Last updated: November 10, 2026
Notifence is an Android app for keeping a local history of notifications. Contact the developer about privacy at notifence@gruv.top.
If you enable notification access in Android settings, Notifence receives notifications that Android delivers to its notification listener. These may contain app names and package identifiers, notification titles and text, senders or conversation names, timestamps, categories, and other notification metadata. Notification content can include personal or sensitive information. Notifence uses this information to create and search your history, recognize updates when possible, and show gaps when capture cannot be verified. You can exclude selected apps from future recording; this does not remove entries already saved.
Notification history is stored on your device in an encrypted SQLCipher database. The database secret is protected using Android Keystore. Notifence does not request Android's INTERNET permission and has no account, cloud synchronization, analytics, advertising SDK, telemetry, or developer-operated backend. The app does not automatically send notification history or diagnostic information to the developer or other parties. The app's settings are stored locally.
If you choose to copy notification text or technical details, Android's clipboard and any apps you choose to share them with may gain access to what you copied. Diagnostic reports are created only at your request: as a ZIP file saved through Android's document picker, or as copied technical details for an individual record. These reports exclude plaintext message bodies, sender names and attachment files. They can contain package names, device and app versions, timestamps, technical metadata and content fingerprints, so they are not guaranteed anonymous. Exported files are outside Notifence's private storage and are not removed when you delete history or uninstall the app. You control where you save or share them; any selected document provider or recipient handles them under its own terms.
Opening external links, including the developer's X profile, uses another app such as your browser. Email contact uses your email app and provider. These external services have their own privacy practices. Optional cryptocurrency support displays public wallet addresses for you to copy; Notifence does not process transactions or request wallet credentials. A transfer you initiate outside the app is subject to the wallet/network provider's terms and may be recorded on a public blockchain.
Attachment saving is off by default. If enabled, Notifence attempts to save images and audio that the source notification makes accessible; for video, it saves only an available picture preview. Files are encrypted on this device separately from the history database. They are not fetched from the network or included in diagnostic reports. Availability depends on Android and the source app.
The selected attachment storage limit removes the oldest ordinary attachments while preserving notification text. Favorite attachments are excluded from that limit and automatic eviction. Disabling attachment saving does not remove existing files. You can explicitly clear saved attachments, including favorites, without deleting notification text. Deleting history also removes its associated saved attachments.
You can explicitly save an already saved attachment to your device through Android’s system file picker. This exports the available original saved file, not a reduced image preview; a saved video picture preview remains an image, not the original video. The exported copy is not encrypted by Notifence, is outside its private storage, and remains after you delete the history entry, clear attachments or uninstall the app. You choose the destination and manage the exported copy separately. No broad storage or media-access permission is requested for this save action.
History is kept for 30 days by default. You can select another available retention period, including keeping history indefinitely. Older local records are cleaned up according to your selected setting, except favorites, which are kept until you unmark or delete them. Removing a favorite mark does not immediately delete history; records older than the selected period may be removed by the next cleanup.
You can delete individual saved notifications, an application's history, or all history. Bulk clearing preserves favorites unless you explicitly choose to include them. Deleting history removes its associated stored capture data and attachments within the selected scope; it does not reset your capture preferences. Clearing favorites only removes their favorite marks. Future notifications can still be recorded. You can stop future capture by revoking notification access in Android settings; this does not erase existing history.
Removing Notifence normally removes its private local app data under Android's app-uninstall behavior. If encrypted storage becomes unreadable, a reset that you explicitly confirm removes the local encrypted history and saved attachments and creates an empty database; the old history cannot be recovered. Files or text you previously exported, copied or shared must be managed separately.
Optional App Lock protects access to the app's interface using device authentication. It does not lock the encryption key or stop background capture. Screenshots and screen recording are allowed by default after preferences have loaded; you can enable blocking in Settings, and existing choices are preserved on update. The app is configured to exclude its private data from Android backup and device transfer, although behavior of system or manufacturer snapshots may vary.
This policy may be updated when the app's data practices change. The current version will be available at this address. For privacy questions, contact notifence@gruv.top.