Privacy policy

What Lode collects

Nothing. Lode’s own code does not collect, transmit, sell or share any personal data. There is no account, no sign-in, no analytics, no advertising, no crash reporting and no third-party tracking of any kind.

The one thing that leaves your device is the Lode Pro purchase, and only if you choose to buy it. That is described in the next section.

The Lode Pro purchase

On the Google Play build, Google Play Billing tells Lode whether you own Pro. Google processes the transaction itself — order, price, refunds, payment details — as the merchant, under Google’s privacy policy. Lode never receives your payment details, and no name or email address is passed to it. None of your workouts, measurements, photos or other training data is involved.

Lode only learns whether Pro is owned. Google keeps the transaction record.

What you create stays on your device

Everything you enter — workouts, sets, routines, body measurements, progress photos, notes, and the name and avatar you can give your profile — is stored in the app’s private storage on your phone. It is not uploaded anywhere. Uninstalling the app deletes it.

Lode also opts out of Android’s automatic cloud backup, so none of it is copied to Google Drive either. The one exception is a direct device-to-device transfer that you start yourself when setting up a new phone (by cable or local Wi-Fi): Android can then copy Lode’s data straight to your new device, because that move is between your own phones.

Network access

Lode comes in two builds, and they differ in exactly one way: whether the optional Lode Pro purchase goes through Google Play.

The Google Play build includes Google’s Play Billing library, so that you can buy Lode Pro with a one-time in-app purchase. That library declares the INTERNET permission and talks to the Google Play Store app on your phone to show the price, make the purchase and confirm it later. Google handles the payment; Lode never sees your payment details. Google may also receive technical information about the billing library’s operation, which is covered by Google’s privacy policy. None of your workouts, measurements, photos or other data is ever part of that: Lode’s own code makes no network requests, and the only thing it asks Google Play is whether you own Lode Pro.

The FOSS build (distributed outside Google Play) has no billing library and does not declare the INTERNET permission at all. It is technically incapable of sending anything over a network, which you can verify in Android’s app-info screen.

Permissions, and why each one exists

Lode requests no other permissions.

Lode Pro

Lode Pro is an optional one-time purchase. It adds a progression coach, muscle balance, monthly and yearly reports, and full-length progress charts. The coach, muscle balance and the reports are worked out on your phone from your own history, like everything else in Lode; nothing is sent anywhere to produce them.

Whether you own Pro is remembered on your device; on the Google Play build it is also confirmed with Google Play, so it comes back on a new phone signed in to the same Google account. If a purchase is refunded, Pro is switched off again; nothing you logged is affected.

Sharing a workout

You can share a finished workout as an image. Lode draws that image on your device and hands it to Android’s share sheet; you choose the app it goes to. The image contains only that workout — its name, date, exercises and best sets. Private workouts can’t be shared.

Backups and exports

Lode can export a JSON file containing your data, and import one. It can also import workout history from a CSV file exported by Strong or Hevy. When you export, Android’s file picker lets you choose where that file goes — your device, cloud storage, wherever. That choice and that file are entirely under your control; Lode plays no part in where it ends up.

Automatic backups (on unless you switch them off in Settings) write the same file to the Documents/Lode folder on your phone after each workout, so your history survives Lode being uninstalled. They stay on your phone: Lode never uploads them. Like anything in Documents, other apps you have given access to your files can read them, and if your phone’s own backup copies your Documents folder somewhere, they go with it.

Your rights

Because Lode holds no personal data about you, there is nothing for the developer to export, correct or erase on your behalf. Uninstalling the app deletes everything it stored.

Purchase records are held by Google as the merchant; requests about those go to Google. If you have a question about anything on this page, write to the address below.

Children

Lode is not directed at children, and it collects no data from anyone, including children.

Changes

If this policy ever changes, the updated version will be published at this address with a new date at the top.

Contact

Lode is developed by an independent developer based in Croatia.