Privacy Policy

Last updated: 11 October 2026

Which apps this covers

This policy covers both versions of DocFind: DocFind PDF Keyword Search for Android, on Google Play, and DocFind: Search Inside PDFs for iPhone, on the App Store. Almost everything below is true of both. Where the two genuinely differ, the paragraph is marked Android or iPhone — we would rather label a difference than write a sentence that is only true on one of them.

This website

The sections above describe the apps. This one describes docfindapp.com itself, because it is not one of them. The site sets no cookies, runs no analytics, and carries no advertising or tracking of any kind. The free browser tools under /tools read the files you choose entirely inside your browser: nothing is uploaded, and no file, no text pulled out of one, and none of the words you search for is ever stored or sent anywhere.

One tool can store one thing, and only if you ask it to. On the multi-PDF search, in Chrome and Edge, you can tick Remember this folder in this browser. That keeps a pointer to the folder — the browser's own handle for it, held by that browser on that device — so a later visit can search the same folder without you locating it again. It is not the files and not their contents, it never leaves your device, we have no way to see it, and the Forget it button on the page deletes it. Leave the box unticked and the tools store nothing at all.

What we collect

We collect nothing, and we never sell or share data. There is no sign-up, no login, and no user profile. We do not know who you are, and we have no way to find out.

Android The Android app uses Google's ML Kit to read the text of scanned pages on your phone. ML Kit sends Google technical diagnostics of its own: device information (such as manufacturer, model and OS version), the app's package name and version, an identifier for this installation that Google says is not intended to identify you or your device, performance figures such as how long recognition took, and error codes. Google says it uses this for diagnostics and usage analytics, encrypts it in transit, and does not pass it to third parties. Its list includes nothing from your documents — no page images and no text. It goes to Google; we have no access to it. This is why DocFind's Data safety section on Google Play lists App info and performance and Device or other IDs. (Google, ML Kit Android data disclosure, read 11 October 2026.)

Your documents

DocFind only opens documents you choose yourself, using your device's own system file picker — the Storage Access Framework on Android, the Files picker on iPhone — or, on Android, pages you scan with Scan Document. It has no access to your photo library, contacts, location or microphone, and never asks for them.

Android Scan Document opens Google's document scanner, which is part of Google Play services. The scanner uses the camera and hands DocFind the finished pages; DocFind itself has no camera permission. Google says "The entire document scanner flow operates on-device" (Google, ML Kit document scanner, read 11 October 2026). Google Play services may need a connection once to download the scanner. Your scans are saved in DocFind's own private storage and read on your phone.

The documents you add, the searchable index DocFind builds from them, and the results of text recognition are all stored on your device only. The index is an ordinary database in the app's own private storage: it holds the text extracted from each page, the positions of recognized words, and which documents belong to which library, so that a repeat search does not have to read every file again. Your recent search terms are kept there too — the last ten. None of it leaves the device, and deleting a document from a library, or deleting the app, removes it.

Text recognition (OCR)

When you ask DocFind to make a scanned document searchable, the text recognition runs entirely on your own device. Page images are never sent anywhere, and no third party receives them.

Android Recognition uses Google's ML Kit text recognition, bundled inside the app rather than downloaded, so it works with no internet connection.

iPhone Recognition uses Apple's on-device Vision framework.

Reading a scanned document is something you start yourself. Nothing is recognized until you ask for it.

Android A document you make with Scan Document is read straight away, as part of the scan.

Exports and sharing

DocFind can export search results as CSV, Markdown, a PDF report, or a PDF of the matching pages. Exported files are created on your device. They leave it only if you deliberately send them somewhere — by saving the file where you choose, or by handing it to another app through the system share sheet. DocFind never sends them on its own.

Purchases

DocFind Pro is an in-app purchase, handled entirely by the store you bought it from. The store processes the payment; we never see your name, your payment details, or your store account. We receive no personal information from a purchase, and restoring one is handled by the store as well.

Android Purchases go through Google Play Billing. Because of that, the Android app does have permission to use the network. DocFind's own code uses it for one thing: asking Google Play for the current prices and for whether you own Pro. The only other traffic is ML Kit's diagnostics, described under What we collect, and Google Play services may download the document scanner the first time you scan. Searching, indexing, text recognition and exporting all work with no connection at all — your documents are not part of that conversation, and never travel over it. Google's own handling of a payment is described in Google's privacy policy.

iPhone Purchases go through the App Store. On iPhone, DocFind itself contains no networking code — searching, indexing, OCR and export never touch a connection.

Analytics, tracking and advertising

DocFind contains no advertising SDK and no tracking of any kind, and we run no analytics.

Android One exception that is not ours: Google's ML Kit sends Google the diagnostics described under What we collect, which Google uses for diagnostics and usage analytics.

Android The app requests no advertising ID and shows no ads. Earlier versions of the Android app (up to version 1.2) did show ads; version 2.0 removed advertising entirely, and this policy describes version 2.0 onwards.

iPhone The app does not show the App Tracking Transparency prompt, because it has nothing to ask for.

Children

DocFind is rated for all ages — 3+ on Google Play, 4+ on the App Store. We collect no data from anyone, so we collect none from children. On Android, ML Kit's diagnostics, described under What we collect, are sent the same way for every user.

Your rights

Regulations such as the GDPR and the CCPA give you rights to access, correct, or delete the personal data a company holds about you. We hold none, so there is nothing for us to disclose or delete. All of your DocFind data lives on your own device and is under your direct control.

Android The ML Kit diagnostics described under What we collect are held by Google, not by us.

Changes to this policy

If this policy ever changes, the updated version will be posted on this page with a new "last updated" date. If a future version of DocFind ever added a feature that collected data, that change would be described here before the feature shipped.

Permissions

Android The app declares four permissions and no others: internet access, used by Google Play Billing and by ML Kit's diagnostics as described above; network state, which ML Kit's diagnostics component adds; the Google Play billing permission itself; and one internal permission Android requires for an app's own private broadcasts. It requests no storage permission — files reach DocFind only through the system picker you use to choose them, or as pages from Scan Document. It requests no camera permission either: the scanner runs inside Google Play services.

iPhone The app requests no permissions at all. Documents arrive through the Files picker, and nothing else is asked for.

Contact

Questions about this policy or about DocFind: support@docfindapp.com