Privacy Policy

Status Guru: Status Saver · Effective 7 October 2026, with version 2.4.2 of the app · Replaces the version dated 4 October 2026

The short version

Your photos and videos stay on your phone unless you turn on Backup, and then go only to your own Google Drive. There is no account to make with us. Stickers are made on your phone too, including Magic's background removal, and Video Cutter cuts your videos on your phone.
Every feature but Backup works with no internet connection at all. Nothing is withheld, delayed or degraded when you are offline.
It cannot read your WhatsApp messages, chats or contacts. It reads the folder of status files that WhatsApp has already saved to your phone (and WhatsApp Business's, if you connect that too), and only after you pick each folder yourself.
Anonymous usage counts are sent when you happen to be online, so we can see which features people actually use. No advertising, no advertising identifier, no profiling — and you can switch it off in Settings, as you can the app's check for in-app messages.
Crash reports: when something goes wrong in the app, a report of where in its code it happened is sent, so it can be fixed. File names, links and long numbers are taken out first, no photo or video is ever in one, and you can switch them off in Settings too.
Everything the app saves stays in its own storage on your phone until you delete it.

The app works offline, and what the internet is used for

Every feature of this app but Backup works with no connection. Grabbing statuses, saving them, the Saved tab, Chat Media, sorting, sticker packs (Magic included), Video Cutter, sharing, wallpapers, App Lock and the widgets all read and write your own phone's storage and need nothing else. If you never connect this app to a network, nothing stops working and nothing is missing except Backup, which exists to copy things off the phone.

An earlier version of this policy said the app had no internet permission at all, and could not send anything anywhere. That is no longer true. From 23 September 2026 the app includes Android's INTERNET permission, for the background purposes below, and from version 2.4.0 also for crash reports and, if you turn it on, Backup. Unless you do, your statuses, photos, videos and sticker packs are never uploaded, and the numbers you type never are at all.

Backup — only once you connect a Google Drive, and only to that Drive. Described in its own section below.
Anonymous usage analytics — described in its own section below, and switchable off.
Crash reports — from version 2.4.0, described in their own section below, and switchable off.
In-app messages — the app asks our Firebase configuration whether there is an announcement to show you, such as news of a new feature. What comes back is a short piece of text. To ask, the app sends Firebase a few technical details: a random identifier for this installation, the app's version, your phone's Android version, its language, country setting and time zone, and when the app was first opened. It has its own switch, under Settings › Privacy › In-app messages: turn it off and the app stops checking altogether, so nothing is sent for it. If a message has a button and you tap it, the link opens in your browser.

Those last three happen in the background. None of them ever carries a photo, a video, a sticker, a file name, a phone number or anything from your messages. If there is no connection, each is skipped or kept for later, silently, and the app carries on. Switch all three off, and leave Backup without a Google Drive connected, and the app does not use the internet at all.

The typefaces the app uses are included inside the app itself. A previous version of this policy said fonts were fetched from Google Fonts on first use. That was inaccurate — the fonts ship with the app and no request is made. That statement has been removed.

Backup to your own Google Drive

Backup is off until you turn it on. On the Backup page (in Settings) you choose a Google account, and Google asks you, on its own screen, to let the app use that account's Google Drive. Until then, nothing in this section happens.

What the app can see in your Drive. Only the files it puts there itself. It asks Google for the narrowest access Drive offers (called drive.file), which cannot see, open or change anything else you keep in your Drive.
What goes there. Only what you tick: your saved statuses, the photos and videos in Chat Media, your sticker packs, and your favourites, references and settings (never App Lock). WhatsApp's and WhatsApp Business's are kept in separate folders. They go into a folder called “Status Guru Backup” in your Drive, where you can open, download or delete them yourself from any computer.
Where it goes, and nowhere else. Files go straight from your phone to Google Drive. There is no server of ours in between, and we cannot see your Drive. Google keeps them under your Google account, in your own storage, under Google's privacy policy.
When. When you tap Back up now, or daily or weekly if you turn on automatic backup. If you close the app completely while a backup you started is running, it carries on in the background a few minutes later until it finishes. By default it waits for Wi-Fi, so it does not use your mobile data; you can change that. Each time, only what is new or changed is sent.
Restoring. Restore copies back only what your phone is missing. Chat Media comes back into an album of its own in your gallery, because another app cannot write into WhatsApp's folders, and Chat Media shows it there too.
Deleting. A file you delete in the app is taken out of your backup too, once it has left Recently Deleted for good; it goes to your Drive's bin, which Google empties after 30 days. A file that is simply no longer on your phone (cleared out of WhatsApp to make room, say) stays in your backup. Disconnecting stops Backup and removes the app's access to your Drive; what was backed up stays in your Drive until you delete it there. You can also remove the app's access from your Google account's security settings at any time.

What the app keeps for Backup, on your phone. The email address of the Google account you connected, so it can ask Google for access as that account, with no other details of the account; your Backup choices; when it last ran; the names of files deleted for good that are still to be taken out of your Drive; and, for a file whose upload was stopped part way, the address Google Drive gave for carrying it on, kept for up to six days so the next backup can finish it instead of starting again. The access itself is held by Google Play services on your phone, not by the app. None of this is sent to us.

Google API Services User Data Policy. Status Guru: Status Saver's use and transfer of information received from Google APIs adheres to the Google API Services User Data Policy, including the Limited Use requirements. Your Drive is used only to back up and restore your own files, for you. What is in it is never read by us or anyone else, never used for advertising, never sold or transferred to anyone, and never used to train any model.

Anonymous usage analytics

The app uses Google Firebase Analytics to count how its features are used, so that time goes into the parts people actually reach. You can turn this off at any time under Settings › Privacy › Usage analytics. Turning it off stops collection entirely at the source — it is not a filter applied afterwards.

What is recorded. Counts and plain labels for things you do, and nothing else:

That a grab, save or share happened, whether it was an image or a video, how many items were involved, whether it worked, and whether it was for WhatsApp or WhatsApp Business. For a share, also whether the file went straight to WhatsApp or through Android's share menu.
That Direct Chat was opened, whether from the menu, its home-screen widget or its shortcut, whether it was for WhatsApp or WhatsApp Business, and whether it actually opened. The number you typed is never included, in any form, and neither is the country you picked.
That a sticker pack was created; how many stickers were then added to it and whether any failed; which editing tools those stickers used (such as Text, Erase, Edge or Magic); whether Magic found a subject in a photo and how long it took; and whether WhatsApp or WhatsApp Business accepted the pack when you added it.
That a video was opened in Video Cutter: whether it could be cut and, if not, which of three reasons stopped it (the phone couldn't read it, its format can't be cut, or it can't be cut into parts that short), its length only as a rough band (such as “5–15 minutes”), and how many parts it made. And that its parts were posted, shared or saved: how many, out of how many the video was cut into, whether it was kept as one video rather than cut into parts (a video under a minute, or Custom, a start and end you set), how many the gallery wouldn't take, at what length, whether they were equal or full-length, whether only part of the video was kept, how many texts and emojis were put on them, whether Video Cutter was opened from the menu or from a video, and, for a post, whether it went to WhatsApp or WhatsApp Business and whether the app asked you which. Never the video, its name, anything in it, or what the text says.
That you changed a setting or the order a list is sorted in, and which way.
That a reference was put on or taken off some files, how many, and whether from the viewer or a selection; and that Search was used on Saved or Chat Media. What a reference says is never included, and neither is anything you search for.
Which main parts of the app you open, such as Saved, Chat Media and its Files tab, Sticker Packs or Settings.
That the guide was opened, from where (the card on the home screen, Settings, Help & Feedback or About), how far through its pages you went, and whether you left it with Done or Back.
Whether connecting a Statuses folder worked, was cancelled, or was turned down as the wrong folder, and what kind of folder was picked, as a label such as “the Statuses folder”, “the Media folder above it” or “another folder”. Never the folder's name or where it is on your phone. The same for connecting the Documents folder on Chat Media's Files tab.
That a Help & Feedback message was handed to your email app, what it was about (a problem, a question, an idea, a complaint or something else), and whether an email app opened. Never the message, the screenshots or the phone details in it.
Each time the app opens, a few short labels saying which optional features are switched on: auto-grab, notifications, App Lock, the colour theme and light or dark mode, the grid size, whether you have connected WhatsApp, WhatsApp Business or both, whether the home-screen widget is on your home screen, and roughly how many sticker packs you have (for example “2–4”). They describe the app's settings, not you.
That an in-app message was shown or tapped.
That a backup or restore ran, whether you started it or it was automatic, how many items were ticked, how many files went, roughly how much in a wide band (such as “100 MB–1 GB”), and how it ended; whether connecting a Google Drive worked; and how often automatic backup is set to run. Never a file name, a pack, or which Google account.
Alongside these, Firebase records standard technical details: a randomly generated identifier for this installation, your device model, Android version, app version, an approximate location — country, region or city — worked out from the network you connect from, and, for an install from Google Play, the referral details Google Play provides about how the app was found (for example, a link it was installed from).

What is never recorded. No photo, video or sticker, and no part of one. No text you add to a sticker or a video.No reference you type, and nothing you search for. No file names. No phone numbers or contacts. No message content. No precise location. No name, email or account.

No advertising identifier. Firebase normally collects Android's advertising ID. This app deliberately removes that permission from the build, so it is not collected and cannot be used to recognise you across other apps. This app shows no adverts and runs no advertising campaigns.

The identifier. The installation identifier above is a random value created on your phone. It is not your name, your account or your device's serial number, and it is not shared with other apps. Clearing the app's data or reinstalling it produces a new one. Turning analytics off stops it being sent with usage data. The in-app message check above also sends an installation identifier when it runs, until you switch that check off too, and so do crash reports, until you switch those off.

The data is processed by Google as our service provider, under Firebase's own privacy terms, and is retained for a limited period configured in our Firebase settings. It is used only to understand how the app is used. It is never sold, and it is never shared with anyone else.

Crash reports

From version 2.4.0 the app uses Google Firebase Crashlytics to find out when something goes wrong in it, so that it can be fixed. That means the app closing unexpectedly, and errors the app catches and carries on from, such as an automatic grab that failed in the background, or a video Video Cutter couldn't read, cut, or make with your text on it (never the text itself). You can turn this off at any time under Settings › Privacy › Crash reports. Turning it off stops reports being sent, and deletes any the app was still keeping on your phone, so nothing from while it was off is sent later.

What a report contains.

Where in the app's code the problem happened (a “stack trace”) and a short technical description of the error. Before the app reports an error it caught itself, it takes out any file names, file locations, links, email addresses and long numbers, so “could not open this file” arrives as “could not open ‘<path>’”. When the app closes unexpectedly because of a fault in Android's own code, the description is Android's own wording, which can occasionally include a location inside the app's private storage.
Technical details of the phone at that moment: its model and maker, processor type, total and used memory and storage, Android version, whether it is rooted or an emulator, screen orientation, battery level and whether it is charging, and whether the proximity sensor was covered; the app's version; and the time.
A random identifier Crashlytics creates for this installation, and the Firebase installation identifier described above.
If usage analytics is also switched on, the names of the last few usage events recorded before the problem, which are the anonymous counts described in the previous section.
When the app starts, a short note that a session has begun, with the same technical details, so the share of sessions without a crash can be worked out.

What a report never contains. No photo, video or sticker, and no part of one. No text you add to a sticker or a video, and no reference you type. No phone number, contact or message content. No name, email or account. No precise location.

If there is no connection, a report waits on your phone and goes the next time the app starts with one. Reports are processed by Google as our service provider, under Firebase's own privacy terms, and Crashlytics keeps them for 90 days. They are used only to find and fix problems in the app, never sold, and never shared with anyone else.

What the app reads, and only with your say-so

Your WhatsApp Statuses folder

WhatsApp saves the statuses it shows you into a folder on your own phone, and deletes them after about a day. To read that folder, Status Guru: Status Saver asks you to select it using Android's own folder picker. Android then grants the app read access to that one folder and nothing else.

Where WhatsApp keeps the folder depends on your phone's Android version, and the app accepts it in either place. Some phones' folder pickers don't show it, because its name, “.Statuses”, starts with a dot; there you can choose the Media folder it sits in instead. Android then grants read access to that Media folder, which also holds the photos and videos from your chats, but the app reads only the Statuses folder inside it. Chat Media reaches your chat photos and videos through your photo and video permission instead, as described below.

This is a folder choice, not a permission to enter WhatsApp. The app has no ability to open WhatsApp's database, read messages, see who you talk to, or access your contacts.

WhatsApp Business works the same way. If you use it, you can connect its own Statuses folder separately, with the same folder picker. The app keeps its statuses apart from WhatsApp's and never shows the two together.

Your WhatsApp Documents folder

Chat Media's Files tab lists the files WhatsApp has saved from your chats in its Documents folder: whatever was sent as a document, such as PDFs, Word and Excel files, music or apps. They are not in your phone's gallery, so the photo and video permission can't reach them. Instead, the first time you open the tab, the app asks you to select WhatsApp's Documents folder using Android's own folder picker, the same way as the Statuses folder. Android then grants the app access to that one folder and nothing else. The app reads each file's name, size, type and date, to list and sort them. It never looks at what a file says; its contents are only ever copied, unread, into Recently Deleted when you delete it.

That access also lets the app change that one folder, and it does so only when you ask: a file you delete is moved out of it into Recently Deleted, and one you restore is written back where it was. Opening a file hands that one file to the app you open it with (see below). These files are never backed up and never leave your phone unless you share them.

WhatsApp Business has its own Documents folder, which you connect separately on its own Files tab. Its files are never shown with WhatsApp's. Disconnecting a Documents folder in Settings gives up the app's access to it; nothing in the folder is deleted.

Photos and videos on your phone

With your permission, the app reads images and videos so it can show you what it has already saved to your gallery, so Chat Media can display the photos and videos WhatsApp and WhatsApp Business have stored on your device, and so you can browse your own albums when picking photos, videos or GIFs for a sticker pack, or a video for Video Cutter. It also reads each file's size and date, to sort them. Video Cutter reads the video you pick where it is, and writes the parts it cuts into the app's temporary storage; the video itself is not moved, altered or deleted. Text and emojis you put on the parts are drawn into them on your phone, and the words are never sent anywhere. Nothing is copied off the phone, unless you turn on Backup and tick it.

On Android 14 and later you can allow access to only some of your photos and videos. The app then sees only those, says so where you browse them, and offers an “Allow more” button that brings back Android's own choice.

When you add screenshots to a Help & Feedback message, Android's own photo picker hands the app only the pictures you choose there. It needs no permission, and the app sees nothing else.

A phone number you type into Direct Chat

Direct Chat lets you message a number without adding it to your contacts. The number is used only to build the link that opens WhatsApp, and is cleared as soon as WhatsApp opens. It is never saved, logged or transmitted by this app.

You pick the country separately. To start on yours, the app asks Android for your SIM card's country, or your mobile network's; with neither (no SIM, or Wi-Fi only), the country of your phone's time zone, and failing that the country in your phone's language setting. Each is a two-letter code that needs no permission, and it stays on the phone. The app remembers the country you last picked, never a number. The Paste button reads your clipboard only when you tap it, and takes only the phone number from what is there.

Permissions, and why each one exists

This is the complete list from the published app. Several are added automatically by the software libraries the app is built on rather than requested directly, and are listed here for completeness.

Permission	What it is for
`INTERNET`	Sends anonymous usage analytics and crash reports and checks for an in-app message, all in the background, and each with its own switch in Settings; and, once you connect a Google Drive, Backup. Nothing else in the app uses a network — see the sections above. Added 23 September 2026.
`FOREGROUND_SERVICE_DATA_SYNC`	Keeps a backup or restore you started running, with its progress in a notification, while you use other apps. Only while one is running; closing the app completely stops it. Added in version 2.4.0.
`READ_MEDIA_IMAGES` `READ_MEDIA_VIDEO`	Shows saved photos and videos, the media Chat Media finds on your phone, the photos, videos and GIFs you pick from when making a sticker pack, and the videos you pick from in Video Cutter.
`READ_MEDIA_VISUAL_USER_SELECTED`	Lets you allow access to only some photos and videos, on Android 14 and later. With it the app can tell that you have, and offer to let you choose more. It gives the app no access you haven't chosen.
`READ_EXTERNAL_STORAGE` `WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE`	The equivalents on older Android versions. Both are limited to those versions and are unused on modern phones.
`POST_NOTIFICATIONS`	Shows the optional notification telling you new statuses were saved in the background, which is off unless you turn on Settings › Notifications, and the progress of a backup or restore while one runs.
`USE_BIOMETRIC` `USE_FINGERPRINT`	Lets App Lock ask for your fingerprint, PIN or pattern. The app never sees the fingerprint itself — Android only reports whether the check passed.
`REQUEST_IGNORE_BATTERY_OPTIMIZATIONS`	Lets a Settings switch open Android's battery-exemption prompt, so the optional background check is not killed. It is never applied automatically, and only ever opens the system's own screen.
`RECEIVE_BOOT_COMPLETED` `WAKE_LOCK` `FOREGROUND_SERVICE` `FOREGROUND_SERVICE_SHORT_SERVICE` `ACCESS_NETWORK_STATE` `VIBRATE`	Added by the scheduling and notification libraries so the optional background check, and the automatic backup, can be re-scheduled after a restart and can finish once started. `ACCESS_NETWORK_STATE` only reports whether a network is available, and whether it is Wi-Fi, for Backup's “Wi-Fi only”; it cannot read or send anything.
`BIND_GET_INSTALL_REFERRER_SERVICE`	Added by Firebase Analytics, so that it can ask Google Play how the app was found when it was installed. It reads nothing else, and nothing from it is sent with usage analytics switched off.
`com.status_guru.` `DYNAMIC_RECEIVER_NOT_EXPORTED_PERMISSION`	The app's own internal permission, added by Android's libraries, so that messages meant for one part of the app cannot be sent to it by other apps. It gives no one access to anything.

What is kept on your phone, and for how long

What	Where	How long
Statuses you have grabbed	The app's own private storage	Until you delete them
The file names of statuses you deleted, kept separately for WhatsApp and WhatsApp Business, so they are not grabbed again	App preferences	180 days, then removed automatically
Recently Deleted, including files deleted on Chat Media's Files tab	The app's own private storage	30 days, then removed automatically
Video thumbnails	The app's cache	30 days; clearable from Settings
Your settings	App preferences	Until you change them or uninstall
Which items you marked as favourites	App preferences	Until you unmark them or uninstall
References you put on saved statuses and chat media	App preferences	Until you remove them, or uninstall
Which Memories you have already seen	App preferences	The 40 most recent, until you uninstall
The app version you first installed	App preferences	Until you uninstall
Sticker packs you have made	The app's own private storage	Until you delete the pack, or uninstall
The country you last picked in Direct Chat	App preferences	Until you pick another, or uninstall
The Google account Backup uses (its email address), your Backup choices, and when it last ran	App preferences	Until you disconnect the Drive, or uninstall
Names of files deleted for good, still to be taken out of your backup	App preferences	Until the next backup
The address for carrying on a backup upload that was stopped part way	App preferences	Until that file finishes, or six days
Crash reports not yet sent	The app's own private storage	Until sent; deleted at once if you switch crash reports off
Files being restored from your Drive	The app's temporary storage	Moved into place, or deleted, as soon as each one arrives
Parts Video Cutter has cut from a video, for posting, and a picture of any text and emojis you put on them	The app's temporary storage	Cleared the next time you open Video Cutter, or sooner if Android clears the app's temporary storage. Parts you choose to save go into your gallery's “Status Guru Video Cutter” album and stay until you delete them
The part length and way of cutting you last chose in Video Cutter	App preferences	Until you choose others, or uninstall
Frames from a video or GIF, while you make a moving sticker	The app's temporary storage	Deleted once the sticker is made or you leave; anything left behind is cleared the next time you add moving stickers
Copies of the screenshots you add to a Help & Feedback message, for your email app to attach	The app's temporary storage	Until Android clears the app's temporary storage, or you uninstall; the copies handed to your email app are replaced each time you send another message

Your settings include whether auto-grab is on, whether App Lock is on, how many images sit in a row, and which colour theme you chose (for a custom theme, the two colours you picked). They are preferences only — none of them describes you. With usage analytics on, a short label for some of them goes with the usage counts, as described above.

Four further entries record your own choices rather than a preference, so they are worth naming individually:

Favourites — the file paths of items you tapped the heart on, so the app can show them again under the favourites filter.
References — the words you put on saved statuses and on chat photos and videos, each stored with the path of its file, so that Search can find them. Removing a reference deletes it; grabbed statuses that have not been saved never have one.
Memories you have seen — the app can resurface something you saved on this day a week, a month, 3 months or a year ago, whichever you pick under Settings › Memories, where you can also turn Memories off. Once you open or dismiss one, it should not come back, so a short checksum of that group is stored rather than the filenames themselves. Only the 40 most recent are kept; older ones fall off automatically.
The version you first installed — a single number, written once and never changed afterwards, so that a later release can tell long-standing users apart from new arrivals.

None of the four is ever sent to us, and none is part of the usage analytics. They stay in the app's own storage on your phone, and your favourites and references also go into your own backup if you turn on Backup and tick them.

Uninstalling the app removes everything above. Media you have separately saved into your phone's own gallery stays there, because at that point it belongs to your gallery rather than to this app.

Sticker packs

A sticker pack is built from photos, videos or GIFs you choose yourself. For a photo, the app copies it, applies your edits — the crop, anything you rubbed out, text, an outline, or Magic's background removal — and writes the result as a small image inside its own private storage. For a video or GIF, it reads the few seconds you chose, frame by frame, and writes a small moving sticker the same way. Alongside them is a short index file recording each pack's name, author and sticker list. The original in your gallery is not moved, altered or deleted. Deleting a pack in the app deletes those copies, and uninstalling the app removes them all.

Magic finds the subject of a photo with a model built into the app, which runs on your phone. The photo is not uploaded anywhere, and Magic works with no connection.

Sticker packs are the one thing in this app that other apps are allowed to read, and only two: WhatsApp and WhatsApp Business. Neither can show stickers it has copied into itself — each reads them back out of this app every time, so the app publishes them through a dedicated channel for exactly that purpose. That channel is restricted to callers holding com.whatsapp.sticker.READ, the permission WhatsApp and WhatsApp Business use for sticker packs, so no other app you install can reach your packs through it. It exposes finished sticker packs and nothing else — not your saved statuses, not your gallery, not your settings.

Backups, and moving to a new phone

The app's own Backup, described above, copies what you tick to your own Google Drive, and only once you turn it on. Android can also back apps up automatically, without asking, and we have deliberately restricted what that is allowed to take:

Excluded from Android's automatic cloud backup — your saved statuses, the Recently Deleted folder, your sticker packs, and your settings. Android's backup uploads without asking you, and your media should only ever leave your phone because you chose it. Your settings are excluded for a further reason: restoring them into a new phone could otherwise switch App Lock off without your knowledge. (The app's own Backup never carries App Lock either.)
Included in a direct phone-to-phone transfer — a cable or Android's own switch tool moves data straight between your two devices without uploading it. Your collection comes with you, which is what you would want and does not conflict with anything above.

App Lock and the home-screen widget

App Lock puts your fingerprint, PIN or pattern in front of the app. While it is on, the app's contents are also hidden from Android's recent-apps screen, and turning App Lock back off requires the same check — so someone holding your unlocked phone cannot simply switch it off.

On Android 11 and newer, App Lock also hides your saves from the phone's gallery. The app moves the files it saved (the Status Guru albums, any Restored Chat Media album, and the Status Guru Video Cutter album) into folders of the same name with a dot in front, such as Pictures/.Status Guru Images, which gallery apps leave out. They stay on your phone, the app still shows them, and turning App Lock off moves them back. If App Lock was already on before the app could do this, your saves stay in the gallery until you tap Hide under Settings › Security. Nothing is uploaded or copied anywhere. If you uninstall the app while your saves are hidden, Android no longer lets a new install reach those folders, so turn App Lock off first; otherwise a file manager that shows hidden folders can still find them. Copies already backed up elsewhere, such as Google Photos, are not affected.

One screen opens without it: Direct Chat, when opened from its home-screen widget or shortcut. It opens on its own, shows nothing from your saved statuses, chat media or stickers, and leads nowhere else in the app, so there is nothing for the lock to protect.

The optional status widget normally shows a few small previews of recently grabbed statuses. A widget is drawn by your launcher, outside the app, so App Lock cannot cover it. When App Lock is on, the widget stops showing previews and displays only counts and timing. If you would rather it show nothing at all, remove the widget from your home screen. The Direct Chat widget is only a button, and shows nothing but its name.

When you hand something to another app

Some actions deliberately pass content to software outside Status Guru: Status Saver. In each case you start the action, and what happens next is governed by that app's own policy, not ours:

Sharing or reposting hands the selected file to WhatsApp or WhatsApp Business, or, through Android's own share menu, to the app you pick there.
Opening a file on Chat Media's Files tab hands that one file to the app on your phone that opens its kind of file, such as a PDF reader, so it can show it.
Set as wallpaper hands the image to Android's own wallpaper screen.
Direct Chat opens WhatsApp, or WhatsApp Business, at the number you typed.
Video Cutter's Post hands the parts you chose, in order, to WhatsApp or WhatsApp Business, where you pick My status and post them yourself. Share hands the parts you chose, or the video you kept as one, as you edited them, to the app you pick in Android's share menu.
Add to WhatsApp offers a finished sticker pack to WhatsApp, WhatsApp Business or both, as you choose. Each then reads that pack's stickers back from this app whenever it needs to draw them. Nothing else is offered with it.
Links such as this policy, the Play Store listing, the developer's site, or the button on an in-app message, open in your browser or the Play Store app.
Connecting Backup opens Google's own account and permission screens, run by Google Play services. What you choose there is between you and Google.
Help & Feedback hands the email described below to the email app you pick, addressed to us. It goes only when you tap Send there.

Help & Feedback

Help & Feedback, in Settings, the menu and the About page, lets you send us a problem, a question, an idea or a complaint. The app does not send it. It writes the email and hands it to the email app you choose, addressed to Mani@ManiKhan.com. Nothing goes until you tap Send there, and you can change or delete anything in it first. If your phone has no email app, the page shows the address and lets you copy the message instead.

The email holds:

What you write, and what it is about.
Which app it is about, if you use both WhatsApp and WhatsApp Business and you say.
If you came from a screen that said something went wrong, what that screen said, such as “Couldn't load your saved images”.
Up to three screenshots, only if you add them, and only to a problem report.
Phone details, unless you switch them off on the page, where “See what's included” shows them before you send: the app's version, the Android version, the phone's make and model, its language, whether WhatsApp and WhatsApp Business are connected (or installed), whether auto-grab is on for images and videos, whether notifications are on, whether the app may see your photos and videos, and whether Backup is connected. Never which Google account, and never a status, file, phone number or contact.

An email you send us, from here or any other way, reaches us with your email address and whatever you put in it. We use it only to answer you and to fix or improve the app. It is never sold or shared, and you can ask us to delete it.

What is never collected

No name, email address or account of any kind. (With Backup on, the app remembers which Google account it backs up to, on your phone only. If you email us, from Help & Feedback or otherwise, your email address comes with your message, as described above.)
No photo, video, sticker or file name ever comes to us through the app. Your photos and videos stay on your phone unless you turn on Backup, and then go only to your own Google Drive. The one exception is a screenshot you choose to attach to an email to us, which goes from your own email app.
No phone numbers. The number you type into Direct Chat is used to build the link and then discarded.
No advertising identifiers, and no profiling of you across apps.
No precise location. No contacts, no call history, no message content.
Nothing is ever sold, and nothing is shared with anyone beyond Google Firebase, which handles the usage counts and crash reports described above for us, and, if you turn on Backup, Google Drive, which holds your backup for you.

Children

Status Guru: Status Saver is a general-purpose utility and is not directed at children. It asks for no personal information from anyone, of any age, and the anonymous usage counts and crash reports described above identify no one.

Changes to this policy

If the app's behaviour changes in a way that affects your privacy, this page is updated and the effective date at the top changes with it.

What changed with version 2.4.2 (7 October 2026): App Lock hides your saves from the gallery when you turn it on; if it was already on before the app could do that, your saves stay in the gallery until you tap Hide under Settings › Security, rather than being moved at the next launch. A backup you start that is still running when you close the app completely now carries on in the background a few minutes later until it finishes; a restore still stops. With no SIM card, Direct Chat starts on the country of your phone's time zone, which stays on the phone. The usage counts now also say whether a video posted from Video Cutter went to WhatsApp or WhatsApp Business and whether you were asked which, and that the guide was opened, from where and how far through it you went. Three counts are gone, since the labels sent each time the app opens already say the same: a change of light or dark mode, of colour theme and of grid size. Nothing else new is collected or sent.

What changed with version 2.4.1 (4 October 2026): the app adds Help & Feedback, which writes an email to us for your own email app to send, so a new section says what that email holds, including the phone details you can see first and switch off, and what we do with an email you send us. Two lines that said no email address or photo ever reaches us now say that one you email us does. The list of what is kept on your phone adds the copies of screenshots made for your email app to attach, and the photos and videos section says Android's photo picker hands the app only the screenshots you choose. The usage counts now also record whether connecting a Statuses folder worked and what kind of folder was picked, never its name or location, and that a Help & Feedback message was handed to an email app, with its topic but never its contents. The Statuses folder section now says the app accepts the folder where older Android versions keep it too, and that on a phone whose picker doesn't show it you can choose the Media folder it sits in, which grants access to that folder while the app still reads only the Statuses folder. The optional saved-statuses notification is now under Settings › Notifications. Chat Media gains a Files tab, so a new section says how it reaches WhatsApp's Documents folder (with Android's folder picker, one folder per app), that it changes that folder only when you delete or restore a file, and that opening a file hands it to the app you open it with; the usage counts add whether connecting that folder worked and that the tab was opened. The App Lock section now says that, on Android 11 and newer, App Lock also hides your saves from the phone's gallery by moving them into folders whose names start with a dot, and what that means if the app is uninstalled while it is on. The app adds Video Cutter, which cuts a video too long for one status into parts on your phone, or keeps just the stretch you choose as one video, with any text and emojis you add drawn in on the phone, and hands the ones you choose to WhatsApp in order or to any app you share them with (a video under a minute is edited as one): the page now says it reads the video you pick where it is, keeps the parts in temporary storage until you next open it, saves them to a “Status Guru Video Cutter” album only when you ask (an album App Lock hides too), and that the usage counts record whether a video could be cut, its length as a rough band, how many parts were posted or saved and at what length, whether only part of it was kept, and how many texts and emojis were on it, never the video, its name or what the text says; a video it couldn't read or cut goes into the crash reports, with names taken out like any other. No new permission was added.

What changed with version 2.4.0: the app adds Backup, which copies what you tick to your own Google Drive, and only once you turn it on. So this page no longer says your photos and videos never leave your phone: they stay on it unless you turn on Backup, and then go only to your own Drive. The app's access to your Drive is limited to the files it makes there. Backup is also the one feature that needs the internet, and the page now says so. A new section describes it, including what the app keeps for it on your phone and Google's Limited Use requirements; the usage counts now also record that a backup or restore ran, with counts and size bands but never a file name or account; and the permission list adds FOREGROUND_SERVICE_DATA_SYNC, which keeps a backup you started running. Version 2.4.0 also adds crash reports through Google Firebase Crashlytics, with their own switch in Settings › Privacy: a new section says what a report contains, that file names, file locations, links, email addresses and long numbers are taken out of the errors the app reports, and that switching them off deletes any report still waiting on your phone. With that, three things in the background can use the internet, each with its own switch, and the page now says “all three” where it said “both”. The list of what is kept on your phone now also names three things it was missing: the file names of statuses you deleted (kept separately for WhatsApp and WhatsApp Business, so they are not grabbed again, for 180 days), the address for carrying on an interrupted backup upload (up to six days), and crash reports not yet sent. It also now says that a custom colour theme keeps the two colours you picked with your settings, and that Memories can bring things back after a week, a month, 3 months or a year, or be switched off, under Settings › Memories. Neither is sent anywhere; the usage counts say only that a custom theme was picked or Memories switched on or off.

What changed on 1 October 2026: sticker packs can now be made from videos and GIFs as well as photos, and edited with Magic, which removes a photo's background on your phone; the page now says so, and lists the temporary frames a moving sticker is made from. The usage counts now also record which editing tools stickers used, whether Magic worked, whether WhatsApp accepted a pack, which parts of the app are opened and how lists are sorted, and, as short labels, which optional features are switched on — all still anonymous, with the same off switch. The approximate location Firebase works out is now described as it is (country, region or city, not only country), with the referral details Google Play gives Firebase about an install. Direct Chat is now a page with its own home-screen widget and shortcut: it starts on your SIM card's country, remembers the country you pick (never a number), reads the clipboard only when you tap Paste, and is the one screen App Lock doesn't cover, since it shows nothing of yours. You can now put a reference — a name or a word — on saved statuses and chat media and find them again with Search; references stay on your phone, and the usage counts say only that one was set or a search was made, never what either said. The page now also says that the usage counts record whether an action was for WhatsApp or WhatsApp Business, and whether a share went straight to WhatsApp or through Android's share menu; and that WhatsApp Business, like WhatsApp, can read the sticker packs you add to it. The permission list is complete again: it adds READ_MEDIA_VISUAL_USER_SELECTED, FOREGROUND_SERVICE_SHORT_SERVICE, BIND_GET_INSTALL_REFERRER_SERVICE and the app's own internal receiver permission. No photo, video, sticker, sticker text, file name or phone number is sent anywhere.

What changed on 23 September 2026: the app now includes the INTERNET permission and sends anonymous usage analytics through Google Firebase, with an off switch in Settings › Privacy. It also checks Firebase for an in-app message to show you, which has a switch of its own. This page previously said the app had no internet permission and collected no analytics; both statements have been replaced rather than quietly edited out. Android's advertising ID is deliberately excluded from the build. Nothing about your media changed — no photo, video, sticker, file name or phone number is sent anywhere. The SET_WALLPAPER permission was also removed, because “Set as wallpaper” hands the image to Android's own wallpaper screen and never needed it.

What changed on 9 September 2026: this version of the app adds Sticker Packs, so the page now describes what a pack stores on your phone, and the one channel through which WhatsApp — and only WhatsApp — reads a finished pack back. No new permission was added and nothing is sent anywhere; sticker packs are also excluded from cloud backup, for the same reason your saved statuses are.

What changed on 6 September 2026: named three things the app keeps on your phone that the previous version did not list separately — your favourites, which Memories you have already seen, and the app version you first installed on. Nothing new is collected and nothing is sent anywhere; these were always stored on the device, and this page now says so plainly.

What changed on 3 September 2026: removed the incorrect statement that typefaces are fetched from Google Fonts, and the corresponding INTERNET permission entry — the app requests no internet permission and the fonts are bundled. Added the full permission list, retention periods for Recently Deleted and cached thumbnails, the backup and phone-transfer rules, the colour-theme preference, and the widget's behaviour while App Lock is on.

Contact

Questions about this policy, or about anything the app does, can go to Mani@ManiKhan.com, or through Help & Feedback in the app.