Privacy
Plain language. Last updated 2 November 2026.
Handiary is a small, independent money diary, on the web and as an Android app. It has no ads and no analytics, it never connects to your bank, and it does not sell or share what you write. This page says only what the code actually does.
What is stored with your account
- Your account: your email address, the name you give, a hashed version of your password (never the password itself), and when you last used the app.
- Your money: the entries, accounts, categories, budgets, repeating entries and money owed that you add. These are amounts and words you type yourself; Handiary never reads a bank, a card or your messages.
- Your settings: whether haptics are on, and the name to greet you by.
- How you use the app: counts, per day, of which screens you open and which things you do (for example “saved an expense” or “opened Stats”), whether you use the website or the Android app, and which version of the pages you have. Never amounts, descriptions, categories, names or places. The administrator uses the totals to find what is hard to use and to fix it. Turn it off any time on You, under “Share how I use Handiary”; nothing more is collected after that. It is deleted with your account.
What stays on your device
- A copy of your money is kept on the device so the app opens instantly and works offline, along with changes made offline until they are sent. Clearing the site’s data, or uninstalling the app, removes that copy.
- In the Android app, a sign-in token is kept on the phone in place of a cookie. Signing out removes it.
- On Android, if you have your phone’s Google backup turned on, the phone may keep a copy of that local copy, and the changes waiting to be sent, in your own Google account, and bring them to a new phone. It never includes your sign-in. You can turn it off in your phone’s backup settings.
- The app lock, if you turn it on, asks your phone for your fingerprint, face or screen lock. Handiary never sees them, and the choice stays on that phone.
- Light or dark, and Keep things still, are choices kept on that device only.
- A photo you choose for yourself is made small and kept on that device only. It is never sent to Handiary’s server and does not follow you to another device. Removing it, or deleting your account, removes it.
- Reminders are set on the phone itself, at the times you choose. Nothing is sent to anyone to make them.
Where the rest is kept
Your account data is stored in a database so it can sync between your devices. The website and the server are hosted on Vercel and the database runs on Neon. Everything travels over an encrypted connection (HTTPS).
Cookies
On the website, one cookie keeps you signed in. It is not used for tracking and expires after 30 days.
Other services
- Fonts are built into the app, so no font server is contacted while you use it.
- Email: the only email Handiary sends is a six digit code: one when you create an account, to confirm the address is yours, and one if you forget your password. It is sent through Resend, which sees your address and the code in order to deliver it, and nothing else. Handiary sends no newsletters or ads.
- Files you download or share (Download everything) are made on your device and go only where you send them.
- No advertising ID, location, contacts, photos or other phone data is collected.
Who can see it
Only you, through your account. Handiary gives no way, including for its administrator, to read someone else’s money or words; the administrator sees only counts, such as how many entries someone has written. The person who runs the service has technical access to the database in order to keep it working.
Taking it with you, or deleting it
On You (top right of every page): Download everything gives you one file with your account, your settings and all your money. Clear my money removes your money and keeps your account. Delete my account removes the account and everything stored with it, straight away. Deleting cannot be undone. The database host keeps a short rolling history for recovering from an outage, from which deleted data ages out on its own. You can also delete your account on the web, without the app: handiary.designedbyharish.in/delete-account.
Contact
Questions about your data: reach Harish through designedbyharish.in.