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Two things, in this order. First, at your wake-up time it sends you a brief with everything you'd normally open five apps to check: recovery and sleep, the emails that matter, today's calendar, the weather, your balances, and five headlines. You read it in about three minutes and set a short list for the day.

Then you tap Start my day — and the apps you picked as distractions are blocked for the window you chose. The brief gets you oriented; the block gets you out of bed instead of back into the feed.

You wake up and a notification tells you your brief is ready. You open it, read one screen for about three minutes, tick off or add a couple of tasks, and hit Start my day.

That's when the block kicks in — the apps you picked go dark for the window you set, usually 90 minutes, while you eat, shower and get going. They come back on their own when the timer ends.

Not yet — oneTap is iOS only right now. The lock feature relies on Apple's Screen Time framework, so an Android version needs to be built differently. It's on the roadmap. Email hello@theonetap.app if you want a nudge when it ships.

No. Connect one thing or all eight. A brief with just weather and calendar is still a brief. You can add and remove connections at any time from Settings → Connections, and the brief re-arranges itself around whatever you have on.

Go to Settings → Connections → Email (or Calendar) and tap Connect. You'll be handed to Google's own sign-in page — oneTap never sees your Google password.

We request read-only scopes: gmail.readonly and calendar.readonly. That means oneTap can read the metadata it needs to build your brief, and physically cannot send, delete, or change anything in your account.

You can revoke access any time at myaccount.google.com/permissions.

Sender names, subject lines and timestamps for unread and starred mail from the last 24 hours — enough to know whether something needs you before 9am.

It does not read message bodies, attachments, sent mail, or anything older than a day.

Settings → Connections → Sleep, then approve the HealthKit prompt. Grant read access to Sleep Analysis (and Heart Rate Variability if you want the fuller picture).

Health data is processed on your device. Only the summary that appears in your brief — hours slept, a sleep score — leaves the phone, and never for advertising. Apple requires that, and we agree with it.

Both connect over OAuth from Settings → Connections — you log in on WHOOP's or Oura's own page, not ours. oneTap then pulls your daily recovery, strain and sleep scores each morning.

If you wear both, you can pick which one drives the recovery ring in your brief.

Banking runs through Plaid, the same infrastructure Venmo, Robinhood and hundreds of other apps use. From Settings → Connections → Banking, you'll get Plaid's own secure flow to log in to your bank.

A few things worth being clear about:

• oneTap never sees or stores your banking credentials — those go to Plaid, never to us.
• Access is read-only. We can see balances and recent transactions. We cannot move money.
• You can disconnect at any time in the app, or from your bank's own app permissions.

Some banks require OAuth, which by design has to happen in a real browser so you can verify the URL yourself. You'll land back in oneTap automatically when it finishes. If you get stuck on the handoff, force-quit and reopen oneTap — the connection usually completed on the bank's side already.

It runs on Apple's Family Controls framework, at the OS level. Once you tap Start my day, launching one of your chosen apps shows the oneTap block screen instead of the app, for the full duration you set.

Because it's enforced by the OS, it holds even if you move the app to another home screen, bury it in a folder, or delete and redownload it.

Screen Time is a soft limit. When it fires you can tap "One more minute," or "Ignore for today," or enter your passcode or Face ID and carry on. It asks you to stop — it doesn't stop you. That's why most people who try it end up scrolling anyway.

oneTap is a hard block. Once your window starts there's no one-tap way through it; the apps stay shut until the timer runs out.

The other difference matters just as much: Screen Time takes something away and leaves you with nothing. oneTap gives you the brief first, so you start the morning informed and oriented rather than just blocked.

Yes. Phone, Messages, Maps and anything else you haven't explicitly picked stay open the whole time. You choose exactly what gets locked — usually a handful of social and video apps. Nothing is locked by default.

During onboarding, and any time after in Settings → Focus Lock. You're choosing a duration, not a clock time — how long apps stay blocked once you tap Start my day. Anything from 15 minutes to 8 hours; we recommend 90 minutes.

Anything you didn't put on the list stays open — Phone, Messages, Maps and the rest work normally the whole time. Only the apps you picked are affected.

For the ones you did pick, the block holds until the timer ends. That's deliberate: a block you can talk your way out of is the thing that already wasn't working. Pick a duration you'll actually be comfortable with — you can change it any morning before you start your day.

The number of times over the last seven days that an app was the very first thing you opened after waking. It's usually the most uncomfortable number in the app, and the most useful one — it tells you exactly which app is running your mornings.

Every new account gets 7 days free with full access — every connection, every feature, no card required to start.

After that it's $7.99/month or $59.99/year (about $5 a month). There's only one paid plan; the annual option is just cheaper.

Subscriptions are handled by Apple, so cancelling happens in iOS Settings, not in oneTap:

• Open Settings on your iPhone
• Tap your name at the top, then Subscriptions
• Select oneTap → Cancel Subscription

You keep access until the end of the period you've already paid for. Cancel at least 24 hours before renewal to avoid the next charge.

Only if you subscribed during the trial. If you never added a payment method, the trial simply ends and Pro features stop — no charge, no surprise. Cancel any time before the trial's last day and you won't be billed at all.

Refunds go through Apple, since Apple processes the payment. Request one at reportaproblem.apple.com. If something went genuinely wrong on our end, email hello@theonetap.app and we'll back you up with Apple.

No. And more than that — nothing in your brief is visible to us. Not the developers, not the team. Your brief is assembled and stays on your phone; there is no dashboard on our end where anyone can read your inbox, your balances or your calendar.

We don't sell data, we don't share it with advertisers, and we don't use your email, health or financial data to target anything. oneTap makes money from subscriptions — that's the entire business model, and it's deliberately the one that doesn't require selling you out.

The full detail is in the Privacy Policy.

Your account email, your settings, and OAuth tokens for the services you connected (encrypted). Brief content — your emails, events, balances — is fetched fresh each morning and held in a short-lived cache of about four hours, then dropped.

Health data is processed on-device; only the summary shown in your brief is transmitted.

In the app: Settings → Account → Delete Account. That erases your account, settings and all stored tokens within 30 days, and revokes every connection immediately.

You can also email hello@theonetap.app from your account address and we'll handle it.

No to both, and not by policy — by permission. Gmail is connected with a read-only scope, so sending or deleting is not something the app is capable of. Bank access through Plaid is read-only for balances and transactions; there is no transfer capability in the integration at all.

Usually a connection has expired — banks and Google both re-authenticate periodically. Open Settings → Connections and look for anything flagged Needs attention, then reconnect it.

If everything looks connected, pull down on the brief to force a refresh.

Check that Screen Time permission is still granted: iOS Settings → Screen Time → Apps & Websites Activity must be on, and oneTap needs Family Controls access. iOS occasionally drops this after a major update.

Then confirm your lock window in Settings → Morning Lock — a window that ended before you woke up won't lock anything.

Your wearable needs to have synced before your brief generates. WHOOP and Oura both sync when you open their app — if you're a heavy sleeper who checks oneTap first, try setting your brief time 15 minutes later.

For Apple Health, verify oneTap still has read access under iOS Settings → Health → Data Access & Devices → oneTap.

Email hello@theonetap.app with your iOS version and what you were doing when it broke. We usually reply within a business day or two.