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The rule is simple: the ledger is yours, free, forever — the doorman is Plus.

Everything that records your activity is free and uncapped: all your subjects, goals and habits, the match clock and the whistle, extra time, adding time by hand, Today, the Week (plan and record), History, streaks and your focus ratio, the Record at all three ranges (this week, this month, and every hour since your first block), the Live Activity, Siri and Shortcuts, the screen-time dashboard, the focus shield that sets apps aside during a block, one standing window, and breaks. None of that is a trial, and none of it expires.

Added Time Plus adds the parts that work for you every day, including days you never open the app: unlimited standing windows, per-app daily limits, screen-time goals with step-down coaching (up to three, including quiet mornings), the doorman's ledger, windows that follow an iOS Focus, and four more kits. It's $3.99/month, $24.99/year with a 7-day free trial, or $79.99 once for lifetime. See Pricing.

Yes. Everything stays on your iPhone — your subjects, schedules, and focus history. There's no account, there are no servers of ours, and there's no analytics or tracking. The only network activity is Apple's own App Store machinery: the app asks the App Store for the Plus prices when it opens, and handles a purchase or a restore if you make one. It carries nothing about you, and nothing about your subjects, blocks, schedules, or history. See the Privacy Policy for the full picture.

App blocking is built on Apple's Family Controls / Screen Time. Granting access lets Added Time shield the apps and categories you pick — during a focus block, or during a standing window you set — all handled on-device by iOS.

When you pick apps, Apple hands the app only opaque tokens: Added Time literally cannot read which apps or sites they are. It is told nothing beyond what your own rules need — that a window is running, or that an app you set a limit or a screen-time goal on has crossed the amount you chose today. All of it stays on your phone, the access is used for nothing but the shielding you turned on, and you can revoke it any time in Settings → Screen Time.

No — and that's deliberate. A standing window makes the apps you named step aside on a schedule. It never starts the clock on your behalf. Kicking off a focus block is always your decision, from Today, Siri, or the Shortcuts app.

During a focus block, the apps you named are shielded until you whistle. During a standing window or a per-app limit, they're shielded for as long as that rule is running.

You can always get out. Take a break lifts a passive shield for a fixed fifteen minutes — hold the button for five seconds, and it re-arms on its own when the time is up. Breaks are free on every tier — a paywalled exit isn't something this app will ever build. Added Time is a commitment, not a prison; the point is to help you keep the one you made to yourself.

The emergency exit, in Settings. It lifts every passive shield — windows, limits, quiet mornings — and each one re-arms at its own next occurrence, so there's nothing to remember to turn back on. It's free on every tier, it isn't counted against you, and a running focus match is never touched: the whistle stays the only way a match ends.

The one exception is deliberate: a window — or a daily limit — you've set to a firm hold keeps its shield through the emergency exit — that firmness was your own instruction. (If Plus lapses, a firm hold softens back to the standard five-second hold, so leaving never gets harder than it was on the free tier.)

Stop for a month and nothing breaks. Nothing is deleted, ever. Your extra standing windows, per-app limits, and screen-time goals stop being enforced and sit in the Week as resting entries — still there, just not running. Your subjects, tallies, history, and streaks are completely untouched, and the free tier keeps working in full.

Subscribe again and everything picks up exactly where it was.

Subscriptions are managed by Apple, not by us. On your iPhone go to Settings → [your name] → Subscriptions, pick Added Time, and cancel or switch plans there. Cancel at least 24 hours before the period ends to avoid the next charge — and if you're in a free trial, at least 24 hours before it finishes.

Refunds are handled by Apple too, at reportaproblem.apple.com. We have no access to your payment details and can't issue a refund ourselves.

Open the paywall in the app and tap Restore. Your purchase lives with your Apple Account, so signing in to the same Apple Account is all that's needed — there's no password or account to recover from us, because we never had one.

Because everything is stored only on your device, removing the app also removes your subjects, schedules, and history. There's no cloud backup — that's the privacy trade-off, by design.

Take your record with you before you go. Settings → Export the record writes every block to a spreadsheet: the day, the subject, the time you played, the time the clock was stopped, and whether you added it by hand. It's free, on every tier — your record is yours. The export covers the record itself; subjects, schedules and settings aren't re-importable, so note those down if you want them. (A purchased subscription is unaffected: it lives with your Apple Account, and you can restore it.)

Added Time runs on iPhone, on iOS 18 or later.

Wonderful — that feedback is how the app gets better. Use the contact channel below and tell me what you were doing when it happened; that's usually enough to find it.