Screen Awake
Privacy

No account.
No connection.

Screen Awake collects nothing, sends nothing and knows nothing about you. That is not a promise about what the app chooses to do: it has no permission to reach the network, so it could not send anything even if it wanted to.

Last updated · 16 September 2026
No internet permission
android.permission.INTERNET is not in the app's manifest, and any Android phone will confirm it. The app cannot open a connection: nothing can leave the device through it.
No account, no sign-in
There is nothing to register for and no email to leave. The app opens and works, and that is the whole of it.
No analytics, no ads
No analytics SDK, no advertising SDK, no crash reporting, no device identifiers. I do not know how many times you open the app, and that is fine.
The location is never asked for
Nor the camera, the microphone, the contacts, the files or anything else of yours. The full list of permissions is below, and it is short.
In detail
What the app stores
Your settings, and nothing else: the brightness and the battery threshold you picked, which tiles you added to the quick settings, whether you have already been asked for the notification permission, and whether the Pro unlock is active. They sit in the app's own private storage on the phone, where no other app can read them, and they never leave it. There is no history of when you held the screen awake, because none is kept.
Every permission it asks for, and why
Display over other apps — the invisible one-pixel window that stops the display from turning off. It is the only way an app can do this; the home page explains why. Nothing is drawn over what you are doing and no touch is intercepted.

Foreground service — keeps the process that owns that window alive while a session is running, so the system does not close it early.

Notifications — declared, but never requested on its own. It is only asked for if you turn the notification on in the settings, and denying it changes nothing about how the screen is held.

Google Play billing — lets the app ask the Play Store app on the phone whether you bought the Pro unlock, and open its payment screen. It gives no network access.
If you buy the Pro unlock
The purchase happens inside Google Play, and it is Google that handles the payment — this app never sees your card, your name or your email. The app only talks to the Play Store app installed on the phone: it asks whether the unlock was bought and confirms the purchase, as Google requires. It is the Play Store, not Screen Awake, that contacts Google's servers, under Google's privacy policy. Out of all this the app stores a yes-or-no, like the other settings — not the order number, nor anything else from the receipt.

Refunds and purchase history are handled by Google Play. If a purchase is refunded, the unlock turns off the next time you open the app.
Children
The app is suitable for anyone. It has no content, no chat and no data collection, so there is nothing here that an age would change.
Changes to this page
If the app ever starts doing something this page does not describe, this page changes first and carries the new date at the top.
Questions
Write to me: contact, or federicobernacca.com. Screen Awake is an independent project.
Deleting your data
How to ask
There is no request to send and no answer to wait for: uninstalling the app removes everything it had stored, immediately. Nothing survives it, because nothing was ever anywhere else.
What gets deleted
Your settings — the brightness, the battery threshold, the tiles added, the Pro unlock — and that is the complete list. There is no server holding a second copy, because there is no server: the app cannot reach one.
What does not, and why
Your Google Play purchase history, which is not mine to touch: it belongs to your Google account, and reinstalling the app is how the Pro unlock comes back. If you want that record changed, it is Google you need to ask.