Privacy policy

This is the same policy the Perawise app for Android shows under More → Privacy.

Perawise keeps your financial life on this phone. No account, no server of its own, no analytics. Here's exactly what that means.

Your data stays on this phone

Every account, transaction, bill, budget and goal you enter is written to a database on this phone. There's no backend and no user account — nothing to sign up for, nothing to sign in to. Your ledger leaves the phone in two ways only: as a file you export yourself, or when you copy your apps and data to a new phone with Android's transfer tool. Android's cloud backup is turned off for Perawise. Separately, each time you open Perawise it asks Google Play for the price of Perawise Pro and whether you own it, and a Pro purchase runs through Google Play. None of your Perawise accounts, transactions or amounts is ever part of that.

Nothing is tracked

Perawise contains no analytics and no advertising. Nobody counts what you tap, and Perawise builds no profile of you. The only code in the app that talks to anyone else's servers is Google's Play Billing library and the Google components it depends on. It handles Perawise Pro, and may send Google its own diagnostics about that — never your ledger.

Perawise never connects to your bank

There's no bank sync, no card linking, no statement import. Every figure in the app is one you entered yourself.

App Lock only ever gets a yes or no

When App Lock is on, Android runs the check with your biometrics or your screen lock. Perawise asks whether it's you and receives a yes or no. It never sees your biometric data or your screen lock, so it has nothing about them to store or send. All App Lock saves is whether it's turned on; the time you last left the app, which decides when to ask again, is kept in memory only while Perawise is running.

Reminders are scheduled here, not sent to you

Bill and budget reminders are built and scheduled on this device by Android. There's no push server — nothing you receive from Perawise was sent from somewhere else.

If this ever changes

Perawise's privacy behaviour comes from how the app is built — there's no Perawise server to change its mind later. If this policy does change, the new text ships with the app and the date below moves with it.