No Treat Today support

Whatever you decide. You set that up yourself — sugar, fast food, snacks, alcohol, or anything else you’re cutting back on — and you can change your mind later without losing what you’ve already logged.

As many as you want. I log two most days, because I skip breakfast and because a third of a day feels too easy to earn — but if I have a real breakfast, or one with a treat in it, that day gets three.

No. One clean meal out of two counts as half a day, one out of three counts as a third, and those fractions add up across days. Half on Monday and a third on Tuesday leaves you five sixths of the way to an ape.

Nothing is ever lost. A half plus two thirds is seven sixths: you attract an ape and keep the extra sixth toward the next one. That leftover shows up as a small pie chart at the bottom right of the day’s ring, and it survives even if your apes start leaving.

It happens to me too. Go back and fill in the missing days from memory — nobody is checking, so a best guess is fine. If it keeps happening, turn on the evening reminder.

Because it’s a convenience, and I used the app without it for a long time before publishing it. Two days of one treat meal and one clean meal do exactly what one clean day and one treat day do — it just takes a little more thought.

You attract one by going a whole day without a treat, and he lands on your planet the next day. Partial days count: three meals with one clean is a third of a day, and thirds add up until they make a whole one.

Yes — a day with nothing in it is read as a day with treats. Fill the day in whenever you get to it and he comes back. Apes don’t hold a grudge.

It depends on the goal you set. By default an ape leaves after a full week of days with treats, so an ape attracted on Monday goes the following Tuesday unless you eat one clean meal in between — one meal, not another whole day.

They go looking for a more hospitable planet. You scared them and you can’t undo that — short of editing the past — but you can do better next week.

They merge, so your planet stays liveable: seven daily apes become a weekly one, and it carries on up through months, quarters and years. Merged apes look different from each other, which is half the fun of collecting them.

Because the lower levels are hidden once they have merged into a higher one. They are all still there in your population view, and if you want one on the planet regardless, favourite it.

It favourites him, which keeps him on your planet even after he has been merged into a bigger ape. Special apes are favourited for you.

There’s no limit to how many you collect, but never more than one a day. On the planet at any one time it’s 14 (six days, three weeks, two months, three quarters) plus one per year, plus every ape you’ve favourited.

They show up when you edit the past. A frozen ape is one that really did arrive at some point but no longer should have, given the change you just made — rather than delete him, the app puts him on ice. The next ape you’d attract unfreezes him instead.

Groups of special energies that turn up at random. The forecast will tell you something is in the air without telling you what. Energised apes look unlike the regular ones, and a few are rare or one of a kind.

Dates that celebrate an event or a person. An ape attracted on one of those days arrives with a look you can’t get any other way.

He crossed your planet’s atmosphere on a holiday, which imbues him with superpowers I haven’t revealed yet, and gives him a distinctive look.

Three options, in the order I’d rank them. Plan around it — one clean meal out of two the day before leaves you starting today with half a day already banked. Or swap with another day so it evens out. Or cheat, which is between you and yourself, and which I’d rather you didn’t.

Maybe, maybe not. I might let people catch up on missed ones later, but I’m not promising it.

You get both. Only the ape you attracted is energised — the one that appears because others merged is a different animal.

Yes, and I’ve used them. Write to me from inside the app.

Your leftover fraction of a day. Half a day on Monday plus two thirds on Tuesday is seven sixths — one ape, and a sixth carried forward, which is what the pie is showing.

No. Names and anything else you’ve changed about an ape stay exactly as you left them.

No. Not the data on your phone, and not the data in iCloud either — it sits in your own private iCloud database, which I have no way to read.

Start in the app’s Settings: a dedicated menu appears there whenever it detects a sync problem. Then check the Settings app — tap your name at the top, go to iCloud, and make sure both iCloud Drive and No Treat Today are on. Give it a few seconds to catch up between devices.

In the Settings app, tap your name, then iCloud, and turn No Treat Today off. The app keeps working; it just stops syncing.

Yes. The app writes your whole history to a JSON file you keep, from Settings — no account, no request form, no waiting on me.

How to export your data

Delete the app from every device, then open the Settings app, tap your name, go to iCloud, then Manage Storage, find No Treat Today and delete the data there.

Because it costs money to exist: an Apple developer account, devices, software, a domain and a website, an accountant, taxes, and the 5% I give to charities — all before a penny reaches my family. I used the app myself for months before publishing it, and the free version today does more than I had then.

What’s free, what isn’t, and how it’s sold

Anyone who has seen enough science fiction knows editing the past is delicate work. Letting you change a day without wrecking every ape and every total downstream of it is the single hardest thing in this app. It’s also the way to cheat, which I think earns it a spot behind the paywall.

Write to me from inside the app and tell me a bit about your situation — only as much as you’d tell a friendly stranger. We’ll sort something out.

Yes, 50%. Email me from your student address and I’ll send you an offer code.

Yes. Every plan covers the family you’ve set up in your iCloud settings — they just need to tap Restore purchase once.

Open the subscription screen and look at the bottom, next to Privacy and Terms.

Open the App Store app, tap your picture at the top right, choose Redeem Gift Card or Code, and enter it. Then come back to No Treat Today and tap Restore purchase in Settings.

Through Apple — refunds are theirs to give and there’s nothing I can do from my side. I would still like to hear what went wrong, because that part I can fix.

It’s a nod to “No Milk Today” by Herman’s Hermits.

Three reasons that turned out to be the same reason. They stand for the primal urges the app is about taming — the monkey mind you acknowledge rather than fight. Orangutans are the animal that pays for palm oil, which is where overconsumption stops being only about your health. And the Librarian in Discworld is an orangutan who keeps the records, which is exactly what your apes are doing.

Your coach — the one who asks how your day went, and who is less easily spooked than the rest, which is why he stays on your worst weeks. His name is a sugar crash, and a crush, and a nod to a famous game about candy. His face went through a lot of drafts before my daughter approved it.

Probably not. I build for Apple platforms, alone, and that’s already a full plate.

With your help, maybe. The app is full of puns, some cultural and some that only work in one language, so it takes rather more than a translation engine. Write to me if you’d like to help.

Big ones, small ones, and medium ones — which I like to keep to myself so I can follow where they go. Tell me what you need, though: more than once a message has jumped a feature to the front of the queue.