Help to quit the pokies.

Please call 000 if you or someone else is in immediate danger. You can also call Lifeline on 13 11 14 or text 0477 13 11 14, or the Suicide Call Back Service on 1300 659 467. For gambling, call Gambling Help on 1800 858 858 (Gambler's Help in Victoria); for money worries, the National Debt Helpline on 1800 007 007.

Yes. Daylight is free, with no ads and no in-app purchases, and there's no account to create.

Daylight is coming soon to the App Store for iPhone. It is made for adults (18+) in Australia who want to stop playing pokies. This page will link to the App Store as soon as it's live.

No. Your profile, slip log and notes, tips, joy plans, wellbeing check answers, lesson progress and Payday Shield ticks are stored only on your phone, inside the app. Bank details you type into the split-pay helper are never stored at all. Your location never leaves your phone. Daylight only sends a few small, anonymous community events if you turn on community sharing — see "What does the community share?" below and our privacy policy.

Venue Radar uses your location on your phone to show pokies-free places. If you turn on Watch for me and allow “Always” location, Daylight uses iOS region monitoring to notice when you're within about 150 m of a venue with gaming machines, and shows a local notification. Your location never leaves your phone — Daylight has no server that receives it. To turn it off, go to Radar › Watch for me in the app, or iOS Settings › Daylight › Location.

Only for Watch for me. It relies on iOS region monitoring, which can only alert you near a venue while Daylight is closed if location access is set to “Always”. The check happens on your phone and your location is never sent anywhere. You can change this at any time in iOS Settings › Daylight › Location.

Daylight is for people anywhere in Australia, but its venue data so far covers Victoria and New South Wales, so Venue Radar and Watch for me only know about venues in those two states for now. Venue data: © State of New South Wales (Liquor & Gaming NSW) and © State of Victoria (Victorian Gambling and Casino Control Commission; Liquor Control Victoria), both licensed under CC BY 4.0.

Go to Pot › Start over. This clears everything Daylight has stored on your phone and creates a new anonymous install ID, so any community events you shared earlier can no longer be linked to you; they expire from the community server within 120 days. Deleting the app also removes its data from your phone.

Only what you choose to share. Community sharing is off unless you turn it on: Daylight asks once at the end of setup, and you can switch it on or off any time in People. When it's off, Daylight sends nothing about you — it only downloads the public totals and shared wins, with no install ID attached. When it's on, Daylight sends small, anonymous events tagged with a random install ID made on your phone (not linked to your name, email, Apple ID or advertising ID): a wave you surfed, with your own estimated average session amount in whole dollars (capped at $2,000); a kept day; an “in a wave now” status for 15 minutes; preset encouragements you send to another anonymous person (deleted from the server about 30 minutes later); preset win tags with your days rounded into bands (7/14/30/60/90/180/365+); cheers; and your state (VIC, NSW or Other) worked out from your home postcode. There are no names, emails, free text or precise location. The server keeps no request logs and we don't store IP addresses; community rows are deleted after 120 days. To stop sharing, turn it off in People. Details are in the privacy policy.

No. Daylight is not medical advice and not a treatment service, and it doesn't replace a doctor, a counsellor or Gambling Help. If things are hard, please reach out to one of the services listed on this page.