Privacy policy

Last updated: 4 October 2026

What Slate stores, and where

Everything you enter — tasks and habits, lists, notes, gratitude entries, your bucket list, exercise and body weight, focus sessions and your settings — is kept in a database in Slate's private storage on your phone. Other apps cannot read it.

Photos you add to your bucket list or gratitude entries are copied into the same private storage, resized, and stripped of their metadata, including the location where the photo was taken. Temporary copies made while you pick a photo or a file, or while Slate prepares an export, are removed by Slate itself the next time it starts, once they are an hour old.

To deliver a reminder at the right time, Android's alarm and notification system on your phone also holds that reminder's title and time.

When you delete something, Slate keeps it for 30 days so a mistake can be undone, then removes it. An item that something you kept still refers to — such as a habit whose past completions remain in your history — is removed once nothing refers to it.

Android's device backup

If Google's automatic backup is turned on for your phone, Android includes Slate's database — your entries and settings — in it, under your Google account. Your photos are left out of that cloud backup. A direct phone-to-phone transfer on Android 12 or later also copies the photos. Slate does not see or control these backups; you can turn them off in your phone's settings.

Backups you make

Slate can export a backup file when you ask it to. The file contains everything in Slate, including your photos and items you recently deleted. It is not encrypted. You choose where it goes — Files, a drive, an email to yourself — through Android's share menu. Restoring reads a backup file you choose and replaces what is in Slate.

Permissions, and why

Notifications

To show your reminders and the focus timer's alert, and to vibrate with them. These notifications are created on your phone; nothing is sent from a server. POST_NOTIFICATIONS, VIBRATE

Alarms and reminders

So a reminder arrives at the minute you set, not a few minutes later. You can turn this off in Android's settings; reminders then arrive approximately on time. SCHEDULE_EXACT_ALARM

Run at startup

Android clears scheduled alarms when the phone restarts; this lets Slate put your reminders back. RECEIVE_BOOT_COMPLETED

Biometrics

Only if you turn on App lock. Slate asks your phone's own screen lock — fingerprint, face, PIN, pattern or password — to confirm it is you. Slate never sees or stores your fingerprint, face or PIN; it stores only whether App lock is on and how soon it locks. USE_BIOMETRIC, USE_FINGERPRINT

Photos

No permission. Slate uses Android's photo picker, which gives Slate only the photos you choose and nothing else from your gallery.

Slate does not ask for internet access, location, contacts, camera, microphone or access to your files.

Links that leave Slate

Rate Slate, Share Slate, Send feedback and Privacy policy, on Slate's About screen, hand you over to another app — Google Play, Android's share menu, your email app, your browser. Slate itself sends nothing. A feedback email starts with the app version and Android version in its subject, and you see it before you send it.

Sharing and selling

Slate does not share or sell your data. There is no data to share: none of it reaches us or anyone else unless you send it yourself.

Children

Slate is not directed at children under 13. It collects no personal information from anyone, of any age.

Deleting your data

In Slate, open the menu, then Settings → Delete all data. Uninstalling Slate also removes everything it stored on your phone. A copy in Google's device backup is managed in your Google account. Step by step: how to delete your data.

Changes

If this policy changes, the new version will be posted here with a new date.

Contact

Slate is developed by Parmar Bharatkumar Govindbhai (Orbitra Labs), India. Questions about privacy: orbitralabs@gmail.com.