Press kit

The documents

Four pages, and what each is for

The money shot

The whistle

If you run one image, run the second of these two. The main clock is held at 42:26; beneath it, ADDED TIME counts up in orange. Those minutes get added to the end, because a paused minute wasn't a minute toward the goal. The mechanic is the transition between the two frames — which is why they are supplied as a pair.

The page we would most like quoted

What Added Time will never do

Most apps in this category are built out of small coercions. So the refusals are written down in the product's own planning documents, before anyone asks for them — naming a thing is how it stays refused. The same list points at our own marketing. The full text, with the reasoning, is in the-refusals.md.

Every one of these makes the app harder to grow. That is the trade, and it was made on purpose. If any of it ever changes, it will be visible in the app, and you may hold this page up.

At a glance

The facts

• Free — the whole ledger, uncapped: subjects, the clock, the whistle, Today, the Week, History, the Record at every range, Live Activity, Siri and Shortcuts, breaks, the screen-time dashboard, export of the entire record to a spreadsheet, and one standing window, kept forever.
• Added Time Plus — standing windows for the whole week, daily limits, screen-time goals with step-down coaching, and the doorman's ledger. $4.99/month · $29.99/year with a 7-day free trial · $79.99 once. Family Sharing on all three.
• Lapsing deletes nothing. Extra windows, limits and goals stop being enforced and rest in the Week; resubscribe and they pick up where they were.
• iOS 18.0 or later · iPhone only · English and Spanish (es-419).
• No accounts, no servers of ours, no analytics, no third-party dependencies. The record lives on the phone and, from version 1.0.1, when iCloud is on, a copy lives in the user's own iCloud, which we can't see. App blocking is Apple's own on-device Screen Time framework, which hands the app opaque tokens — it cannot read which apps you picked.
• Mathias B Jacobson, sole developer, Arizona, USA.

Prices are US dollars and vary by region. Apple handles every payment and refund. Full detail in the fact sheet; the terms are on Terms of Service and Privacy Policy.

Images

What's in the kit

The app icon at 1024, 512, 256, 128 and 64 px, and six device captures at 750 × 1630 — the two match frames above, the Record at its career range, Today, the week's plan, and last week paged back and inked. All in the zip.

On light and dark: the Match screen is drawn dark in the app always — that is the design, not a mode — so both match frames are dark. Today, the Week and the Record are supplied in the app's warm-paper light appearance; the app follows the system setting on those screens, we simply haven't captured a dark set. Ask and we'll shoot one.

The screenshots are real captures from a real device with real hours on it. Nothing in them is mocked up, and no figure in them was invented for marketing.

Permission: the text is free to quote at any length. The images may be reproduced in coverage of Added Time without asking and without a fee — please don't recolour them or composite them into something the app doesn't do, and please don't use the icon or the name to imply we endorse anything. "Added Time" is attribution enough; a link to addedtime.app is appreciated. Full terms are in the kit's README.

User quotes

There aren't any yet, deliberately

Beta testers haven't been asked for permission to publish their words, and we won't run a paraphrase, a composite, or a "representative" quote in the meantime. When permissioned quotes exist they'll appear here and in the kit. Until then this slot stays empty rather than filled with something invented — which is, more or less, the whole point of the page above.