Effective date: 3 November 2026 · Applies to Pulse News 2.0 for iPhone, iPad and Apple Watch · Developer: Akshay Bora
Pulse News does not require an account. There is no Pulse server, and the developer does not receive your reading data. Pulse has no advertising, analytics or crash-reporting SDKs, does not sell personal information, and does not track you across other companies’ apps and websites.
Your topics and sources, saved stories, collections, reading history, followed threads, Boards, journal highlights, muted words, your chosen city, notification choices and cached stories are stored on your device. Highlights keep a copy of the publisher text so the passage stays readable after the news cache is cleared. Your device’s own backups, managed by you and Apple, may include this data.
iCloud sync is off by default. If you turn it on in Settings → Offline & storage → iCloud, Pulse stores a copy of your saved stories, highlights, threads, Boards and feed choices in the app’s private container in your own iCloud account, so your iPhone and iPad show the same library. The data is held by Apple under Apple’s privacy policy and is not accessible to the developer. The news cache never syncs. Turning sync off stops further syncing; you can remove the stored copy from your iCloud settings.
Pulse fetches RSS and Atom feeds, photos and publisher logos directly from each publisher or image host. Those services receive normal internet request information, such as your IP address and the requested address, and may keep logs under their own privacy policies. A custom feed you add sends requests to the address you choose. OPML files are read and written on your device.
When you share a link to Pulse from Safari or another app, the link is placed in a private inbox on your device. Pulse then requests that page directly from its website to read its title and photo. The link is not sent to the developer.
Listen reads stories aloud with speech generated on your device. Near you matches stories against a city you type or choose from a list; Pulse does not request or use your location. Outlet details such as ownership and country come from information bundled in the app; viewing them makes no extra request.
The Apple Watch app shows headlines that your iPhone sends to it directly after a refresh. Widgets and the watch complication receive a small headline snapshot and your theme through the app’s local App Group. None of this passes through a Pulse server.
Optional features that use Apple Intelligence run with Apple’s on-device Foundation Models. Pulse does not upload article text or your requests to an AI server, and generated text is labelled separately from publisher text.
Notifications are optional. Pulse asks for permission when you turn them on and schedules local alerts and reminders; there is no Pulse push-notification server. iOS decides when background refresh runs. You can turn alerts off in Pulse or in iOS Settings.
Pulse Premium is offered as monthly and yearly auto-renewable subscriptions. Apple processes payment, billing, refunds and subscription management. Pulse checks your access using StoreKit’s verified transactions on your device and never receives your payment details. Purchases are governed by Apple’s standard Terms of Use (EULA).
Pulse does not access your location, contacts, photo library, camera, microphone or health data.
You can remove saved stories, highlights, threads, Boards and custom feeds in Pulse, and clear the image cache, cached stories or reading history in Settings. Clearing cached stories keeps saved stories and the journal. Deleting the app removes its data from the device, subject to your backups and, if you used it, the iCloud copy. There is no Pulse account to delete.
Pulse is a general news reader and does not knowingly collect personal information from children. Publisher feeds can include mature news topics. Publishers control their content, and how much article text a feed supplies varies.
This website is hosted with OpenAI Sites, which receives normal web request information under OpenAI’s privacy policy. If you email support, your message and address are used only to answer you and are kept only as long as needed. Pulse never sends app data to the support mailbox by itself.
We will update this page when privacy practices change and show the new effective date above. For questions or requests, email onlyforapp94@gmail.com or see the support page. Please don’t include private journal passages, payment details or feed access tokens unless your request needs them.