Privacy policy

Effective 8 November 2026

Kept is a personal journaling app. It has no servers of its own. Your journal lives on your devices and in your own Google Drive, and nobody else, including Kept's developer, can see it.

What Kept stores

Your entries, lists, photos and settings are stored as files on each device where you use Kept. If you connect Google Drive, Kept copies those files into a Kept folder in your Drive so your devices stay in sync and your journal is backed up.

Google user data

• Google Drive. Kept requests the drive.file scope, which only lets it see files it created or that you open with it. Kept uses this access to read and write your journal files in its own folder. It cannot see the rest of your Drive.
• Google Photos. Kept uses the Google Photos Picker. It can only see photos you choose in the picker, and it copies those photos into your journal.
• Kept does not sell Google user data, use it for advertising, or use it to train AI models. Kept's developer never receives it.
• Kept's use and transfer of information received from Google APIs adheres to the Google API Services User Data Policy, including the Limited Use requirements.

Other services Kept talks to

Kept connects only to the services below, and each one can be switched off in Settings.

• Google Drive, to sync and back up your journal.
• Open-Meteo, which receives your coordinates to return the weather for an entry.
• Your device's geocoder, which turns coordinates into place names.
• Spotify, if you sign in, to show what you listened to today.
• Anthropic's Claude or Google's Gemini, only when you ask a question or start Close the year. Before anything is sent, Kept shows exactly which entries and photos will be included. Anything you mark Off the record is never sent.

What Kept never does

Kept has no analytics, no advertising, no tracking and no crash-reporting service. Its logs stay on your device.

Deleting your data

Removing Kept and its app data from a device deletes its files there. Your Drive copy stays in your Drive until you delete the Kept folder yourself. You can revoke Kept's access to your Google account at any time at myaccount.google.com/permissions.

Contact

Questions about this policy can be raised as an issue at github.com/bwithnell/kept-site.