Privacy Policy

Pomato for Android and pomato.day · Last updated 22 September 2026

Pomato has no account, no advertising, and no tracking across apps or sites. It does not collect personal data. Two things leave the device — a crash report, and an anonymous count of how often the timer is used — and you can switch off either, or both.

Crash reports

When Pomato crashes or hits an unexpected error, it can send a report to Sentry, a third-party error-tracking service acting as our processor. A report contains the error and where in the code it happened, plus your device model, OS version and app version. It does not contain your name, email, device identifier, IP address, screenshots, or anything about how you use the timer.

You can turn this off. In the Android app: Settings → Privacy → Send crash reports. On this website: the link in the footer, and we also honour your browser's Do Not Track and Global Privacy Control signals automatically. With it off, nothing is transmitted at all.

Usage statistics

So we can tell whether anyone is actually using the app, Pomato can send counts of four things: the app being opened, a timer being started, a phase finishing, and how many minutes a finished focus block ran for. That is the whole list. Each is a number with a label like focus or short break — no identifier, no timestamps tied to you, and nothing about what you are working on. They are aggregated by Sentry and we can only read the totals, never an individual's activity.

You can turn this off at Settings → Privacy → Send usage statistics, separately from crash reports. With both switches off the app makes no network requests at all.

Everything else

Not collected. Your durations, your settings and your session history stay on your device. We never receive them, and nothing we do receive can be traced back to you or to a particular device.

Data stored on your device

Pomato saves only what it needs to keep the timer working across restarts:

• Your chosen durations and the number of rounds before a long break.
• Your preferences for auto-start, screen-on, sound and vibration.
• The current phase and how much time is left on it.

This lives in the app's private storage. It never leaves the device, and uninstalling Pomato deletes it. If you have Android Backup enabled, Google may include this in your personal device backup under Google's privacy policy — that backup is yours, and we have no access to it.

Permissions, and why

• Notifications — to tell you a focus block or break has ended. Declining it only costs you the banner; the timer still works.
• Alarms & reminders (exact alarm) — a timer has to fire at the second it is due, so the alert cannot be deferred to a system maintenance window.
• Vibrate — to buzz at the end of a phase, including when your phone is silenced.
• Run at startup — to restore a running timer after you reboot, since alarms do not survive a restart.
• Internet — used only to send crash reports and usage counts. The timer itself works entirely offline. Turn both switches off and the app makes no network requests at all.

Retention

Crash reports and usage counts are held by Sentry for 90 days and then deleted. Everything else lives only on your device, and uninstalling Pomato removes it.

Children

Pomato is a timer and collects no personal data from anyone, of any age. Neither crash reports nor usage counts contain personal information.

Changes

If this policy ever changes, the updated version will be posted here with a new date. Pomato starting to collect personal data would be a change worth announcing loudly, and we have no plans to make one.

Contact

Questions: hanmuk.oh@gmail.com