Privacy policy
Effective 18 October 2026
Keyglow is a keyboard for Android made by Marko Zanoski. A keyboard sees everything you type, so this policy explains exactly what Keyglow does with it. The short version: Keyglow sends nothing anywhere. It has no internet permission, so Android does not let it reach the network at all. There is no account, no advertising, no analytics and no server of ours.
What stays on your phone
To suggest and correct words the way you write, Keyglow keeps a few things in its own private storage on your phone. Other apps cannot read it.
- Learned words. Words you use that its word lists lack, such as names, how often you use each word, and which word tends to follow which, for next word suggestions. Keyglow keeps single words and word pairs, not your messages or sentences.
- Your shortcuts and blocked words. Shortcuts you add, such as omw for on my way, and suggestions you asked it never to offer again.
- Pinned clips. Text you copied and chose to pin in the clipboard panel, until you unpin it.
- Your settings. Your choices in the app, such as languages, layout, look and key height.
Clips you copy but do not pin are kept in memory only, never in a file, and are dropped after an hour or when the keyboard stops.
What Keyglow never keeps
- Nothing typed in a password field, and nothing copied while a password field is open.
- Nothing typed in a field that asks keyboards not to learn, such as an incognito browser tab.
- Nothing typed while Keyglow's own incognito mode is on.
- No clip an app marks as sensitive.
You can also turn learning off completely in the settings.
What leaves your phone
Nothing is sent by Keyglow. It does not ask for internet access, so it cannot send anything anywhere, and it works fully offline.
If Android backup is turned on for your phone, Android may include Keyglow's settings, learned words, shortcuts and pinned clips in your own Google account backup, under Google's privacy policy, so they come back on a new phone. We cannot see that backup. Keyglow also has a button to save your words to a file you pick, and a button to restore them. Where that file goes is up to you.
Your launcher's theme
When Phosphor or Hyprtile is your home screen, Keyglow asks it for its current theme colours on your phone. The launchers only answer Keyglow. Only colours are shared, never anything you type.
Permissions
Keyglow asks for no permissions at all: no internet, contacts, location, camera, microphone or storage. Its gentle vibration on each key uses Android's built in key feedback, which needs no permission.
What we do not do
- No accounts and no sign in.
- No ads and no advertising identifiers.
- No analytics, crash reporting or tracking libraries.
- No cloud suggestions, no voice typing and no AI service.
- No selling or sharing of data, because we do not collect any.
Payments
If you buy Keyglow on Google Play, Google handles the payment under its own privacy policy. We receive no card details and no personal data from that purchase beyond what Google Play shows every developer in sales reports.
This website
This site uses no cookies, no analytics and no outside fonts or scripts. The keyboard demo on the home page runs in your browser and sends nothing. The site is hosted on Vercel, which keeps short server logs to run and protect the service.
Children
Keyglow is a general audience app and is not directed at children under 13. It collects no personal data from anyone.
Deleting your data
Everything Keyglow keeps is on your phone. To remove it, use "Forget everything Keyglow learned" in its settings, forget single words on the "your words" screen, clear the app's storage in Android settings, or uninstall the app. There is nothing on our side to delete.
Changes
If this policy changes, the new version will be posted on this page with a new effective date.
Contact
Questions about privacy: zanoski.marko@gmail.com (write an email)