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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: subjects, goals and habits; the clock, the whistle, extra time, running start and adding time by hand; Today, the Week both ways, History, streaks and your focus ratio; the Record at all three ranges; the Live Activity, Siri and Shortcuts; the screen-time dashboard; apps stepping aside during a block; one standing window; and breaks. None of it 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, daily limits, screen-time goals with step-down coaching (up to three, including quiet mornings), and the doorman's ledger. It's $4.99/month, $29.99/year with a 7-day free trial, or $79.99 once for lifetime. See Pricing.

Yes. Nothing about you or your record is ever sent to us. Your subjects, schedules and focus history live on your iPhone and, from version 1.0.1, when iCloud is on, in a copy in your own iCloud, which we can't see (you can turn it off in the app's Settings). There's no account, there are no servers of ours, and there's no analytics or tracking. The app's only connections are Apple's: the App Store (prices, purchases, restores) and your own iCloud. See the Privacy Policy for the full picture.

It's built on Apple's Family Controls / Screen Time. Access lets the app shield the apps and categories you pick — during a block, or during a standing window — 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 a limit or a screen-time goal has crossed the amount you chose today. None of it is sent to us, and the apps you pick stay 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 block, the apps you named are hidden until you whistle. During a standing window or a daily limit, for as long as that rule runs.

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 re-arms at its own next occurrence, so there's nothing to turn back on. Free on every tier, never counted against you, and a running block is untouched.

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, daily 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.

Your record, from version 1.0.1: once your old iPhone has run 1.0.1 and made a copy (Added Time's Settings there reads Latest copy in iCloud), sign in on the new iPhone with the same Apple Account with iCloud on, and install Added Time. Today offers the copy of your record from your iCloud while the record on the new iPhone is still new. You'll choose again the apps your subjects hide during blocks, and those for your windows and limits.

From version 1.0.1, when iCloud is on, it can come back. Added Time keeps a copy of your record in your own iCloud: your subjects, every block and kept habit, and your windows, limits and goals, refreshed as you use the app. Delete the app and reinstall it, or set up a new iPhone with the same Apple Account, and Today offers the copy back; nothing is replaced until you choose. We can't see it.

Before you delete it: on version 1.0, or with iCloud or Keep a copy in iCloud off, deleting the app deletes the record, so export it first (below). On 1.0.1, check first that the app's Settings reads Latest copy in iCloud, which says when the last copy reached iCloud. If the app's Settings has no Keep a copy in iCloud, you're on 1.0.

What the copy doesn't hold: the apps you picked, whether a subject hides them during its blocks or they're for windows and limits (you choose them again), the doorman's nights and exits, the day-by-day results of screen-time goals, your kit and your preferences. Those stay on the phone, and deleting the app removes them.

Turning it off or removing it: switch off Keep a copy in iCloud in the app's Settings to stop new copies (reinstalling turns it back on). To remove the copy: in Added Time, Settings → turn off Keep a copy in iCloud → Remove the copies from iCloud. If Added Time is on more than one iPhone, turn the switch off on each of them first, or the next one you use makes a new copy. If you've already deleted the app, reinstall it and do the same, without bringing the copy back: a new install makes no copy until its record holds a block, a kept habit, a window or a limit. That button is the one way to remove it: iOS doesn't list Added Time in its iCloud storage settings, and we can't delete it for you, because we can't reach it.

Export still works: 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. (Apple also offers it on Macs with Apple silicon, but it isn’t made or tested for them.) On a computer, or a phone that isn’t an iPhone? The free study timer runs the same match clock in any browser.

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.