Privacy Policy

The short version

Our apps are designed to run entirely on your device. Photos you scan, text you capture, files you save, and any organization you do inside the app stay on your device unless you explicitly choose to export, share, or back them up yourself using your phone's own sharing tools. We do not require an account to use our apps. Our apps do display advertising through Google AdMob, described in full below, which involves some limited data collection for the purpose of showing and measuring ads — but we do not sell, rent, or otherwise share your personal data with anyone ourselves, and the content you actually scan or create — your receipts, notes, or cards — is never seen by us, by AdMob, or by any advertising partner. If you never open this website and never email us, we have no way of knowing you exist. The rest of this policy exists to explain the handful of situations where some limited data handling does occur, and to be transparent about third parties like Google Play and Google AdMob that operate outside of our direct control.

What our apps collect: essentially nothing

Our apps are built as offline-first tools. When you scan a receipt or a page of notes, the image is processed and stored locally in the app's own storage area on your device. We do not transmit scanned images, extracted text, file names, or any other content you create inside the apps to our servers, because our apps are not built with a server component that content would be sent to. There is no account system, so there is no email address, password, or profile information for us to store. There is no cloud sync feature built into the apps at this time, so nothing is uploaded automatically in the background. If a future version of an app ever introduces an optional cloud backup or sync feature, it will be opt-in, clearly explained before you turn it on, and this policy will be updated to describe exactly what that feature does before it is released.

We do not embed any third-party analytics or crash-reporting tools inside the apps. The one exception is the Google AdMob advertising SDK, described in detail in the next section, which is necessary to show the ads that keep our apps free. Nothing about what is written on the receipts, notes, or cards you scan is ever collected, analyzed, or shared with anyone — that content stays entirely on your device, in every case.

Advertising in our apps

Our apps display ads through Google AdMob, Google's mobile advertising platform. Depending on the app, you may see interstitial ads (full-screen ads shown at natural pauses in the app) and rewarded ads (optional ads you choose to watch in exchange for something inside the app). To deliver and measure these ads, AdMob and its partners may collect information such as your device's advertising identifier, general device and app information, and an approximate location derived from your IP address. AdMob can also work with other advertising networks through a feature called mediation; if that happens, those networks operate under their own separate privacy policies as well. None of this touches the content you create inside the app — your receipts, notes, or cards are never accessed by, or shared with, AdMob or any advertising network.

If you are in a region where consent is legally required, such as the European Economic Area or the United Kingdom, the app will ask for your consent before showing personalized ads, and you can change that choice at any time. You can also manage ad personalization more generally through your device's own settings (on Android, under Settings → Privacy → Ads).

Permissions our apps may request, and why

Depending on the app, Android may ask you to grant permissions such as camera access, so the app can photograph a document, or storage access, so the app can save the resulting file to your device or let you pick an existing image to import. Every permission we request exists solely to let the app perform the specific function you asked it to perform in that moment. We do not request permissions such as precise location, contacts, call logs, or SMS access, because our apps have no feature that needs them. You are always free to decline a permission, though certain features, such as scanning directly from the camera, will naturally be unavailable if the corresponding permission is not granted.

This website and the Google Play Store

This website, freeappdevstudio.com, is a simple informational site describing our apps, and it is not part of the apps themselves. Like most websites, the server that hosts this page may log basic technical information as a normal part of serving web pages, such as your general browser type and the page requested, for the purpose of keeping the site running reliably and diagnosing problems. This website also displays advertising served through Google's advertising network. Ad networks such as Google may use cookies or similar technologies in your browser to serve and measure advertisements, and Google's own privacy policy, available on Google's website, governs how that advertising data is handled — Free App Dev Studio does not control or have access to that data. If you would prefer not to see personalized ads, you can adjust your ad settings directly through Google's ad settings page or your browser's privacy controls.

Separately, when you install an app from the Google Play Store, Google itself collects certain information as part of operating the store, such as your download history and device details, under Google's own privacy policy. Ratings, reviews, and any correspondence you choose to leave on the Play Store listing are visible to us and to Google as the platform operator, but again, that relationship is governed by Google's terms, not ours.

When you email us

If you write to [email protected], we receive your email address and whatever content you choose to include in your message, such as a description of a bug, a device model, or a screenshot. We use that information solely to read, understand, and respond to your message. We do not add your email address to a marketing list, we do not share it with third parties, and we do not use it for any purpose beyond the conversation you started. We keep support emails for a reasonable period of time in case we need to refer back to a prior conversation, and we periodically clear out old correspondence that is no longer needed.

Children's privacy

Our apps and this website are not directed at children, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from children. Because our apps do not collect personal information from any user in the ordinary course of use, this is largely a moot point in practice, but we state it explicitly for clarity.

Changes to this policy

If we ever change what our apps or this website collect, most likely by introducing a genuinely useful optional feature such as cloud backup, we will update this page to describe the change in the same plain language used throughout this policy, and update the "last updated" badge at the top of this page accordingly. We encourage you to revisit this page occasionally, particularly before granting any new permission an updated app version might request.

Questions about this policy?

We are happy to explain any part of it in more detail. Reach out any time.