Privacy, in plain words
A screen time app sits close to how you spend your day. Here is what Kiri knows, what it never sees, and what leaves your device.
The short version: no account, no ads, no analytics. Your apps, times, pauses and pebbles stay on your device. The only thing that leaves it is a purchase record, if you buy something.
What Kiri knows
- Which app is open right now, so it can count time for the apps you chose. On iPhone, Apple hides even the names of those apps from Kiri: it gets anonymous tokens and minutes.
- On Mac, which site is in the front tab, such as youtube.com, if you've installed the Kiri browser extension. The extension tells the Kiri app on the same Mac and nobody else.
- What you tell it: your daily times and your one-word check-ins.
What Kiri never sees
- Your messages, photos, feeds or anything else inside an app
- What you type
- The contents of web pages, your browsing history or your cookies
- Your name, email or contacts. Kiri never asks for them
Where it's kept
On your phone or your Mac, in Kiri's own storage, and it is never uploaded. That also means it doesn't sync: your iPhone and your Mac each keep their own times and pebbles. On Android, your settings (not your history) may be part of your own Google device backup if you have that turned on.
What leaves your device
A purchase record, if you buy Kiri Pro or a timer pack. Apple or Google takes the payment. On iPhone and Android, a service called RevenueCat receives the purchase record and a random anonymous ID, so the purchase can be confirmed and restored. Kiri never tells RevenueCat who you are. Kiri for Mac checks purchases directly with Apple and uses no outside service.
A crash log, only if you choose to send it. If Kiri for Android crashes, the log stays on your phone unless you share it with us.
That's the whole list.
This website
This site sets no cookies and stores nothing in your browser. Our server counts page views and taps on the store buttons, so we know which pages are useful. To count visitors without knowing who they are, it turns your IP address and browser name into a short code using a random key that is thrown away every day. The code can't be turned back into an IP address or matched from one day to the next. There are no third-party scripts, fonts or trackers on these pages.
The full policy
The legal version, which covers every Circuit & Moss app, is at circuitandmosslabs.com/privacy. If the two ever disagree, that one governs. Questions go to contact@circuitandmosslabs.com, and one of two people will answer.