Safety and privacy

How Stridefly keeps your money data safe

Stridefly is built on services you already trust: Apple to sign you in and store your data, and Plaid to connect your banks. We don't keep your balances, transactions or positions.

This page explains how Stridefly protects your data in plain language. For the formal details, read our Privacy Policy.

Sign in with Apple

Your Stridefly account uses Sign in with Apple. Your Apple Account password stays between you and Apple, and your sign-in has Apple's protection: two-factor authentication, Face ID, and the choice to hide your email address.

You only need to sign in to link a bank or subscribe. Without signing in, you can use Stridefly for free with accounts you add by hand.

Connect your banks through Plaid

You link banks, cards and brokerages through Plaid, trusted by more than 9,000 financial apps, including Robinhood, SoFi, Venmo, Rocket Money, YNAB and Copilot. You sign in on Plaid's secure screen or on your bank's own site, and you choose which accounts to share. Your bank sign-in stays between you, Plaid and your bank.

  1. Your bank or brokerage You sign in on Plaid's secure screen or on your bank's own site.
  2. Plaid Trusted by more than 9,000 financial apps, including Robinhood, SoFi, Venmo and Rocket Money. Brings in the accounts you choose.
  3. Our connection service Passes your data on to your phone, encrypted. Keeps no copy of your balances, positions or transactions.
  4. Your phone and your iCloud Saved on your phone and in your own iCloud, encrypted by Apple.

Saved on your phone and in your iCloud

Your accounts, balances, transactions, budgets and positions are saved on your phone and in your own iCloud account. Apple encrypts that data on the way to iCloud and on its servers. We don't keep a database of our customers' finances.

Locked on your phone

Lock Stridefly with Face ID. When you switch apps, a privacy cover hides your balances in the app switcher, and it's on by default. One switch, Hide balances, hides every balance in the app when someone's looking over your shoulder.

Privacy and security settings: Hide balances off, Lock with Face ID off, Lock when I leave on, Hide in app switcher on, and Share anonymous analytics off. Privacy and security settings: Hide balances off, Lock with Face ID off, Lock when I leave on, Hide in app switcher on, and Share anonymous analytics off.

Privacy settings: what stays hidden

Encrypted on the way to your phone

When your bank sends new data, it travels encrypted through our connection service to your phone. That service keeps no copy of your balances, positions or transactions, and the keys that keep each connection working are stored encrypted.

You're in control

Disconnect an institution at any time. Export your data whenever you like. Erase your data or delete your account in Settings. Analytics are off until you turn them on, and they never include financial data. Our emails never include your balances, account names or holdings. We never sell your personal information.

Questions about security

No system is completely secure. That's why we rely on Apple and Plaid for the most sensitive steps, and keep no copy of your financial data ourselves. Questions about security? Email [email protected].

Questions about safety and privacy

Is Stridefly safe?

Stridefly is built on services you already trust. You connect your banks through Plaid, you sign in with Apple, and your financial data is saved on your phone and in your own iCloud, encrypted by Apple. We don't keep a database of our customers' finances.

Does Stridefly sell my data?

No. We never sell your personal information.

Does Stridefly see my bank login?

No. You sign in on Plaid's secure screen or on your bank's own site, so your bank sign-in stays between you, Plaid and your bank.

Does my data touch your servers?

Yes, on its way to your phone. When the app opens, it registers your phone with a service we operate so it can receive notifications. When you connect a bank or brokerage, your financial data passes encrypted through that service on its way to your phone, and ticker symbols pass through it when the app looks up prices. That service does not keep copies of your balances, positions or transactions. It keeps an encrypted key for each connection and the institution’s name (for example, “Chase”). When you sign in, it keeps a code Apple provides for your Stridefly account, plus your name and email if you choose to share them. It also keeps basic details about your phone, such as the app version. The Privacy Policy has the details.

Can I delete my data?

Yes. When you’re signed in, Erase device data removes your financial data from your phone and its iCloud copy; when you’re not, it clears this phone only. Delete Account also disconnects your institutions and removes your Stridefly account. Both are in Settings, and Delete Account cannot be undone. To remove a waitlist entry, email [email protected].

Join the private beta

Stridefly is in private beta. We invite people in small groups, starting in November. Once you're in, you can look around with sample data before you add anything, no account needed.

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