Privacy Policy
Last updated: 4 November 2026
This policy covers QuietPad for Android, QuietPad for iPhone, and the web editor. The iPhone app is covered in its own section below; the rest of this page describes the Android app and the web editor.
QuietPad for iPhone
QuietPad for iPhone does not collect any data. It has no account, no server, no analytics, no advertising and no tracking, and it never sends your notes, diary entries, attachments or anything about how you use the app to us or to anyone else.
- Where your notes live. Your notes and attachments are saved as ordinary files in a folder you choose in the Files app. If that folder is in iCloud Drive or another storage app, that service syncs and stores the files under its own terms and privacy policy. We have no access to them.
- Settings kept on your device. The app remembers your chosen folder, your colour choices, your reminders, and the date your free trial began. The trial date is kept in your device's Keychain and is never sent anywhere.
- Permissions. The app asks for access only when you use a feature: the camera and photo library (adding photos and video), the microphone (voice memos and video), speech recognition (Dictate, which runs on your device), notifications (reminders, which are local notifications), and Face ID, Touch ID or your passcode (the optional app lock). None of this leaves your device.
- Purchases. The one-time unlock is handled by Apple through the App Store. We never see your payment details; Apple tells the app only whether the purchase has been made.
What QuietPad is
QuietPad is a plain-text and Markdown note app for Android, with a small companion editor at quietpad.co.uk/edit/. Neither has a server of its own: both talk directly to Google Drive's own API, using your own Google account, to read and save your files. Signing in with Google is entirely optional in the Android app — skip it, and your notes, diary entries, and attachments stay on that device only, never touching Drive or any other service. The web editor has no offline mode: it only ever works on notes already in your Drive.
What we access
QuietPad requests two narrow Google Drive scopes, and nothing broader:
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drive.file— access only to files you explicitly open through QuietPad: a file you create in the Android app, or one you pick via a Picker, in the app or the web editor. QuietPad cannot see, list, or access any other file in your Drive. The web editor can only ever edit a note's existing content — it cannot create, delete, rename, move, or upload files, and it refuses to open anything outside your QuietPad folder or that isn't plain text. -
drive.appdata— a hidden, per-app data folder, invisible in your ordinary Drive view, used only by the Android app to record whether this Google account has already used QuietPad's free trial before. It holds a trial start date and nothing else — no note content, no file names, nothing you've written. The web editor never requests this scope.
The Android app's hamburger menu can link to the web editor for the
account you're currently using — that email travels only in the
page's URL fragment (the part after #), which browsers
never send to any server, so it never reaches a log anywhere,
including ours.
What we store
Nothing on a QuietPad server of our own — we don't operate one. In the Android app, your notes, diary entries, and attachments are stored as plain files on your own device, indexed in a local database the app keeps for itself, and optionally synced to your own Google Drive if you've signed in. The web editor keeps nothing beyond your current browser tab: which file is open, kept only for that tab's session so a reload doesn't lose your place, and gone once the tab closes.
Other on-device features
The Android app's optional App Lock uses your device's own fingerprint/face unlock (Android's BiometricPrompt) to lock the app itself — QuietPad never receives, stores, or sees any biometric data; that stays entirely between you and your device's operating system. Reminders are ordinary local notifications scheduled on your device and are never transmitted anywhere. The app's one-time unlock purchase is handled entirely by Google Play Billing — QuietPad never sees your payment details.
Third parties
QuietPad does not use analytics, advertising, or tracking scripts of any kind, and does not share any data with third parties. The only other parties involved are Google's own Drive, Sign-In, and Play Billing services, each governed by Google's own privacy policy.
QuietPad's use of information received from Google APIs adheres to the Google API Services User Data Policy, including the Limited Use requirements.
Deleting your data
Your notes are files, so you're always in direct control of them: delete them from your device, or from your Google Drive if you've synced, the same as any other file. To remove QuietPad's access to your Google account entirely, including the hidden trial-status record, revoke it from your Google account's third-party access settings.
Children
QuietPad is not directed at children, and we do not knowingly collect data from children.