Privacy & Data

How Awra handles your health data — where it lives, what leaves your phone, and why the architecture underneath a health app decides what is structurally possible with your log.

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Privacy & Data · Architecture · 12 min read

Your Health Data Is You — Why Local-First Privacy Matters

Your food log, sleep timing, hydration, and mood ratings are the most intimate dataset your phone quietly builds about you. Where that data lives — and what leaves it, and when — is the whole story of what "privacy" means in a health app.

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Privacy & Data · 10 min read

Why Your Health Data Belongs to You: The Case for Local-First Apps

Most health apps are cloud-first and treat your data as their asset. Here is what local-first health apps do differently and why it actually matters.