Privacy Policy for Captura
Captura is a screenshot organization app. This policy explains what the app can access on your device, what it does with it, and — just as importantly — what it never does.
What Captura accesses on your device
| Permission | Why Captura needs it |
|---|---|
Photos and images (READ_MEDIA_IMAGES / READ_MEDIA_VISUAL_USER_SELECTED) |
To find and read your screenshots so they can be scanned, categorized, and organized. On Android 14+, if you choose "Select photos," Captura only sees the images you specifically selected. |
| Storage (legacy, Android 12 and below) | Same purpose as above, using the storage permission model required on older Android versions. |
Captura does not request camera, microphone, contacts, location, or any communication permissions, because it does not need them.
What Captura does with your screenshots
When Captura scans a screenshot, it runs on-device text recognition (Google's ML Kit) to read the text in the image, then:
- Sorts it into a category (Receipts, Chats, Shopping, OTP, Travel, or Other)
- Suggests tags based on what the text contains
- Detects verification codes and receipt details so you can find them faster
All of this happens locally, using an on-device model. Your screenshot images and the text extracted from them are never uploaded to Captura's developer or to any third party as part of this processing.
Where your data is stored
Everything Captura learns about your screenshots — categories, tags, notes, pin status, and which screenshots you've reviewed — is stored in a local database on your device only. It is not synced to any cloud service.
Captura also opts out of Android's automatic app-data backup, so this data is not included in your phone's system backups. If you want a copy of your organization data, Captura provides an in-app "back up" feature that creates a file you save or share yourself — that file goes wherever you choose to put it, never to Captura's developer.
Deleting screenshots
When you delete a screenshot through Captura, the app asks Android's system to delete the actual image file, using the standard system confirmation dialog — Captura itself doesn't have standalone access to permanently delete files without that confirmation.
Captura Premium and payments
Captura Premium is an optional one-time purchase handled entirely through Google Play's billing system. Captura does not collect, see, or store your payment information — that's handled by Google, under Google's own privacy policy. Captura only receives confirmation of whether you've purchased Premium.
Third-party services
Captura uses the following third-party components, both of which are Google-provided and operate under Google's privacy policy for the parts of their function that involve any device-to-Google communication:
- Google ML Kit — on-device text recognition. The recognition model may be downloaded once via Google Play Services; recognition itself runs locally on your device, not on Google's servers.
- Google Play Billing — processes the optional Premium purchase.
Captura does not include any advertising, analytics, or tracking software development kits (SDKs).
Children's privacy
Captura is not directed at children under 13 and does not knowingly collect information from children. Captura does not collect personal information from any user, of any age, beyond what's described above.
Your choices
- You can revoke Captura's photo access at any time in Android's Settings → Apps → Captura → Permissions.
- You can delete all of Captura's local data by uninstalling the app.
- You can export your tags, pins, and notes to a file at any time, and delete that file whenever you choose.
Changes to this policy
If this policy changes, the updated version will be posted at this same URL with a new effective date. Continued use of Captura after a change means you accept the updated policy.
Contact
Questions about this policy or how Captura handles your data can be sent to sterb2014@gmail.com.
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