Privacy policy

Your tasks, routines, history, pebbles, and settings are stored on your iPhone. If you're signed into iCloud, TimeTurtle also keeps them in your own private iCloud space, through Apple's CloudKit, so they follow you to your other devices and come back after a reinstall. Only you can reach that space, and it's handled under Apple's privacy policy; nothing is sent to us or to anyone else. "Export backup" saves a file in the Files app wherever you choose. If you use the Apple Watch app, your iPhone sends your current tasks straight to your paired watch, which keeps them so the app and your watch face can show them. Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets show your current task from a copy kept on your iPhone.

TimeTurtle asks for permission to send notifications and to set alarms, only so it can alert you when a task is ending. You can change these in the iPhone Settings app at any time.

Your data is part of your device's own backups (iCloud or your computer), which Apple handles under its privacy policy. Deleting the app deletes its data from your iPhone.

TimeTurtle includes no third-party SDKs or packages: no analytics, ads, crash reporting, or attribution tools.

The app has no networking code of its own. Its only network traffic is Apple's iCloud sync (CloudKit and iCloud's key-value store) of your own data, under your own iCloud account. Nothing is downloaded: the app's sounds and art are built in. Alarms and notifications are scheduled on your iPhone, with no server.

TimeTurtle listens for iCloud's silent change notices only so it knows when your data changed on another device. We don't send push notifications.

Because your progress is meant to survive a reinstall, deleting the app leaves the copy in your own iCloud, and it comes back if you install TimeTurtle again. You can manage what apps keep in iCloud from your iPhone's iCloud settings.

When you tap Export backup, TimeTurtle saves a file wherever you choose in Files. Backups go only where you save them. The file holds your tasks, routines, history, and pebbles, with no settings and no device ids.

It's a plain-text file that anyone who has it can read, so keep it somewhere private.

To decide which device rings for a running task, TimeTurtle keeps a random install id on your iPhone, left out of device backups. It's written onto your tasks, which sync only to your own iCloud. It's never sent to us.

Your current task's title appears in alarms and notifications, on the Lock Screen and in the Dynamic Island, in widgets, and on your Apple Watch, because that's how those work.

TimeTurtle doesn't ask for or use your location, contacts, photos, camera, microphone, health data, calendar, advertising identifier, or permission to track you. In the Files app, it opens only the file you choose when you export or import a backup.

During a break, box breathing can say "Breathe in" and "Breathe out" with a voice installed on your iPhone. The speech is made on the device. No microphone is used, and nothing is recorded or sent.

If you write to support@timeturtle.app, or use Settings > Send feedback in the app, we see your email address and what you write. Send feedback only opens an email draft. Nothing is sent until you send it.

We keep support emails for 6 months, then delete them.

Apple gives app developers aggregate App Store numbers, such as downloads, plus usage and retention numbers from people who chose to share them with developers. These come from Apple, under Apple's rules. They aren't part of the app, and the app sends us nothing.

This website (timeturtle.app) sets no cookies, uses no analytics or trackers, and loads no third-party fonts, scripts, or embeds. It has no forms.

It's hosted by Cloudflare, which processes technical data such as IP addresses to deliver and protect the site, under Cloudflare's privacy policy. We don't add analytics or tracking on top of that.

If this policy changes, we'll update the date at the top of this page.

Questions: support@timeturtle.app