1. Summary
HoneyCrisp: Liquid Glass 3D, also called HoneyCrisp Launcher ("HoneyCrisp", "the app"), is an Android home screen replacement. It has no ads, no user accounts and no advertising or analytics tracking. We do not run a server and never receive your personal data. Almost everything runs on your phone. A few things leave it, and section 3 lists each one: crash reports, an approximate location for weather, diagnostics from Google's handwriting model, and link previews you ask for.
2. What the app uses on your phone (never sent anywhere)
Every permission is optional. If you decline one, only the feature that needs it turns off. You can try HoneyCrisp in demo mode before granting anything.
- Notification access
- Shows unread counts on your icons, the notification wing, parked bubbles and chat heads, and lets you reply. Notification content is handled on your phone and never sent anywhere.
- Usage access
- Fills Flow State with the apps you use most, sorts apps by use, and estimates per-app battery drain. Stored only on your phone.
- Microphone (record audio)
- Android requires this permission for any music visualizer. HoneyCrisp reads the sound your phone is already playing, in memory only. It never opens the microphone and never records or stores audio.
- Camera
- Used only by the optional Transparent phone feature, which shows a live camera view behind your home screen. Nothing is captured or saved.
- Calendar (read only)
- Shows your upcoming events in the Calendar side panel and on the home screen. The app cannot create, change or delete events.
- Approximate location
- Used for local weather (see section 3) and sunrise and sunset lighting. The sun's position is worked out on your phone. The app never asks for precise (GPS) location or background location.
- Nearby devices (Bluetooth)
- Checks whether headphones are connected, for display only. The app does not scan for or pair with devices.
- Photos you pick
- Panel and Flow State wallpapers are chosen through Android's photo picker, so the app only sees the images you choose. Copies are kept in the app's private storage.
- Display over other apps
- Optional. Lets chat heads float over other apps.
- Notifications
- Optional. Used for the charging notification and reminders from HoneyCrisp.
- Installed apps, widgets and uninstall
- Used to show your apps and widgets. Uninstalling an app from HoneyCrisp always opens Android's own confirmation screen.
- Battery history and your pet
- Battery measurements, charge history and your pet's progress are stored only on your phone.
3. What leaves your phone
a) Crash reports (Google Firebase Crashlytics)
When the app crashes, freezes, is closed by Android for low memory, or has to drop its graphics quality to stay smooth, a report is sent to Firebase Crashlytics, a Google service, so the problem can be found and fixed. A report contains the error and where in the code it happened, your device model, Android version and app version, a random installation identifier, and technical details: total RAM, memory in use, the phone's chip and graphics driver, the current render quality and a count of interactions. It does not contain your name, contacts, messages, notification content, photos, location or the list of apps you use. Crash reporting is always on in this version. Google's privacy policy applies: policies.google.com/privacy.
b) Weather (Open-Meteo)
If you allow location, the app sends your approximate location, rounded to about 11 km (0.1 degrees), to Open-Meteo (open-meteo.com) over HTTPS to get the current temperature. No account or identifier is sent with it, and we do not store it. Open-Meteo's own terms and privacy policy apply.
c) Handwriting recognition (Google ML Kit)
Handwriting recognition uses Google ML Kit Digital Ink Recognition. The recognition model is downloaded once from Google, and after that recognition runs on your phone: your handwriting is not sent to Google. ML Kit sends Google diagnostic data: device information (such as maker, model and Android version), the app's package name and version, performance metrics, error codes, the selected language and a per-installation identifier that is not meant to identify you.
d) Link previews
When you share a link to the Whiteboard, the app requests that web page directly to show its title and image. The request goes only to the website you chose. We never receive the link.
e) Apps you open
Apps you launch from HoneyCrisp, including the assistant behind the AI mic gem, are separate apps with their own privacy policies. HoneyCrisp only opens them.
4. Android backup
If Android backup is on, Android may back up your HoneyCrisp settings, layouts and whiteboard to your Google account. Android and Google handle this; we cannot see it. Crash logs stored on your phone are left out of cloud backups.
5. Keeping and deleting data
Everything the app stores on your phone stays there until you clear its data (Android Settings, Apps, HoneyCrisp, Storage, Clear data) or uninstall it. We keep no copies because we never receive your data. Crash reports are kept by Firebase for up to 90 days. To have crash reports from your phone deleted sooner, email us. Diagnostic data collected by ML Kit is kept by Google under its own policies, and we cannot access or delete it.
6. Security
All of the app's network traffic uses HTTPS; unencrypted connections are blocked. Data on your phone lives in the app's private storage, which other apps cannot read.
7. Children
The app is not directed to children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from children.
8. Changes
We update this page when the app's data practices change and revise the effective date above.
