Privacy policy

Last updated: 22 October 2026

Pinhole is an Android app published by BetheApp ("we", "us"). This policy explains what the app does with information on your phone. In short: Pinhole has no accounts, no ads, no analytics and no trackers, and we run no server that receives your data. Everything the app keeps stays on your device.

1. What stays on your phone

• Settings and profiles: the actions you assign to each gesture, your profiles and their conditions, theme and language. Stored in the app's private storage.
• Recordings: audio, video and screen recordings you start with a gesture are saved in the app's storage on your phone. Deleted recordings go to Recently deleted and are removed for good when you empty it or after 30 days. If you turn on "Save to Gallery", a copy also goes to your phone's gallery, where other apps you allow can see it. We never receive your recordings.
• Contacts: only if you choose "Call a contact" and allow access. The app reads your contacts to let you pick one, and keeps only the name and number you picked, on your phone.

2. Permissions and what they are used for

• Accessibility service: places an invisible button around your camera hole so taps, holds and swipes there can run your actions, and reads the name of the app that is open so a smart profile ("when this app is open") can switch. It does not read the content of your screen, what you type, your messages or passwords, and it sends nothing off your phone.
• Notification access (optional): lets the Live Island show calls, timers, music and incoming notifications around the camera hole. Notifications are read only to display them on screen at that moment; they are not stored or sent anywhere.
• Camera and microphone: used only while a recording or QR scan you started is running. A notification is shown for as long as a recording runs.
• Screen recording: Android asks for your permission each time; the recording is saved on your phone.
• Phone: to place the call when you use "Call a contact".
• Notifications: to show recording status and Live Island alerts.

You can turn any of these off at any time in Android Settings. The app keeps working without the optional ones.

3. Purchases (Pinhole Pro)

Pro subscriptions are sold and charged by Google Play. Google processes your payment under the Google Privacy Policy; we never see your name, email address or payment details. The app asks Google Play which Pinhole plan your Google account owns (the plan, when it started and whether it renews) to unlock Pro, and keeps that status on your phone. Because the plan belongs to your Google Play account, "Restore" brings it back on another phone signed in to the same account.

4. Google services the app relies on

The Google Play Store and Google Play services provide billing and the on-device QR code scanner. They may process device information as described in Google's privacy policy. Pinhole adds no other third-party service.

5. Backups

If Android backup is on, Android may include Pinhole's settings in your Google backup, under your backup settings and Google's terms.

6. Your choices

• Delete recordings in the app's Library, then empty Recently deleted.
• Reset the app in Settings, or clear its storage in Android Settings, to remove everything it keeps.
• Uninstalling the app removes all its data from your phone. It does not cancel a subscription: cancel in Google Play › Subscriptions.

Because we hold no personal data about you, there is nothing for us to export or delete on a server.

7. Children

Pinhole is not directed at children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect information from anyone.

8. Changes

If this policy changes, we will update this page and the date at the top. Significant changes will also be noted in the app's release notes.

9. Contact

Questions about privacy: pinhole@betheapp.com.