No account, no server, no analytics. What you read stays on your phone.
Last updated 30 August 2026 · Eight Point Labs LLC
The short version. Kept has no account, no server of ours, and no analytics. We never receive your subscriptions, your saved articles, or a record of what you read, because there is nowhere for any of it to go. What does leave your phone is the one thing a reader cannot avoid: requests to the sites you chose to follow, made the same way a browser makes them.
Eight Point Labs LLC publishes Kept, an Android app for reading feeds and saving articles to read later. This page describes Kept. Our other apps have their own policies, linked from the main privacy page.
This site itself uses Google Analytics to count page views. That is the website, not the app; the app contains no analytics of any kind.
Nothing. Eight Point Labs operates no server for Kept, holds no account for you, and receives no copy of anything the app stores. There is no analytics SDK, no crash-reporting SDK, no advertising SDK, and no tracking library anywhere in the app. You are never asked to sign in, because there is nothing to sign in to.
Kept is a reader, so it fetches things. Every request it makes goes directly to the publisher you chose, and to nobody else. Nothing is routed through us.
In each case the publisher's web server sees the request the way any web server sees a request, which includes your IP address. That is inherent to fetching anything over the internet and is not something Kept adds. If you would rather a publisher not see your address directly, use a VPN, exactly as you would when browsing.
Your subscriptions, the articles Kept has fetched, which ones you have read, and which ones you have saved all live in the app's own private storage on your phone. No other app can read it, and we cannot read it. Uninstalling Kept deletes all of it.
You can export your subscriptions as a standard OPML file at any time from the Feeds tab. It is a plain text file any other reader can import, written to whatever location you pick.
Kept asks for no location, no contacts, no microphone, no camera, and no access to your photos or files beyond the single file you pick when importing or exporting OPML.
Kept's manifest sets android:allowBackup="false". Android's automatic backup would otherwise copy the app's database, which is a record of what you read, into your Google Drive. We turned it off, because a promise that your reading stays on your device should hold in the manifest and not only in the marketing. The trade is deliberate: you move your subscriptions to a new phone with the OPML export rather than having them silently restored.
Article content is untrusted by definition, because it comes from whoever published it. The reader displays it with JavaScript disabled, so a page cannot run code, fingerprint you, or act on your behalf inside the app. Tapping a link hands it to your normal browser instead of following it inside Kept.
Kept is not directed at children and collects no personal information from anyone, including children.
There is no request to make, because we hold nothing about you. Everything Kept knows is on your phone: export it with OPML, delete it by uninstalling. If you would like to ask us something anyway, the address is below and a person answers it.
If Kept ever gains a feature that changes any of the above, this page changes first and carries a new date at the top. We will not quietly widen what the app does and update the policy afterwards.
Privacy questions: [email protected]. Anything else: [email protected].
None of this asks for trust. Every claim above is checkable from the installed app: