Your screen time never leaves this phone.

LAST UPDATED · JULY 6, 2026

Resurface exists to give you attention back, not to take data from you. This page says what we store, where, and why — in plain language, because the legal version and the honest version should be the same document.

What stays on your phone

Your screen-time history. Whether measured through Apple's Screen Time framework or entered by hand, it lives in a local database on your device and is never uploaded.
Your urges, check-ins, and surfaced moments. Every intercept, every logged walk, every daily entry: on-device only.
Your onboarding answers. Which apps pull you under, when your phone wins, what you want the time back for — stored locally, never synced.
Your Clarity history and Ascent record. Computed on the device from the data above.

What our servers hold

Your login identity — an anonymous user ID, created only after you subscribe, and only if you choose to save your ascent with Sign in with Apple or Google.
Your subscription status — written by our payment processor so the app knows you are a subscriber.

That is the whole list.

Analytics

We measure how the product performs with anonymous events: a screen was viewed, a step was completed. These events never contain app names, screen time amounts, or anything you typed or logged. Personal numbers — like the years figure in onboarding — are reduced to broad buckets before any event leaves the device.

What we will never do

No ads, ever. We never sell attention back to you.
No selling or sharing of data. There is nothing to sell.
No marketing notifications. At most one nudge a day, and it exists to help you, not us.
No fake urgency, no fake counters, no charge-hiding. We remind you before your trial ends, and cancelling takes two taps.

This website

resurface.app sets no cookies and runs no trackers. There is nothing to accept or decline.

Questions

Write to hello@resurface.app. A person reads it.