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The short version

Homeray is a mobile app that lets you chat with an AI assistant, using free AI or your own AI key. I do not run a server for it. I cannot see your chats, your key or your notes. The app collects nothing: no accounts, no analytics, no ads. The phone AI sends nothing. The free cloud gets only the words you type. With your own key, your phone sends your question straight to that AI company, under their terms.

What stays on your phone

Your name, your AI key, your chats, memory notes, assistants, recordings, notes, scans, plans, spending entries, bills, invoices, savings goals and settings are stored only on your phone. The key is kept in your phone's secure storage. A custom background photo or video you pick is copied into the app's private storage and never uploaded.

What is sent, and to whom

When you send a message, the app sends the AI company whose key you added (for example Google, for a Gemini key) the following so it can write a reply:

• Your message, your recent chat, your name and the memory notes you have saved.
• Photos or files (PDF or text) you attach to that question, and only for that question. Homeray does not keep them.
• When you ask about your screen, the text on the screen and a small picture of it. The picture is kept briefly in the app's private cache and deleted right after it is used.
• When you use Today or the Day planner with Google Calendar connected, the event details needed for what you asked, such as a plan or a meeting prep card.
• Device names (for example "living room light") when you ask it to control a smart-home device.
• Web searches, if you leave search on, go through the AI company and are billed to your key.
• Recordings in Note taker are only sent when you tap to make notes. They go to the AI or speech service you have a key for.
• When you use a photo look in Image studio, the photo you pick and any words you add go straight to the image AI whose key you added.

These companies handle your data under their own terms and privacy policies. On Google's free Gemini tier, Google may use your chats to improve its products. Homeray tells you this before you start. For a free Gemini key, see ai.google.dev/gemini-api/terms.

Voice and microphone

When you tap the mic, your phone's own speech service (Google on Android) turns your voice into text under Google's terms. Homeray never receives or stores that audio. Only the text is sent on.

The optional hands-free feature listens on your phone for a wake phrase using a small offline model. Audio is not recorded, stored or sent. It only runs while you have it switched on, and Android shows a notification when it does.

Scans and QR codes

Document, business card and QR code scanning runs on your phone through Google Play services. Homeray does not need the camera permission for it. Scans are saved only on your phone. A scan is sent to your AI only when you ask about it, for example with Ask about it, or when a business card cannot be read on the phone and you choose to use the AI.

Permissions, explained

• Microphone: only after you tap the mic, record a note or switch on hands-free.
• Camera: only when you tap to take a photo.
• Contacts: looks up one name when you tell it to message or call someone, or saves a business card when you tap save. Nothing is uploaded.
• Notifications: for reminders, meeting prep, your morning brief and the hands-free notice.
• Alarms and timers: to hand a timer or alarm to your Clock app.
• Photos and files: you choose each one with Android's own picker.
• Google Calendar: only if you connect it. It reads your day, and adds an event only after you tap. You can disconnect at any time.

Homeray does not ask for SMS or accessibility permissions. A notification shows while hands-free or Note taker is using the mic. When you ask about your screen, password fields are skipped.

Other services the app contacts

• Exchange rates: the currency helper fetches public rates (European Central Bank data, through frankfurter.dev).
• Prayer times: if you turn it on, the app fetches times for the zone you choose from a public Malaysian prayer-time service (JAKIM data, through waktusolat.app). Homeray is not a government app.
• Phone AI models: if you download one (the phone AI, its eyes, memory search, or a model from the Model shop), the file comes from Hugging Face. Only the file is downloaded; nothing about you is sent. After that it runs on your phone.
• Free cloud (beta), Pollinations: only if you choose it. It gets only the words you type for a chat or a picture. It never gets your name, your saved memory notes, photos, files or recordings. If you ask about a photo, a file or your screen, the free AI on your phone answers instead, or the app tells you why it can't send it. No key, account or phone ID is sent, but like any website, its server can see your internet (IP) address. The app asks you once before your first free cloud chat and once before your first free cloud picture, and names Pollinations and its terms. It is a shared free service, so don't type anything private.
• My laptop AI: if you set it up, your questions go to Ollama or LM Studio on your own computer, over your Wi-Fi or Tailscale. Nothing goes to me.
• Downloads from Google: translator language packs (ML Kit), offline speech packs and Gemini Nano come through Google. After that they run on your phone.

Like any website or service, these can see your internet address when the app contacts them. I do not send them your chats.

Payments: Pro and Support

Pro and Support Lawrence are paid inside the app through Google Play. Google handles your card and the payment under its own terms. The app only learns whether Pro is on and which plan you have. I never see your card details.

If you pick the US$50 or US$100 support level, the app opens an email to me with your order number. You decide what goes in it. If you would like the thank-you letter, add the postal address it should go to. I use it only to post the letter, and delete the address once it is sent.

What I collect

Nothing from the app. It has no accounts, no analytics, no advertising and no tracking.

Deleting your data

In the app, open Settings and tap Delete all my data. That removes everything Homeray stores on your phone. Uninstalling the app does the same. To delete data held by an AI company, use your account with them.

Age

Homeray is for people 18 and older.

AI replies

Replies are written by AI and can be wrong. Do not rely on them for medical, legal or financial decisions. Use the Report button on a reply to tell me about a problem.

This website

This website uses no cookies and no advertising. Its fonts and scripts are hosted on the site itself. To know which pages are useful, it uses Cloudflare Web Analytics, which counts visits without cookies and without following you to other websites. It sees things like the page you opened, your browser type and your country, not who you are. If you click a booking button, you go to Cal.com, and their privacy policy applies there.

Early access requests. When you press send, the form sends your name, email, phone brand, your page language and any optional answers (what you would use it for, who told you about Homeray, and whether you want news about new versions) to a private Google Sheet that only I can open, through Google Forms. I use it only to send your invite and answer you. Ask me any time and I will delete it. The "spots left" number on this site is read from a separate count that holds no names.

WhatsApp. If you message me on WhatsApp, WhatsApp's own privacy policy applies, and I see your number and what you send. I use it only to answer you.

Tester sign-ups. The tester form on this site sends your first name, Google account email, phone brand and model, and your page language to the same private Google Sheet, through Google Forms. I use your email only to add you to the Google Play test and to send you the test link. Ask me any time and I will delete it.

Sign-up links and invites. Some links to this site carry a short tag, such as ?from=tiktok, or a friend's invite name. If you sign up, the form sends that tag with your request, so I know which post brought you. If you came through a friend's invite link, their name is filled in under "Who told you", and you can change or clear it before you send. After you sign up, the site also remembers your name and phone brand, so it can show that you are on the list and your own invite link. The site keeps these, the tag, the name from a friend's invite link and the setup steps you ticked in your own browser's storage, not on a server. Your language and display choices, and a speed setting for the moving background, are kept the same way. Clear your browser's site data to remove them.

Changes and contact

If this policy changes, I will update this page and the date at the top.

Questions about privacy, or a data request: [email protected].

What changed

10 November 2026: the app no longer asks to show over other apps, and the new tester sign-up is explained under This website. The permission list now also covers SMS, accessibility and the microphone notice.

9 November 2026, night: the free cloud now gets only the words you type, never your name, memory notes, photos or files.

9 November 2026, later: added the free AI add-ons (free cloud, laptop AI, model and language-pack downloads) and Image studio photo looks.

• 9 November 2026: added payments for Pro and Support, sign-up link tags and invite links, and what this website keeps in your browser.
• November 2026: first version.