Privacy policy
Pauca and Pauca Lite · Last updated October 2, 2026
In short
Pauca doesn't collect, sell or share any data about you. The app has no internet permission, so it can't send anything anywhere. There are no ads, no analytics, no accounts and no trackers.
Who makes it
Pauca and Pauca Lite are Android home screen apps made by Gabriel Dias (berelels), an independent developer in Brazil. The code is open source: github.com/berelels/pauca.
What stays on your phone
To work, the app keeps these on your phone, and only there:
- Your home screen: cards, the names you gave your apps, and profiles.
- Your settings: theme, colors, fonts, clock and gestures.
- The image you pick as your wallpaper, if you pick one (a copy, inside the app).
- In focus mode, how many notifications each app sent, to show the summary when focus ends. The content of notifications is never saved.
Uninstalling the app deletes all of it.
If Android's backup is on, your settings may go into your phone's backup in your Google account, like any other app's. That backup is handled by Android and Google; we can't see it.
Permissions, and why
- See your installed apps: to list them on the home screen and in the drawer. The list never leaves your phone.
- Accessibility service (optional): only to lock the screen with a double tap and, in focus mode, to go back home when an app outside your list opens. It only checks which app is in front. It doesn't read what's on the screen or what you type. You turn it on yourself in Android's settings, after the app explains it.
- Notification access (optional, Pauca only): to hold notifications from apps outside your list during focus mode and count them for the summary.
- Do Not Disturb access (optional, Pauca only): to turn Pauca's own Do Not Disturb rule on and off during focus mode.
- Usage access (optional): to show today's screen time next to the date, if you turn it on. It's calculated on the phone.
- Device administrator (optional, older Android versions): only to lock the screen with a double tap.
- Set wallpaper (Pauca only): to put the image you chose on the lock screen, when you ask for it.
- Change secure settings (optional, Pauca only): for the grayscale screen in focus mode. Android only allows it if you grant it yourself, with a command from a computer.
- Others: open the notification panel, open the alarm app, ask Android to uninstall an app you chose, and show apps from Android's private space.
From Pauca Lite to Pauca
When you install Pauca on a phone that has Pauca Lite, Pauca copies Lite's cards and settings straight from one app to the other, on the phone. Only apps signed by the same developer can read them.
Purchases
Pauca is sold through Google Play, and Google handles the payment under its own privacy policy. We never see your card. Google shares with developers only what sales reports need, such as the country of the purchase.
Children
Pauca isn't made for children under 13 and doesn't collect data from anyone.
Changes
If this policy changes, the new version will be on this page with a new date. As the app collects no data, a change would only explain something better, never start collecting.
Contact
Questions? Open an issue at github.com/berelels/pauca/issues, or write to the email on the app's Google Play page.