A small request you can believe
Qwickword makes the promised length of a conversation something both people can rely on.
“Do you have a minute?”
Most of us learn that this question rarely describes the real commitment. A minute can become five, twenty, or the rest of the hour. The rational response is often to say no. Not because the conversation has no value, but because its cost is unknown.
Qwickword turns that vague promise into a boundary. The inviter chooses the length, the guest sees it before joining, and the room ends for everyone when the shared timer reaches zero. A five-minute invitation becomes easier to accept because it will actually be five minutes.
Permission goes both ways
For an individual, Qwickword provides licence to accept a useful conversation without handing over an indefinite part of the day. It also makes setting a boundary feel natural, rather than abrupt or personal.
For an organisation, it can make that permission part of the working culture: employees may propose a smaller commitment, decline the wrong meeting format, or ask for a defined amount of someone's time. That matters especially when hierarchy, politeness, or habit makes it difficult for one participant to bring a conventional meeting to an end.
Where it earns its place
- A focused decision or approval
- A project check-in or daily stand-up
- An expert question or office-hours slot
- A customer or supplier check-in
- An introduction or networking conversation
- A first conversation before booking a longer one
It is not a demand that every conversation be compressed. Workshops, sensitive discussions, complex negotiations, and anything with an honestly uncertain duration deserve a different format.
An opinion, not a universal rule
People and cultures understand time, hospitality, hierarchy, boundaries, and productivity differently. Some environments prize exact schedules; others value the flexibility to let a conversation find its natural length. Qwickword does not pretend to represent every culture or improve every kind of work.
It is a productivity tool, but it is also a small and intentionally opinionated experiment: what changes when the end of a meeting is agreed in advance and is no longer a negotiation?
The practical part
Choose any whole number from 1 to 30 minutes and share the link. The countdown starts when the second person joins, not when the link is created. The call runs in the browser, and the room enforces the ending for everyone.
Read the step-by-step explanation of the shared deadline in how Qwickword works.
Privacy policy
Effective 2 August 2026
Who we are
Qwickword is operated by Maurice Holdings LLC. Questions or privacy requests can be sent to info@mauriceholdings.llc.
Information we handle
- Calls and rooms. We store generated room names, chosen call lengths, room names you provide, timestamps, sharing method, call status, and limited reliability measurements. For troubleshooting, we may temporarily keep anonymous per-call lifecycle and clock events plus a one-way representation of the video provider's session identifiers. We do not keep participant names or provider user IDs in that diagnostic record. Qwickword does not record or store call audio or video.
- Optional accounts. Guests do not need an account. If you sign in, we store your email address in encrypted form, a display name, an internal user identifier, sessions, people you choose to keep, signed-in call participation, and notification routing information.
- Contact selection. The app receives only the contact you choose when composing a message. The selected phone number is passed to your device's message composer and is not uploaded or stored by Qwickword. A selected name is saved on your device only if you choose to remember it.
- Website and technical data. We use random first-party session identifiers, campaign information, and aggregate website usage information to understand whether Qwickword works and how people find it. Hosting and communications providers may process technical information such as IP addresses as part of delivering and securing their services.
- Information kept on your device. Recent Qwickwords, labels you add, settings, remembered room links, and room owner credentials remain on your device unless you clear or remove them there.
How we use information
We use this information to create and operate calls, enforce their time limits, provide optional sign-in, saved people and notifications, prevent misuse, troubleshoot failures, and improve reliability. We do not sell personal information, use it for targeted advertising, or track you across other companies' apps or websites.
Google and YouTube account data
Qwickword's internal brand-publishing tool may ask the owner of the official Qwickword YouTube channel to authorize the Google OAuth youtube.upload permission. We use that permission only to verify that the authorized account controls the official Qwickword channel and to upload founder-approved Qwickword videos. Uploads created by the tool remain private for manual review unless an authorized channel owner later changes their visibility in YouTube.
The tool stores the OAuth authorization token in restricted local credential storage outside the public application and source repository. It sends that token and approved video metadata or media only to Google's OAuth and YouTube API services. Qwickword does not sell this Google user data, share it with advertisers or data brokers, use it for advertising, or use it to train AI models. The authorization is not offered to Qwickword call participants or website users.
The authorization is retained only while the internal publishing connection is needed. The channel owner can revoke access in Google Account connections or ask info@mauriceholdings.llc to delete the locally stored authorization. Revoking or deleting it prevents further API uploads but does not delete videos already uploaded to YouTube; those can be managed in YouTube Studio. Qwickword deletes locally stored Google and YouTube authorization data within 30 days of a valid deletion request or when the authorization can no longer be verified.
Qwickword's use of YouTube API Services is also subject to the YouTube Terms of Service and the Google Privacy Policy.
Service providers
We use service providers only where needed to operate Qwickword. These include Daily for live audio and video, Vercel for hosting and website analytics, Neon for database hosting, Resend for sign-in emails, Expo for app updates and notification delivery, DiceBear for generated camera-off avatars, and Apple or Google for device notifications. They process information under their own terms and privacy policies. We may also disclose information when required by law or to protect Qwickword and its users.
Retention and deletion
Sign-in codes expire after 10 minutes and are kept only as needed for security and rate limiting. Account information is kept while the account exists. You can permanently delete your account and its linked server data from Settings in the app. Device-only information remains until you clear it in the app or remove the app. Raw call diagnostics and support references are automatically deleted after 14 days. We may retain de-identified operational records that no longer identify or link to your account, and information required for security or legal obligations.
Your choices
You can use guest calls without an account, decline or turn off notifications, clear local recents, and delete your account in the app. To ask about, correct, or request a copy of information associated with you, email info@mauriceholdings.llc. Rights may differ depending on where you live.
Children, transfers, and changes
Qwickword is not directed to children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect their personal information. Our providers may process information in countries other than your own. We will update this policy when our practices materially change and will revise the effective date above.