Privacy Policy

The Short Version

We do not collect any personal data. There are no accounts, no analytics and no servers of ours in the app. Your screen time data never leaves your device. The one thing that can leave it is your choice: a duel with a friend shares one number a week, and your character, through your own iCloud (below).

What Data We Access

Screen Receipts uses Apple's DeviceActivity framework to read your screen time usage. This data is processed entirely on your device inside a sandboxed extension. Per-app usage data cannot leave the extension process. This is enforced by iOS, not just our promise.

Sharing Cards

You can share a card: your streak, a challenge you won, the day you begged your character for more time, or Your Year in Receipts in December. The app draws the card on your phone from its own daily record, and the iOS share sheet sends it wherever you choose. A card never names an app. Nothing is uploaded to us.

The receipt itself has no share button. Per-app usage is readable only inside a sandboxed extension that cannot send anything out, so to show someone your receipt you take a screenshot, which belongs to you and to iOS.

Covering Apps

If you turn it on, the apps you pick with Apple's picker are covered once you pass your daily target. Apple hands the app only opaque tokens for them, never their names. Each time you ask for more time, the app writes the time and your character's answer on your phone, to show on that day's receipt. None of it leaves your device.

Duels

A duel is optional. When you start one, the app makes a shared space in your own iCloud (Apple's CloudKit) and gives you a link to send. When your friend opens it, each phone writes there, for each week, how many days you stayed under your own target and which character you picked. That is all a duel shares: never your hours, your apps or your name. Apple carries it between your two iCloud accounts, and we never see it. The link you send says which character you play, so the page it opens on this website can show them, and that part reaches the website like any web address. The part of the link that opens the duel never does. End the duel in Settings and the shared space is deleted (if you started it) or left (if you joined).

HealthKit

If you opt in, Screen Receipts reads sleep, workout, and mindfulness data from HealthKit to show correlations with screen time. This data is cached locally in the App Group container and never transmitted.

Analytics & Tracking

The app has none: no analytics SDKs, no cookies, no tracking pixels, no fingerprinting, no ad networks. This website counts visits from standard server logs.

Contact

Questions? Email hello@screenreceipts.com