Privacy

Sweep collects nothing about you. It reads your photos and videos on your phone so you can sort them, and they never leave the phone.

Photos and videos

The app asks for access to your photos and videos, because its job is to go through your gallery album by album. You can give it access to all of them or only to the ones you choose; with limited access it works with just those. It shows each item to you on screen, and when you decide to remove some, it asks Android to move them to the system trash. Android asks you to confirm before anything is moved.

What the app stores

Only what it needs to remember your work, all of it on your phone, in the app's own storage: which items you chose to keep (so they do not come back), your settings, and whether you bought Pro. The Pro duplicate finder also keeps a short numeric fingerprint of each thumbnail so it does not have to recompute it; the fingerprint cannot be turned back into the picture. Uninstalling the app deletes all of it.

What the app sends

Nothing. No photo, video, thumbnail, file name or location ever leaves your phone. The only part of the app that uses the network is the optional Pro purchase, which is handled entirely by Google Play. We never see your name, your email or your payment details.

Cloud backups

Sweep works with the copies on your phone. If you also back up your photos with a cloud service, those copies are managed by that service, under its own privacy policy.

Advertising and tracking

There are no ads, no advertising ID, no analytics, no third-party SDKs other than Google Play Billing for the purchase, and no tracking of any kind.

Children

The app is not directed at children. It collects nothing from anyone, of any age.

Changes

If this policy ever changes, the new version will be posted on this page with the date it changed. As of 10 November 2026, the app collects nothing, and there is no plan for that to change.

Questions

Write to supportlap478@gmail.com.