Keel: Screen Time & Focus — Privacy Policy

Effective November 5, 2026 · Codefill SRL

In short

• Your screen time stays on your phone: which apps you use, when and for how long never leaves it.
• Keel can send counts of how its own features and setup steps are used, through Google Analytics for Firebase. On Android, this is on until you turn it off in Keel's Settings. On iPhone, it's off unless you agree to it.
• No account, no ads, no crash reporting. We never sell your data.
• Uninstalling Keel deletes everything it stored on your phone.

1. Who we are

Keel is made by Codefill SRL. This policy covers the Keel app for Android (the edition on Google Play and the edition installed directly from us) and for iPhone (the edition on the App Store and TestFlight).

2. What Keel uses, and where it stays

To show you how you spend time on your phone, Keel uses information your phone already keeps about itself:

• App usage: which apps you opened, when, and for how long.
• Pickups: when you picked up and unlocked your phone.
• Installed apps: their names and icons, so your stats are readable.

Keel also saves your own choices: goals, app categories, Focus and Hard Focus setup, and preferences.

All of this is processed and stored only on your phone and is never sent anywhere. Keel has no servers and no accounts. The only things that can leave the phone are the analytics described in Anonymous usage analytics on Android and Optional analytics on iPhone.

3. On Android

On Android, Keel reads usage information from Android itself and keeps it in Keel's private storage. It also opts out of Android's cloud backup, so this data is not copied to your Google account.

Every permission below is optional and off until you turn it on. Keel tells you why before it sends you to the system setting.

Anonymous usage analytics (Android)

Since version 1.5, both Android editions use Google Analytics for Firebase to learn which parts of Keel people use, so we know what to improve. It records:

• Which of Keel's screens you open (Today, Insights, Apps, Focus, Settings, the onboarding steps).
• Which of Keel's features you use, for example starting or ending a Focus session early, starting a Hard Focus timer (its length and how many apps it blocks, never which ones), changing your goal or theme, or moving an app into a category (the category, never the app).
• Which edition you have (Google Play or direct install) and the goal you chose.
• Information Google Analytics collects automatically: a random ID for this installation of Keel, your device model, Android version, language, app version, session times, and an approximate location (country or city) that Google works out from your masked IP address.

It never records which apps you use, their names, how long you use them, your pickups, your budgets' progress, your notifications or anything on your screen. Keel does not use the advertising ID, and ad personalization is turned off.

This data goes to Google, which processes it for us as a service provider under Google's privacy policy. We don't sell it or use it for advertising.

Turning it off: Settings → Privacy → Share anonymous usage. When you switch it off, Keel stops sending anything and resets its analytics ID, so earlier data can't be linked to you again. Google Analytics deletes collected data after at most 14 months.

Usage access

Lets Keel read your app usage history from Android. This is what powers the Today, Insights and Apps screens. It stays on the device.

Notification access

Used only during a Focus session, to snooze notifications from the apps you chose to quiet. They come back when the session ends. Keel does not read, store or send the content of your notifications.

Accessibility service (Hard Focus)

Used only for Hard Focus, the feature that blocks apps you picked. The service notices which app comes to the front so Keel can cover a blocked app with a "this app is blocked" screen. It does not read what's on your screen, record your typing, or collect, store or share any information through it. In the edition installed directly from us, it also covers Keel's own settings pages while a block is running, so the block can't be switched off early.

Device admin (direct-install edition only)

The edition installed directly from us can use device admin so Keel can't be uninstalled in the middle of a Hard Focus block. It uses no other admin powers. The Google Play edition does not include this.

Notifications

Lets Keel send you its own reminders, such as when you reach a daily goal or a Focus session ends.

4. On iPhone

Your screen time data never leaves your iPhone. The only thing the iPhone edition can send is the optional analytics described below, and only if you agree to it.

On iPhone, Keel uses Apple's Screen Time frameworks (Family Controls, Device Activity and Managed Settings). Your usage data is read and processed on your iPhone by Apple's own system, inside a protected Screen Time extension. Apple's design means even that extension can't send your usage data out of it, and Keel's developer never receives it.

Keel's settings, goals and Focus setup are stored in Keel's own storage on your iPhone. Like any app's data, they can be included in your own iPhone or iCloud backup, which only you can access. Keel never receives that backup.

Optional analytics (iPhone)

Since version 1.1.3, the iPhone edition can use Google Analytics for Firebase to show us where people leave Keel's setup, so we can improve it. It's off unless you choose "Share analytics" during setup or turn on Settings → Privacy → Share Analytics. Until then, Firebase doesn't start and nothing is sent. If you agree, it records:

• Which setup steps you reach: the goal, timing, plan, Screen Time access and budget steps, whether you allowed Screen Time access or chose sample data, and whether you finished.
• Information Google Analytics collects automatically: a random ID for this installation of Keel, your device model, iOS version, language, app version, when Keel is opened and session times, and an approximate location (country or city) that Google works out from your IP address.

It never records your Screen Time data, which apps you use, your answers during setup, your budgets or your Focus sessions. Keel doesn't use the advertising identifier (IDFA) or the identifier for vendors (IDFV), and ad storage and ad personalization are turned off.

This data goes to Google, which processes it for us as a service provider under Google's privacy policy. We don't sell it or use it for advertising. Google Analytics deletes collected data after at most 14 months.

Turning it off: Settings → Privacy → Share Analytics. Keel then stops sending analytics, clears anything waiting to be sent and resets its analytics ID. Erasing all of Keel's data in Settings does the same.

Screen Time access

Keel asks for Screen Time access once, with Apple's own permission prompt. It powers the Today, Insights and Apps screens, and lets Focus and Hard Focus place Apple's Screen Time shield over the apps you chose. When you pick apps to block, Apple's app picker gives Keel only an anonymous token for each app, not a list of your apps. You can turn access off at any time in Settings → Screen Time.

Uninstall protection (optional)

If you turn it on, Keel uses Screen Time to stop apps being deleted while a Hard Focus block is running. It does nothing else, and it switches off when the block ends.

Notifications

Lets Keel send you its own reminders, such as when you pass a daily budget or a Focus session ends.

5. Sharing

Keel never shares your screen time data with anyone, including us. The only third-party code in Keel is Google Analytics for Firebase, which receives the analytics described in sections 3 and 4 as our service provider. On iPhone, it receives them only if you agree. Keel contains no advertising code, and nothing is sold or shared for advertising.

6. Your control over your data

• You can turn off any permission at any time in your phone's Settings, or from inside Keel. The one exception is that Keel won't let you turn off Hard Focus protections while a block you started is still running.
• On Android, clearing Keel's storage in Android Settings removes everything Keel saved.
• Uninstalling Keel deletes all of its data from your phone.

We never receive your screen time data, so there is nothing of it for us to access, correct or delete. Analytics data isn't tied to your name. Turning analytics off in Settings resets its ID, and you can email us to ask about it.

7. Children

Keel is not directed at children under 13, and it does not knowingly collect information from anyone, including children.

8. Changes to this policy

If Keel ever starts handling data differently, we'll update this page and the effective date above before the change ships. Significant changes will also be noted in the app's release notes.

9. Contact

Questions about this policy or about Keel's privacy: schiduluca@gmail.com