Get unstuck without starting over.

What Sidle is

Sidle is a body-doubling companion for starting things: name the task, name the first physical move, and start together. The free loop begins locally with no account.

Get in touch

Can I use Sidle without paying or signing in?

Yes. Pick a companion style, enter a task, and tap Start together — the timer starts locally and immediately. Silent body-doubling sessions, optional Live Activity, and on-device Moments need no account and no provider connection.

Local Pro adds a “For next time” Return Bridge, an in-app hello, optional on-device voice, and an optional background notification. The Return Bridge is saved only on this phone and is never sent to our server or to DeepSeek.

Provider-backed AI is separate and for adults aged 18 or older. It can connect only after explicit adult confirmation and acceptance of the current DeepSeek, China-processing and sensitive-data disclosure.

How does the provider note work without an account?

Sidle creates a separate anonymous provider profile for each connected device. Fresh connection requires verified Apple purchase proof and Apple App Attest, and a rotating opaque Keychain credential renews short-lived signed access for that device profile. When provider AI is connected and currently consented, one eligible session can replace the prior brief note — Sidle does not build a note history. Neither the provider note, the Return Bridge, nor local Moments sync to another device.

Buy, restore, cancel or manage Pro

Buy: open Sidle Settings and choose Get Sidle Pro. Apple shows the controlling local price, period, renewal terms, taxes, and any trial eligibility before confirmation.

Restore: tap Restore purchases on the paywall. Sidle asks Apple to refresh the current entitlement and never receives your card details. Buying or restoring can reconcile an already-connected identity but cannot create a new provider profile — only an explicit Connect or Reconnect, after adult confirmation and current AI consent, can do that.

Cancel or manage: on iPhone, open Settings → your name → Subscriptions → Sidle. Cancelling stops a future renewal; access normally continues through the date Apple shows.

Provider AI service limits

Provider processing is metered per UTC calendar month, with a different cost ceiling for each plan and for an eligible trial; the app shows the current limits. These are service limits — not money, account credit, or a session count — and no plan promises unlimited AI. Limits reset at the start of each UTC month. Provider availability or the service-wide ceiling can stop AI sooner, and local Pro continues.

What does “Delete this device’s Sid memory” remove?

It tombstones and removes this device’s anonymous provider profile, latest provider note, raw session rows, device-owned legacy cost rows, and active credential material, then clears local Keychain credentials. Other devices have separate profiles and are not deleted, and your Apple purchase remains.

A minimal content-free tombstone remains for up to 48 hours, and a separate content-free deletion ledger remains for 40 days so that any offline database restore can be scrubbed before it serves traffic. Permanent content-free revocation fences remain solely to stop deleted credentials from working again. Provider-side DeepSeek copies or caches are outside the endpoint. Local Moments and the Return Bridge remain on this phone until you remove Sidle’s local app data.

What happens with crisis or dangerous task text?

A deterministic crisis-language check runs before any DeepSeek use or provider-session storage and returns a static regional care card. A separate dangerous-task check returns a static refusal for violence, weapons, intrusion, and other dangerous wrongdoing. Matched text is not sent to DeepSeek and is not stored as a provider session.

Sid is not emergency support or a professional service. If there may be immediate danger, contact local emergency services or an appropriate qualified person.

Why did Sid go quiet?

A session always starts locally. A missing or old consent marker stays silent, and network, provider, safety, allowance, or service-ceiling failures fall back to local presence. The timer and local Pro continue. Restore Purchases does not fix provider availability and cannot create a new provider profile.

Notifications and spoken check-ins

The Pro hello appears in-app without notification permission. Voice is optional and generated on-device while Sidle is open. A separate background notification is optional and requested only after you turn it on; you can choose Soon, Steady, or Spacious timing. Sidle does not record your microphone or upload audio.

More

See also the Privacy Policy and the Terms of Use.

Last updated 2026-07-29.