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$4.99 a week, $9.99 a month, or $59.99 a year. The yearly plan works out at $5.00 a month. Every plan starts with a free trial — seven days on monthly and yearly, three days on weekly — and you are not charged until it ends.

No. ShiftRoot is a subscription with a free trial rather than a free tier with paid extras. You get everything during the trial, and nothing is held back to sell you later.

In Settings → your name → Subscriptions. Apple handles all billing; cancelling there stops future renewals. You keep premium features until the end of the period you have already paid for.

No. Apple's Screen Time framework never tells an app which apps you picked or how long you spent in them. It only reports that a limit you set has been crossed. Your app names, usage minutes and browsing history are not available to us and are never sent anywhere.

Almost nothing. If you sign in for the leaderboard, the dates you earned a streak are sent so your position can be worked out — dates only, no times, no app names, no usage. Everything else — your limits, your bedtime, your alarm, your reading, your streak history — stays on this iPhone.

No. ShiftRoot works completely without an account: the alarm, the limits, the missions, the streak count and your subscription all live on the phone. An account is only needed to appear on the world leaderboard.

iOS does not allow it. Apple reserves a small set of apps — including Phone, Settings, Clock, Health and Wallet — that no third-party app may shield. Emergency calls always work. This is a system rule, not a choice we made.

Yes, and deliberately so. You can read to earn time back, use the weekly emergency pass, or confirm the override screen. The override costs that day's streak; the pass costs nothing. Nothing is ever locked in a way you cannot undo.

Your limits keep working — iOS enforces those, not us. On iOS 26 the alarm is held by iOS itself, so it rings even if ShiftRoot is closed, with a Start button right on the lock screen. On earlier versions a force-quit app cannot play sound, so the alarm falls back to a chain of notifications — leave ShiftRoot running in the background there.

From your answers: how long you scroll, when you really fall asleep, how often you snooze and when you want to be up. On iPhones with Apple Intelligence switched on, Apple's on-device model fine-tunes it and explains why — entirely on your iPhone, with nothing sent to us. Elsewhere the same plan is built from fixed rules, and the app says which was used. You can adjust every number.

A day counts when all three pillars hold: you finished the wake-up mission on the alarm you had set, you stayed inside your app limit, and you kept your bedtime. Any pillar you have switched off for that weekday is not judged. Confirming a red override screen costs that day and nothing else — days you have already earned are never taken away.

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Yes. Articles are stored on your phone, so reading to earn time works with no connection. Only the leaderboard and new articles need the internet.

The app is intended for people who set their own limits. Parents wanting to manage a child's device should use Apple's own Screen Time and Family Sharing controls, which are designed for that and cannot be removed by the child.

Deleting the app removes everything stored on the phone. If you signed in, your account and its streak dates stay on the server until you delete them — use Delete account in your profile before you delete the app, or write to us and we will do it.

No. ShiftRoot is a wellbeing tool for people who want to use their phone less and sleep better. It does not diagnose or treat anything and is not a substitute for professional care. If your sleep or mood is a real concern, speak to a doctor.