Your countdowns, notes and photos stay on your phone. Tillglow has no account, no ads, no analytics and no tracking. We never see what you count down to. Tillglow is free for 7 days with everything open; after that, keeping it takes a single one-time payment through Google Play, only if you choose to buy it. Exporting your data is always free.
What we collect
From your countdowns: nothing. Tillglow has no accounts, no login, no analytics, no ads, no crash reporting and no tracking of any kind. There is no Tillglow server that receives your data.
The 7-day free trial. Tillglow is free for 7 days with everything open: no card, no sign-up, nothing renews. The 7 days are counted on your phone: Tillglow saves, in its private storage, when you first opened a version with the trial and the latest date it has seen. Nothing about the trial is sent anywhere.
The one-time purchase. After the 7 days, keeping Tillglow takes one single payment for the app (a one-time purchase, not a subscription), only if you choose to buy it. The payment is processed by Google Play and the purchase is handled and checked by RevenueCat (see Third parties). Tillglow never sees your card or payment details. If you don't buy, nothing is deleted: the widgets already on your home screen keep counting, and exporting your data (Export CSV and Save a backup copy) is always free. If Google Play can't take the payment at that moment, Tillglow stays open.
Where your data lives
Everything you create in Tillglow is stored in a database inside the app's private storage on your phone: the names, dates and times of your countdowns and count-ups, their emoji, color style, progress bar and note, your reminders, your settings (language and reminder time), and the dates of your free trial.
Photos. When you add a photo to a countdown, you pick it on Android's own photo picker. Tillglow copies only that photo into its private folder, makes it smaller, and uses it on the card and the widget. Your original photo stays where it was.
Widgets. So the widgets can show the right number without opening the app, Tillglow keeps a small copy of the titles, dates and styles of your countdowns in its private storage, and the widget reads it on the phone. Widgets and reminders show your countdown titles on your phone's screen, where anyone holding your phone can see them.
Your data only leaves your phone when YOU send it:
- Share: a countdown as text (for example "87 days until Christmas") through your phone's share menu.
- Export CSV: a file with your countdowns that you share or save where you choose.
- Save a backup copy: a backup file (it includes your photos) that you save wherever you choose. If it would be over 40 MB, Tillglow offers to save it without photos and says so. If you keep it in a cloud storage app, that app's own privacy terms apply; Tillglow never uploads anything itself.
- Restore from a backup: you pick the file yourself on your phone's own screen; Tillglow can only read the file you pick.
Third parties
Your countdowns, notes and photos are never sent to anyone. Tillglow includes one third-party service, RevenueCat, used only for the one-time purchase. Each time Tillglow opens or comes back to the screen, it asks Google Play, through RevenueCat, for the price and whether your Google account already bought Tillglow (so a purchase is recognized after a reinstall or on a new phone). For that, RevenueCat receives an anonymous app user ID and a device identifier and, when you buy or restore, the purchase receipt, over an encrypted (HTTPS) connection. This is not linked to your name or email, is never used for tracking or advertising, and is never sold.
Tillglow includes Google's notification library but does not use push messaging; no token is created and nothing is sent. Reminders are scheduled on your phone.
After you have used Tillglow on a few different days (never on your first day), it may ask Google Play once to show its standard rating window. Any rating or review you leave goes to Google Play, not to us.
Permissions
| Permission | Why | When |
|---|---|---|
| Notifications | The reminders you set for a countdown (on the day, or days before). They are scheduled on your phone; nothing is sent from a server. | Asked only when you turn on a reminder, after a short screen that explains it. Say no and everything else keeps working; the reminder is simply not saved. |
| Run at startup | Redraws your widgets and schedules the next midnight update and your reminders again after the phone restarts. | Never asked (Android grants it). |
| Vibration | A short tap when you save a countdown, add a widget or a reminder, or open a countdown that is today. | Never asked. |
| Internet and Google Play billing | Only for the one-time purchase: asking Google Play for the price and whether you already bought Tillglow, and the payment itself. | Never asked. |
Tillglow does not use your location, contacts, camera, microphone, calendar or files, and it does not ask for any special alarm or battery permission. Photos need no permission: Android's photo picker hands Tillglow only the photo you choose. The app package also lists network state and wake lock: they come with the standard libraries Tillglow uses for purchases and notifications.
Data safety summary
Data collected: a device or other identifier and, if you buy, the purchase history, only for the one-time purchase, used only for app functionality, not shared, not used to track you, and encrypted in transit. Your countdowns, notes, photos, reminders and the dates of your free trial: not collected, not shared.
How to delete your data
Your data is yours, and you can remove it at any time:
- On your phone: open Tillglow → Settings → Delete all my data. After two confirmations it permanently erases every countdown, reminder, photo and setting on the phone, cancels your scheduled reminders and clears the widgets' copy, so your widgets go back to "Tap to add your first countdown". The only things it keeps are whether you bought Tillglow and the dates of your free trial, so you don't lose your purchase and deleting your data doesn't start a new trial. Uninstalling the app also removes all of its data from the phone.
- Files you shared or saved: backups, CSV files and texts you sent outside the app are yours; delete them where you keep them.
- The purchase record: if you bought Tillglow, email us at cmorehollman@gmail.com and we will request deletion of the anonymous purchase receipt held by RevenueCat. No name or email is attached to it. Your Google Play order history is managed in your Google account.
Children
Tillglow is made for adults. It is not directed to children and does not knowingly collect personal information from children.
Changes
If this policy changes, we will update this page and its date. If a future version ever sends your countdowns, photos or any other data off your phone, we will say so here before that version is published.
Contact
cmorehollman@gmail.com — TechInnova Solutions LLC
Resumen en español
Tus cuentas regresivas, notas y fotos se quedan en tu teléfono. Tillglow no tiene cuentas, anuncios, analítica ni rastreo, y nosotros nunca vemos qué fechas cuentas. Todo se guarda en el almacenamiento privado de la app, incluida una copia pequeña de títulos, fechas y estilos para que los widgets muestren el número sin abrir la app. Las fotos se eligen con el selector de fotos de Android (sin permiso de galería); Tillglow copia solo la que elijas a su carpeta privada. Tus datos solo salen del teléfono cuando tú compartes una cuenta como texto, exportas el CSV o guardas una copia de seguridad (con tus fotos) donde tú elijas.
Tillglow es gratis por 7 días con todo abierto: sin tarjeta, sin registro y sin renovaciones. Los 7 días se cuentan en tu teléfono y no se envían a ningún lado. Después, quedarte con Tillglow es un pago único (no es una suscripción) por Google Play, solo si decides comprarla. Si no compras, no se borra nada: los widgets que ya tienes siguen contando y exportar tus datos (Exportar CSV y Guardar una copia de seguridad) siempre es gratis. Si Google Play no puede cobrar en ese momento, Tillglow sigue abierta.
La única pieza de terceros es RevenueCat, que gestiona y comprueba la compra; el pago lo procesa Google Play y Tillglow nunca ve tu tarjeta. Cada vez que abres Tillglow, le pregunta a Google Play, a través de RevenueCat, el precio y si tu cuenta de Google ya la compró (así una compra se reconoce al reinstalar o en un teléfono nuevo). Para eso RevenueCat recibe un identificador anónimo de la app y un identificador del dispositivo y, cuando compras o restauras, el recibo de compra, por HTTPS y sin rastreo. Tillglow incluye la biblioteca de notificaciones de Google pero no usa mensajes push: no se crea ningún token y no se envía nada. Las notificaciones se piden solo cuando activas un aviso.
Para borrar todo: Tillglow → Ajustes → Borrar todos mis datos (borra cuentas, avisos, fotos y ajustes, cancela los avisos programados y deja los widgets en "Toca para agregar tu primera cuenta regresiva"; solo conserva si compraste Tillglow y las fechas de tu prueba gratis, así no pierdes tu compra y borrar tus datos no empieza otra prueba). Desinstalar la app también borra sus datos del teléfono. Si compraste Tillglow, escríbenos a cmorehollman@gmail.com para pedir que se borre el recibo anónimo.