Guest mode

What you track can be some of the most private information on your phone. Guest mode is a curtain you draw before handing the phone over — to show someone a photo, let a child play, pass it around a table — so a casual glance doesn't land on your symptom list.

Be clear about what it is not: it is a curtain, not a lock. There is no password, nothing is encrypted, nothing is moved or deleted. Someone determined, with time and your unlocked phone, is not who this protects against. For that threat, use your phone's own lock.

Setting it up

Settings → Guest mode → turn the feature on. Then, with the mode still off, mark what should be hidden: every tracker and group row on the Customize tab gains a Hide in Guest mode menu item, and a hidden item shows a small crossed-out-eye marker so you can see your choices at a glance. Hiding a group hides all its trackers in one go.

What the curtain does

While Guest mode is on, hidden items are simply absent — from logging, Customize, Stats (entries, charts, heat rows, filter chips), the export screen's counts and files, and reminders that would name them. An entry whose only content is hidden disappears entirely; a day left empty disappears with it. Check-ins that would show only hidden things are not offered. One-tap logging's notification is not posted at all.

Just as important: the feature itself is invisible. While the mode is on there are no markers, no menu items, no "Guest mode is on" indicator anywhere outside its own Settings page. An app that visibly hides things invites the question it exists to avoid.

A few edges are drawn deliberately:

• The Full backup export tier is unavailable while the mode is on — a full backup would carry the hidden data, so it can only be written with the curtain open. Data exports work and exclude hidden content.
• Nothing you do in Guest mode damages hidden data: edits to a shared entry leave its hidden values untouched.

Flipping it quickly

Besides the Settings switch, long-press the Customize tab to flip the curtain from anywhere. Drawing it commits immediately; lifting it asks first (so a guest who discovers the gesture still gets a prompt). Both directions confirm with a brief border flash.

Turning the mode off restores everything exactly as it was; deactivating the whole feature keeps your per-item choices for when you turn it back on.