Help Keep Radar
Independent

Radar has cost thousands of pounds to build and to run — and, to date, it has not made a penny of profit. Every hour of development, and every month of server and data-service bills, has been paid for out of pocket.

That was a deliberate choice. Radar has no investors, no shareholders, and no advertising-driven growth targets, and it does not sell your data. The trade-off is that the project has no financial cushion: its future depends directly on the people who find it valuable.

If Radar is useful to you, we would sincerely ask you to consider making a donation. Contributions of any size make a real difference at this stage, and they are the most direct way to ensure that Radar continues to be developed, maintained, and available.

Radar is free to install, but the free version shows ads injected by Google, which Premium removes. Premium (£1.99/month) is the project’s main revenue stream — and only a fraction of each payment reaches the project. For a UK subscription payment through Google Play Billing:

• 20% UK VAT is included in the £1.99 price, not added on top. The VAT portion is £1.99 × 20 ÷ 120 = about £0.33, leaving about £1.66 excluding VAT. Google collects and pays this VAT to HMRC.
• Google Play’s 10% service fee plus 5% billing fee are calculated on the ex-VAT price: (£1.99 ÷ 1.20) × 15% = about £0.25, leaving about £1.41 before running costs and any tax on profit.
• Any profit that remains is then taxed by HMRC at the UK additional rate: 45% income tax (plus National Insurance) — about £0.63 of that £1.41 if it were all profit.
• Before any profit exists, that remainder must first cover the data-service, server, and development costs above.

With a single, modest revenue stream, subscriptions alone have not yet covered the cost of the project. A direct donation avoids Google’s fee (PayPal’s small transaction fee still applies), so more of what you give is available to keep Radar running.