Last updated: 2026-10-19
tuxwire is an RSS reader. It does not collect your data, and nothing you do in it is sent to the developer. There are no accounts, no ads, no analytics, no tracking and no crash reporting built into the app.
Your feeds, the articles downloaded from them, the articles you save, your
notes, your Read Later links and your settings are stored in the app’s private storage on your phone.
They are not copied to Google’s cloud backups, and uninstalling the app removes
them. The app asks for one permission only: INTERNET.
The app contacts only these places:
tuxwire/<version>, and, as with any web request, the server can see your
IP address. Those servers belong to other people and follow their own
policies.http and https addresses are, and nothing is
kept from the page except its title. As with any web request, that site can
see your IP address and follows its own policy. If you cancel, nothing is
saved.https:// (plain http:// is allowed only for the device
itself). A second switch, feed list (also off by default), additionally
sends the name, address and topic of each of your feeds to that same server,
so a feed added on one device appears on the others; without that switch no
feed address is ever sent. A feed another device removed is only removed
here after you confirm. A third switch, read marks (also off by default),
additionally sends the address of each article you opened in the last 90
days, and when, so an article read on one device shows as read on the
others; without that switch nothing about which feed articles you read leaves the phone.
Nothing is deleted from your server. Your password is stored encrypted with the Android Keystore, never
in plain text. forget everything in the sync screen (it asks first)
wipes these settings.Opening an article in your browser hands the link to your browser, and the browser’s own privacy policy applies from there. The Share menu entry receives only the text you choose to share.
Markdown and OPML exports are written to the location you pick in Android’s file picker. If you pick a cloud folder, that service’s policy applies to the file.
You can un-save an article or delete a note at any time (the app asks before it does either), remove feeds, turn sync off, and uninstall the app. Data already copied to your own sync server is deleted on that server.
If you installed from Google Play, Google may collect crash and performance data (Android vitals) under its own policy, depending on your device settings. That collection is done by Google, not by tuxwire.
If this policy changes, the new version is published in this file, with its history in the repository. Questions can be raised as an issue at https://github.com/shanecuster/tuxwire-android/issues.