Last updated · 2026-06-16
Paper Rooms is built around a simple promise: your library is yours, and it stays on your device. We’ve designed the app so there’s almost nothing to say in a privacy policy — because there’s almost nothing we could collect even if we wanted to.
Nothing.
Paper Rooms has no accounts, no sign-in, no analytics, no advertising, no tracking, and no backend server that receives your data. We do not know who you are, what you read, or that you use the app at all.
Everything you create — saved papers, highlights, notes, reading positions, and settings — is stored locally on your device, in the app’s on-device storage. It never leaves your device through Paper Rooms. If your platform backs up your device (for example iCloud or Google device backup), that backup is governed by your own settings and your OS provider’s policy, not by us.
When you open a paper, the app fetches it directly from the source you asked for — for example arxiv.org or api.datacite.org — so it can show you the paper. These requests go from your device to those services; they are not routed through any server we operate. Those third parties have their own privacy policies. We do not send them any identifying information about you beyond what an ordinary web request necessarily includes.
If you use the Share feature, your device’s operating system handles the share. We do not see or store what you share or who you share it with.
Paper Rooms collects no personal data from anyone, including children.
If this policy ever changes, the updated version will be posted here with a new date. Since we collect nothing, any change is unlikely to affect you.
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