Watch+Pagebeat — Privacy Policy
Last updated: 20 October 2026
Pagebeat (“the app”) is a reading tracker for Apple Watch by Active Bridge, LLC. This policy explains what the app does and does not do with your data.
The short version
Everything Pagebeat knows stays on your Apple Watch. There are no servers of ours, no accounts, no analytics and no ads, and we receive nothing. The app goes online for one thing only: finding your book’s cover on Open Library (see below).
Your heart rate
- While a reading session runs, Pagebeat reads your heart rate through Apple Health, only with your permission. It shows it live, and at the end how it changed from the start of the session.
- To get a live heart rate, the session runs as a Mind and Body workout on the watch. When you finish, that workout is discarded: Pagebeat saves no workout to Apple Health or the Fitness app. The heart-rate readings the watch takes meanwhile are kept by Apple Health as all your heart-rate readings are, under Apple’s own privacy policy.
- The heart rate a session ended on is kept on the watch, for the Pagebeat complication. Nothing else from Health is kept.
- Heart-rate data is never sent anywhere, never stored in iCloud, and never used for advertising.
Your books and reading
- Your books, their page counts and progress, the pages you read each day, your goal, your streak and your reminder time are stored on the watch only.
- The daily reminder is a notification the watch schedules for itself. Nothing is sent to us to deliver it.
Book covers from Open Library
To find a book’s cover, the app sends the book’s title and author, as you typed them, to Open Library (run by the non-profit Internet Archive), and downloads the cover image from it. Nothing else goes with it: no name, no account, no heart rate. Open Library, like any website, sees the request’s IP address; its own terms and privacy policy apply to that. The cover is then kept on the watch.
Purchases
Pagebeat’s 7-day free trial and Pagebeat Pro are In-App Purchases made through Apple’s App Store. Apple handles the payment and your Apple Account under its own privacy policy; we run no server for purchases and receive no payment details, name or email. The app only asks the App Store on your watch whether the trial or Pro is yours, and when the trial began.
What the app shares
Nothing with us, and nothing with anyone else beyond the Open Library lookup above. We do not sell, share or use any data for advertising, and there is no tracking across apps or websites.
Deleting your data, and stopping
- Delete Pagebeat from your watch, and everything it stored goes with it.
- Turn off Pagebeat’s access to heart rate at any time on your iPhone: Health → Sharing → Apps → Pagebeat. Reading sessions still work, without a heart rate.
- Turn off the reminder in Pagebeat, or its notifications in the Watch app on your iPhone.
Not a medical device
Pagebeat’s heart rate is for your interest only. It does not diagnose, treat or monitor any condition.
Children
Pagebeat collects nothing that identifies anyone, of any age.
Changes
We will update this page when the policy changes; the date above shows the current version.
Contact
Active Bridge, LLC · watch@ab.team · Pagebeat support