Frequently asked questions

No. Lumara never asks for your social media logins and has no access to those apps. You measure time with our live timer, copy it from your phone’s own screen-time report, or enter an estimate.

Timed sessions are as accurate as your start and stop taps. Phone reports are measured by your phone, but include all time in that app — not only short videos. Self-estimates are your best guess. Every entry is labelled so you always know which is which.

Only if you count them. If you enter a number, we show it as “counted”. Otherwise we show a clearly marked estimate (≈) worked out from the time and a typical video length for that platform.

Yes. Everything described on this site is included in the free plan. There are no ads and we don’t sell your data.

Lumara Scroll Tracker is a website that works in any modern phone or desktop browser — add it to your home screen from the browser’s share or menu button. An Android companion app that can measure app time automatically (using Android’s Usage Access permission) is in development and not yet available. iPhone doesn’t allow apps to export other apps’ usage.

Partly. A browser extension (developer preview) can time short-video pages on desktop, and the server is ready for a future Android app. Automatic tracking measures time; it can’t count videos exactly. Manual tracking works everywhere.

Only you. Your entries are tied to your account and every request checks that the data belongs to you. Site administrators see totals across all users, not your individual entries.

Go to Account → Data & account and choose Delete account. Your account and all entries are removed from our database immediately. You can also email us and we’ll do it for you.

Yes. Choose your time zone when you sign up (we pre-select your device’s) and change it any time in your profile.