Privacy Policy
Effective 22 October 2026
Armchair has no accounts, no ads, no analytics and no tracking. Your books, notes and characters are stored on your phone, and nowhere else.
What the app uses, and why
- The internet: to search for books by title or author, and to load their covers. This is the only part of the app that needs a connection, apart from sending feedback.
- Your photos or camera, only when you choose to: to add a photo of a book’s cover. The photo is picked through your phone’s own photo picker or taken with its camera, so the app never sees the rest of your photos.
Your notes
Everything you write in Armchair stays on your phone: your books, chapters, notes, characters and the covers you add. None of it is uploaded to me or to any server.
When you export your notes, Armchair makes a file and hands it to your phone’s share menu. It goes only where you send it.
Finding books
Book searches go to Open Library, a free catalog run by the Internet Archive, so it can find matching titles. The covers load from Open Library too. Like any website, Open Library sees your device’s internet address and what you searched for, under the Internet Archive’s own policies. The cover you pick is saved on your phone, so the app doesn’t fetch it again.
Sending feedback
The About screen has a feedback form. If you send it, I receive your message, the email address you add (it’s optional), and the app’s version, your platform (Android or iOS) and its version. It never includes your notes or books. I use what you send only to reply and to improve the app, and I don’t share it.
Stored on your phone
Your books, chapters, notes and characters, the covers you add, and your settings. If your phone backs up its apps to your Google or Apple account, Armchair’s data can be included in that backup, under that service’s own terms. Uninstalling the app, or clearing its data, removes everything from the phone.
What is not collected
- Your name, email address or phone number, unless you put your email in a feedback message.
- Your location or contacts.
- Advertising identifiers.
The app contains no third-party code that collects data: no analytics, crash reporting or advertising code. Nothing is sold, or shared for advertising.
Tracking
Armchair does not track you across apps and websites or anywhere else.
Changes
If the app ever changes in a way that affects this policy, I will update this page and the effective date above.
Contact
Questions are welcome: michael@michaelgladstone.com.