A reading practice
Read one idea. Follow where it leads. Remember what mattered.
One idea a day, a few minutes long. What you keep stays yours.
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- One thoughtful idea at a time.
- Paths through ideas that belong together.
- Questions that return when remembering matters.
- A Book built from the lines you choose to keep.
Ideas worth your attention
An idea takes a few minutes to read. What happens after you read it is what makes Hours different.
Read one idea
Something worth thinking about, short enough to finish in one sitting. Philosophy, cognitive science, history, art, culture, and how things get built.
One a day, chosen along a track: how the mind works, where ideas came from, how things get made. No feed. No endless queue. Nothing piling up while you are away.
Follow where it leads
Some ideas make more sense together. Paths connect a small number of ideas in a deliberate sequence, so one discovery naturally opens the next. Read one now, and come back for the rest whenever you want.
Remember what mattered
Reading is only the first encounter, so a question about the idea returns later. A day later, then three, then a week. Answer it easily and the gap gets longer; hesitate and it comes back sooner.
The point is not to quiz you. It is to stop useful ideas from becoming things you vaguely remember reading once.
Keep what stays with you
Hold a passage you want to keep. The lines you save collect in your Book, along with where they came from and when you found them. Over time it becomes a record of the ideas that actually stayed with you, and you can export it whenever you like.
Built around attention, not engagement
Hours is not trying to keep you inside the app. There are no feeds to clear, badges to collect, or artificial reasons to come back.
Your run tracks consistency, but it is designed to survive ordinary life. Weekends are held. A missed weekday can be forgiven. Reading and returning to an idea both count.
The measure of Hours is simpler: can you still explain the idea when it matters later? Everything else supports that.
Your reading grows with you
Every idea you read becomes part of your record. Reading and answering grow your tree, and the lines you keep become leaves. Nothing you have already earned disappears because you miss a day.
Your history is not a score. It is simply a picture of the reading you have done.
Start with one idea
One a day is free for your first five days, and one full Path. A subscription opens full access to all ideas and paths, returning questions that help ideas stay, and your Book, built from what you keep.
$5.99 a month, $12.99 every three months, or $39.99 a year, each beginning with three days free.
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Privacy
Last updated 11 September 2026
Your reading stays yours. Hours does not require an account, and your reading history, saved lines, questions, run, and settings are stored on your iPhone.
On this device
Your marks, your run, your questions, and your reading history are stored locally. There is no account, and Settings can erase all of it at any time.
Purchases
Apple processes every payment. A purchase identifier is used to validate your subscription, never your reading.
Advertising attribution
If you allow tracking when iOS asks, one attribution event tells us an ad brought you here; decline, and nothing about your reading changes.
In full
Stored on your device. Hours keeps your reading activity locally on the device. That includes the ideas you have read, the lines you have kept, the questions you have answered, your run, and your settings. There are no reader accounts and no email address is asked for. You can erase this data from within the app. Deleting Hours also removes locally stored data, so export your Book first if you want to keep it.
Deleting your data. There is no account, so there is nothing held on a server to delete. Everything Hours knows about your reading sits on your device, and you can erase all of it:
- Inside the app. Settings → Delete my data. This erases your reading history, your marks, your bookmarks and your question reviews on this device, and cannot be undone. Export your Book first if you want to keep it.
- By deleting Hours. Removing the app from your iPhone removes everything it stored locally.
- Purchases. A subscription belongs to your Apple ID rather than to Hours, and is cancelled from your Apple ID settings.
What leaves your device. Two things, and nothing else:
- Purchases. Apple handles payments. RevenueCat is used to verify whether your subscription is active. Neither Apple nor RevenueCat receives your reading history from Hours.
- Advertising attribution. If you allow tracking when iOS asks, Hours may report an install-attribution event to Meta so we can understand which advertising brought someone to the app. If you decline, this does not happen and nothing about your reading experience changes.
Your choices. Tracking can be changed at any time in iOS Settings → Privacy & Security → Tracking. Everything Hours stores locally can be erased from the app. Because Hours does not use reader accounts, there is no reading profile stored on our servers to request or delete.
Children. Hours is not directed at children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect data from them.
Questions about privacy: support@gethours.space.
Terms
Last updated 18 August 2026
The short version. Subscribe if Hours is useful to you. Cancel whenever you want. Keep the reading you have already earned.
The subscription
It renews until you cancel, and cancelling is yours to do any time in your Apple ID settings. A free trial converts unless cancelled before it ends.
Your book
The lines you keep are yours. Export them whenever you like; deleting the app deletes them, so export first.
The writing
What you read here is for your reading. Share a line with the built-in card whenever you like; republishing a whole piece is not part of the deal.
In full
Subscription. Subscriptions renew automatically until canceled. You can manage or cancel your subscription through your Apple ID settings. A free trial becomes a paid subscription unless canceled before the trial ends.
Billing. Subscriptions are charged to your Apple ID and renew automatically unless canceled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Manage or cancel them in Settings → your name → Subscriptions. Any unused portion of a free trial is forfeited when a subscription purchase begins.
Refunds. Apple is the merchant of record and handles App Store refunds directly. Refund requests can be made through your Apple ID purchase history.
What happens when a subscription ends. Ideas you have already read and lines you have already kept remain available. A subscription provides access to new ideas and the wider library. It does not take away reading you have already completed.
Your Book. The lines you keep are yours to export. Because your Book is stored locally, deleting the app deletes that local copy. Export it first if you want to preserve it.
The writing. The writing inside Hours is original work. Reading it, saving passages to your Book, exporting your Book, and sharing individual lines through Hours are all permitted. Republishing an essay in whole or substantial part is not.
No professional advice. Hours is a reading practice. Its content is not medical, legal, financial, or other professional advice.
Support
Something not working? Tell us what happened.
What helps
Your device, where you were in the app, and what happened. Screenshots help more than anything.
The most useful details are:
- your device
- where you were in the app
- what you expected to happen
- what happened instead
Purchases
For billing, Apple handles refunds directly through your Apple ID settings, faster than we ever could. Restore purchases lives in Settings.
If a purchase is not appearing correctly in Hours, use Restore Purchases in Settings.
Widgets
Today's idea, without opening the app.
Add Hours to your Home Screen to see what is waiting for you. Touch and hold the Home Screen, tap +, search for Hours, and choose a widget size. The widget updates as you read and opens directly into Hours. Requires iOS 17 or later.