Last updated: 30 August 2026
In short. Analog Gallery is an archive for your film photography that works entirely on your phone. You do not need an account to use it, and nothing leaves your device unless you choose to sign in and subscribe to cloud backup.
The app contains no analytics, no advertising, no tracking and no third-party SDKs beyond Google's own Firebase and Google Play Billing. We do not sell or share your data with anyone.
Analog Gallery is developed and operated by Tim Spilka, Switzerland. For any question about this policy or about your data, see Contact at the end of this page.
By default, everything. When you use Analog Gallery without signing in, the app stores the following only in its private storage on your phone, where no other app can read it:
None of this is transmitted anywhere. Uninstalling the app deletes all of it.
You can create an account with Google Sign-In or with an email address and password. Accounts are handled by Google Firebase Authentication, which stores your email address, an internal user ID, and — for email accounts — your password in hashed form. We never see your password.
An account by itself does not upload anything. It exists so that a cloud backup subscription has somewhere to belong.
Cloud backup is a paid subscription. While it is active, the app copies your archive to Google Firebase so it survives a lost or broken phone and can be restored onto a new one.
Your scans are uploaded to Firebase Cloud Storage as the original, unmodified files. That is deliberate — the cloud copy is meant to be a true backup, not a re-compressed version.
It has one consequence worth stating plainly: any metadata already embedded in those files is uploaded with them. If your lab's scanner or your camera wrote EXIF data into the file — including, in some cases, location data — that data is part of the file and is backed up along with it. Analog Gallery neither reads nor strips it.
The following are stored in Firebase Firestore, under your user ID:
Your tags are free text. Whatever you type into them is stored, so treat them as you would any other note.
Subscriptions are sold and processed by Google Play. We never receive your payment details — not your card, not your address, not your name. Google shares only whether a purchase is valid.
To check that, we store against your account: which tier you bought, when it expires, and the purchase token Google Play issued. Google Play also notifies our server when a subscription renews, lapses or is cancelled, so your access stays correct without the app having to be open.
We do not sell your data, and we do not share it with anyone for their own purposes.
When cloud backup is on, your data is processed on our behalf by Google, through Firebase Authentication, Cloud Firestore, Cloud Storage, Cloud Functions and Google Play Billing. Google acts as our processor under its data processing terms.
This means your data may be stored on Google servers outside Switzerland and the EEA. Those transfers rely on the safeguards in Google's data processing terms, including the European Commission's Standard Contractual Clauses.
Under the Swiss Federal Act on Data Protection (FADP) and the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), we rely on:
You can delete individual photos or whole rolls in the app at any time.
To delete your account and everything stored with it, write to the address below from the email address of the account. We will confirm and complete the deletion within 30 days. Uninstalling the app removes the local copy but does not delete a cloud backup — please ask, so we can remove it properly.
You have the right to ask for access to your data, to have it corrected or deleted, to restrict or object to its processing, and to receive it in a portable form. To exercise any of these, write to the address below.
If you believe we have handled your data improperly, you may complain to the Swiss Federal Data Protection and Information Commissioner (FDPIC), or — if you are in the EEA — to your national data protection authority.
Analog Gallery is not directed at children and we do not knowingly collect data from children under 16. If you believe a child has given us personal data, contact us and we will delete it.
If this policy changes in a way that affects you, we will update the date at the top of this page and, where the change is significant, tell you in the app before it takes effect.
Questions, requests and deletion enquiries:
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