Everything you create in this app — your photos, plants, care records and reminder groups — stays on your own phone. We have no server, no account system, and no way to see any of it.
Photos you import or take, plant names, species, acquisition dates, notes, care records, groups and watering schedules are written to this app's private storage on your device. They are never uploaded anywhere.
There is no sign-in and no cloud sync. If you uninstall the app, or clear its data from the system settings, that content is permanently deleted and we cannot recover it for you.
On Android, this app is excluded from the system's automatic backup. That is deliberate: the system backup has a size limit that would restore your records without your photos, leaving you with a library of broken images. Use the app's own backup feature instead.
On iPhone, if you use iCloud Backup or back up your iPhone to a computer, this app's data is included in that backup along with the rest of your phone. That backup belongs to your Apple Account and is kept by Apple under its own policy; we cannot see it either.
The backup feature packages your database and photos into a single
.zip file. You choose where it goes through the
system file picker — your device, a cloud drive, wherever you like.
We never upload it, and once it leaves the app we have no access to it. If you store it in a cloud service, that service's own privacy policy applies to it.
Two features write a copy of an image into your device's gallery
(Pictures/PlantRecord/ on Android, the Photos app on iPhone):
Those copies belong to you and stay on your device. Deleting them from your gallery does not affect the app, and vice versa.
The app connects to the internet for two reasons only: to load advertisements, and to verify a membership purchase. Your photos and records are never part of any network request.
Free users see banner advertisements, and an optional rewarded video can be watched to unlock image export for 24 hours. These are served by Google AdMob, which collects device and advertising identifiers in order to deliver and measure ads. That data is collected by Google, not by us — we never see it.
In regions that require it (the EEA, the UK and others), the app asks for your consent before personalised ads are shown, using Google's User Messaging Platform. If you decline, you will still see ads, but non-personalised ones.
On Android, you can reset your advertising identifier at any time in your device settings. On iPhone, this app never shows the "Allow tracking" prompt, so Google cannot obtain your iPhone's advertising identifier (IDFA) and does not use it to track you across apps. See How Google uses information from sites or apps that use our services.
Advertisements are never shown on the image preview or export screens.
Purchases are handled entirely by the store: Google Play on Android, the App Store on iPhone. We never receive or store your card number, billing address, or any other payment detail. What we receive is the answer to a single question: whether this device has an active purchase.
Purchase verification happens directly between this app and the store (Google Play or the App Store). No other company receives your receipt, and none takes any part in deciding whether you own the membership.
Refunds are handled by Google Play or Apple under its own policy. When a purchase is refunded, the associated benefits are withdrawn.
If you email us, we will have whatever you choose to put in that email. We use it to answer you and to fix the problem, and nothing else.
Each of these exists to make a feature work. None of them is used to collect information about you.
iPhone
Importing photos goes through the system photo picker; your selection is the authorisation, so no permission is needed and the app receives only the photos you pick.
Android
Beyond those there are a few technical permissions that come bundled with the notification and advertising libraries — keeping the device awake for the moment a notification is delivered, for example. They collect nothing.
On Android, the app does not request permission to read your photo library or to use your camera. Importing photos goes through the system photo picker, and taking a photo hands you over to your own camera app — in both cases your selection is the authorisation, so no permission prompt is needed and the app never gains access to the rest of your library.
This app is not directed at children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect information from them.
Because your data lives only on your device, you are in complete control of it. Delete individual photos or plants inside the app, or remove everything by uninstalling the app or clearing its data in the system settings.
There is nothing for us to delete on our side, because we never held anything. Data held by Google AdMob, Google Play and Apple is governed by their own policies.
If this policy changes, the updated version will be posted at this address with a new "last updated" date.