Our Freshness Promise
12/17/2025
We built a timekeeping app that respects you. Here’s our commitment:
Core Principles
✓ No account required - Your data stays on your device. We don’t want your email, your phone number, or your life story.
✓ No subscription trap - No monthly fees, no “free trial” that auto-charges you.
✓ Ads are truly optional - One tap in settings to turn them off. No guilt trips, no nagware. No payment necessary.
✓ No feature hostages - All necessary features work for free. We don’t lock basic functionality behind paywalls.
What We Promise About Ads
If you choose to keep ads enabled to support us:
✓ Small, unintrusive - Out of the way. You’ll hardly notice them
✓ Never unprompted, never auto-play - You will never get a sudden full screen ad
✓ Positioned out of the way - Never covering your content or interrupting your work
✓ One tap to disable - In settings, clearly labeled, no hoops to jump through
Required for optional extras only: For fun additionall stuff, ads may be required. Important features never require watching ads, ever.
Product Philosophy
✓ No feature creep - We track time. That’s the job. We won’t bolt on AI, crypto, blockchain, or whatever buzzword is trendy next year.
✓ No forced UI redesigns - If we change the interface, you can switch back. Your muscle memory matters more than our design trends.
✓ This promise transfers with ownership - If we ever sell this app, the buyer must honor these commitments. We’ll make it a condition of sale and announce it publicly.
Why we care
We are not a multimillion dollar corporation trying to milk every penny from our customers nor do we want to be. Freshtime is run by one developer who already has a well paying full time job. Freshtime just needs to make enough to cover the App Store’s $100/yr fee.
The world has been enshittified. Ads are more invasive than ever, data is sold without permission, subscriptions don’t even remove ads anymore. We’re sick of it. Freshtime was built largely out of annoyance with this issue, as a demonstration that apps can still be helpful and not just cash cows.
Freshtime by definition needs to be fresh. Not shittime, freshtime.
Our Accountability
If we or any future owner ever break these promises, we’ll announce it publicly and grandfather existing users into the old terms.
You can hold us to this. Screenshot it. Share it. Call us out if we backtrack.
We’d rather shut down than enshittify.
We just need to keep the lights on, not fund a billion-dollar corporation.
Questions about this promise? Contact us at freshness@freshtime.app. Think we broke it? We want to hear from you.