no device token sent anywhere, and no way for us to know whether you enabled them. Turning them off removes the schedule.
What the app does not do
- No analytics, telemetry, or usage tracking of our own — we collect no statistics at all
- No advertising identifier, no personalised ads, no tracking across apps or websites
- No crash or performance reporting SDK
- No account, e-mail address, phone number, or name is ever requested
- No wallet connection, wallet address, seed phrase, or transaction history
- No contacts, photos, location, camera, or microphone access
- No selling or sharing of anything — we have nothing to sell
Beyond a network connection, the only thing the app ever asks permission for is notifications — and only if you turn them on. There is no tracking prompt, because there is no tracking.
This website
adapulse-app.web.app is a static site on Firebase Hosting. Google, as the host, keeps standard server request logs that include IP addresses — that is infrastructure, not a choice we make per visitor. The site sets no cookies and runs no analytics.
The pages make no third-party requests. The typefaces are served from this site itself, so your browser talks to nobody but the host to render it.
Deleting your data
Delete the app. Everything it stored goes with it, because everything it stored was on your phone. There is nothing to request from us, and nothing for us to erase on our side. A subscription is separate: cancel it in the App Store, under your Apple Account, or it goes on renewing whether the app is installed or not.
Children
AdaPulse is not directed at children under 13 and collects nothing from anyone, of any age.
Your rights
Laws such as the GDPR and the CCPA give you the right to see, correct, export or delete the personal data a company holds about you. We hold none, so there is nothing for us to show, correct, export or delete — and no request you could make of us that deleting the app does not already answer. Rights against Google, for what its ad network holds, are exercised with Google; its policy above explains how.
Changes
If this policy changes, the date at the top changes with it. A change that made the app collect something would also require a new version from the App Store, which you choose to install.
Contact
Questions about this policy, or anything else: iambatoan@gmail.com.