Last updated: October 2026
Everything Warraq does — reading, searching, annotating, text and image editing, merging, splitting, compressing, OCR, password protection and removal, signing, watermarking and every other tool — runs entirely on your device. Your files and their contents are never sent to our servers or to any third party, and we have no way to access them.
Document scanner and text recognition. The camera scanning screen is provided by Google Play services (ML Kit Document Scanner): it detects, crops and straightens the page on your device, and Warraq itself does not request the camera permission. Where the scanner is unavailable, the app opens your phone's own camera app instead. Text recognition (OCR) also runs on your device. Scanned images and recognised text are never sent to us or to Google. Like other Google components, ML Kit sends Google technical diagnostics only — such as device model, operating system and app version, an installation identifier, processing time and error codes — to keep the service working; this never includes an image, a page or any text from your documents.
Every Warraq tool — reading, editing, and all fourteen tools — works without any account. Signing in (via Google or Apple only; we never manage a password ourselves) is completely optional, and is only needed to activate the free AI trial or to sync your points balance across your devices.
If you do sign in, we keep only the minimum: your account identifier and email as received from your sign-in provider, and your points balance. We never collect your real name, contacts, or location, whether you sign in or not.
You can request deletion of your account and all associated data at any time — see the account deletion page for steps. If you never signed in, you have no account in the first place; uninstalling the app removes everything local instantly.
Processing tools are unlocked with points that are granted for free and refill monthly. Your balance lives on your device. To prevent abuse of the points system (farming an endless balance by reinstalling or by spoofing devices), the app sends our server a hashed technical device signature together with an integrity verdict from Google Play Integrity. That signature:
Warraq is free, with no subscriptions and no in-app purchases. It is funded by an optional rewarded ad from Google AdMob. There are no interstitial ads, no app-open ads, and no ads inside the reading screen. An ad is shown only when you ask for one to earn points — and you are always free to decline it.
We use Google Firebase Analytics to understand how the app is used: which screens are opened, where people stop, and whether the monthly points grant is enough or runs out too fast. This measurement never touches your files or their contents in any way.
What we log are anonymous events about the app itself, such as:
Google automatically attaches to these events a pseudonymous app instance ID, your device model, OS version, app version, and an approximate country derived from your IP address without storing the address itself.
What is never logged: any file name, path or content, your search text, your annotations, your name, your email, or your precise location. This measurement data is never linked to the hashed device signature (section 3) or to the advertising ID (section 4), and is never used to target ads at you. Uninstalling the app stops the collection and ends the pseudonymous identifier.
We have also turned off ad personalisation signals in Firebase Analytics, so measurement data is not used to build advertising audiences or to show you personalised ads.
When the app stops or hits an error, an automatic report is sent through Google Firebase Crashlytics so we can find the fault and fix it. This is the only way we see failures that nobody reports to us.
What a report contains:
What is never sent: any part of your files, their names or paths, your annotations, your search text, your name, your email or your location. These reports are never linked to your account if you are signed in. Uninstalling the app stops them.
Warraq AI has not launched. Nothing from your documents is sent to any server in the current version, and the in-app introduction screen is entirely local. When the feature does launch, the text of the document you choose will be sent to a model provider for processing, and only after your explicit consent, with filtering of generated content suited to an audience that includes teenagers. We will update this policy before enabling it.
Preferences (language, theme, output folder), annotations, recent file lists and libraries are all stored locally on your device. Uninstalling the app deletes them. Cloud backup of app data is deliberately disabled.
Files produced by the tools (merged, compressed and so on) are saved to the Warraq/Output or Downloads folder, whichever you choose. They remain yours alone: they are not removed when you uninstall the app, and they are never sent anywhere.
Warraq requests access to your device files (MANAGE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE on Android) for one purpose: to find the PDF files you already have and list them under "My Documents", and to save tool results where you ask. No file's contents are read unless you open it, and nothing from it is sent over the network.
Warraq is suitable for people aged 13 and over, including school students who use it for their studies. It is not directed at children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect any data from them. If we learn that we have received data from a child under 13, we delete it.
Anyone below the age of majority in their country uses Warraq with the consent and supervision of a parent or guardian. To protect younger users:
If you are a parent or guardian and believe your child under 13 has given us data, contact us at the address below.
If we change this policy materially — in particular when the AI feature launches — we will tell you inside the app before the change takes effect.
Privacy questions: privacy@warraqpdf.com
General support: support@warraqpdf.com