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Free apps.
No exceptions.

It doesn't cost money, and it doesn't cost your privacy. Here's every policy behind that — and, for each one, how it's actually enforced in the code.

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The spec, in short
personal datanone collected
trackers0
advertsnone
price to use£0.00
in development4 apps
The whole deal

Nothing to pay, nothing tracked, nothing sold. Chip in if you want — nothing changes if you don't.

The policies · and the mechanics behind them

Anyone can write a reassuring policy.

What matters is whether the code makes it true. For each one below: why it exists, and the specific way it's enforced.

01

No personal data is collected.

Why

You can't lose, leak, or be compelled to hand over data you never held. Not collecting it is the only guarantee that survives a breach, a subpoena, or a change of ownership.

How

No app contains a code path that sends personal data to SDS Apps. No account system, no identifier tied to you, nothing describing who you are or what you do leaving your device.

02

The network is used to fetch, not to report.

Why

An app that looks up book details or PlayStation achievements genuinely needs the internet — claiming it's fully offline would be untrue. What matters isn't whether there's a network layer, but which way data travels.

How

Calls go outward to free, third-party APIs to fetch the content you asked for. They carry the query, not a profile of you. There's no analytics endpoint and no telemetry channel pointing back at SDS Apps.

03

If a server is ever added, it can't identify you.

Why

There's no SDS Apps server today. Some future features work better with pooled data — a shared, crowd-sourced database of consensus, built up and served back to everyone. Pooling should never come at the cost of identifying whoever contributes.

How

A contributor would be known only by a rotating hash — changing often enough that it can't be linked to a person or followed over time. It exists purely to curb spam, abuse and manipulation, not to recognise you. IPs are stripped by the host before storage; every stored field is structured and finite.

04

No tracking, no profiles, no third-party analytics.

Why

Tracking exists to build a picture of a person and, usually, to sell it. SDS Apps has no interest in that picture and nothing to gain from building one.

How

No analytics SDKs, no advertising identifiers, no third-party trackers embedded in any app. Nothing measuring your behaviour in the background, so there's nothing to share.

05

No ads.

Why

Ads mean an ad network, and an ad network means tracking. Setting aside that nobody enjoys them, they'd undo everything above.

How

There are no ad SDKs in any app. No ad network is integrated, so there's no ad-driven data collection to disclose or defend.

06

Built on free, licensed APIs — with attribution.

Why

Free, open data sources keep running costs near zero. Low costs are a big part of how the apps can stay free without ads or a subscription to cover a bill.

How

Every API is free to use and used within its terms of service. Where a licence requires attribution, those credits are included inside the app that relies on them.

07

The bug report has no free-text fields.

Why

A free-text box can be filled with personal data. The moment SDS Apps received that, it would become a data processor under GDPR — a responsibility better designed out than managed.

How

Dropdowns only: pick the app, the area, and the kind of problem from fixed lists. Nothing identifiable can be typed, so nothing identifiable can be sent. Try the preview below.

The honest limit

Links out are beyond SDS Apps' control.

SDS Apps controls its own apps, not the wider internet. Follow a link from an app to another website and that site's data practices are its own. Everything above applies inside SDS apps; once you leave, it's out of scope — said plainly rather than left unmentioned.

Currently in the works

The apps

Built the same way, all of them. Some close, some early, one still just an idea — every one free to use in full.

BC

BookCollection

In development

A personal library that lives on your device. See everything you own at a glance, search for books you're after, and keep a wishlist for later. Nothing about what you read leaves your phone.

Library On-device Wishlist
OM

OrganiseMyDay

In development

A day planner for anyone who means to do things and then doesn't. Set reminders through the day, decide what should happen if one slips, and get nudged again — persistently, but without becoming the thing you start ignoring.

Reminders Routines Gentle nudges
RA

ReadingAssistant

Proof of concept

Reads along with you. Point to where you are on the page and it keeps pace, so it's easier to stay with a book instead of drifting off after a single chapter. Built to fight the distraction that stops a good read in its tracks — still being proven out.

Reading Focus Experimental
PB

PSNBingo

In development

Sign in with your PlayStation account and turn your backlog into a game. Generate a bingo board of in-game achievements that tick themselves off as you earn them — handy when a game has too many options, or when decision paralysis hits.

PlayStation Achievements Backlog

A hardware idea

Concept · under wraps

A small physical device, still at the idea stage, aimed at the same everyday follow-through problem OrganiseMyDay tackles in software. Being kept under wraps for now — more once it's further along.

Hardware Idea stage
The obvious question

So how does
this make money?

A fair thing to ask of anything free. Every app can be used in full, for free, forever — no premium tier, nothing held back. There are only two ways money ever enters the picture, both optional, both in the open.

Donations, if you feel like it

If an app is useful, you'll be able to leave a tip through a few platforms. Entirely optional, and it changes nothing about the app. Nobody loses if no one donates — the time was already invested. A tip just says the work landed, and helps fund what's next.

Affiliate links, in the open

Some apps use affiliate links. Buy something through one and the store gives SDS Apps a small reward — a few pence per pound. Crucially, it never changes the price you pay, and you can always opt out. Where a link earns a commission, it's marked.

Nothing is charged to download or use. Money, where it exists at all, is optional and disclosed — never a condition of using an app, and never at your expense.
A preview of what's coming

Report a bug — dropdowns only

Try it. There are no text boxes anywhere in this form, so there's no way to enter anything personal. You choose from set options, and only those structured choices would ever be sent.

Concept preview — not yet functional. This form doesn't submit anywhere. It's here to demonstrate the dropdown-only design; choosing options and pressing the button just shows you what a real report would contain. Nothing is sent, stored, or received.
No free-text fields. Nothing identifiable. See what would be sent
This is the entire report — and nothing was sent

This form is a concept preview and isn't connected to anything yet, so nothing actually left this page. When it's live, every field will still be a choice from a fixed list — no room for a name, an email, or anything you didn't explicitly select, which is exactly why it stays clear of GDPR's personal-data rules.

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app_version: 1.0.0
personal_data: none
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