Privacy Policy

Fumeto Reader Plus (package name com.fumeto.reader) for Android, and as a Linux desktop app (beta)
Effective date: September 7, 2026 (previous version: September 4, 2026)
Source code: github.com/fumetodev/FumetoReaderPlus

The short version: Fumeto Reader Plus is a free, open-source, local-first app. It has no user accounts, no advertising, no purchases, and no analytics or tracking, and the developer operates no servers that receive your data. Your comics, books, reading progress, settings, and translations stay on your device. The app only communicates over the network with services you explicitly configure — such as your own media server or your own translation provider — with the host it downloads its optional AI model files from, and, in the desktop version only, with GitHub to learn whether a newer release exists.

Who we are

Fumeto Reader Plus is developed and published by an independent developer. For any privacy question or request, contact: fumetoreaderdev@gmail.com.

The app is open source under the GNU GPL v3. Its complete source code is published at github.com/fumetodev/FumetoReaderPlus, so every statement in this policy can be checked against the code that ships.

Data stored on your device

The app stores the following information locally on your device only:

Credentials and API keys are encrypted at rest with a key that never leaves the device. None of this data is transmitted to the developer. You can delete it at any time by removing items in the app (downloaded models have their own delete button in Settings), clearing the app’s data in Android settings, or uninstalling the app.

The Linux desktop version keeps everything listed above in one folder in your home directory, ~/.local/share/com.fumeto.reader/: the library index, settings, downloaded model files, encrypted credentials and the local diagnostic log. The only other thing it writes is the web engine's small cookie store under ~/.cache/com.fumeto.reader/. Deleting those two folders together with the app file removes all of it.

Network features you control

All network features are optional and disabled until you configure or confirm them. When you use them, data goes only to the destination you chose:

Diagnostics and error reports

The app keeps a small, recent log of technical errors on your device to help diagnose problems. It is never transmitted automatically, and the app contains no crash-reporting service. If you choose to copy a diagnostic report to share (for example, when reporting a bug), the report is designed to contain only technical information — app version, device model (on desktop: operating system, graphics driver and display type), error messages — and to exclude comic titles, file names, page content, and any credentials or API keys.

What we don’t do

Permissions

The app declares the following Android permissions, and nothing else:

The app requests no storage, photo, camera, microphone, location, or contacts permission. It reads the files you select through the Android file picker, and archives you copy into its own folder on external storage (Android/data/com.fumeto.reader/files/Comics), which it moves into your library on the next scan. Everything else it stores lives in its private app storage.

The Linux desktop version has no permission system of this kind. It reads the files and folders you choose in its file dialog or drop onto its window, saves exports where you tell it to, and keeps its own data in the folder named above.

Children

Fumeto Reader Plus is a general-audience utility and is not directed at children under 13.

Your rights

Because the developer does not collect or hold your personal data, requests to access or delete data are fulfilled directly on your device: all app data can be viewed inside the app and removed by deleting items, clearing app data, or uninstalling. For anything else, contact the email address above.

Changes to this policy

If the app’s data practices change — for example, if an optional cloud service operated by the developer is introduced — this policy will be updated at this address with a new effective date before those changes take effect.