Privacy policy: Meter Forecast: Annual Bill

Valid from 2026-10-14. Provider: Plain Apps, Residenzstr. 5, 80333 Munich, Germany, plainapps@tuta.com.

In short

Meter Tracker does not collect, transmit or share personal data. Your meters, readings, contracts, prices, notes, photos and settings stay on your phone. The app has no account, no ads, no analytics and no crash reporting. The Android app has no internet permission, and the iPhone app makes no network requests.

What the app stores

The properties and meters you create (names you choose, meter numbers, units), your readings with dates, notes and optional photos, your contracts (supplier name, billing period, prices, monthly payments, bonus), reminder settings and your language, theme and currency settings, in the app's private storage on your phone. Photos of meters may show the inside of your home; they stay in the app's folder and are included only in a backup file that you create and share. There is no server and no copy at the provider.

Permissions

• - Camera: asked when you first tap Scan, to take a picture of your meter. The picture is processed on the phone. You can also pick an existing photo with the system photo picker (no permission needed) or type the number.
• - Notifications: asked only after you switch on reading reminders. The reminders are created on your phone; nothing is sent.
• - Android also lets the app start after a restart (to plan the reminders again) and run short background tasks; the iPhone app registers one background task for the same purpose. No location, contacts, microphone, storage or internet permission is used.

Reading the numbers: text recognition on the phone

The app finds the number in a picture with text recognition on the phone itself: Apple's Vision framework on iPhone, and Google ML Kit (text recognition with the model built into the app, no download) on Android, plus the app's own digit reader. The pictures and the recognised text are not sent to anyone. Google's terms for ML Kit say that ML Kit may contact Google's servers from time to time and send metrics about the performance and use of the library, and that the developer must tell you so. The Android app also contains Google libraries that ML Kit uses for those metrics (for example Firebase installations and data transport); they have no network access in this app either. This app has no internet permission on Android, so ML Kit cannot send anything from your phone. If that ever changes, this text will say so before the update is published.

Files you create and share

"Backup", "Export CSV" and "PDF report" create a file and open your phone's share menu, which sends it to the app or place you choose. After that, the rules of that app or provider apply, not this statement. A backup file is readable JSON and a CSV file is plain text: neither is encrypted, and a backup contains your photos, so keep them private. "Restore" and "Import CSV" read only the file you choose. Before a restore, the app keeps a copy of the current data in its own folder so you can undo it. "Delete all data" in Settings erases the app's data on your phone.

Links

The link to this statement opens in your phone's browser; that page follows its own rules, and the app sends nothing to it.

Phone backups

Android: the app is excluded from Google's automatic backup. When you move apps to a new phone by cable or wirelessly (Android 12 and newer), the app's data may still be copied; that is an Android feature. iPhone: if you back up your whole iPhone to iCloud or a computer, that backup can contain this app's data, like any app's. That is a feature of your phone and your Apple account, not something the app sends; you control it in your phone's settings.

Children, ads, sharing of data

The app is not aimed at children, contains no ads and passes no data to third parties.

Your rights

Because the app does not collect personal data, the provider has nothing to disclose, correct or delete; uninstalling the app removes its data from your phone. Contact: plainapps@tuta.com. You may complain to your data protection authority.

Information, not advice

Amounts shown are estimates from the numbers you enter. The app gives information, not financial, tax or legal advice; your supplier's bill is what counts.

Changes

Changes will be posted here and in the app.