Your Documents. Your Device. Always.
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Your Documents — Fully Offline
Scannly's core functionality — scanning, storing, encrypting, and viewing your documents — works completely offline. Your documents are never uploaded to any server, never stored in cloud storage, and never shared with anyone. They live only on your device.
Why Your Gallery Isn't Safe Enough
Saving confidential documents — ID cards, passports, bank statements, medical records — in your phone gallery exposes them to every app that requests photo access. Gallery apps, social media apps, and even keyboards can read your photos. Other people using your phone can accidentally see them. They get mixed in with thousands of other photos and become impossible to find when you need them.
What Scannly Does Differently
AES-256 Encryption
Every document saved in the Secure Vault is encrypted with AES-256 before being written to disk. Even if someone extracts your phone's storage, the files are unreadable without your vault password.
Biometric Authentication
Your vault can be locked behind Face ID or fingerprint. No password to type, no OTP to wait for — just your face or touch, on your device, instantly.
Fully Offline
Unlike other document apps that require an account, OTP verification, or internet access to function, Scannly works with zero connectivity. No account. No sign-up. No email. Open the app and it's ready.
One Place for Every Document
Bank cards in one app, IDs in another, receipts in a third — that juggling ends with Scannly. Scan anything, organise it, and find it in seconds. All in one place, all on your phone.
No Analytics, No Tracking
Scannly collects zero analytics, zero telemetry, and zero usage data. There is no "usage statistics" opt-in. We simply never built it.
What We Access and Why
Scannly requests the following permissions only when you choose to use those features:
No permission is ever used to transmit data. All processing happens locally on your device.
Data Storage
All scanned documents, thumbnails, and PDFs are stored in your app's private sandboxed directory — a location that is inaccessible to other apps on your device. Secure vault documents are additionally encrypted before storage.
What Happens If You Delete the App
This is the trade-off that makes Scannly secure: because everything lives only on your device, deleting the app or switching to a new phone means your documents are gone. There is no recovery from a server backup because there is no server. We recommend exporting important documents as PDFs (using the Share button) before switching devices.
Advertising & What the Ad SDK Collects
To keep Scannly free, we display a small number of non-intrusive banner ads in the app. Ads are shown only on general screens (home, settings) and are never shown inside the Secure Vault, inside any document viewer, or anywhere your sensitive content is visible.
Ads are served by Google AdMob. When an ad is loaded, the AdMob SDK may collect the following on your device:
Scannly itself never reads, stores, or processes any of this ad data. Google's privacy policy governs how AdMob handles this information: policies.google.com/privacy. To opt out of personalised ads, go to Settings → Privacy → Advertising on your device.
Third-Party SDKs Used
Beyond AdMob, the only other libraries used in Scannly are for on-device functionality: PDF generation, image cropping, AES-256 encryption, and biometric authentication. None of these connect to the internet or collect any data.
Children's Privacy
Scannly does not knowingly collect any information from anyone, including children under 13. Because nothing is ever collected, there is nothing to protect.
Changes to This Policy
If this privacy policy changes, the updated version will be included in the next app update. The core commitment — your data never leaves your device — will never change.
Your documents never leave your device. The only internet activity in Scannly is limited ads on non-sensitive screens — never inside the vault or document viewer. Your files are yours, encrypted, and invisible to the world.