Last updated 31 August 2026
Slatd keeps what you watch, read and play on your phone. There is no account until you ask for one, no analytics, no advertising, and no third party is sent anything about you to sell.
Making an account adds one thing: a copy of your library in the cloud so a new phone can get it back, plus the parts of it you deliberately share with people you follow.
Everything stays on the device. Your diary, ratings, reviews, notes, progress, lists, highlights and photos are held in the app’s own storage and are never uploaded. Uninstalling the app deletes them, which is why the export in Settings › Your data exists.
The app still talks to the catalogs it needs to show you a film or a book. Those requests carry what any web request carries — an IP address and what was searched for — and are governed by each service’s own policy, not this one. Which of them are contacted depends on the media you have switched on.
Signing in takes an email address, which is used to send a sign-in code and nothing else. It is never shown to other people and never sold or shared.
The cloud copy of your library is readable only by you. That is enforced by the database, not by the app: every row is tied to your account id and the rules reject any request that is not yours. The people who host it (Supabase) can see the stored rows the way any host can see a database.
The text of your reviews, your margin notes, your highlights and your diary entries are not part of anything shared with other people. The shelf and taste card carry titles, counts and progress numbers — never what you wrote.
Any API key you enter stays on the device. Photos you attach to an entry stay on the device. Share cards are drawn on the phone and saved to your own photo library; nothing is posted anywhere on your behalf.
Notifications are scheduled locally by the app. Nothing is pushed from a server, so no server is told what you are watching in order to remind you about it.
Each sharing toggle in Settings › Privacy removes what it covers from the cloud the moment you switch it off, rather than merely hiding it.
Settings › Account & backup has Delete my account. It removes your profile, handle, cloud backup, follows, activity, posts, votes, replies and chat messages permanently, and there is no undo. It deliberately leaves the library on your phone alone — closing an account is a decision about the cloud, not an instruction to erase your diary.
Settings › Your data has Erase all my data, which is the other half: it clears this phone and leaves any account intact.
Slatd is not directed at children under 13 and no account is knowingly created for one.
If what the app collects changes, this page changes with it and the date at the top moves. The version in the app is generated from the same text as the published one, so they cannot disagree.
Questions about any of this, or a request about your data: privacy@slatd.app.