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Stardust Pricing: $7.99/mo for Policy-Based Privacy

Stardust markets itself as private but stores data on servers. We cover pricing, what privacy-focused means architecturally, and how Floriva compares.

Stardust's Privacy Positioning Stardust launched after Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization raised public concern about period tracker privacy. The app explicitly markets itself as privacy conscious, and it has attracted users specifically looking for a Flo alternative on those grounds. The marketing is not dishonest. Stardust states it does not sell data, and we have no evidence otherwise. But there is a distinction worth understanding before paying $7.99/mo for it. Policy Privacy vs Architectural Privacy Stardust's privacy is policy based: the company commits to not misusing your data. This is the same commitment every period tracker makes, including Flo before the FTC found otherwise in 2021. Policy based privacy depends on: The company maintaining its current commitment No breach exposing server side data No court order compelling data production Stardust requires an account and stores data on its servers. These are architectural facts that policy language cannot change. A subpoena to Stardust's servers would produce your data regardless of what the privacy policy says. Architectural privacy works differently: if data is stored on your device and never transmitted to a