Notch

daily practice

Private daily habits, six months of guidance, and meaningful clocks for recovery, routines, and events.

Support

Questions, bugs, or feedback? Email support@distyll.uk and you'll get a reply, usually within a couple of days.

Common questions

How does Notch work? Close daily habit rings, follow one small prompt from the 26-week practice, or use a clock for recovery, recurring work, or an event. Each tool keeps its own meaning and history.

Where is my data stored? Detailed habits, clocks, logs, and programme progress stay in the app's local shared container on your device. There is no Notch account or Notch cloud server.

How do I back up or move my data? Open Settings → Export complete backup. The readable JSON includes habits, programme progress, and all clocks, including hidden clocks, so keep it somewhere private.

I reset a clock by accident. Tap Undo in the message shown after a reset or completion. Recovery attempts and routine completions are also retained in history.

Will it remind me? Reminders are off until you enable them for a habit or clock. Habit reminders follow the weekdays and time you choose. Clock reminders offer Minimal or Standard frequency and quiet hours.

What is included for free? Three habits, three clocks, widgets, complete backups, and the first 14 programme days. Your existing data always remains visible, editable, and exportable.

What is Notch Plus? A £0.99 monthly subscription that opens unlimited habits and clocks, the complete 182-day practice, and Game Center. It renews automatically until cancelled. Restore or manage it from Settings → Notch Plus.

Is Game Center required? No. It is an optional Notch Plus feature and stays off until you choose to connect. When connected, only aggregate totals plus achievement identifiers and completion percentages go to Apple's Game Center; habit names, clock names, and logs do not.

Privacy Policy

What Notch stores

• The habits and clocks you create, their history, and programme progress live only on your device, in local App Group storage shared with the Notch widget.
• Notch has no developer-operated backend, account system, analytics pipeline, or advertising service.

What Notch does not do

• No analytics, tracking, or advertising SDKs.
• No collection of your name, email, location, contacts, or device identifiers.
• Habit names, clock names, logs, and backup contents are never sent to Game Center.

Optional Game Center

If you explicitly connect Game Center, Notch reports aggregate integer totals such as completed habits and closed days, plus achievement identifiers and completion percentages, to Apple. Apple processes Game Center activity under its own privacy policy and Apple Account settings. You can use every Notch feature without connecting.

Backups you control

If you use Export, Notch creates a readable JSON backup containing habits, logs, programme progress, and all clocks, including hidden clocks, and hands it to you through the system file picker. The file is not encrypted; where you store it is entirely your choice, and Notch never sends it anywhere on its own.

Website storage and cookies

The website uses no analytics, advertising, or third-party cookies. The browser version can use first-party local storage to keep your clocks on that device, but only after you choose Allow device saving. If you choose Use without saving, clocks remain in memory for that tab and disappear when the page is refreshed or closed.

The website stores the saving preference and clock data only in that browser. It is not sent to Notch or any third party. You can remove it at any time by clearing site data for notch.distyll.uk in your browser settings.

Children

Notch does not knowingly collect any data from anyone, including children.

Contact

Privacy questions: support@distyll.uk.