Layrd privacy policy

Last updated: 9 November 2026

This privacy policy is for Layrd, a live wallpaper app for Android. It explains what Layrd does with your data. Layrd is published on Google Play under the developer name shown on its Google Play page.

In short

• Your photos stay on your phone. Layrd never uploads them.
• Layrd has no account, no ads and no analytics of its own, and it does not sell or share your data.
• Layrd uses Google's ML Kit, through Google Play services, to find the subject of a photo on your phone. ML Kit sends Google technical usage and diagnostic data, never your photos. The details are below.

Photos you choose

You choose a photo with Android's photo picker. Layrd sees only the photo you tap. It asks for no permission to read your gallery.

Layrd copies that photo into its own private storage on your phone, with the subject cutout it makes, so your wallpaper keeps working. Finding the subject and detecting faces both run on your phone, through Google's ML Kit in Google Play services. The photo is not sent anywhere.

What stays on your phone

Your wallpapers, their photos, cutouts, clock styles and settings are kept in Layrd's private storage on your phone. Other apps cannot read them. They are not included in Android's cloud backup (Google Drive). On some phones, Android's phone-to-phone transfer may copy them to your new phone when you move to one.

Save to Photos writes a picture of your wallpaper to your phone's Pictures folder, and only when you tap it. From there it is yours, like any other picture on the phone.

What Google's ML Kit sends

ML Kit is part of Google Play services. To find the subject of a photo and detect faces, it may first download its model through Google Play services. While it works, Google's ML Kit software in Layrd sends Google this technical data, for diagnostics and usage analytics:

• device information: manufacturer, model, Android version and build, and the available machine-learning hardware
• app information: Layrd's package name and version
• a device identifier and per-installation identifiers
• performance data, such as how long processing took
• settings of the request, such as image format and size, and the size of input and output
• the ML Kit feature version, the kind of event (for example, start-up, model download, detection) and error codes

It does not send your photos or anything in them. Google says this data is sent encrypted (HTTPS) and is not passed to third parties. Google handles it under its own privacy policy: https://policies.google.com/privacy. Google's description of this data: https://developers.google.com/ml-kit/android-data-disclosure.

Layrd needs Android's internet and network-state permissions only because ML Kit's software sends this data. Layrd's own code makes no network connection.

Permissions

• Internet and network state: used only by Google's ML Kit software, as described above.
• Vibrate: Layrd's own short taps when you touch its controls. Android's touch-vibration setting turns them down or off.

Layrd asks for no permission that shows a prompt.

Keeping and deleting your data

Your data stays on your phone until you delete it:

• Delete a wallpaper in Layrd to remove it, its photo and its cutout. Layrd removes the files once the Undo offer has passed. If your current or previous wallpaper still uses that photo, Layrd keeps one copy of it until you have set other wallpapers.
• Clear Layrd's storage in Android's settings, or uninstall Layrd, to remove everything Layrd keeps.
• Pictures saved with Save to Photos stay in your Pictures folder until you delete them there.

Layrd keeps nothing about you anywhere else, so there is nothing more to delete. ML Kit's data is kept by Google under Google's privacy policy.

Security

Your data stays in Layrd's private storage, which Android keeps apart from other apps. ML Kit's data is sent encrypted.

Children

Layrd is not made for children under 13 and does not knowingly collect their data.

Changes

If this policy changes, the new version is shown in the app, in About, and at https://layrdapp.com/privacy, with a new date at the top.

Contact

Questions about privacy in Layrd: write to [email protected].