The short version: Gister runs on your phone. There is no account, the word engine is built into the app, and your games are not sent to us. If you choose to send feedback, we receive the details you share and basic app and device information. Your games stay on your phone and, if iCloud is on, in your own iCloud. We don't run ads, we don't sell data, and we don't track you across other apps.
What Gister stores
- On your device: your games (the words you guessed and when), your streak, your stats, your settings, and whether you bought Gister Plus. We have no account system and no copy of your games. If you send feedback, its app context includes whether you have Plus.
- In your iCloud (iPhone and iPad, optional): if iCloud is on for your phone, your game records sync between your own devices through Apple's iCloud key-value storage, under your Apple account. Apple stores it; we cannot read it. Sign out of iCloud, or turn iCloud off for Gister in iOS Settings, and the sync stops. On Android there is no cloud copy: your games stay on the phone.
- On our servers: nothing about your play. Guessing a word, scoring its meaning, the hints, the gist — all of it happens on the phone with a word list shipped inside the app. Gister makes no network request to play.
Reminders
If you turn on the daily nudge, Gister schedules a local notification on your phone. It is created and delivered by iOS or Android on the device. Nothing is sent to us. You can turn it off in Settings inside the app or in your phone's Settings.
Purchases
Gister Plus is a one-time purchase processed entirely by Apple (iPhone and iPad) or Google Play (Android). We never see your payment details. Apple or Google tells the app that the purchase happened; that flag is stored on your device and restored through your Apple account or Google account on a new phone.
Feedback (optional)
If you use Send Feedback, we receive your message, any screenshot you choose, and your email address if you provide one. The app also sends its version, your device model, operating-system version, language and region setting, Plus status, and a random feedback identifier stored on your device (in the Keychain on iPhone and iPad, in the app's private storage on Android). We use this information to read and act on your feedback, count votes, and show replies about shipped changes. This is not used to track you across apps.
Unread team replies are saved on your device so you can read them offline or after restarting. Dismissing a reply removes its text from this local inbox; the app keeps its identifier to prevent duplicate delivery.
Ideas may appear on our public feedback roadmap. Do not include private details in an idea. Your email is optional. Contact us at the address below to request removal of your feedback.
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On iPhone and iPad, Settings fetches our app catalog and app icons over the internet. The catalog is cached on your device. Tapping an app opens its App Store page with a campaign label so Apple can report installs from this list. This does not send your games or a feedback identifier.
Sharing
When you tap Share, the app hands your result (a picture and a short text) to your phone's share sheet. What you do with it from there — Messages, social media — is between you and that app. Gister does not post anything on its own.
What we don't do
- No advertising, no ad SDKs, no tracking across apps or websites.
- No selling or sharing of personal data.
- No accounts, no contact lists, no location collection, no analytics identifiers.
Age
Gister is a word game suitable for all ages. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13. Please do not include a child's personal details in feedback. If this happens, contact us so we can remove it.
Your controls
- Deleting the app removes every game, streak and setting from the phone. If iCloud sync was on, a copy of your game records stays in your iCloud, so a reinstall brings them back; turning iCloud off for Gister or signing out of iCloud stops that. On Android, deleting the app removes everything.
- Notifications can be turned off any time in Settings.
- Feedback is optional. On iPhone and iPad a feedback identifier stored in the Keychain may remain after reinstalling the app; on Android it is removed with the app. Deleting the app does not remove feedback already sent to us; contact us to request removal.
Changes
If this policy changes, the new version appears here with a new effective date.
Contact
Questions: playriot-support@agentmail.to