Noticed
Privacy in Noticed
What you write in Noticed is yours. It stays on your phone unless you switch on a backup to a place you choose. There is no account, nothing to sign in to, and no way for us to read your moments.
Last updated 12 November 2026.
The app has no server of its own. The automatic backup is something you switch on, and the app says what it will do before anything is written. If we ever add a sync, the same will hold, and this page will change first.
What Noticed keeps on your device
- Every moment, intention and reflection you write.
- What you asked to be called and the year you were born, if you gave them during onboarding. Your phone’s region setting is read once, to pick a national life table for one screen; it is not stored.
- Your two reminder times.
- Any photo you attach to a moment. It is a copy, made smaller and kept in the app’s own storage. The original stays where it was, and Noticed never sees the rest of your gallery.
All of it lives in the app’s private storage on your phone. Uninstalling the app deletes it. It may be included in your device’s own Google backup if you have that switched on, which is a setting you control.
Automatic backup, if you switch it on
In You › Back up automatically you can pick a place for a copy of your trail: a folder on your phone, or a cloud drive such as Google Drive, chosen in Android’s own file picker. Noticed then keeps one file there, Noticed backup.zip, and rewrites it a minute after anything changes. It holds your moments, intentions and photos, and the name you gave, in the same format as Export everything.
If the place is a cloud drive, that service uploads and keeps the file under its own terms. Noticed has no server and cannot read it. Turning the backup off stops the copies; the file stays where it is until you delete it.
What leaves your device
Two things, and only if you choose them: your purchase, if you buy Noticed Plus, and a copy of your trail, if you switch on the automatic backup to a cloud drive.
Subscriptions are handled by Google Play and by RevenueCat, who check whether your subscription is active. RevenueCat receives purchase history and a randomly generated identifier for your install. That identifier is not linked to your name, your email or anything you have written.
No moment, intention or reflection is uploaded to us or to RevenueCat. The only copy that leaves your phone is the backup you switch on, to the place you pick.
What Noticed does not do
- No account, no email address, no password.
- No advertising, no ad networks, no advertising identifiers.
- No third-party trackers or analytics SDKs reading your content.
- No selling or sharing of personal data. There is nothing to sell.
Permissions, and why
- Notifications: the two daily reminders. They are scheduled on your phone and their text is composed on your phone. Declining is a real answer; the app still works.
- Internet and network state: required by the purchase library. The app itself works fully offline, and this permission is not used to send anything you write.
- Run at startup: so your reminders survive a restart.
- Vibration: the pulses that mark each step of a guided exercise.
- Fingerprint, face or screen lock: only if you turn on You › Lock the app. Android’s own prompt does the asking; Noticed is told only whether it matched, and never sees your fingerprint, your face or your PIN.
- Photos and camera: no permission is asked for. Choosing a photo uses Android’s own photo picker, which hands over the one picture you pick. Taking one opens your camera app, which writes to a file Noticed gives it.
Your data is yours
- Keep a copy. You › Back up automatically keeps one file up to date in a place you pick, and Bring in a backup reads it back.
- Take it with you. You › Export everything writes your whole trail to a file you keep, in JSON and Markdown. If a moment has a photo, the export is one zip with the photos inside, and Bring in a backup puts them back.
- Delete one thing. Open a moment and choose Forget.
- Delete everything. Uninstall the app, or clear its storage in Android settings.
- Delete a purchase record. Write to us and we will remove your RevenueCat customer record.
Children
Noticed is made for adults and is not directed at children under 18.
If this changes
The date at the top changes with it. If a change ever means something you wrote could leave your phone, that will be said in the app before it happens, not only here.
Contact
Questions, deletion requests, or anything else: [email protected].
Noticed does not diagnose, treat or prevent anything, and has not been clinically tested. It is a daily practice, not a medical product.