Privacy policy

Last updated October 12, 2026. Dibs is in early testing, and this policy covers the test version at dibshome.com.

What Dibs collects

Your account

• Your email address, to send your sign-in codes. Dibs has no passwords.
• Your first name or nickname, so your crew knows who called dibs.
• Who lives with you, as you answered when you signed up (like partner, kids, or pets). Only you see it. Dibs uses it to set things up for your home and to know which emails and calendar events matter.
• Your plan: Free, your free month of Dibs Plus, or Dibs Plus. Dibs never sees or stores a card number. The free month needs no card at all, and in the App Store app, Apple handles payment.
• If you sign in with Google or Apple once that option is added, Dibs gets your name and email address from them, and nothing else.

Your household

• The household's name, and the names and roles of the people you add (like "Partner" or "Kid"). People without a phone are just a name. They don't have an account or an email address.
• To-dos on the shared list: what needs doing, the day and time, how many points it's worth, any note or checklist you add to it, who called dibs, whose turn it is for chores that take turns, and whether it's done.
• In the App Store app, if you allow notifications: a token from Apple that lets Dibs send your alerts to that phone. It's removed when you sign out.
• Household settings: the dibs day and the time dibs opens, how the work is split, alerts, and any kids' reward goals.
• High fives, streaks, and the weekly recap, which are made from the household's finished to-dos.
• Personal invite codes, which work once and stop working after someone joins.

My pile and your private finds

My pile is your own list that only you can see, for things like a doctor's appointment or a surprise party. Dibs also keeps the to-dos it suggests for you, plus any senders you tell Dibs to always trust. Only you can see these.

Forwarded email and calendar links

Dibs only reads what you choose to send it, and only after you set it up:

• Email: you get your own Dibs address (like [email protected]). Dibs reads only the emails you forward there, one at a time or with a forwarding rule you make for certain senders. It never signs in to your mailbox.
• Calendars: if you paste in a calendar's link (iPhone, Google, or Outlook), Dibs checks it about once an hour for events in the next three weeks. Anyone with that link can see that calendar, so only share it with Dibs.
• Dibs looks only for dates and to-dos, like appointments, school forms, and bills.
• To pick out the to-do, Dibs sends the email's text or the event to Anthropic's AI (see Services Dibs uses). Dibs keeps the to-do, the date, and a short label for where it came from (like "From email · Lincoln Elementary"). It never stores the whole email or event.
• Everything it finds lands in your private "Dibs found" list first. Nothing goes to your household until you add it.
• Stop any time: "Stop reading my email and calendars" in Connect calendar and email removes your calendar links, and Dibs ignores anything forwarded after that.
• Until this is switched on, the finds you see are examples, so you can see how it works. Dibs doesn't read texts.

What Dibs doesn't collect

No location, contacts, photos, or advertising IDs. No analytics or tracking cookies. Dibs doesn't follow you around the internet.

How it's used

Only to run Dibs for you and your household: signing you in, keeping the shared list in sync on everyone's phone, handing out leftover to-dos on dibs day, and sending the alerts and reminders you choose. That's the whole list.

Dibs never sells your information, never shows ads, and never uses what's in your household to train AI.

Who can see what

• People in your household see the household name, everyone's names, the shared list, the scoreboard, high fives, streaks, the weekly recap, and kids' reward goals.
• They don't see your email address, your private finds, or anything in My pile.
• People outside your household see nothing. A personal invite code only lets the person it was made for join.

Services Dibs uses

A few companies help run Dibs. They only handle your information to provide their service to Dibs:

• Supabase stores accounts and households, and sends sign-in codes by email.
• Cloudflare hosts the dibshome.com website, receives email sent to your Dibs address, and reads the calendar links you add.
• Anthropic runs the AI (Claude) that reads an email you forward, or a calendar event, to pick out the to-do. Anthropic doesn't use it to train its AI, and deletes it from its systems within 30 days.
• Google Fonts provides the fonts. Your browser downloads them from Google, which sees your IP address when that happens.
• jsDelivr delivers a piece of code Dibs uses to talk to Supabase.

Dibs only shares information beyond this if the law requires it.

What's saved on your phone

Dibs uses your browser's storage to keep you signed in, remember your email for faster sign-in, and remember small things like which tips you've already seen. It doesn't use tracking cookies.

Your choices

• Change your name or email in Profile.
• Stop Dibs reading your email and calendars from Connect calendar and email. You can also turn the calendar link off in your calendar app, and delete any forwarding rule.
• Download your data from Profile: your account, your finds, and your household's tasks.
• Leave a household from Profile. Your claimed to-dos go back on the list.
• Delete your account from Profile. It erases your account, My pile, and your private finds right away. To-dos you already added to a shared list stay with that household, without your name on them.

Kids

Dibs is meant to be set up by adults. Kids under 13 shouldn't make their own account. A parent can add a child to the household by first name, with no phone, email, or account needed, and the parent checks off the child's tasks.

If you think a child under 13 made an account on their own, email us and we'll delete it.

Keeping it safe

Everything travels over an encrypted connection. Database rules make sure only people in a household can read or change it. Sign-in uses one-time codes, so there's no password to leak. No system is perfect, but Dibs keeps as little as it can, so there's less to protect.

Changes and contact

If this policy changes, the date at the top changes too. If it's a big change, Dibs will tell you in the app first.

Questions, or want something deleted? Email [email protected]. Dibs is run by Alec Matyas.

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