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Security & Privacy
Your family's finances and your children's details stay with you. AidAhead has no accounts, no servers and no tracking.
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Stays on your devices
AidAhead makes no internet connections of its own; a link to a college's page opens in your browser. Your answers, estimates, letters and plans stay in your family file, on your devices and in your own iCloud Drive if you keep it there.
Encrypted
Your family file is encrypted with a key only your devices hold, kept in your iCloud Keychain. On iPhone and iPad, the app's files are also protected whenever the device is locked.
Nothing collected
No accounts, ads, analytics or tracking. We don't collect any data from the app.
Children's details
Only a first name or nickname, birth year, class year, college list, and, if you choose, unweighted GPA and SAT or ACT scores. Grades and scores are used only to estimate merit aid and stay in your family file.
Award letters
Letters are read on this device. The PDF or photos are never kept or sent anywhere; only the lines you confirm are saved.
Reminders
Deadline reminders are set on this device. Nothing is sent to us.
What we never ask
Your Social Security number, your FSA ID, or any bank, StudentAid.gov or College Board sign-in.
Deleting your data
Delete the family file in the Files app or Finder. Because nothing is stored anywhere else, that removes it all.
The FAFSA® is free
File it yourself at studentaid.gov. AidAhead never files it for you.