Privacy Policy for Swipe View

Effective date: November 6, 2026 App: Swipe View (package: com.swipeview.app) Developer: Ritik Contact: rdxatoz@gmail.com

Swipe View ("the app", "we", "our") is a phone search and video player app for Android. It finds apps, contacts and files on your phone as you type, shows the videos already stored on your phone in a vertical, swipeable feed, and can work with Swipe View for Windows on your own computer. This Privacy Policy explains what information the app uses, how it is used, and the choices you have.

In short: Swipe View does not collect, store, sell, or share your personal information with us or with any third party. The app has no user accounts, no advertising, no analytics, and no crash-reporting tools. Your videos and files never leave your device, unless you send them to your own computer yourself (see "Swipe View for Windows" in section 2), and even then they go straight there, encrypted, never to us.

1. Information the app accesses

a) Videos on your device

To show your videos, the app needs permission to read video files on your device:

• Android 13 and newer: "Photos and videos" permission (READ_MEDIA_VIDEO). The app only asks for video access.

• Android 12 and older: Storage read permission (READ_EXTERNAL_STORAGE).

• Android 10 and older only: Storage write permission (WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE), used only when you choose to rename a video.

The app uses this access to find, list, play, and show thumbnails of your videos. Video files, their names, and their folders are processed only on your device. They are never uploaded, sent to us, or shared with anyone.

You can delete, rename, or move a video to another folder, but only when you choose to. On newer Android versions, Android itself shows a confirmation dialog before any change is made.

When another app (such as WhatsApp or Telegram) opens a video in Swipe View, you can choose to save a copy of it to your phone's Download folder, for example to rename it or add it to favourites. The copy is made on your device and is never uploaded.

b) Information saved inside the app

To work properly, the app stores the following only on your device, in the app's private storage:

• Videos you mark as favourites

• Where you stopped in a video (so you can resume it), including videos opened from other apps, and which video and page you were last on

• A list of the videos on your phone (file names, folders, lengths and sizes), so the app opens instantly instead of re-reading your whole library every time. It is kept in the app's cache, never included in backups, and refreshed from your phone each time the app opens

• Folders you choose to hide from the feed

• Web links you save in the app, along with their titles and thumbnail images

• Snippets: pieces of text you save to reuse (such as greetings, replies, or AI prompts), with any title, category, and note you give them, whether they are pinned, and how often you have used each one

• Folders you recently moved videos to, so they appear first next time

• Your list of web search engines (the built-in ones and any you add, edit, or reorder)

• The last text you typed in the search box, so it is still there the next time you open search. Only that one piece of text is kept. It is replaced as soon as you type something new, and the × button in the search box clears it. It is not included in the backup files the app makes

• The last few buttons you used on the search page (such as Google or Keep), so they appear first next time. Only which buttons, never what you typed

• Computers you have paired with Swipe View for Windows: each one's name (for example "Swipe View on DESKTOP-4JD"), the encryption key made when you paired it, and your choices for it (such as whether its snippets are kept in step)

• A history of what you sent to or received from your computers (up to the last 200): file names, sizes and count, the computer's name, the time, and, for text or links, the text itself. You can clear it on the Devices page

• Your app settings

No history of your searches is kept.

We cannot access this information. It is deleted when you uninstall the app or clear its data.

c) Links shared to the app

If you share a web link to Swipe View from another app (using Android's Share menu), it is saved in the app's Saved Links list on your device. If you share plain text instead, it opens in the app's search box, where you choose whether to save it as a snippet or search for it. The app only receives what you choose to share.

Text you save as a snippet

When you select text in another app, Android's text menu can show "Save snippet". Only if you tap it, Swipe View receives the text you selected and saves it as a snippet on your device. It receives nothing else from that app and leaves the selected text unchanged. The same menu can also show "Swipe Search", which opens the app's search with the selected text in the box, and saves nothing unless you then choose to.

The snippet panel opens over the app you are using: when you hold the "Swipe Search" Quick Settings tile, use the app icon's "Snippets" shortcut, or tap the Swipe View name in the player. Tapping a snippet copies its text to your phone's clipboard so you can paste it. Swipe View only puts text on the clipboard when you tap a snippet or a Copy button.

Your clipboard

Swipe View reads the text on your clipboard only when you tap a button that asks it to:

• Save copied text in the snippet panel, which saves what you copied as a snippet.

• Paste on the search page, which puts what you copied in the search box.

• Import from clipboard in Saved links or Snippets, which adds the links or snippets you copied.

• Send copied text to PC (in the edge strip, the snippet panel, and the Send to PC sheet of the home screen search bar), which sends what you copied to your paired computer, encrypted, as described under "Swipe View for Windows" in section 2.

Android shows its own "pasted from your clipboard" notice each time. When the snippet panel opens, it checks only whether something was copied in the last few minutes, and whether that is text. It does not read the text itself, and it never offers text that Android marks as sensitive (such as a password). It remembers only the time of that copy, so it doesn't offer the same one twice. What you paste or import is kept on your device like the rest of your saved links and snippets, and is never sent anywhere, except text you choose to send to your own computer.

d) Which apps are installed

The search page can find and open the apps on your phone: type part of an app's name and it appears with its icon, and you can tap it to open it or hold it to see the app's shortcuts (such as "New tab" or "Compose") and a link to its App info page. To do this, the app reads the names and icons of the apps that have an icon on your home screen, and the shortcuts those apps include when they are installed. Apps without a home screen icon are not visible to it.

To show the right options, the app also checks whether certain kinds of apps are installed: a web browser, the Play Store, video player or editor apps (for "Open with"), and apps used by search engines in the list (for example Truecaller).

This list is used only on your device and only while the app is open. It is never saved, never included in backups, and never sent to us or anyone else.

e) Contacts (optional)

You can let the search page find people in your contacts, so you can type a name (or part of a number) and call, message, or WhatsApp them. This is off until you turn it on, from the search page or from the Contacts row in Settings → Search → Search results, and Android then asks for your permission ("Contacts", READ_CONTACTS).

When it is on, the app reads your contacts' names, phone numbers, photos, and the WhatsApp entries that WhatsApp itself adds to some contacts (used to offer WhatsApp voice and video calls). This is used only on your device, only to show search results, and only while the app is open. Your contacts are never saved by the app, never included in backups, and never uploaded, sent to us, or shared with anyone. The app never changes your contacts. Nothing happens to a contact unless you tap a button: then only that number or contact is handed to the app that does the job (your phone's dialer, your messages app, WhatsApp, Truecaller if you have it, or your Contacts app).

WhatsApp only lets an app start a WhatsApp voice or video call if that app has Android's "Phone" permission ("make and manage phone calls", CALL_PHONE), the same permission your Contacts app uses for those calls. Swipe View asks for it only the first time you tap a WhatsApp Voice call or Video call button, never when the app starts. It is used only to open that WhatsApp call when you tap the button. Swipe View never dials a number on its own (its own Call button opens your phone's dialer, where you place the call yourself), and the permission gives it no access to your call history. If you don't allow it, the person's WhatsApp chat opens instead.

You can turn contact search off at any time in Settings → Search → Search results (switch Contacts off in both places), and remove either permission in Android Settings → Apps → Swipe View → Permissions.

f) Files on your phone (optional)

The search page can find any file on your phone by name: documents, PDFs, music, photos, archives (such as ZIP) and APK files. This is off until you turn it on. Under the Files chip on the search page, the app first explains what it needs and why, and Allow then opens Android's own settings page, where you switch on "All files access" ("Allow access to manage all files", MANAGE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE) yourself. On Android 10 and older, the storage permission the app already uses for your videos is enough.

When it is on, the app reads only each file's name, folder, type, size and date, from Android's own file index, to show search results. It never reads what is inside a file, never changes, moves or deletes a file from search, and never uploads, sends or shares any file or file name. The list is held in memory only while the app is open: it is never saved by the app and never included in backups. A file is handed to another app only when you tap it (to open it in the app you choose) or tap Share (to send it with the app you pick in Android's share sheet).

You can turn this off at any time in Android Settings → Apps → Swipe View → All files access (on some phones under Special app access), and hide the Files section in Settings → Search → Search results.

. Internet use

Swipe View is built to work offline. It uses the internet for one optional feature only: link previews.

When you save a web link, the app may connect to the website that link points to to read the page's title and preview image. For YouTube links, it may also use YouTube's public service (youtube.com / i.ytimg.com). The preview image is downloaded and stored on your device.

• The only information sent is the request for that page, as happens when a web browser opens it. The website can see standard technical details such as your IP address.

• No data is sent to us or to any server we run. We do not operate any servers.

• Those websites have their own privacy policies, which we do not control.

• You can turn this feature off from the menu on the Saved links screen ("Fetch titles & thumbnails"). All other features keep working without it.

When you open a saved link, it opens in your browser (or a browser tab inside the app) or in the app that handles that link. Your use of those websites and apps is governed by their privacy policies.

Web search

The search page can also search the web. This happens only when you tap a search engine (for example Google, YouTube, Play Store, or Amazon). Swipe View then passes what you typed to that engine by opening its website or app, in your browser, in a browser tab inside the app, or in the engine's own app. Swipe View does not send your search anywhere itself. The search engine you choose receives it under its own privacy policy. You can turn off, remove, or reorder search engines in Settings → Search → Web search.

The mic button (on the search page and on the home screen search bar) opens your phone's own voice input, usually provided by the Google app. That voice input does the listening and hands Swipe View only the words it heard, which are put in the search box. Swipe View never records or reads audio, and does not ask for microphone permission. Your voice is handled by the voice input provider under its own privacy policy (for Google, the Google Privacy Policy).

Buttons for AI assistants (such as ChatGPT, Gemini, or Claude) and for note-taking apps (such as Google Keep, OneNote, Notion, or your phone's Notes app) work the same way: when you tap one, what you typed is handed to that app or website, to ask it or to save it as a note there. A note-app button only appears if that app is installed on your phone. Those apps receive your text under their own privacy policies.

The Share button on the search page passes what you typed to the app you pick from Android's Share menu. Swipe View does not send it anywhere itself. The app you pick receives it under its own privacy policy.

When what you typed contains a phone number, a web link, an email address, a route between places, a "near me" search, a time, a length of time, a day, or a sum, the search page may offer buttons such as Call, WhatsApp, Open, Save to Links, Send email, Directions, Nearby, Alarm, Timer, Add to calendar, Task, or the sum's answer. Swipe View recognises these on your device. Nothing happens unless you tap a button, and then only that number, link, address, place, time, event, or task is handed to the app that does the job (your phone's dialer, WhatsApp, your browser, your email app, Google Maps, your Clock app, your calendar app, or the tasks app you choose, such as Google Tasks). Swipe View does not use or ask for your location; for Directions from where you are and Nearby, Google Maps works out your location itself, under Google's privacy policy. Save to Links keeps the link in the app's Saved Links on your device, the same as sharing a link to the app. Sums are worked out on your device. WhatsApp needs a country code to open a chat, so when a number is typed without one, the app adds the code for the country of your SIM card (or your mobile network, or your phone's region setting). It reads only which country, on your device, and needs no permission for it. When a phone number is typed (with a name, if you add one), a Save contact button opens your Contacts app's own "new contact" screen with them filled in, or, if you hold it, lets you add the number to a contact you already have. You save it there yourself. Swipe View has no permission to change your contacts and does not save anything itself.

To set an alarm or timer in your Clock app when you tap those buttons, the app has Android's "Set an alarm" permission. It is granted when the app is installed, lets the app ask your Clock app to set an alarm or timer, and cannot read your existing alarms. Add to calendar opens your calendar app's own new-event screen for you to save; Swipe View has no calendar permission and cannot read your calendar.

The Quick Settings tile ("Swipe Search"), the app-icon shortcuts, and the home screen search bar widget just open this search page (or, for the "Snippets" shortcut and holding the tile, the snippet panel). Folder shortcuts that you add to your home screen just open that folder in the app. None of them collect any data.

The camera button on the home screen search bar opens Google Lens in the Google app. Swipe View passes nothing to Lens and receives nothing back. What you point the camera at is handled by Google under the Google Privacy Policy. The button only appears if the Google app (or Google Lens) is installed.

App updates from Google Play

If you installed Swipe View from Google Play, the app asks the Play Store app on your phone whether a newer version is available, and may show Google Play's own update prompt. The check is done by Google Play, using basic device details and the installed app version to find the right update. Google handles this under the Google Play Terms of Service and Google's Privacy Policy. Nothing is sent to us. You can say "No thanks", and the app will not ask again for six days. You can also check yourself in Settings → About → Check for updates.

Open on computer

Open on computer (the laptop button at the top of the app, also in the ⋮ menu on the Snippets and Links screens) shows your snippets and saved links in a web browser on a computer that is on the same Wi-Fi as your phone, or connected to your phone's hotspot. From that browser you can copy a snippet, open a saved link, or send text or a link back to your phone, where it is saved as a snippet or a link, or copied to your phone's clipboard.

• It only runs after you open the Open on computer screen. It keeps running while you use the rest of the app (a green dot on the laptop button shows it is on), and stops when you tap Stop, when the app is closed, or after 10 minutes without use.

• You type your phone's Wi-Fi address in the computer's browser, then the PIN shown on your phone. Your phone answers only devices on your local network, and only after that PIN has been typed. You can disconnect a computer from your phone at any time.

• Send address hands only your phone's Wi-Fi address (never the PIN) to the app you pick from Android's share sheet, such as WhatsApp or email, so you can open it on the computer. That app's privacy policy applies to what you send through it.

• If you tick Remember this computer, the browser keeps a random key (a cookie), and your phone keeps the same key with the browser's name (for example, "Chrome on Windows"). Next time, that computer connects without the PIN, but still only while Open on computer is running on your phone. You can forget a computer on your phone at any time, and Disconnect on the computer forgets it too.

• Your snippets and links go directly from your phone to that browser over your own Wi-Fi. They are not sent over the internet, and not to us or to any server.

• The connection uses plain HTTP inside your local network, not HTTPS. Anyone who can watch traffic on the same Wi-Fi network could see what is shown or sent. Use it on a Wi-Fi network you trust, or on your phone's own hotspot.

Swipe View for Windows (your own computer)

Swipe View has a free companion app for Windows. If you install it on your computer, you can pair it with your phone and then keep your snippets the same on both, send photos, videos, files, copied text and links from your phone to the computer, and receive files and text from the computer on your phone. All of this is optional and only starts after you pair a computer.

• Pairing: the computer finds your phone on the same Wi-Fi network, or your phone's hotspot, and you type the PIN shown on your phone into the computer. While a computer is paired, or while the Devices page is open, your phone answers Swipe View computers on that network with its name (for example "Rit's OnePlus") and a public key, so they can show it in their list. Nothing else is shown until a computer has been paired with the PIN.

• Encryption: pairing creates a secret key that only your phone and that computer know. The PIN itself is never sent. After that, everything between the two (snippets, files, text) is end-to-end encrypted with AES-256-GCM, so nobody else on the network, and not us, can read it. It goes directly between your phone and your computer over your local network, never over the internet and never through a server.

• What is sent, and when: your snippets only if Sync snippets is on for that computer (it starts on only for a computer you've said is your own, and you can switch it off). Files, photos, videos, copied text and links only when you send them: with Send to PC in Android's share menu, the laptop button on the home screen search bar, the app icon's menu, the edge strip, the snippet panel, or the Devices page.

• What is received: files from your computer are saved on your phone in Download/Swipe View, in a folder by kind (Images, Videos, Documents, Audio, Others). If you haven't said a computer is your own, its files wait for you to tap Accept. Text or a link sent from your computer is copied to your phone's clipboard and listed in the history.

• While a computer is paired, the phone answers it only while Swipe View is open, plus a short background task that finishes sending text you sent from the edge strip, the snippet panel or the Send to PC sheet, and then stops.

• The Windows app keeps its own copy of your snippets on your computer, so it still works when your phone is away. That copy is stored on your computer only.

• Forget this device on the Devices page stops all of this for that computer. What it already received stays on it.

Videos are never uploaded, and the app makes no other network connections.

3. Backups

a) Backups you set up in the app

You can back up and restore your app data. This covers saved links, snippets, favourites, resume positions, hidden folders, and settings. Backup files:

• Are saved only in a folder you choose using Android's folder picker (for example, on your phone, SD card, or a cloud-synced folder you pick).

• Can be created automatically once a day, if you turn this on.

• Never include your video files.

• Are never sent to us.

If you pick a cloud-synced folder, that cloud provider's privacy policy applies to those files.

You can export your saved links or your snippets by copying them to your clipboard, or by saving them as a file where you choose using Android's "save as" screen. You can also import links or snippets from your clipboard or from a file you pick. The app reads only the file you pick. Exports and imports only happen when you tap those options, and nothing is sent to us.

b) Android system backup

Like most Android apps, Swipe View allows Android's built-in backup service to include the app's settings and saved data in your device backup. This only happens if you have turned on device backup in Android settings. This backup is handled by Google as part of your Google account, under Google's Privacy Policy, and we cannot access it. You can manage it in your phone's Settings → Google → Backup.

4. Notifications and background playback

The app can keep playing a video in the background. To do this it uses a media playback service and, on Android 13 and newer, asks permission to show notifications. The notification shows the name of the video being played and playback controls, including on your lock screen. You can refuse or turn off notification permission at any time. Playback will still work, but the controls will not be shown.

Edge strip

The edge strip is a thin strip at the side of the screen. Swiping in from it opens your snippets or the app's search. Inside Swipe View it is on by default and needs no permission. You can turn it off in Settings → Snippets → Edge strip.

You can also choose to show it over other apps. This is off until you turn it on. It needs Android's "Display over other apps" permission (SYSTEM_ALERT_WINDOW), which you grant yourself in Android's settings. It also uses a foreground service to keep the strip on screen, and starts again after your phone restarts (RECEIVE_BOOT_COMPLETED). The strip only shows itself and notices a swipe that starts on it. It cannot see or read the screen, what you type, or the other apps you use. Nothing it does leaves your device. Its notification is hidden unless you turn it on in Android's settings. You can switch it off in the app at any time, or remove the permission in Android settings.

5. Data sharing and selling

We do not collect, sell, rent, trade, or share any personal or sensitive user data. The app contains no third-party advertising, analytics, tracking, or data-collection SDKs. The only Google library it uses is Google Play's in-app updates library, described in section 2.

6. Data security

All app data stays on your device in the app's private storage. Android protects this storage from other apps. Link previews are fetched from the website using the address you saved (HTTPS when the link uses it). Open on computer is described in section 2: it answers only your local network, only after the PIN is typed, and only while it is running. Everything between your phone and a paired Swipe View for Windows is end-to-end encrypted (X25519 key agreement, then AES-256-GCM), and a message that has been changed or sent again is refused. Because we do not collect any data, none of your data is held on our side.

7. Your choices and control

• Permissions: You can grant or remove video access, contacts, phone, and notification permissions at any time in Android Settings → Apps → Swipe View → Permissions.

• Contact search: Off unless you turn it on. You can turn it off in Settings → Search → Search results.

• File search: Off unless you allow "All files access". You can remove it in Android settings, or hide the Files section in Settings → Search → Search results.

• Edge strip: Over other apps, off unless you turn it on. You can turn either kind off in Settings → Snippets → Edge strip, and remove "Display over other apps" in Android settings.

• Link previews: You can turn them off from the menu on the Saved links screen.

• Your computers: Nothing is sent to a computer until you pair it. On the Devices page you can switch Sync snippets off, clear the transfer history, or Forget this device.

• Delete your data: You can delete saved links, snippets, and favourites in the app, clear the app's data in Android settings, or uninstall the app. Backup files you saved in your own folder stay there until you delete them.

Because we do not collect your data, we have no data to give you, correct, or delete on our side.

8. Children's privacy

Swipe View is not directed at children under 13. The app does not knowingly collect personal information from anyone, including children.

9. Changes to this policy

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. Changes will be posted on this page with a new effective date. Please review it from time to time.

10. Contact us

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy or about how Swipe View handles your information, contact the developer:

• Developer: Ritik

• Email: rdxatoz@gmail.com

This policy is also linked from inside the app, under Settings → About → Privacy policy.