Privacy Policy

Boring Screenshot Organizer (com.kaptanoglu.screenshot.organizer). Effective date: October 25, 2026

Boring Screenshot Organizer is an Android app that reads the text in the screenshots on your phone so you can find them by searching. This policy explains what happens to your information when you use it. In short: your screenshots and the text in them stay on your phone, the app has no internet permission, and there is no account.

Your screenshots

• The app reads the images in your screenshot folders, and in any other folder you add in the settings, to recognize the text in them.
• Text recognition (OCR) runs on your phone. The app does not have the Android internet permission, so it cannot upload your screenshots or their text, and we never see them.
• The app does not move, copy, rename or change your files. A screenshot is deleted only when you choose Delete and confirm it in Android's own dialog.

Information stored on your phone

To make search fast, the app keeps a small database in its private storage:

• For each screenshot: its file name, folder, date, size and dimensions, the recognized text and where each line of text sits on the image.
• The screenshots you marked as favorites and your recent searches.
• Your settings, such as theme, added folders, chosen alphabets and whether background reading waits for charging.

This information never leaves your phone. Clearing your recent searches removes them, and uninstalling the app deletes the whole database. Your screenshots themselves are not part of it and stay where they are.

Permissions

• READ_MEDIA_IMAGES, READ_MEDIA_VISUAL_USER_SELECTED and, on Android 12 and older, READ_EXTERNAL_STORAGE: to find and read your screenshots. On Android 14 and later you can allow access to selected photos only.
• RECEIVE_BOOT_COMPLETED, WAKE_LOCK and ACCESS_NETWORK_STATE: added by Android's WorkManager library, which the app uses to read new screenshots in the background. ACCESS_NETWORK_STATE only tells whether a network exists; it cannot send anything.

Google ML Kit and Google Play services

Text recognition uses Google ML Kit. The model for the Latin alphabet is built into the app. If you turn on Chinese, Japanese, Korean or Hindi (Devanagari) text in the settings, Google Play services downloads that model to your phone once.

ML Kit may send Google limited technical information to keep these features working and to measure their performance, such as the device model, Android version, app version, performance metrics, error codes and identifiers ML Kit uses for diagnostics. It does not send your screenshots or the text recognized in them. Details are in Google's ML Kit data disclosure and the Google Privacy Policy.

Bug reports and contact

If you choose "Report a bug", the app opens your own email app with a message addressed to us. The message includes the app version, the Android version and the device model so we can understand the problem. Nothing is sent unless you send the email yourself. We use your email address and message only to reply to you, and you can ask us to delete our correspondence at any time.

Rating the app

"Rate this app" and the privacy policy link open Google Play or your browser. Those are handled by Google and your browser under their own policies.

What we do not do

• No accounts or sign-in.
• No advertising, no advertising ID and no analytics or tracking software of our own.
• We do not sell, rent or share personal information.

Children

Boring Screenshot Organizer is a general utility and is not directed at children under 13. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children.

Changes to this policy

If this policy changes, we will update this page and the effective date above.