We wrote this in plain language because that's what you deserve. The short version: your data never leaves your phone. The long version follows below.
SpendSense is a personal finance tracker app developed by buildsbyaman. The app is designed as a single-user, fully offline tool to help you understand where your money goes.
We are not a company with a legal entity, privacy officer, or data processing infrastructure. This policy exists because it's the right thing to publish — not because we're legally required to describe data pipelines we don't have.
None.
SpendSense does not collect, transmit, store, or process any personal data on any external server. All information you enter into the app — transactions, budgets, wallet names, categories, everything — is stored exclusively in a local SQLite database on your own device.
We cannot see your data. We have no access to it. Even if we wanted to (we don't), we have no technical mechanism to retrieve it.
SpendSense contains zero analytics SDKs, crash reporters, heatmap tools, or advertising networks. We do not use Firebase, Mixpanel, Amplitude, Segment, Sentry, or any similar service.
We have no idea how many people use the app, how often they open it, or what features they use. That's intentional. We built SpendSense for you, not to understand you as a data point.
SpendSense does not require an internet connection to function. It has no network calls, no API requests, and no background sync.
The only reason the app might request storage permission is to let you export your data (as a PDF, Excel, or JSON file) to your local file system. This permission is entirely optional and only requested when you trigger an export. No data is sent anywhere during this process — the file goes only to your device.
The app uses no third-party services that collect your data. It does not integrate with any payment processors, login providers (no "Sign in with Google"), social platforms, or data brokers.
This website (the marketing page you're reading right now) loads fonts from Google Fonts. That request reveals your IP address to Google's font servers, which is a standard CDN trade-off. The website itself sets no cookies and runs no analytics.
Because all data lives on your device, you have absolute control over it at all times:
To export it: Use the Export tab in the app to save your data as a PDF, Excel (.xlsx), or JSON file to your phone's storage.
To delete it: Uninstall SpendSense from your device. This permanently removes the local database and all associated data. There is no recovery option because there is no backup on our side.
There is no account to delete, no "right to erasure" request to submit, and no support email to write to. Your data is entirely self-contained.
Since we collect no data from anyone, we by definition collect no data from children. SpendSense is a general-purpose budgeting tool appropriate for users of all ages. We have no age-gate mechanism because we have no accounts, sign-ups, or profiles.
If this policy changes, the updated version will be posted on this page with a revised "Last updated" date. Given that our policy is essentially "we collect nothing," we don't anticipate significant changes.
We will never change this policy in a way that begins collecting data without clearly announcing it on this page and in the app itself.
Questions about this privacy policy? Reach out to buildsbyaman — you can find contact information in the app store listing or on GitHub.
We genuinely welcome feedback about privacy. It's something we take seriously, even though (or especially because) our implementation of it is simply "do nothing."