Last updated: October 14, 2026
EasyWhen (formerly DateDrop) is made and sold by Ben Dansby (“we”, “us”). These terms cover your use of the EasyWhen apps for macOS, iPhone, and iPad, and this website. Installing or using EasyWhen means you accept them. If you don’t, don’t install it — and if you already paid us, ask for a refund and you’ll get one.
Where you got EasyWhen decides who sold it to you. Buy the direct download for Mac from this site and we are the seller, through Lemon Squeezy — all fourteen sections below apply to you. Buy it on the App Store and Apple is the seller: one purchase covers Mac, iPhone, and iPad, Apple’s terms govern that purchase, there is no license key and no reminder, so sections 1 and 2 don’t apply; payment and refunds go through Apple, so section 3 doesn’t either; and updates arrive through the store rather than from us, though section 4’s promise that fixes are free still stands. Get it through Setapp and Setapp is the seller: its terms govern that purchase, there is no license key from us, so sections 1 through 4 don’t apply. Sections 5 onward apply to every version.
Buying EasyWhen buys you a personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable license to use it, on as many Macs as you personally use, for as long as you like. Commercial use is included — the dates and times EasyWhen produces are yours to use at work, in products, and in anything you publish.
A license key is issued to one person or one organization. You may not share, resell, sublicense, or publish a key. Activations are counted, and a key that turns up on unrelated machines may be deactivated.
The direct-download Mac version is not time-limited and holds nothing back. Every feature works and nothing is watermarked or locked. What an unlicensed copy does instead is remind you: roughly every tenth time you open EasyWhen, a dialog asks you to buy a license. The reminders don’t stop until a license is entered, but they never block what you were doing.
Payments for the direct download are handled by Lemon Squeezy, which acts as the merchant of record and handles taxes. We never see your card details.
If EasyWhen isn’t what you wanted, email within 30 days of purchase and you’ll get a full refund. No form, no justification required. Refunded keys stop working at the next validation.
Purchases made on the App Store are refunded by Apple, under Apple’s policy, not ours — we have no ability to issue those. Write to us anyway if something went wrong; we’d rather hear it.
The direct-download version checks for updates and can install them for you. Bug fixes and improvements to the version you bought are free, on every channel. A future major version may be a separate purchase; if it is, that will be said plainly before you’re asked to pay for anything.
EasyWhen formats dates and times on your own device. We claim no rights over anything you type into it or produce with it, and we never receive any of it — there is no EasyWhen account and no EasyWhen server holding your text or settings. See the privacy policy for exactly what does and doesn’t leave your device.
EasyWhen reads your device’s clock and the time-zone rules built into macOS and iOS, and interprets plain-language phrases like “next Tuesday 3pm” as best it can. Time-zone rules change when governments change them, and a phrase can mean something other than what you intended. Before you rely on a date or time for anything where a mistake is costly — a deadline, a contract, a flight, a meeting across zones — read the preview and confirm it is the one you meant.
On the Mac, Insert places text into whichever app is in front when you use it. You are responsible for where that text lands.
On iPhone and iPad, EasyWhen offers a Format Date action to Apple’s Shortcuts app. Shortcuts, Siri, and the Action button are Apple’s services, governed by Apple’s terms. We’re responsible for the text EasyWhen returns, not for what a shortcut you build does with it.
EasyWhen is provided “as is”, without warranty of any kind, express or implied, including merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, and non-infringement. We don’t promise it is error-free or that it works with every configuration of macOS, iOS, or iPadOS.
Some jurisdictions don’t allow the exclusion of certain warranties, so parts of this section may not apply to you; you may have consumer rights that these terms cannot limit, and nothing here is intended to.
To the fullest extent the law allows, we are not liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or punitive damages, or for missed appointments, lost data, lost profits, or lost time, arising from your use of EasyWhen. Our total liability for any claim relating to EasyWhen is limited to the amount you actually paid for it in the twelve months before the claim.
Your license ends if you materially break these terms — most obviously by redistributing the app or its keys. You can end it any time by uninstalling EasyWhen. Sections 6 through 10 survive the end of the license.
These terms may change as the app changes. The current version always lives at this address with its date at the top, and material changes are called out in the release notes of the version they land with. Continuing to use EasyWhen after a change means accepting the updated terms.
These terms are governed by the laws of the State of California, United States, without regard to its conflict-of-law rules. Nothing here removes any mandatory consumer protection you have where you live.
Questions about these terms, refunds, or licensing: ben.dansby@gmail.com. You’ll get a real reply from a real person.