Privacy Policy
The short version: Still Water doesn't collect any personal data. Nothing you do in the app is sent to us or to anyone else. It all stays on your phone.
Who we are
Still Water (listed on the App Store and Google Play as Stillwater Focus) is made by Rohit Agrawal. In this policy, "we" means the developer of Still Water. This policy covers both the iPhone and Android versions.
What the app saves on your phone
To work, Still Water saves a few things on your device:
- The apps you choose to block. On iPhone, iOS hands these to Still Water as private tokens, so we can't see which apps they are. On Android, the app saves the app names you picked (for example, com.instagram.android).
- Your focus sessions and schedules: start and end times, the days you picked, and how many weeks a schedule runs.
- Your focus history for the Stats tab: when each session started and ended, and how many apps it blocked.
This information never leaves your phone. We don't run any servers, and Still Water doesn't send any of it over the internet.
Screen Time (iPhone)
On iPhone, Still Water uses Apple's Screen Time framework to block apps, and only after you give permission. Apple built this framework so that apps can't see which apps you use or which websites you visit. The "Your top apps today" section in the Stats tab is drawn by iOS inside a protected part of the app that can't send data anywhere.
Android permissions
On Android, Still Water asks for these permissions, and uses each one only on your phone:
- Usage access. While a focus session or schedule is running, Still Water checks which app is open so it can cover an app you've locked. It doesn't save or send your app usage history.
- Display over other apps. Lets Still Water show its lock screen on top of a locked app.
- The list of apps on your phone. Shown in the app picker so you can choose what to block. It isn't saved or sent anywhere.
- Notifications and running in the background. Keeps blocking active while a session or schedule runs, and shows the countdown in your notifications.
Notifications and Live Activities
Session reminders, the countdown in your notifications, and the countdown on your iPhone's Lock Screen are all created on your phone. We don't use push notifications and don't collect device identifiers.
What we don't do
- No accounts or sign-in
- No analytics or tracking
- No advertising
- No third-party services or SDKs
- No selling or sharing of data. We don't have any to share.
Crash reports from Apple and Google
If you've chosen to share diagnostics with app developers, Apple (on iPhone) or Google (on Android) may send us anonymous crash reports. They control this, and you can turn it off in your phone's privacy settings.
Children
Still Water doesn't collect personal information from anyone, including children.
Deleting your data
Delete Still Water from your phone and everything it saved is removed with it.
Changes to this policy
If we change this policy, we'll update this page and the date at the top.
Contact
Questions about privacy? Email stillwater.focus.app@gmail.com.