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Last updated: November 2, 2026

DoneScrolling exists to help you stop doomscrolling. Being straight with you about data is part of the same promise, so this page is written in plain language.

What we collect on this website

• If you join the waitlist: the email address you enter, which phone you have (iPhone or Android), and the time you signed up.
• Nothing else. This site uses no analytics, no trackers, no ad pixels, and no cookies.

Why we collect it

For exactly one purpose: to tell you when DoneScrolling is ready for your phone, and to send occasional updates about the app. We never sell or share your email with anyone.

Where it lives

Signups are stored in a private file on our own server. No third-party form or marketing service ever sees them.

Deleting your signup from this website

Email hello@donescrolling.com from the address you signed up with and say "delete me". We remove your entry, no questions asked. This is about the website list only; deleting your app account is separate and is described below.

What about the app itself?

DoneScrolling's whole job involves your screen-time data, so this part matters most:

• Everything the app measures about your screen time stays on your phone. Your usage, your history, which apps you opened and for how long: apart from the weekly progress described below, which is sent only if you allow it and never names an app, none of it is ever uploaded. The app keeps your history on your phone so it can show your progress.
• Signing in stores these things on our server: your email address; the list of apps and websites you have committed to blocking (on iPhone, the websites you commit to by name from Popular sites); on Android, the one goal category you choose during onboarding (for example, "Sleep better"); and, as described below, the facts about using the app. The list is what lets your commitments survive reinstalling the app. The goal helps us understand what people want DoneScrolling to support. Your written motivation and signature stay on your phone and are never sent.
• From version 1.3, the Android app opts out of Android's cloud backup, so nothing it keeps on your phone is copied to your Google account. If you set up a new phone by copying straight from your old one, Android 12 and later bring it along.
• The app has no ads, no trackers and no third-party analytics. To learn where setup is hard and whether DoneScrolling actually helps, the app sends our own server a few facts about using the app itself:
  • which setup screens you reached and finished, and how you signed in and whether it worked;
  • how you heard about DoneScrolling, if you answer that question;
  • your answer to "Is DoneScrolling helping you so far?", if you answer it;
  • that you opened the app (at most once a day), the app version and build, and whether you use iPhone or Android;
  • whether a notice about your budget was shown, and whether you opened the app from it;
  • technical facts about the app itself, such as how long a task took and whether it finished;
  • on Android only, once a week: your average daily time in the apps you budget before you started DoneScrolling and now, as two totals in minutes, and how many weeks you have used it, so we can see whether it works. Setup tells you this on the Usage Access step, or a one-time notice does if you set up the app before this existed.
  • on iPhone, in versions that offer it, once a week and only if you agree when the app asks: the percentage your time in the apps you budget has changed, a range for the time you saved that week (none, under 1 hour, 1 to 3 hours, 3 to 7 hours, or more than 7 hours), and how many weeks you have used it. Exact minutes are not sent.
  Each of these carries the time it happened and a random ID of its own, so the same fact is never counted twice. They are tied to a random ID made by the app, and to your account once you sign in. They never include which apps or websites you chose, time in any single app, your email, or anything you type. Because weekly progress arrives every week, it could be used to estimate your rough weekly totals. We use them only to improve DoneScrolling: never for ads, never sold, never shared. Deleting your account deletes the ones tied to it. Any that are not tied to an account (because you never created one, because they were sent while your sign-in had expired, or because they reached us after you deleted your account) are deleted after 90 days. We keep weekly totals (for example, "40 people reached the goal screen this week") that cannot be traced back to anyone.
• If you use the App Store or Google Play in the EU, EEA or UK, the app asks first and sends nothing unless you allow it. You can change your answer in Setup at any time.
• The Android app includes Google's sign-in library, so that "Continue with Google" works the way you expect it to. It is used for signing in and for nothing else, and it never receives your screen-time data.
• On iPhone you can sign in with Apple, with Google (through Apple's secure browser sheet, without any Google code in the app), or with a code sent to your email.
• Deleting your account deletes your commitments, your onboarding goal and the facts about using the app with it, and you can do it yourself at any time. See "Deleting your app account" below.

Deleting your app account

Two ways, and they do the same thing:

• In the app: Setup, then Account, then Delete account.
• On the web: donescrolling.com/delete-account, which works even if you have already uninstalled the app.

It deletes your account, every commitment, your structured onboarding goal, and the facts about using the app that are tied to your account, including any weekly progress (any that are not are deleted after 90 days). Your screen-time history is not in that list because it stays on your phone; uninstalling the app removes it.

The one thing we keep: a scrambled, one-way copy of your email address. DoneScrolling is free today. We keep this so that, if we ever offer a free trial of a paid plan, deleting your account and signing up again cannot restart it, and we use it for nothing else. It cannot be turned back into your address, and nothing else is stored beside it: no name, no commitments, nothing about how you used the app.

Be aware of what deletion means, because it is the honest trade the app is built around: it releases the apps and websites you committed to, and DoneScrolling stops blocking them. That is deliberate. A commitment you could cancel with a tap would not be worth making, so the way out is real, and it takes a deliberate step.

The two phones are not the same, and you should know how

On iPhone, blocking runs on Apple's own Screen Time system. It is built so that even we cannot see which apps you picked or how long you spent in each one. The app only ever receives anonymous handles for them, never their names.

Websites you block from the Popular sites list are handled the same way, and stay on your phone unless you commit to them by name.

On Android there is no equivalent, and it would be dishonest to imply otherwise. To block an app at the moment you open it, the app has to know which app is in front. So on Android it does see the names of the apps you chose to limit and how long you spend in them. That information stays on your phone like everything else.

Android does this through an accessibility service, which is a powerful permission, so here is exactly what ours is allowed to do. The service that blocks apps is configured so that it cannot read anything on your screen: not text, not messages, not passwords, not anything you type. It receives one thing, the name of the app that just came to the front. That is a setting in the app itself, not a promise, so it holds whether or not you take our word for it.

If you also turn on website blocking, which is off unless you choose it, the app also sees which website is open in Chrome. If the site belongs to an app you budget (x.com for X, for example) or is a website you added, the time counts toward your budget and the site is blocked when your budget or a lock window says so. On your phone it keeps the websites you add, minutes per app, and minutes on a short list of well-known scroll sites (YouTube, Reddit, X, Instagram and similar) so it can suggest what to block. It never keeps any other site, the pages you visit or your browsing history, and none of it is sent anywhere, except websites you choose to commit to, which are stored with your account like committed apps. It does not read pages, messages, passwords or anything you type. Our code checks which app is in front and stops unless it is Chrome.

When a site is blocked and the tab cannot go back, the app opens a short page on donescrolling.com that says so. Our server only sees that the page was opened, not which site was blocked, like any visit to this site.

If any of this ever changes, we will say so here and in the app before it takes effect.

Questions

hello@donescrolling.com