Twenty-one questions, answered plainly.

No. Said Daily is built around warm paper and stays light, on purpose.

Nothing until you turn notifications on. Setup offers that once, with the Weekly Digest and Notes from Jeffrey already selected beside the Daily Thought — all of it shown before anything is enabled, and “Not Now” skips it. The Daily Thought, the Weekly Digest and Weather Notes are local notifications your device schedules itself; Notes from Jeffrey, and activity in a Group you have joined, arrive through Apple’s push service. Each kind is separate, and each can be switched off in Settings.

No. There are no third-party advertising SDKs in the app, and nothing in it is used for behavioral advertising or cross-app tracking.

Five things, each only when you use the feature that needs it, and nothing the moment you open it: notifications, when you turn on the Daily Thought or any other kind — setup offers that once, and you can skip it; your location, if you want the weather on Today; the camera, for a photo to keep with a thought or to scan a group invitation; your photo library, to save a thought’s image; and Face ID, if you choose to lock your reflections. Your location goes to Apple Weather and nowhere else. Inviting somebody from your contacts asks for no permission at all — the picker runs outside the app and hands back only the person you chose.

Both. Seven widgets carry the day’s thought, a theme, a collection, a reflection, your rhythm, the quiet reminder and a group’s thought; the Apple Watch complication comes in four shapes.

A private, invitation-only place to share a few thoughts with people you choose. There are no public profiles and nothing to browse. Groups are the one part of the app that needs an account.

Jeffrey Hakim, on his own, in Kentucky. He wrote 29,229 of the thoughts himself. His other work is at jeffreyhakim.com.

In his words: he wanted a moment before the rest of the day — a chance to arrive in his own life before being pulled into everyone else’s. The longer answer is on the About page, including why the reflection matters as much as the thought.

He is a designer and developer, and has spent seven years on ecommerce — brand identity, storefronts and product work, for Fortune 500 systems and for brands launching on their own. All of it is at jeffreyhakim.com.

32,259, and they are in the app rather than fetched from anywhere. Every one of them carries an explanation and a question of its own.

3,030 are credited to 152 named people. The other 29,229 were written for the app.

Six themes — creativity, gratitude, leadership, reflection, resilience and stillness — and twenty-four categories underneath them.

Not to read. The library is bundled with the app, and search runs on your device.

Not to read, save, write or collect. Sign in with Apple is optional for all of that, and required only for Groups.

It stays on your device. If you turn sync on, it is also kept in your private iCloud database, which is yours and not mine.

Not unless you put it in a Group yourself. Your private reflections and your own writing are not placed in the group database and are not shown to other users.

Yes. Settings → Manage Account deletes the account and its server-side data, and removes the app’s private iCloud records. Some writing stays on the device you are holding so you do not lose it by accident; you can remove that separately.

On the App Store. The whole library comes with it, so there is nothing else to download afterwards.

Nothing. There are no in-app purchases either: the app carries no purchase code at all, so nothing inside it can charge you.

I do not publish plans or dates. What I can show you is the log — what has actually been built, and on what day. Its most recent entry is the honest answer to this question.

An iPhone on iOS 26, an iPad on iPadOS 26 or a Mac with Apple silicon on macOS 26 — those versions or later. There is an Apple Watch app too, for watchOS 26 or later.