OutWit — Delete your account and data

Last updated: 23 September 2026

This page explains how to delete your OutWit account and everything stored with it. There are two ways to do it: from inside the app, or by emailing us if you no longer have the app installed.

If you still have OutWit installed

This is the fastest route and it takes effect immediately.

Open OutWit and go to the You tab.
Scroll to the bottom and tap Delete account.
Confirm. You may be asked to sign in again first — this is a security check to make sure it is really you.

The deletion happens straight away and cannot be undone.

If you have already uninstalled the app

Email appberry@proton.me from the email address you used to sign in, with the subject Delete my OutWit account.

We will confirm and delete the account within 30 days, and usually much sooner. We will only ever use the email you send from to locate and delete the account — it is not added to any list.

What gets deleted

Everything associated with your account is removed permanently:

Your account itself, and the sign-in link to Google or Apple
Your name and email address as provided by the sign-in service
Your practice deck and every word's status
All of your progress — times seen, accuracy, mastered words, streak and milestones
Your personal cues
Your real-life usage log, including the sentences you recorded and any person you noted
Any words you wrote yourself
Any words you submitted for review, and your review history
Your review of the app, if you wrote one

Deleting from inside the app also clears the copy held locally on that device.

What is kept, and why

Only one thing, and only in a form that is no longer yours:

If a word you suggested was accepted into the shared catalogue, the word itself stays in OutWit for everyone. It is part of the app's content at that point, not your personal data. Your name, username and email are removed from it, so nothing identifies you.

Nothing else that identifies you is retained. There are no backups kept for marketing or profiling. OutWit does keep anonymous daily usage counts for each installation (see the Privacy Policy); they are labelled with a random number made on the device, not linked to your account, so they cannot be matched to you, and each day's figures are deleted after 90 days.

If you never signed in

Then there is nothing here to delete. Used without an account, OutWit keeps everything in your browser's local storage on your own device and nothing personal is ever sent to a server. Uninstalling the app, or clearing your browser's storage for this site, removes all of it.

Questions

Email appberry@proton.me — a real person answers. See also the Privacy Policy and Support.

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