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Redeem Time — where your screen time goes

Last changed October 29, 2026.

In short

• Redeem Time counts your screen time on your device, from Android's own usage log.
• There is no NeuroPhonetics server, and no account. Nothing is sent to us by the app. The one thing that can reach us is an email you choose to write: a problem report or a suggestion, sent from your own email app when you press send (see Problem reports and suggestions).
• Your data leaves the device only for places you own and choose: your Google Drive, a folder you pick, or your other devices on your Wi-Fi.
• One exception, off until you switch it on: a webhook or Notion address you paste in yourself. It has its own section below.
• Uninstalling deletes everything stored inside the app. Copies you made stay where you put them.

What is measured, and where it is kept

Through Android's Usage Access permission, Redeem Time reads which app was in the foreground and for how long, and how many times each was opened. From that it works out your daily and hourly totals, your categories, your pickups, and an estimate of the window in which your phone was not used at night.

All of it — the usage rows, your app categories, your limits, your focus sessions, your anchor, your settings — is stored in the app's private storage on the device. No name, no email address, no location, no contacts, no message content, no browsing history. When you sign in to Google Drive, the app keeps your Google account's email address on this device, only to show you where it saves; it goes nowhere else. Redeem Time contains no advertising, no analytics, no tracking and no automatic crash reporting.

The one thing that sends your data somewhere else: webhooks and Notion

If you set up an integration in Integrations, Redeem Time posts to the address you gave it. This is real egress, to a third party, over the internet. It happens only if you configure it, and it goes only to the address you typed.

There are three moments it can happen, each with its own switch:

• A daily summary, at the time you choose. It carries the date, today's total minutes and hours, your goal, whether you went over it, and your top apps with their minutes.
• When a limit is reached. It carries the date, which limit (an app or a category, by name), the cap and the minutes spent.
• When you export. It carries the period, the time zone, the total minutes, opens, how many apps were tracked, your busiest hour, the productive and social split, a load label — and the whole report as Markdown, which includes the table of every app and its minutes. Notion receives the same report as the body of a new page in the database you chose.

Who then sees it is the service you pointed it at — IFTTT, Zapier, Make, n8n, Home Assistant, your own Home Assistant box, your Notion workspace — under their privacy policy, not ours. We are not in the path: the request goes from your device straight to that address. We never see it, we cannot see it, and we have no copy of it.

Your webhook link and your Notion token are encrypted on the device with a key held in the Android Keystore. They are never written into a settings copy, a backup, the Documents folder or Google Drive, so on a new device you enter them again. To stop all of it, clear the webhook and the Notion connection in Integrations, and delete whatever those services have kept.

Copies you keep yourself

Nothing below is synchronized unless you switch it on.

Documents/Neurophonetics/RedeemTime on this device. Reports you asked for (CSV, PDF, Markdown), a copy of your settings, and this device's statistics. A local folder; it leaves the device only if you put a syncing app on that folder yourself.

A folder you pick with Android's folder picker — Google Drive, Dropbox, OneDrive, MEGA, pCloud, Nextcloud or anything else with a Files provider. Redeem Time writes into the folder you chose and nowhere else. That app and its provider then sync it under their own terms.

Your own Google Drive, through Google sign-in, with the drive.file scope — which means Redeem Time can see only the files Redeem Time itself created, and nothing else in your Drive.

A Google Sheet you create from the export menu, in your own Google account.

On a phone with no Google Play services — a de-Googled Android, a Huawei device, a stripped Chinese ROM — nothing goes to Google at all, and nothing is lost. Redeem Time needs Google for exactly one thing, offering the Drive sign-in, so on such a phone that sign-in is not shown; the folder you pick and Wi-Fi sync do everything it would have done. The counting, the limits, the overlay, the schedules and the saved history are plain Android and never involved Google.

Device statistics. Each device with saving switched on writes, about once an hour, a summary to Devices/<name>/ in the place you chose. It holds: the device's name and kind, its maker and model, its time zone; today, the last 7 days and the last 12 months; its top apps and categories, and its daily minutes per app; its daily and weekend goals; how many times apps were opened each week; its minutes per hour of the day for the last 8 days, all apps together and with no app names, from which your other devices show late-night use, and when it was last used late at night; the time it was first and last used on each of the last 7 days (two times a day, such as 6:42 and 23:18, with no app names); and the settings that make it look the same on your other devices — your anchor sentence, the voice, units, the first day of the week and your goals. That is how your phone can show you what the television watched. In Settings → Devices you decide whether this device appears on your others (see "private" below).

A device set to private writes nothing to the shared place but a short note — its name, its kind, its random device number and the time it was written, marked "private" — so your other devices can list it as private; it removes the statistics it wrote there before, and hands nothing over Wi-Fi. It keeps its own figures only on the device.

A device that shares says so. For as long as a device's statistics go to another of your devices — it is shown on them and has a way to get there (Wi-Fi sync with a paired device, Google Drive, or a cloud folder) — it shows a "Sharing" notification of its own, with its own icon: "Sharing screen time with" the devices it knows, or "your other devices", and a Stop sharing button that makes the device private at once (with the settings locked by a password, the button opens Settings → Devices, where the switch asks for it). If notifications are off on that device, or Family Link does not allow them, Settings → Devices says the same thing in a banner instead.

After a reinstall or on a new device, Redeem Time can read these copies back and asks whether to continue an earlier device's statistics or start fresh.

Sync over Wi-Fi, and what pairing grants

Wi-Fi sync hands statistics straight from one of your devices to another, on your home network, with no cloud and no account anywhere. It exists because two kinds of device cannot use Drive at all: a phone or tablet managed with Family Link, which accepts only its own Google account, and an Amazon Fire TV, which has no Google services.

Pairing is deliberate: one device shows a six-digit code, valid five minutes, usable once, and burnt after five answers. The device you type it on asks every device that answers to prove it knows the code; only the one you are looking at can, and only after that proof has been checked does your device prove the same thing back and receive one household key, shared by the paired devices in your home.

What travels in the clear. The six-digit code never leaves your devices. The household key travels only once, encrypted, when you pair two devices. After that, statistics summaries and problem logs travel between paired devices signed, but not encrypted, inside your home network, so pair and sync only on a network you trust. Any device on your Wi-Fi can also see that Redeem Time runs on this device, and its name, maker and model: that is how your devices find each other.

Be clear about what that key is: anything on your Wi-Fi that holds the household key can ask a paired device for its statistics summary and its problem log. That is what pairing grants. There is no other credential. The key is 24 random bytes, it is encrypted with a key that never leaves the Android Keystore, and it stays on the device: every later exchange is signed with it rather than authorized by sending it, and each answer is signed back, so a device that cannot sign is not served and an answer from a device that cannot sign is not believed.

Two limits hold even with the key: a device set to private hands over nothing at all over Wi-Fi, the same as everywhere else, and the little server answers only on the local network.

What forgetting a device does. Forgetting one paired device shuts it out at once: this device deletes its cached statistics and its log, and throws the household key away — a device that kept the key would not have been forgotten at all. There is one key for your home, so your other paired devices hold that same key and lose their pairing too; the app says so before it does it, and you pair again, from one device, with the ones you still want. "Forget everyone" does the same thing without the question. Until 1.64.0 forgetting one device only removed it from a list, and it could go on reading from you.

Televisions

An Android TV, Google TV or Fire TV runs the same app in a simpler form, and it reports to your phone by whichever of the three routes you set up — Google Drive, the folder, or Wi-Fi. What it writes is the same summary any device writes (Device statistics above), and its problem log if you left that switched on. A television set to private writes only that short note, marked "private", and hands nothing over Wi-Fi.

Signing a TV in to Google Drive. A TV has no keyboard worth typing on, so it signs in the way Google provides for TVs: it shows a short code, you open google.com/device on your phone or computer, sign in to your own Google account and type the code. Google then gives the TV permission for the files Redeem Time creates in your Drive (the same drive.file permission as on a phone) and a sign-in token, which the TV keeps in its private storage so that it stays signed in. NeuroPhonetics never sees your account, the code or the token. If Google ends that sign-in, the TV says so with the date and asks you to sign in again. Sign out on the TV, or remove Redeem Time at https://myaccount.google.com/permissions, to end it yourself.

Your own devices, not somebody else's

Redeem Time is for managing your own screen time across your own phone, tablet and TV. It is not a tool for monitoring another person, and it never hides that a device shares: every device that shares shows the "Sharing" notification described above, the whole time, with a way to stop.

A device managed with Family Link cannot sign in to another account's Google Drive — Google does not allow it — which is why Wi-Fi sync exists and why the app says so rather than failing quietly.

If a device you set up is used by someone else, they see that notification, and they deserve to know what it means: showing another person's screen time needs their consent, or your legal authority as their parent or guardian. Redeem Time is not directed at children under 13 and creates no child accounts.

The settings lock

If you lock settings with a password, the password itself is never stored. A salted, stretched hash is written to your own storage and to your own cloud folder or Drive (Settings/parental_lock.json), so that reinstalling the app does not remove the lock. We cannot read it and cannot recover it. A recovery code, if you make one, is kept the same way: only its salted, stretched hash is stored, and the code itself is shown to you once. The hash is deliberately left out of the settings copy that goes into the Documents folder, which other apps on the device can read.

Problem reports and suggestions

Report a problem writes the report into your own email app, addressed to . You see the whole thing before you send it, and nothing is sent unless you press send there — there is no reporting service behind it, and the app never sends a report by itself.

Help us has three rows, and none of them sends anything to us by itself. Rate us opens the app's Google Play listing, and only when Google Play installed this copy: to know that, the app asks Android which store installed it, and that answer stays on your device. Tell a friend opens Android's share sheet with one short line and the app's web address; you choose the app and the person. Suggestions opens an empty email to the same address in your own email app; nothing goes until you press send there.

A report contains what you write, and, each behind its own switch that you can turn off before writing the email:

• app and device details — the app version, the device's name in Redeem Time, its maker and model, whether it is a phone, tablet or TV, the Android version, and a few settings (what happens when time is up, whether it starts with the device, where it saves, whether Google Drive is signed in — not which account — and whether it is shown on your other devices). No usage numbers;
• the problem log of this device and of any of your other devices you mark, with email addresses, tokens and file paths removed. Another device's log comes from that device the way its statistics already reach this one — your Google Drive, your folder or your home Wi-Fi — never through a server of ours. Send all logs adds every listed device's log, not only the marked ones;
• the crash and error log described below, when there is one.

Because it is an email, it also carries your email address and whatever your email provider adds. We use it only to find and fix the problem, to make Redeem Time work better, and to write back to you — never for advertising, never sold, never shared. It is kept in our mailbox until the problem is resolved, and deleted then, at the latest 12 months after it arrived; a suggestion is kept the same way. Ask and we delete yours sooner.

If the app crashes or hits an error, it keeps a short technical record of it — what failed and where in the code, the app and Android versions, and the time, with no text, words, books, recordings or file names of yours — on your device only, in storage that is not backed up; it is never sent automatically, and leaves your device only if you choose to send it in a problem report you can read first. On a TV, which usually has no email app, Send puts a short summary of it into the TV's problem log instead, which reaches your phone by the same route as that log, for you to include in a report from there.

Keep logs for sets how long the problem log and the crash and error log are kept: 7, 30 or 90 days, 30 until you choose. Older entries are deleted from the device. With "Settings that follow you" on, the choice reaches your other devices too, the newest choice winning.

Permissions, and what each one is for

• Usage access — to measure app time on this device. Without it Redeem Time cannot count anything, and it now says so on the dashboard rather than looking as though limits are working.
• Display over other apps — only while limits, a focus session or the morning shield are on, for the floating timer and the block screen.
• Notifications — the permanent notification shown while limits, a focus session, the morning shield or work hours are on; the "Sharing" notification shown while this device shares its screen time with your other devices; and the summaries, which you can switch off.
• Run in the background (foreground service) — the same limit check: while limits, a focus session or the morning shield are on, it checks every few seconds which app is in front, and it shows the permanent notification the whole time it runs.
• Start after a restart — so that limits, a focus session or the morning shield you switched on, and the hourly save if "Start with the phone" is on, carry on after the device restarts or the app is updated. Nothing is put on the screen at start.
• Wi-Fi multicast and network state — only for Wi-Fi sync: to find your own paired devices on your home network, and to know whether there is a network at all. This traffic stays on your network.
• Battery — no permission: "Open battery settings" opens Android's own list, where you may exempt Redeem Time yourself so Android does not stop your limits from working.
• Folders — only the one folder you pick.
• Google sign-in — only for Drive and Sheets, limited to the files Redeem Time creates.
• Internet — for Drive, a Google Sheet, Wi-Fi sync on your own network, the webhook or Notion address you configured, and, in the website and test versions only, the update check below. Nothing else.

Redeem Time never blocks calls, the phone app, emergency apps or messages asking for help, and there is no setting that can change that.

Google Play and Redeem Time Pro

Google Play and Redeem Time Pro. Google Play handles downloads, updates and payment, under Google's own privacy policy, and Google is the seller of Redeem Time Pro. When you buy it, Google Play keeps the purchase with your Google account and tells the app that this account owns Pro; the app keeps only that answer — Play's purchase token and whether Pro is unlocked — on the device, and asks Google Play again to restore it on another device. No server of ours takes part. Like every seller on Google Play, we receive from Google the order details it gives developers — an order number, the product, the price, the date and your country or region, which tax requires — and use them only for accounting, refunds and taxes; they are the only data of yours that rests with us because of Redeem Time, and we never see your card. If you have allowed your device to share usage and diagnostics with developers, Google Play may also show us aggregated crash and performance figures, which contain none of your usage data.

Update check (website and test versions only). It exists only in builds installed from our website or our test page. The version from Google Play has no update check at all; Google Play updates it. When you press "Check now", or once a week if you switch that on, the app asks our server for one public file, versions.json, listing the newest version, over your home network or your own private network (plain HTTP, not HTTPS). The request is a bare GET of that file: no user agent, no cookies, no query, no account, no identifier, no usage, not even the app's own version. Our server sees only what any connection shows — the address your device has on that network — and the time. The comparison is made on your phone. "Download" opens the file in your browser, and Android asks you before anything is installed.

Keeping and deleting

Your data stays until you delete it, and every copy is somewhere you can reach.

• On the device: Android Settings → Apps → Redeem Time → Storage → Clear storage, or uninstall.
• Your own copies: delete the Neurophonetics/RedeemTime folder on the device, in your cloud folder and in Google Drive, and any Sheets or reports you made.
• Access: sign out in Backup & sync, or remove Redeem Time at https://myaccount.google.com/permissions.
• Wi-Fi: forget everyone in Wi-Fi sync, which clears the household key.
• Integrations: clear the webhook and Notion connection here, and delete what those services kept.
• Keep history: the app can also drop anything older than the number of months you choose.

Apart from the emails you chose to send us — problem reports and suggestions, kept as described above and deleted sooner if you ask — we hold nothing about you, so there is nothing else for us to delete, correct or export on request. That is the design, not an excuse — and it is why we also cannot recover data you have deleted.

Your rights

Where you live may give you rights over your personal data — the GDPR in the EU and UK, the CCPA in California, and others. NeuroPhonetics holds no personal data about you other than the emails you chose to send us, does not sell it, and does not share it for advertising. For data held by a service you connected a webhook to, or by Notion, or by the provider of the folder you picked, ask them.

Changes, and asking

We may update this page; the date at the top is the version. A change that alters what leaves your device will be shown in the app, not only here.

· https://NeuroPhonetics.com

Who this is

Redeem Time is made by NeuroPhonetics LLC, a limited liability company registered in the State of Minnesota, United States. NeuroPhonetics LLC is the company behind every program in this family and the seller on Google Play.

Nothing you do in this program reaches us, except an email you choose to send — a problem report or a suggestion, kept only as described under Problem reports and suggestions. Apart from those, there is no data of yours for the company to hold, show you or delete. That is the design rather than a promise.

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