Last updated 12 November 2026
Paperlight is a document scanner built to keep your documents private. This policy explains what happens to your data.
Everything you scan, and the text Paperlight reads from it, is stored only on your device. Text recognition runs on your device using Apple's and Google's built-in, on-device frameworks. We do not operate servers that receive your documents. We cannot see, access or recover them. When you share or export a document, it goes only where you send it.
Deleting a document in the app removes it from your device. Deleting the app removes all of your documents.
Paperlight has no sign-up and collects no name, email or contact details. We do not include any analytics or tracking SDK of our own.
The camera is used only to scan documents when you tap Scan. Images are not uploaded.
Paperlight is free because it shows ads served by Google AdMob. AdMob never receives your documents or their text. To serve and measure ads, Google may collect device and usage information such as IP address, a device advertising identifier (on Android), approximate location derived from IP, and ad interactions, as described in How Google uses information from sites or apps that use its services.
Paperlight is not directed at children under 13 and does not knowingly collect their personal information.
If this policy changes, we will update this page and the date above.
Questions: support@paperlightapp.com