Whittle is licensed to you under Apple’s Standard End User License Agreement, which you can read in full at apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula. That document is the licence. The page you are reading adds the things specific to this app — what is free, the subscription, what the app is not, and how to reach a human.
Whittle is an iPhone app that measures how long you spend in apps you choose. With a Whittle Pro subscription, it then lowers that figure on a schedule you set. It is published by Mustafa Emir, an individual developer based in Türkiye.
Using Whittle requires an iPhone running iOS 16.4 or later, and requires you to grant Screen Time access when the app asks. Without that permission the app cannot measure anything, which is most of what it does. The Home Screen widget requires iOS 17 or later.
It is not a medical device and it is not treatment. Whittle does not diagnose, treat, cure or prevent any condition, and nothing in the app is medical advice. If your phone use is causing you real harm — to your sleep, your work, your relationships, your mental health — please speak to a doctor or a qualified professional. An app that subtracts eight percent a week is not a substitute for that.
It is not a parental control. Whittle asks for the individual Screen Time authorization, for the phone it is installed on, and never restricts a device belonging to anyone else. With Whittle Pro, once the day’s minutes are used, a pause appears in front of the apps you chose; Open anyway lifts it with one tap, and it may ask again later that day. While a pause is up, iOS may hold back notifications from those apps, so we suggest leaving messaging apps off the list. Whittle never hides an app.
The numbers come from Apple. Usage figures come from Apple’s Device Activity framework. Whittle counts them in steps (each minute up to two hours, then every five minutes up to six), so a day can read a few minutes under iOS Settings, and counting stops at six hours: a longer day reads as six. Other differences come from how and when the system aggregates that data.
Measuring, today’s minutes and your history are free. Whittle Pro is an auto-renewing subscription sold through the App Store. It adds the program: the weekly decrease and its settings, the pause once the day’s minutes are used, next week’s target in the Sunday note, and the Home Screen widget’s countdown.
If you are a consumer in the European Union, the United Kingdom or Türkiye, you may have a statutory right to withdraw from a distance contract. Because the subscription is sold and processed by Apple, withdrawal and refund requests go through Apple using the link above.
You agree not to reverse engineer, decompile or attempt to extract the source of the app except where that restriction is void under law; not to resell, rent or sublicense it; and not to use it to monitor a person who has not asked to be monitored. The last one is not decoration — the app is built so it cannot do that, and attempting to make it do so is a misuse of it.
We try to keep the app working on current versions of iOS, but we do not promise uninterrupted or error-free operation. Features may change between versions. If the app is withdrawn from sale, existing subscriptions will be honoured until the end of the period already paid for.
Whittle is provided as it is. To the fullest extent permitted by law, we are not liable for indirect or consequential loss arising from the use of the app, and our total liability is limited to the amount you paid for your current subscription period. Nothing here limits liability for death or personal injury caused by negligence, for fraud, or for anything else that cannot be limited under the law that applies to you.
If you are a consumer, your statutory rights are unaffected by anything on this page.
What the app collects and what it does not is set out in the Privacy Policy, which forms part of these terms.
These terms may be updated when the app changes. The date at the top will say when. Continuing to use Whittle after a change means you accept the updated terms; if you do not, cancel the subscription and delete the app.
These terms are governed by the laws of the Republic of Türkiye, without prejudice to any mandatory consumer protection rules of the country in which you live, which continue to apply to you.
Questions about these terms: m.emirofficial@gmail.com.