AniNoti privacy policy
Last updated 4 November 2026
The short version. AniNoti has no accounts and no sign-in. The series you follow, the searches you run and your reminder settings are stored on your phone, not on our servers. On both Android and iOS the app collects anonymous usage and crash statistics to find and fix bugs. The app carries ads, and Google's ad system uses your device's advertising identifier to choose them — that is the one thing here that follows you between apps, it is covered in full below, and nothing about what you do in AniNoti is used to pick an ad. If you buy Remove ads, a purchase service keeps a record that this install bought it. That record is not linked to your name and never includes your card details. We do not sell your data.
Who this is about
This policy covers the AniNoti mobile app on Android and iOS. In it, "we" means the developer of AniNoti and "you" means the person using the app.
What stays on your device
The following never leaves your phone, is never transmitted to us, and is deleted when you uninstall the app:
- The anime series you follow
- Your reminder settings — whether reminders are on, how far in advance, and your quiet hours
- Which reminders have already been delivered, so the app does not repeat them
- A cached copy of everything the app has shown you — the airing schedule and calendar, series pages, cast and staff, reviews, and the results of searches and of the browse rails — so the screens still open without a connection
- The searches you have run most recently, so that returning to Search does not show you an empty screen and so the app can refresh those results in the background
- Whether you have completed onboarding, and whether you have been asked for notification permission
The cache is a copy of AniList's public catalogue, held on your phone so the app is usable on a train. It is not a record of you kept anywhere we can read, and clearing the app's storage or uninstalling removes it.
On Android, this data is included in Android's Auto Backup if you have device backup switched on. That backup goes to your own Google account, is governed by Google's privacy policy, and is not accessible to us. You can turn it off in your device settings. On iOS the equivalent is your iCloud device backup.
Settings → Your data can turn your followed list into a short code on your clipboard, so you can move it to another device yourself. That happens only when you tap Export, the code contains only the public catalogue numbers of the series you follow, and it is never sent to us — where you paste it from there is up to you.
What we collect
Analytics, crash reporting and advertising apply to both platforms. The Android and iOS apps share one crash-reporting and analytics library, and both show ads; the ads are covered in their own section below.
Both apps use Kotzilla for anonymous analytics and crash reporting. This is what it collects and why.
| Data | Why |
|---|---|
| App usage events — which series and episode pages were opened, identified by their public AniList ID; how many results a search returned; whether a schedule load was answered from the network or from the cache on your device | To understand which parts of the app are used and which are failing. The text you type into Search is never sent — only the number of results it produced |
| Crash reports and error diagnostics — the stack trace, the app version, the device model and OS version | To find and fix crashes |
| A randomly generated app-instance identifier | Assigned by Kotzilla so that events from one install can be counted once. It is reset when you reinstall the app and is not linked to you |
This data is not linked to your identity. We do not ask for your name, email address, phone number or location, and there is no account to attach anything to. The advertising identifier is a separate matter, covered in the advertising section below.
Kotzilla processes this data on our behalf under its own privacy policy, published at kotzilla.io. Crash and performance data is declared on the App Store privacy label as collected but not linked to you and not used for tracking, which is also what the Play Data safety form says.
Turning it off
There is no in-app switch for it. Uninstalling the app stops all collection and deletes everything held on the device.
Advertising
AniNoti is free, and ads are how it pays for itself. They are set into the Airing, Following, Search and Alerts lists as slots between the rows, each one framed and captioned Sponsored. A list carries at most three, the first one no earlier than the seventh row, so an ad is always scrolled to rather than landed on. There are no full-screen ads, no ads on launch, and no ads during onboarding, in Settings, on the calendar or on a series page. The ads are supplied by Google AdMob.
What Google collects, and what it is for
| Data | Why |
|---|---|
| Your device's advertising identifier — the Advertising ID on Android, the IDFA on iOS | To choose which ads to show you and to avoid showing the same one repeatedly. You can reset it, or switch it off entirely, in your device settings |
| Which ads were shown to you and which you interacted with | To measure whether an ad was seen, and to bill the advertiser |
| Approximate location, derived from your IP address | To show ads that are legal and relevant in your country. This is not your device's location: AniNoti never asks for location permission and has no access to it |
| General device information — model, OS version, screen size, language | To render the ad correctly and to select an appropriate one |
This is the one place where data leaves the app and is linked to an identifier that follows you between apps. Google may combine it with data from other apps and sites in order to personalise what you are shown. That is what "tracking" means in Apple's App Tracking Transparency prompt and in the App Store privacy label, and it is why both say yes.
What is never sent. Nothing about what you do in AniNoti reaches Google's ad systems. Which series you follow, what you search for, what you read, when your reminders are set for — none of it is shared, and none of it is used to choose an ad. The ad slot knows only that it is a slot on a screen.
Your choice, and how to change it
Before any ad is requested, AniNoti asks Google's consent tool whether your country requires your permission — the EEA and the UK do. Where it does, you are shown a consent form and no ad is requested until you have answered it. If you decline, the app does not fall back to less personal ads; it shows none at all.
You can change your mind at any time:
- In the app — Settings → About → Ad privacy options reopens the same consent form. The row appears only where your country's rules require it, because elsewhere there is no form to reopen.
- On iOS — Settings → Privacy & Security → Tracking withdraws permission to use the IDFA, for this app or for all of them.
- On Android — Settings → Google → Ads lets you delete the advertising ID entirely, which stops personalisation across every app on the device.
Google processes this data as an independent controller, under Google's own privacy policy. AniNoti receives no advertising data back: we see aggregate earnings and nothing about who saw what.
Remove ads purchases
Where the store offers it, Settings → Remove ads is a one-off purchase that switches the ads off. Google Play or the App Store takes the payment. We never see your card, your bank or any other payment details, and neither does anyone else named in this policy.
The app finds out whether you own it through RevenueCat, a service that checks store purchases on our behalf. Each time the app starts, it asks RevenueCat whether this install owns Remove ads. It asks even if you have never bought anything, because no ad may load until the answer is in.
| Data | Why |
|---|---|
| A random identifier that RevenueCat creates for this install | So a purchase can be matched to the install that made it. It is not your name, your email, your store account or your advertising identifier. Reinstalling the app creates a new one |
| Your purchase history for AniNoti: what was bought, when, the price and currency, and the store's receipt for it | To check with Google or Apple that the purchase is genuine, to switch the ads off, and to bring the purchase back when you tap Restore purchases. We also see it as totals in RevenueCat's dashboard, to understand how many people buy it |
| Your device's language and region, the app version, and the operating system and its version | To show the price in your currency, and to handle differences between app and system versions |
Like any server, RevenueCat also sees your IP address when the app contacts it. It does not collect your location, what you follow or search for, or your advertising identifier, and nothing it holds is used for advertising or to track you between apps. The App Store privacy label and the Play Data safety form list this as purchase history, collected for app functionality and analytics and not linked to you.
Once you own Remove ads, the app requests no ads at all, does not preload any, and never shows Google's consent form, because there is nothing left to ask permission for.
RevenueCat processes this data for us under its privacy policy. Google and Apple keep their own record of the purchase under their own policies. That record is what Restore purchases reads from.
Who we send requests to
AniList
All anime data — schedules, titles, synopses, cover art, cast, scores and reviews — comes from the AniList API. When you open a screen or run a search, the app requests that data from AniList's servers. Those requests are anonymous: they carry no account, no identifier and nothing about what you follow. AniList receives the request itself and your IP address, as any web server does, and handles it under AniList's own terms and privacy policy. AniNoti is not affiliated with AniList.
Trailers and streaming links
Series pages can play a trailer hosted by YouTube or Dailymotion, embedded in the app. Playing a trailer loads content from those services, which set their own cookies and collect their own data under Google's and Dailymotion's policies. Nothing loads from them until you tap play.
"Where to watch" links open your browser or the streaming service's own app. Once you leave AniNoti, that service's privacy policy applies, not this one.
Cover images
Cover artwork is loaded directly from AniList's image servers, and is cached on your device so it does not have to be fetched twice.
Notifications
Episode reminders are scheduled and delivered entirely on your device by the operating system. No reminder is sent from a server, and we are never told that one was delivered or opened. If you decline the notification permission, the rest of the app carries on working.
Children
AniNoti is not directed at children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect data from them. Since there are no accounts, there is no personal information for a child to give us. The app is rated 13+ on both stores, and the ads it shows are not from a child-directed programme — which is another reason it should not be installed for a younger child.
Your rights
Because we hold no account and no identifier that points at you, we generally cannot locate, export or delete "your" data on request — there is nothing tied to you to find. What you can do at any time:
- Delete everything held on the device by uninstalling the app.
- Stop future collection using the OS controls described above.
- Delete a purchase record by emailing us the order number from your Google Play or Apple receipt. We will delete RevenueCat's record of that purchase. Google or Apple keep their own record, so a later Restore purchases will create it again.
- Ask us a question using the contact address below. If you are in the UK, EU or another region with data-protection rights, and you can identify the data in question, we will do what we can to help.
Changes
If this policy changes in a way that affects what is collected, the updated version will be published at this address with a new date at the top, and the change will be described in the app's release notes.
Contact
Questions about this policy, or about anything AniNoti does with data: support@aninoti.app.
"Send feedback" in Settings opens your own mail app with a message addressed there. It is prefilled with the app version, your device's OS version and its model, and nothing else - you can read and change it before sending, and nothing is sent unless you send it. A mail you send shows us your email address and whatever it contains, and is used only to reply to you.