Privacy Policy

In short

MomentBack runs on your phone. There is no account to create and no MomentBack server behind it. The app's own code makes no network connections and has no way to send a clip, a held second, a log or a setting anywhere. The only network traffic the app is involved in is Google Play's, when you buy or restore the optional Pro unlock.

The camera — and the microphone, if sound recording is on — run while capture is armed, which is what makes a replay possible. Those seconds are held in the app's own private storage and are continuously overwritten. Nothing becomes a file you or anyone else can open until you press SAVE.

MomentBack does not read or browse your Gallery. It asks for no photo or video library permission; it only adds the clips you save to Movies/MomentBack, and lists or deletes those clips alone. Your other photos and videos are invisible to it.

Camera and microphone

MomentBack needs camera access before it can do anything. Microphone access is optional: it is used only while "Record sound" is on in Settings. With sound off, the microphone is never opened, saved clips carry no audio track, and capture works even if microphone access has been refused.

Opening the app starts capture after the required permissions have been granted. Capture deliberately keeps running when you switch to another app or lock the screen, because the moments this app exists for do not wait for the screen to be on. With notification permission granted, Android shows an ongoing capture notification carrying a STOP action. Android also provides its camera and microphone privacy indicators while those resources are in use.

STOP on the camera screen finishes and saves the current clip, then starts a fresh replay buffer; it does not turn the camera off. To end capture, use Settings > Turn off camera and microphone, STOP in the notification, dismiss MomentBack from Recents, or force-stop it in Android settings. After capture is explicitly turned off, the app installs no boot receiver or restart alarm to resume it automatically.

The notification permission is requested as well but is not required. Refusing it costs you the STOP button in the notification shade; it does not change what the camera does.

The seconds being held

While capture runs, video and audio are encoded and written into short segments inside MomentBack's private application storage — a directory that belongs to the app alone and that other apps, and your Gallery, cannot read.

Segments older than your chosen replay length are deleted continuously, and a size cap applies on top of that, so what is held stays bounded to the last 15, 30, 60 or 120 seconds. There is no growing archive.

This material is never published anywhere by itself. If capture stops and you did not press SAVE, the whole spool is discarded. If the app is force-stopped or the phone loses power mid-session, what remains is app-private working data.

Clips you save

When you press SAVE, MomentBack seals the seconds it was holding and keeps filming until you press STOP; both halves are written into a single MP4. The finished file is copied into your device's own media library under Movies/MomentBack, verified, and only then is the private working copy deleted.

From that point the clip is an ordinary video on your phone. It appears in your Gallery, it is covered by whatever photo backup you have set up with Google or your device maker, and you can share or delete it like any other file. MomentBack has no further control over it and no copy of it.

The Clips screen inside the app lists only the files MomentBack itself wrote to Movies/MomentBack. Android's scoped storage gives an app access to media it created without a media permission, which is why MomentBack never asks to read your photo library and cannot see any of your other videos. For the same reason, after MomentBack is reinstalled, clips saved by the earlier installation stay in your Gallery but may no longer appear on the Clips screen.

What MomentBack does not do

No account. There is no sign-in, no email address, no profile and no identifier issued to you or to your device.

No analytics, no crash-reporting service, no advertising or attribution SDK. The app's entire third-party dependency list is Flutter and its localisation package, the intl library, an icon font, a small key-value store used for local settings, and Flutter's official in-app purchase plugin, which connects to Google Play Billing.

No network of its own. The released Android app declares the INTERNET and network-state permissions because Google's Play Billing Library requires them for purchases. MomentBack's own code never opens a connection: no clip, held second, setting or log leaves the phone. Links to this website and the support email open in your browser or mail app, outside MomentBack.

Diagnostic messages from the capture engine are written to the device's own Android log. They stay on the phone, are visible only to someone using Android developer tools on that phone, and are not read, collected or transmitted by MomentBack.

Settings kept on the device

Your replay length, video quality, sound setting and language choice are stored in a small file in the app's private storage. Next to them the app keeps one more value: whether Google Play last reported Pro as owned ("pro" or "free") and when that was recorded, so Pro stays unlocked while you are offline. No purchase token, order number, price or account identifier is stored. These are values, not information about you, and they are not attached to any identifier.

Android's own backup system may include app-private data such as that settings file in the device backup tied to your Google account. That backup is operated by Android and Google under your account settings, not by MomentBack. The folder where clips are staged before they reach your Gallery is deliberately excluded from it.

Google Play and the Pro purchase

MomentBack is free to use with 15-second and 30-second replays and the standard video qualities. Pro is an optional one-time purchase, with no subscription, that unlocks the 60-second and 120-second replays and, on cameras that support them, the 1080p 60 fps and 4K video qualities.

The purchase is handled entirely by Google Play. MomentBack never sees or stores your payment details, your Google account or your order. When you buy or restore Pro, and when the app checks at startup whether Pro is owned, the Play Billing Library talks to Google Play; the only answer MomentBack keeps is whether Pro is owned. Google processes that transaction under its own privacy policy and your Google account settings.

MomentBack is being prepared for distribution on Google Play. Where you install an app from a store, that store records the installation and may collect platform-level information such as crash reports under its own policies and your account settings. That happens outside MomentBack, and the app neither requests nor receives it.

Retention and your control

MomentBack does not retain copies of your clips, held seconds, settings or logs on a server. Device or Gallery backups you enable may hold copies under your backup provider's policies and account settings. The record of a Pro purchase is kept by Google Play, not by MomentBack.

You can revoke camera or microphone access in Android settings at any time; Android may interrupt capture or restart the app when permissions change. To capture without microphone access, turn Record sound off in MomentBack Settings. You can delete any clip from the Clips screen or from your Gallery. Uninstalling MomentBack removes the app and its private storage; clips already saved to Movies/MomentBack stay in your Gallery, because they are your files, not the app's. A Pro purchase stays with your Google account and can be restored after reinstalling.

Children

MomentBack is a general-purpose camera utility and is not directed at children. It collects no personal information from anyone, and therefore none from children. Any minimum age applied by the app store you install from also applies.

Changes and contact

If MomentBack's behaviour changes in a way that affects this notice, this page will be updated before that version ships, and the date at the top will change with it.

Questions about this notice can be sent to support@getnotura.com.