Privacy Policy

FlipTick (listed as “FlipTick: Flip Clock & Timer”, and shown on your phone as “FlipTick”) is developed by Abuzar Munir, an independent developer. In this policy, “we”, “us” and “our” mean the developer, and “FlipTick” or “the app” means the FlipTick app for iPhone, iPad, Mac and Android.

This policy covers the app and this website. It applies alongside the Terms of Use (EULA).

To do its job, FlipTick saves the following on your device:

• Your plan. Tasks and time blocks, with their titles, times, lengths, colours, icons, subtasks, notes, alerts and repeats.
• Your sessions. The activity, start and end time, length and mode (countdown, timer or Pomodoro) of each focus session.
• Your activities and goals. Activity names, your daily target, streaks, and the answers you give in onboarding to build your focus profile.
• Your preferences. Clock face, colours, sounds, brightness, theme, language, 12/24-hour time, the city chosen for the desk clock, and reminder times.

This information is stored on your device and, on Apple devices with iCloud sync on, in your own iCloud account (see iCloud sync). We don’t run servers that collect or hold it, and we can’t see it. It is included in your device’s own backups if you use them. Removing the app erases the copy on that device.

On iPhone, iPad and Mac, FlipTick can keep your devices in step through iCloud. Sync is on by default, and you can turn it off at any time in FlipTick under Settings → iCloud sync. It uses the Apple ID you’re already signed in with: there is no separate FlipTick account.

What syncs:

• your tasks, with their subtasks, notes, alerts and repeats;
• your focus sessions;
• your activities and goals;
• your appearance, clock and session preferences.

While a focus session runs, FlipTick also puts what is running (the activity or task name, its times and whether it is paused) in the same place, so your other Apple devices can show it. It is replaced as the session changes and deleted when it ends.

Settings that belong to one device, such as haptics, brightness, sound volume, notifications, app blocking and your FlipTick Pro status, are not synced.

Synced data is saved in the private database of your own iCloud account, using Apple’s CloudKit. Only you can read it. We, the developer, have no access to it and can’t see, copy or share it, and it never passes through a server of ours. Its contents are encrypted on your device before they are uploaded, and if you turn on Advanced Data Protection for iCloud they are end-to-end encrypted, so not even Apple can read them. Apple stores it under Apple’s privacy policy. It counts towards your iCloud storage.

Turning sync off stops FlipTick sending and receiving changes; what is already in iCloud stays there. To delete it, open the Settings app, tap your name, then iCloud and Manage Storage, choose FlipTick, and delete its data.

The FlipTick app for Apple Watch shows the session running on your iPhone (or another of your Apple devices), lets you pause, end or start one, and shows today’s tasks so you can tick them off.

Everything it shows comes straight from your iPhone over Apple’s WatchConnectivity, the link between your own iPhone and Watch, and what you tap goes back the same way. Nothing passes through a server of ours. The Watch keeps only the latest copy it received, which its watch face complications also read. Removing the Watch app erases it.

App blocking is optional. If you set it up, FlipTick blocks the apps you choose while a focus session runs, and lifts the block when the session ends. To do that it needs a system permission, which you can withdraw at any time.

• iPhone and iPad. FlipTick uses Apple’s Screen Time framework, which asks for your permission first. You choose apps, categories and websites in Apple’s own picker, and Apple hands FlipTick only coded tokens for them: FlipTick can’t see which apps or websites you picked, and can’t see your Screen Time activity. iOS itself shows the block screen.
• Android. FlipTick asks for Usage access, to tell which app is open during a session, and for Display over other apps, to cover a blocked app. It lists your installed apps so you can pick from them. If you turn on holding notifications, it also asks for notification access and uses it only to see which app a notification comes from, so that notifications from blocked apps are held until the session ends. It doesn’t read or store what they say.

Your block lists, and counts such as how many times a blocked app was opened, stay on your device. They aren’t synced to iCloud, aren’t sent to us or anyone else, and aren’t used for advertising.

• FlipTick has no accounts to sign up for. We don’t ask for your name, email address, phone number or date of birth.
• FlipTick doesn’t access your contacts, photos, camera, microphone, calendar or health data.
• FlipTick doesn’t read your location. The world clock uses a city you pick yourself.
• FlipTick doesn’t include a separate analytics or session-recording tool.

The free version of FlipTick is supported by ads from Google AdMob. Ads appear only at natural breaks, such as after a session ends, and never during a session. FlipTick Pro has no ads.

What AdMob may receive

To serve and measure ads, AdMob may collect or receive information such as your device’s advertising identifier (where you allow it), IP address, general location derived from that address, device and app details, and how you interact with ads. Google handles this under its own policy: How Google uses information from apps that use its services. Your plans, sessions, tasks and other content in FlipTick are never shared with AdMob.

Your say over ads

• iPhone. FlipTick may ask for permission to track (App Tracking Transparency). If you decline, ads still appear but aren’t personalised using your advertising identifier. You can change this in iOS Settings › Privacy & Security › Tracking.
• EEA, UK and Switzerland. You’re asked for consent before ads are shown, and you can change your choice at any time in FlipTick under Settings › About › Ad privacy choices.
• Android. You can reset or delete your advertising ID in your device’s settings, usually under Privacy › Ads.
• Ad-free time. Watching an optional video gives you a few hours without ads. FlipTick remembers that time on your device only.
• FlipTick Pro. A Pro subscription removes ads entirely.

FlipTick Pro is bought through the App Store or Google Play. Apple or Google processes the payment, and we never receive your card number or full billing details.

We use Adapty to check whether your Pro subscription is active. Adapty receives a random identifier that FlipTick creates on your device the first time it opens, your purchase receipt and subscription status, and basic device and app details such as model, operating system version, country and app version. The identifier isn’t your name, email or phone number, and we don’t link it to your identity. See Adapty’s privacy policy.

Inviting friends is optional. If you never open the Invite screen and never join with a friend’s code, none of what follows is created.

When you do use it, FlipTick signs this copy of the app in anonymously with Firebase Authentication, and the program’s record is kept on our server in Cloud Firestore. Both are Google services. The record holds:

• a random anonymous user ID, your invite code, your points and the Pro time they have earned;
• the code you joined with, and which anonymous IDs invited which;
• your platform (iPhone or Android), the app’s language and the date it was installed;
• your notification token, if notifications are allowed, so we can tell you when a friend joins;
• whether a paid FlipTick Pro plan is active, so that points wait instead of being spent.

On Android, FlipTick also sends the phone’s Android ID. We store it only as a one-way hash, and use it to recognise the same phone after a reinstall and to accept one invite per device. FlipTick reads the Google Play install referrer once, so that a friend’s code can apply itself after you install from their link.

To check that requests come from the genuine app, FlipTick uses Firebase App Check, which relies on Apple’s App Attest and DeviceCheck or on Google Play Integrity.

None of this includes your name, email address or phone number, and it isn’t used for advertising. See Privacy and security in Firebase.

If you allow notifications, FlipTick uses them to tell you that a session, Pomodoro round or break has ended, to remind you of tasks, and to send the optional daily nudge and focus-time reminders. These are scheduled on your device, and their timing is worked out on your device from your own history.

When notifications are allowed, FlipTick also registers with Firebase Cloud Messaging, a Google service, so that we can send occasional notifications about FlipTick. Registering creates a device token and an installation identifier held by Google. They aren’t linked to your name or contact details. See Privacy and security in Firebase. You can turn notifications off at any time in your device settings.

• Live Activities (iPhone). A running session can appear in the Dynamic Island and on your Lock Screen. It shows the session’s name and time, so anyone who can see your Lock Screen can see it. You can switch this off in FlipTick’s settings.
• Widgets (iPhone). Widgets read your clock settings from storage shared between the app and its widgets on your device.
• Floating clock (Android). This needs the “display over other apps” permission. FlipTick uses it only to draw the clock, and doesn’t read what other apps show.

Apple and Google may share aggregated statistics and, if you have opted in on your device, anonymised crash reports with developers. We use these to fix bugs. They don’t contain your plans or sessions, and they are handled under Apple’s and Google’s privacy policies.

We don’t sell or rent personal information. Information leaves your device only through the services described above:

• Adapty, with Apple and Google, to deliver and verify purchases.
• Google AdMob, to show ads in the free version, as described under Advertising in the free version.
• Firebase Cloud Messaging, to deliver notifications we send.
• Firebase Authentication, Cloud Firestore and Firebase App Check, to run the invite program if you use it.

We may also disclose information if the law requires it. Your plans, sessions, activities and goals never reach us. With iCloud sync on, they go only to your own iCloud account.

What FlipTick stores on your device stays there until you delete it or remove the app. What it syncs to your iCloud stays there until you delete it, as described under iCloud sync. We hold no copy of either. Information held by Google, Apple and Adapty is kept for as long as their own policies describe.

An invite program record is kept while the program runs, or until you ask us to delete it.

You stay in control:

• Delete any task, session, activity or goal in the app at any time.
• Remove the app to erase everything it stored on your device.
• Turn iCloud sync off in FlipTick, and delete FlipTick’s data from your iCloud storage in the Settings app.
• Turn notifications, Live Activities or the floating clock off in the app or in your device settings.
• Choose whether ads are personalised: on iPhone in Settings › Privacy & Security › Tracking, and in the EEA, UK and Switzerland in FlipTick under Settings › About › Ad privacy choices. FlipTick Pro removes ads.
• Stop app blocking by withdrawing the Screen Time, Usage access, Display over other apps or notification access permission in your device settings.
• Ask us to delete your invite program record: send us your invite code and we’ll remove it.

Privacy laws such as the GDPR, the UK GDPR and the CCPA give you rights over personal data held about you, including the rights to access, correct, delete and port it, to object to or restrict its use, and to opt out of its sale or sharing. Because your FlipTick data is on your device and in your own iCloud, and we hold no copy, most of these are things you can do yourself in the app and in your iCloud settings. The invite program record is the one thing we hold ourselves; contact us to see or delete it. For information held by Google, Apple or Adapty, you can use their tools, or contact us and we’ll help you direct your request. You also have the right to complain to your local data protection authority.

FlipTick is a general-audience app and isn’t directed at children under 13, or under the minimum age that applies where you live. We don’t knowingly collect personal information from children. If you believe a child has provided personal information through FlipTick, contact us and we’ll help.

What FlipTick stores is protected by your device’s own passcode and encryption, and what it syncs is protected by your Apple ID and Apple’s iCloud security. The services we use apply their own safeguards. No method of storage or transmission is completely secure, so we can’t promise absolute security.

Google, Apple and Adapty may process information in countries other than yours, including the United States, under the safeguards their policies describe.

This website doesn’t use cookies, analytics or advertising. Our hosting provider may keep standard server logs, such as IP address and browser type, for security and reliability. If you contact us, we use your message and contact details only to reply.

If this policy changes, the updated version will appear on this page with a new date. Significant changes will also be noted in the app.