keeping the lights on
Breakwater is free.
It sells nothing, shows no ads, and never will.
It is built and kept alive by Honey Digital. This page is the plain answer to what that costs, and where to put something if you want to. If you would rather close the tab, close the tab. That is a whole answer.
What the money actually pays for.
Three things, and none of them are interesting. Hosting, so the sea renders and a bottle has somewhere to sit while it waits. The moderation model, which costs something every time it runs, and it runs on every bottle that floats and every reply that comes back, in both directions, with no exceptions. And a person working the review queue, because anything the model is unsure about is held for a human, and a queue nobody reads is not a safety system.
That is the list. A hosting bill, a metered model, and somebody's evening.
Where it could go.
One path would have been us. There is no way to give anything to Honey Digital from this page today, and rather than ship a button that points nowhere, it is simply not here. That leaves the better path anyway.
The other path skips us entirely, and goes to official organisations in your own country. This page doesn't guess which one that is. It reads what this device already holds, and nothing else. Help Now asks once and keeps the answer on this device. Tell it there, and the list will be waiting here.
It stays free either way.
A donation buys nothing here. There is no tier, no badge, no thank-you screen, and nothing in the app that opens up because money changed hands. It is the same app for the people who will never see this page.
Inside the app, this ask stays where it belongs. It is not in Help Now, not in the rage room, and nowhere in the bottle flow. Nobody is asked for money on the night they came here for the jar.