Affirmations · iPhone
Becoming pairs daily affirmations with your own photos and, if you like, your own voice — so practicing feels personal, not generic.
Inside the app
From the theme picker to your personal Journey — a look at every screen.
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Key features
Six things that set Becoming apart.
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Email support →Last updated: August 25, 2026. This policy applies to the Becoming iOS application published by Mark Utility Labs.
Short version: Becoming stores your affirmations, photos, voice recordings and settings locally on your device, and none of it is ever sent to a server. What does leave the app is anonymous and technical: a crash report when the app crashes, and a count of how the unlock screen is used. No ads, no advertising identifiers, no tracking you across other apps or websites, and no sale of your data, ever.
Custom affirmations, photos you add, voice recordings, session history, streaks, and reminder settings are all created and stored locally on your device.
All of this data lives in the app's local storage on your device — there's no cloud account and no server sync. Deleting the app removes all of this data permanently.
Becoming uses Firebase Crashlytics, a service run by Google, to report crashes automatically so bugs get found and fixed. When the app crashes, a report goes to Google containing the device model, the iOS and app version, the technical details of the crash, and a random identifier Firebase generates for your installation of the app. That identifier is not your name, your email, or your Apple ID; delete and reinstall the app and it changes. A crash report never contains your affirmations, your photos or your voice recordings.
When Becoming shows its unlock screen, it counts a short list of events through Firebase Analytics, also from Google: that the screen was shown, which layout was shown, and that an unlock completed. These events carry no personal content — none of your affirmations, your photos or your voice recordings, no name, no contact details. Becoming never attaches your identity to them; Firebase records them against the same kind of per-install identifier described above. They exist so we can tell whether the unlock screen works, and for nothing else.
Apple handles the transaction itself. Mark Utility Labs never sees or stores your card details, billing address, or Apple ID password.
Your unlock is kept on your device, in the iOS Keychain. If you unlock the whole collection of Mark Utility Labs apps at once, Becoming offers to safeguard that unlock so you can get it back on a new device — the only feature in the app that involves signing in anywhere. Only if you choose it, Becoming asks you to Sign in with Apple and stores a short record in Google Firestore, keyed to the identifier Apple returns: which unlock you hold and when you got it. Nothing else goes into it. Becoming never asks Apple for your name or email address, so we hold no way to connect that record to a real-world identity — but because it is keyed to your Apple sign-in it is a per-person record, and Apple's privacy labels for Becoming declare it as linked to you.
It's worth being explicit about the absences:
Google (Firebase) receives crash reports, the anonymous usage counts, and — only if you choose to safeguard an unlock — the unlock record. Apple handles the transaction and Sign in with Apple. There are no other recipients.
Becoming may request Microphone access to record your own voice for custom affirmations, Photo Library access to add your own photos to a theme, and Speech Recognition, used only to support voice recording. You can deny or revoke any of these in iOS Settings without affecting the rest of the app.
Some built-in theme photos are sourced from Unsplash, a third-party photo service; these images are fetched for display only and don't involve sending your personal data anywhere. Reminders are scheduled entirely on-device via iOS and are not routed through any push notification server.
Becoming is not directed at children under 13 and does not knowingly collect personal information from children. It never asks anyone, of any age, for a name, an email address, or any other identifying detail.
If this policy changes, we'll update the “Last updated” date above.
Questions about this policy or your privacy? Please contact us at:
Mark Utility Labs
Email: mark@vibecode.review
Last updated: August 2, 2026. These terms cover the Becoming iOS application published by Mark Utility Labs.
Short version: Becoming runs on your device, needs no account, and shows you no ads. Use it however you like.
Becoming is published by Mark Utility Labs for your personal use. It needs no account and no sign-up, it shows no advertisements, and your affirmations, photos and recordings stay on your device.
Some features are unlocked by an in-app purchase. Any purchase is a one-time, non-consumable unlock — there is no subscription, nothing renews, and you are not charged again for what you have already unlocked. Purchases are processed by Apple through the App Store rather than by Mark Utility Labs, and refunds are handled by Apple under its standard App Store refund process at reportaproblem.apple.com.
Becoming is provided as a convenience tool. Software can contain mistakes, so for anything critical please confirm against an authoritative source. Mark Utility Labs is not liable for losses arising from use of the app.
The app is provided "as is" and "as available", without warranties of any kind, express or implied, including fitness for a particular purpose.
Please don't reverse engineer, resell, or pass the app off as your own. That's the whole list.
If these terms change, we'll update the "Last updated" date above. Continued use after a change means you accept the updated terms.
Questions about these terms? Please contact us at:
Mark Utility Labs
Email: mark@vibecode.review
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