{"id":40539,"date":"2026-04-22T01:58:50","date_gmt":"2026-04-21T23:58:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/most-health-apps-collect-your-data-is-that-really-necessary\/"},"modified":"2026-04-22T01:58:50","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T23:58:50","slug":"most-health-apps-collect-your-data-is-that-really-necessary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/most-health-apps-collect-your-data-is-that-really-necessary\/","title":{"rendered":"Most Health Apps Collect Your Data\u2026 Is That Really Necessary?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- SC_OFF --><\/p>\n<div class=\"md\">\n<p>Disclosure: this is a self promotion post.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve been noticing that a lot of health and habit apps require accounts and store personal data in the cloud \u2014 even for something as simple as tracking medication.<\/p>\n<p>That feels unnecessary, especially for something so sensitive.<\/p>\n<p>So I built a medication tracker that works completely offline:<\/p>\n<p>no login<\/p>\n<p>no data collection<\/p>\n<p>everything stays on your phone<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/play.google.com\/store\/apps\/details?id=com.vnytalab.carebell\">https:\/\/play.google.com\/store\/apps\/details?id=com.vnytalab.carebell<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m trying to keep it as simple and private as possible.<\/p>\n<p>Would love some honest feedback on this approach \u2014 do you actually care about privacy in apps like this, or is convenience more important for you?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><!-- SC_ON -->   submitted by   <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/user\/Renpa09\"> \/u\/Renpa09 <\/a> <br \/> <span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/datasets\/comments\/1ss3i6p\/most_health_apps_collect_your_data_is_that_really\/\">[link]<\/a><\/span>   <span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/datasets\/comments\/1ss3i6p\/most_health_apps_collect_your_data_is_that_really\/\">[comments]<\/a><\/span><\/p><div class='watch-action'><div class='watch-position align-right'><div class='action-like'><a class='lbg-style1 like-40539 jlk' href='javascript:void(0)' data-task='like' data-post_id='40539' data-nonce='65e0e39b87' rel='nofollow'><img class='wti-pixel' src='https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-content\/plugins\/wti-like-post\/images\/pixel.gif' title='Like' \/><span class='lc-40539 lc'>0<\/span><\/a><\/div><\/div> <div class='status-40539 status align-right'><\/div><\/div><div class='wti-clear'><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Disclosure: this is a self promotion post. I\u2019ve been noticing that a lot of health and habit&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[85],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-datatards","wpcat-85-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40539","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40539"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40539\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}