AppLock by Waveclues locks the apps you choose behind a PIN or fingerprint. It has no account, no server and no analytics, and nothing it holds ever leaves your phone.
1. Information the app holds
- The apps you chose to lock, stored on the device.
- Your PIN and recovery answer - stored only as encrypted key material that cannot be turned back into what you typed. There is no PIN, and no hash of one, saved anywhere.
- Failed attempts: the digits typed, the time, and - only if you turn that setting on - a front-camera photograph, kept encrypted in the app's private storage.
2. Usage access
AppLock uses Android's usage-access permission to read the package name of the app currently in the foreground, so it knows when to ask for your PIN. It does not and cannot read the contents of any app, your messages, your keystrokes or your screen. It does not use an accessibility service. This information is used in the moment and is not recorded or transmitted.
3. Camera
Camera access is optional and is requested only when you switch on the intruder-photo setting - never at startup. Photos are stored encrypted on the device, readable only after a correct unlock, and are deleted when you delete the entry.
4. What leaves the device
Nothing, and the app has no means to send it. AppLock holds no internet permission at all - not restricted, absent from the app entirely - so it cannot make a network connection even if something in it tried to. There is no account, no cloud sync, no analytics, no advertising and no crash reporting. You buy the app on Google Play, and Google handles that purchase under its own policy before the app is ever installed; the app itself takes no part in it.
5. Deleting your data
Settings → Reset AppLock deletes your PIN, recovery question, chosen apps and attempt history. Uninstalling the app removes everything it holds.
6. Contact
support@waveclues.com.