Prunio — Privacy Policy
Effective 5 November 2026. Developer: Appingale LLC, 30 N Gould St, Ste N, Sheridan, WY 82801, USA. Contact: hello [at] appingale.dev. Website: appingale.dev.
Prunio is a storage cleaner for Android, iPhone and iPad. It finds duplicate and similar photos, blurry and dark shots, old screenshots, large videos and duplicate contacts, and on Android also apps you no longer use, all on your device. This policy covers both versions; where the iPhone and iPad version works differently, it says so.
In short
- The app does not collect personal data and sends nothing from your device. On Android it has no internet permission, so it cannot open a connection at all. On iPhone and iPad it makes no network requests of its own; the prices and purchases of Pro go through the App Store, which is part of iOS.
- No ads, no advertising ID, no analytics, no crash reports, no account.
- Nothing is removed or changed without you. Photos and videos go to Android's trash only after Android's own confirmation; on iPhone and iPad they go to Recently Deleted in the Photos app only after iOS asks you. Apps are removed only in Android's uninstall dialog. Contacts are merged only when you tap “Merge”.
What the app accesses on your device
On Android
| What | When | What happens |
|---|---|---|
| Photos and videos | After you allow access in Android's dialog, which opens when you tap “Get started” on first launch. On Android 14 and later you can allow only some photos and videos. | The app reads the system thumbnails and, for files of the same size, the files themselves, to find copies, series of similar shots, blurry and dark photos, screenshots and large videos. It does not ask for the location saved in photos, so Android hides it from the app. If you allow only some photos and videos, the app works with those and says so. |
| Contacts | When you open Duplicate contacts and allow access in Android's dialog. | While the app is open, it reads the names, phone numbers and email addresses of the contacts in every account on your phone, to find the same person saved more than once. It does not store them. When you tap “Merge”, the app asks Android to link the contacts of each group, as the Contacts app's own link or merge does: nothing is copied or deleted, and each account keeps its own card. Right after a merge you can undo it. |
| Installed apps and app usage | The apps with an icon on your home screen are visible to the app while it is open. When each app was last used and how much space it takes are shown only after you turn on usage access for Prunio in Android Settings. | The app shows the apps you have not opened for 30 days or more and the space they take. It also checks which apps are your keyboard, an accessibility service or a device administrator, so that they are not listed as unused. This information is kept in memory only. You can turn usage access off in Android Settings at any time. |
The app reads no other files, and it has no access to your messages, your calls or your location.
On iPhone and iPad
| What | When | What happens |
|---|---|---|
| Photos and videos | When you tap “Get started” on first launch, iOS asks for access. You can allow all photos and videos or only the ones you pick, and change this later in the Settings app. | The app reads the photos and videos of your own library (not shared albums) through Apple's Photos framework: their thumbnails and, for files of the same size, the files themselves, to find copies, series of similar shots, blurry and dark photos, screenshots and large videos. It reads only what is stored on the device: a photo or video kept only in iCloud is skipped, not downloaded. If you allow only some photos and videos, the app works with those and says so. The same access lets the app change the library, which it needs to move items to Recently Deleted and to save smaller copies of videos; it does either only when you ask. The app does not ask for your location. iOS also gives an app with photo access the place saved with each photo and video; Prunio uses it only when it makes a smaller copy of a video, to give the copy the same place. |
| Contacts | When you open Duplicate contacts and tap “Allow access to contacts”, iOS asks for access. You can allow all contacts or only some. | While the app is open, it reads the names, phone numbers and email addresses of your contacts, card by card in each account on your device (for example iCloud, Google or Exchange), to find the same person saved more than once. It does not store them. iOS does not let apps link contacts the way Android does, so a merge changes the cards themselves. When you tap “Merge”, in each group whose cards are in the same account, the most complete card gets the phone numbers and email addresses it lacks from the others, and the other cards are deleted with everything else on them. For 30 seconds after a merge you can tap “Undo”: the app re-creates the deleted cards in their account with all their details except notes, which the app cannot read, and gives the kept card back its own numbers and addresses. For this, “Merge” also reads the other details of the cards it merges, and the app holds the deleted cards in memory for those 30 seconds only. Groups with cards in different accounts are not merged; the app suggests linking them in the Contacts app. |
The app reads no other files. It has no access to your messages or your calls and does not use Location Services. The iPhone and iPad version has no section for unused apps and does not look at your other apps.
What is stored on your device
On Android
- Analysis results. For each photo and video: its number in Android's media index, its size and date, a short fingerprint of the picture, a sharpness and a brightness score, and for possible copies a checksum of the file. Not the photo itself. They are kept in the app's private storage, which other apps cannot read, so that the next launch looks only at new and changed files.
- Your choices. Which photos you marked or unmarked in the photo sections, and your decisions in Swipe by month. Only their numbers in the media index are stored.
- Pro. Whether Pro is active.
- Contacts and the list of apps are not stored by the app.
- Smaller copies of videos. While a video is being made smaller, the work file is in the app's cache; it is deleted when the work ends. The finished copy is saved to your gallery next to the original, as “<name>-small.mp4”. From then on it is an ordinary video on your device: apps that you allowed to see your videos can see it, and it stays when you remove Prunio. The original stays until you move it to the trash yourself.
- Backups. The app's data is excluded from Android's cloud backup. If you move to a new device with a direct device-to-device transfer, Android may copy it to the new device.
On iPhone and iPad
- Analysis results. For each photo, and for each other item that might be a copy: its identifier in the Photos library, its size and date, for photos a short fingerprint of the picture and a sharpness and a brightness score, and for possible copies a checksum of the file. Not the photo itself. They are kept in a file in the app's own storage, which other apps cannot read, so that the next launch looks only at new and changed items.
- Your choices. Which photos you marked or unmarked in the photo sections, and your decisions in Swipe by month. Only their identifiers in the Photos library are stored.
- Pro. Whether Pro is active.
- Contacts are not stored by the app.
- Smaller copies of videos. While a video is being made smaller, the work file is in the app's temporary folder; it is deleted when the work ends. A copy that does not come out at least 10% smaller is not kept. The finished copy is saved to your Photos library as a new video with the original's date and place. From then on it is an ordinary video on your device: apps that you allowed to see your photos can see it, iCloud Photos syncs it if you use it, and it stays when you remove Prunio. The original stays until you move it to Recently Deleted yourself.
- Backups. Analysis results and your choices are excluded from iCloud backups and backups to a computer. Whether Pro is active is kept in the app's settings, which are included in backups like those of other apps.
What Android and iOS change when you ask
On Android
- Trash. Photos and videos you remove go to Android's trash, after Android asks you to confirm. While they are there, you can restore them from the app. Android deletes them for good on a date it sets, which the app shows. “Delete now” and “Free” delete items in the trash for good, again after Android's confirmation.
- Contacts. A merge is a link kept by Android's contacts storage, the same kind of link the Contacts app makes.
- Apps. “Uninstall” opens Android's own uninstall dialog for each app, and Android removes the app and its data after you confirm.
On iPhone and iPad
- Recently Deleted. Photos and videos you delete go to Recently Deleted in the Photos app, after iOS asks you to confirm. They stay there for up to 30 days. Only the Photos app can bring them back or delete them sooner: iOS gives other apps no access to Recently Deleted. With iCloud Photos on, a deleted item leaves your other devices too.
- Contacts. A merge is an ordinary change to the cards in their account, the same as editing and deleting cards in the Contacts app. If the account syncs, for example iCloud, the change reaches your other devices too.
What leaves your device
- Nothing is sent by the app. We run no server for it, and no other company receives data from it. On Android you can check this yourself: the app's list of permissions has no network access. On iPhone and iPad, the app makes no network requests of its own: thumbnails, checksums, the video player and smaller copies use only what is on the device, and a photo or video kept only in iCloud is skipped rather than downloaded. The prices of Pro and whether you own it come from the App Store, which is part of iOS.
- Your own actions pass something on. On Android, when you touch and hold a photo or video, or tap “Watch the copy”, it opens in your phone's viewer app; on iPhone and iPad the app shows it itself. The privacy policy opens in your browser, and so do Apple's terms of use on iPhone and iPad. “Support” opens your email app. What happens there is covered by that app's own privacy policy.
- Crash data from Apple. The app has no crash reporting of its own. If you allowed it in iOS (Settings → Privacy & Security → Analytics & Improvements → Share With App Developers), Apple may share crash data and statistics about the use of Prunio with us. This is Apple's feature, not part of the app; you can turn it off there at any time.
- We do not sell personal data and do not share it with anyone: we do not receive it.
Purchases
- Pro is an optional paid upgrade, sold through Google Play on Android and through the App Store on iPhone and iPad. On Android, versions in which Pro is open to everyone have no purchase at all.
- The purchase screen belongs to Google Play. Google processes the payment under its own privacy policy. On iPhone and iPad, the purchase screen belongs to the App Store, and Apple processes the payment under its own privacy policy. Your card and other payment details never reach the app or us.
- The app asks the Google Play app on your device whether your Google account owns Pro, and keeps the answer (yes or no) on your device, so that Pro goes on working offline. On iPhone and iPad, it asks the App Store in the same way whether your Apple Account owns Pro, when the app starts and each time you come back to it; “Restore purchases” asks it again, and “Manage subscription” opens the App Store's own subscription screen. Purchases are confirmed on the device; there is no account with us.
- As the seller, Appingale LLC receives sales reports from Google: order number, date, product, price and taxes, device model, the buyer's country and, in some cases, state, city and postal code. They do not contain your name, email address or payment details. The sales reports we receive from Apple for purchases on iPhone and iPad do not contain them either. We use them for accounting, taxes and refunds, and keep them for as long as tax and accounting rules require.
If you write to us
“Support” in Settings opens your email app with our address and a subject line that holds the app's name and version (on iPhone and iPad, “Prunio for iOS”); nothing else is added. When you send an email to hello [at] appingale.dev, we receive your email address and what you wrote, and use them only to answer you. Ask us and we will delete the correspondence.
Security
Nothing is transmitted, so there is no data on the way and no copy with us to protect. The data on your device sits in the app's private storage, protected by the separation of apps in Android and iOS and by your screen lock.
Keeping and deleting
- Analysis results, your choices and the Pro status stay on your device until you remove the app or, on Android, clear its storage in Android Settings. Removing the app deletes them.
- Smaller copies of videos, merged contacts, and photos and videos in Android's trash or in Recently Deleted on iPhone and iPad are kept by the system like any other photo, video or contact; removing the app does not undo them. Android empties its trash on its own date; the Photos app removes items from Recently Deleted after up to 30 days.
- We hold no copy of your photos, videos, contacts or app list, so there is nothing for us to delete. For emails and order records, see the sections above.
Children
The app is not directed to children under 13. It collects no personal data from anyone, children included.
Your rights
Depending on where you live (for example under the GDPR or the CCPA/CPRA) you can ask for access to, correction or deletion of personal data, and object to its processing. The app gives us no personal data; what we may hold is an email you sent us and the order records described above. Write to hello [at] appingale.dev; we answer within 30 days. You can also complain to your data protection authority.
Changes
If this policy changes, the new version is published on this page with a new effective date.
Contact
Appingale LLC, 30 N Gould St, Ste N, Sheridan, WY 82801, USA. Email: hello [at] appingale.dev.