Tonight Privacy Policy
Last updated: November 1, 2026
Tonight: Family Meal Planner ("Tonight", "we") helps families decide what to cook for dinner. This policy explains what information the app uses, where it is stored, and the choices you have. In short: we do not run our own user database, we do not sell or share your data, we do not use advertising, and our only analytics are anonymous usage events that never include anything you enter.
Information you enter
To suggest dinners your whole table will eat, you can enter:
- Your household: first names or nicknames for the people at your table, including your children, and which foods each person won't eat ("hard-nos").
- Allergies and diet preferences, such as milk, peanut, vegetarian or gluten-free.
- Dinner feedback: which dinners you cooked and whether each person ate them.
- Your plans and lists: your week plan, grocery list, saved recipes, and reminder times.
You decide what to enter. Nicknames work just as well as real names.
Where your information is stored
- On your iPhone. Everything above is stored on your device.
- In your own iCloud account. When iCloud is on, Tonight saves your household to your private iCloud database using Apple's CloudKit, so it stays in sync across your devices. We cannot access your private iCloud data.
- With your partner, only if you invite them. If you invite someone to share your table, the household, week plan and grocery list you share are stored in iCloud and visible to the people you invited. You can stop sharing at any time from the Our table screen.
Sign in with Apple
If you choose to sign in with Apple, Tonight receives an anonymous Apple user identifier and, if you allow it, your name. They are stored only on your device and used to greet you and keep your account on this phone.
Purchases
Tonight Plus subscriptions are processed by Apple through the App Store. We never see or store your payment details.
To check whether your subscription is active, Tonight uses RevenueCat, a subscription service. RevenueCat receives your App Store purchase receipts (which plan, when it started and renews, and whether it was refunded) and a random app user ID that Tonight creates. This ID is not linked to your name, email or household. RevenueCat does not receive anything you enter in Tonight. See RevenueCat's privacy policy.
App usage analytics
To learn where new parents get stuck while setting up Tonight, the app sends anonymous usage events to PostHog, a product analytics service. The events record steps such as:
- which setup screen was shown, and whether setup was finished or skipped
- whether the Tonight Plus screen was opened or closed
- whether a purchase was started, cancelled, failed or succeeded, with the plan chosen
Each event carries a random ID that Tonight creates when it is installed, plus basic app and device information such as the app version, iOS version, iPhone model, and your language and region settings. Tonight's PostHog project is set to discard IP addresses, and the app asks PostHog not to look up your location from them.
These events never include names, hard-nos, allergies, recipes, dinner feedback or anything else you enter. We don't link them to your Apple ID, name or email. We use them only to improve Tonight, never for advertising or tracking across other apps. See PostHog's privacy policy.
Notifications
If you turn on dinner reminders, Tonight schedules them on your device. No reminder data leaves your iPhone.
Recipes
Tonight may download its recipe library from our server. These requests contain no personal information about you or your household.
Children's privacy
Tonight is designed for parents and adult cooks, not for children to use. A parent may enter a child's first name or nickname and food preferences. That information stays on the parent's device and iCloud account, as described above. We do not knowingly collect information directly from children.
What we don't do
- We don't sell, rent or trade your information.
- We don't show ads or use advertising identifiers.
- We don’t use tracking SDKs. RevenueCat (above) only checks subscriptions, and our usage analytics (above) never include what you enter.
- Allergy information in Tonight helps filter recipes, but it is not medical advice. Always check ingredient labels.
Your choices and deleting your data
- Edit or remove any household member, hard-no or allergy on the Our table screen.
- Stop sharing with your partner at any time.
- Deleting the app removes the data stored on your iPhone. To remove the iCloud copy, go to Settings → [your name] → iCloud → Manage Account Storage → Tonight → Delete Data.
Changes
If we change this policy, we will update the date above. Significant changes will also be noted in the app's release notes.
Contact
Questions about privacy: furkankar6@icloud.com