Privacy Policy — Anywhen

Last updated: 26 August 2026

This policy covers Anywhen, the iOS and Android time calculator by IscoviciLabs. Tiny Tools has its own, separate privacy policy.

The short version

Anywhen keeps what you create on your device. Your calculations, cities, events, timers and settings never leave your phone — there is no account system and no server we could store them on.

The app does send anonymous usage statistics: which tools get opened, and when a calculation finishes. That tells us which of the 22 tools earn their place. It never includes anything you typed. You can turn it off in Settings → Share usage data, and we tell you it is on the first time you open the app.

What we collect

Anywhen reports a short, fixed list of events. This is the complete list — there is no other event the app is capable of sending:

• App opened — the app launched or came back to the foreground, and which of the two it was.
• Tool opened — which tool, and whether you arrived from the home hub, the omnibox, a home-screen widget, or your history.
• Calculation completed — that a calculation in a given tool produced a settled result.
• Result shared — that a result was shared, and whether as text or as an image card.
• Widget opened — that a home-screen widget was tapped, and which one.
• Usage-data preference changed — that you turned this on or off.

Every value in those events is an identifier we wrote ourselves — a tool name like duration_between, or a word like hub or text. This is enforced in the code rather than promised in prose: the events are a closed, typed set that cannot accept free text, and a test checks that every value sent belongs to that known set.

Alongside those events, our analytics provider assigns a random identifier to your installation so repeat visits can be counted without knowing who you are. It is not your advertising ID, it is not linked to any account, and it is not shared with other apps. Turning usage data off and on again generates a new one.

What we do not collect

• Your name, email address, phone number, or any contact details
• Your location
• Your advertising ID, or any identifier shared with other apps
• Your calculations, their results, or any city, event, timer or streak name
• Anything you type, in any field, ever
• Crash reports or diagnostics
• Contacts, calendar entries, photos, or files

We do not sell your data, share it with advertisers, or use it to build a profile of you. It is used to decide what to build and fix, and nothing else.

What stays on your device

Anywhen saves what you create so it is still there when you return: saved calculations and history; events, countdowns, timers, stopwatch state and streaks; favourite cities and pinned time zones; your home time zone and app settings.

This is held in the app’s private storage on your device. It is not transmitted anywhere, it is not backed up to any service we operate, and we cannot see it. Uninstalling Anywhen deletes all of it.

Turning it off

Usage data is on by default, and the app says so the first time you open it — that notice offers Turn off right there. Afterwards the switch lives in Settings → Share usage data. Turning it off takes effect immediately, not at the next launch, and nothing further is sent.

Who processes it

Usage statistics are processed by PostHog on their European Union infrastructure, acting as our data processor. Data is not transferred outside the EU by us.

Our legal basis under the GDPR is legitimate interest: understanding which features are used so the app can be improved. You can object at any time by turning the switch off, which stops all collection.

Permissions

The two platforms ask for different things, so they are listed separately — the Android list does not describe the iOS app.

Android

Anywhen requests a small number of Android permissions, each for one visible purpose:

• Internet — to send the anonymous usage statistics described above. Nothing else uses the network.
• Notifications — to alert you when a timer finishes, when an event reminder you set is due, or when you reach a streak milestone.
• Exact alarms — so a timer or reminder fires at the precise moment you chose, rather than whenever the system finds convenient.
• Run at startup — so timers and reminders you set before restarting your phone still fire at the right time.
• Vibration — for haptic feedback when a timer completes.

Android also shows a few permissions that come from the libraries Anywhen is built on rather than from the app’s own code. They are listed here because the Play listing displays them and it would be odd to see them unexplained:

• View network connections — the analytics library, to avoid sending when there is no connection.
• Prevent phone from sleeping and foreground service — the Android scheduling library behind timer and reminder delivery.

iOS

iOS asks about far less, because Anywhen needs far less. The app requests notification permission only — for timers, event reminders and streak milestones you set yourself. Nothing else prompts.

In particular there is no App Tracking Transparency prompt, because there is nothing to ask about: Anywhen uses no advertising identifier, links nothing to third-party data, and shares nothing with data brokers. Under Apple’s definition it does not track you, so the prompt would be meaningless.

On neither platform does Anywhen request location, camera, microphone, contacts, calendar, photo, or storage permissions.

Third-party services

PostHog is the only third party that receives anything, and only the events listed above. There is no advertising SDK, no crash-reporting service, no social login, and no data broker.

About this page

One clarification, because the two are easy to conflate: everything above describes the Anywhen mobile app. This web page is hosted on tinytiny.tools, a separate product with its own cookies and analytics — as its cookie banner says. Those practices are described in the Tiny Tools privacy policy and apply to your visit to this website, never to your use of the app.

Offline data included in the app

Anywhen ships with the IANA Time Zone Database for accurate time-zone and daylight-saving calculations, and a city list derived from GeoNames (licensed CC BY 4.0) so you can search for places without a network lookup. Both are read-only reference data bundled inside the app — searching a city queries a file on your device, and no request leaves your phone.

Children

Anywhen is a general-purpose utility and is not directed at children. It collects no personal information from anyone, including children.

Your rights

Data-protection laws such as the GDPR give you rights to access, correct, export, and delete personal data held about you.

The usage statistics we hold are not linked to your name, email, or any account, so in normal circumstances we cannot connect them to you in order to retrieve or erase them. What you can always do is turn collection off, which stops it immediately. If you want the data associated with your installation deleted and can tell us enough to identify it, write to the address below and we will do what we can.

The data on your device is entirely under your control: delete individual items inside the app, or uninstall it to remove everything at once.

Changes to this policy

If Anywhen ever changes what it does with data, this policy will be updated before that change ships, and the date above will change.

Contact

Questions about this policy or about privacy in Anywhen: [email protected]