Privacy Policy

In short

• No sign-in and no account. No ads. Tokumo has no analytics, tracking or crash-reporting code of its own.
• To work as your home screen, Tokumo reads things like the list of apps on your device. It uses them only on your device.
• Tokumo sends nothing about you to us. We don’t sell personal information, and we don’t use it for advertising.
• If you’ve agreed to share usage and diagnostics data with Google, Google may give us reports when Tokumo crashes or stops responding (see What leaves your device).
• If you buy Tokumo Pro, Google Play handles the payment, and Google gives us a record of the order.
• If you email us, we use your message to help you and to improve Tokumo.

Who we are

Be Prime LLC (“we,” “us”) makes Tokumo and runs this website. Be Prime LLC is a Florida limited liability company.

For privacy questions and requests, write to privacy@tokumo.app. For everything else, write to support@tokumo.app.

What Tokumo reads, on your device only

To work as your home screen, Tokumo reads the following on your device. It uses this information only there, to show, sort and open your apps and to run its own screens.

• Your apps. Apps with a home-screen icon, plus a device maker’s companion apps if they’re installed: their names, icons and banners, category, install and update dates, and whether they are system apps. Tokumo also works out each icon’s main color on your device. It lists and uses only your own apps, not those in a work profile or private space. Android may still tell Tokumo that an app there changed, or pass on a request from one to add a shortcut; Tokumo ignores or turns these down.
• Those apps’ shortcuts, while Tokumo is your home app: their names, pictures and IDs. These come from the app that made each shortcut and can include a person’s name or picture, such as a chat shortcut. Tokumo uses them only on your device.
• When and for how long you used apps, only if you turn on Usage access (see below).
• Your controllers: their names, model IDs, buttons, sticks and battery level, for button prompts, the controller test and saved button maps. Tokumo also checks whether a mouse or trackpad is connected, so it knows when to show a pointer.
• Your device’s status: battery and whether it’s charging, network type, clock and its 24-hour setting, volume and brightness, for the top bar and the Quick panel; the system icon shape, for tiles; whether Tokumo is your home app; whether you’ve allowed Usage access and brightness control; and whether Android’s Developer options are on, only to decide whether to show that card in SYSTEM (Tokumo doesn’t keep this).
• A backup file: the one you pick to restore, and the one you save, read back once to check it.
• Not your wallpaper: Android draws it behind Tokumo, which never reads or copies it.

Google Play’s policies treat the list of apps on your device, and how you use them, as personal and sensitive information, even when it never leaves the device. We treat it the same way: Tokumo uses it only to run your home screen on your device, and never uploads, sells or shares it.

Tokumo doesn’t read your contacts, location, camera, microphone, photos or other media, accounts, notifications, or what’s on your clipboard. It reads no identifiers of your phone or tablet, such as its serial number or advertising ID. For controllers, see Controller setups under What Tokumo keeps on your device.

Usage access

Usage access is an optional Android setting that lets an app read Android’s record of when and for how long you used your apps. It’s off until you turn it on, and Tokumo always explains it before it opens Android’s Usage access screen.

• What Tokumo reads: Android’s summary of the last 7 days (when each app was last used, and for how long) and of the last 30 days (when each app was last used).
• What it’s for: “Played 2h ago” for games and apps you opened anywhere, not only from Tokumo; time played this week; recently played first in PLAY and WATCH & LISTEN; and the APPS sorts “Recently used” and “Most played”.
• Where it stays: Android keeps your app usage history. Tokumo reads it on your device, holds it only in memory while it runs, and uses it only for the apps it shows. It never saves it, puts it in a backup, uploads it or shares it.
• Turn it off any time: Android Settings › Apps › Special app access › Usage access › Tokumo. Without it everything else still works; Tokumo then only remembers what you start from it.

Permissions and why

These are all the permissions Tokumo asks Android for. The first two are optional and stay off until you turn them on in Android’s settings.

• Usage access (optional): “Played 2h ago” for apps opened anywhere, time played this week, recent first. See Usage access.
• Modify system settings (optional): only the brightness slider in the Quick panel, when you move it. Moving it also turns Android’s adaptive brightness off. Without this permission, the slider shows “Allow” instead.
• Ask to uninstall apps: “Uninstall” in an app’s options. Android asks you to confirm, so Tokumo can’t remove an app by itself.
• Vibration: short taps as button feedback. They’re on (Light) by default, and SYSTEM › Customize › Haptics can turn them off.
• View network state: whether you’re connected, on mobile data or offline, for the network icon in the top bar and the network card in SYSTEM. Tokumo reads no network names, addresses or traffic.
• Internet: so Android’s web view can load Tokumo’s built-in screens. In versions that sell Tokumo Pro, a part that comes with Google’s billing library would also use it to upload logs to Google, but we removed that route (see What leaves your device). Tokumo’s web view refuses every web address except its own built-in one.
• Google Play billing: so Google’s billing library can sell Tokumo Pro through Google Play: prices, the checkout and your purchases.
• Tokumo’s private permission: added by an Android library that Google’s billing library uses. On older versions of Android it keeps messages between Tokumo’s own parts away from other apps. Only Tokumo holds it, and it gives no access to anything else.

The last two come with Google’s billing library, described under What leaves your device. If a later version needs any other permission, we list it here before that version is released.

Tokumo doesn’t ask for your location, contacts, camera, microphone, photos and media, files, accounts, phone, nearby devices or notifications, or to draw over other apps, and it isn’t an accessibility service. Backups need no access to your files either: Tokumo can add a file to your Downloads folder without it, and you pick any other place, or the file to restore, in Android’s own file screen.

What Tokumo keeps on your device

Tokumo saves these in its private storage on your device, which other apps can’t read:

• Your setup: favorites, hidden apps, collections with their names, “Show in…” choices and every Customize setting except Button hints. Because your setup lists the apps in it, it includes their IDs (package and activity names), and the IDs of shortcuts you favorite, hide, put in a collection or move with “Show in…”.
• Your place: when you last started each app or shortcut from Tokumo, and which tab and tile you were on.
• First-open setup: whether Tokumo has shown it, which of its steps you last left for Android’s settings, and whether it has shown you the Tokumo Pro page.
• Button hints: on a phone, your choice in SYSTEM › Customize › Button hints. It isn’t in a backup file.
• Controller setups: learned button maps and the button letter check. Each controller’s setup is filed under a short one-way code made from Android’s identifier for that controller; the identifier itself isn’t stored.
• Tokumo Pro: Google Play’s last answer (whether Pro is on, its state and its estimated dates), when it came, and the latest time Tokumo has seen on your device’s clock since then, so Pro keeps working while you’re offline. For a plan bought in Tokumo, also when you bought it and whether it began with the free trial. After a checkout in Tokumo, how it ended (for example bought, pending, canceled or failed), and a count of checkouts. Tokumo also notes which Pro notices and reminders you’ve already seen, by their dates, whether Pro has ended, and a few counts, such as how many times Pro has been paused. None of this holds payment details, order numbers or purchase tokens.
• Shortcuts you’ve just added, with their names, for a short while, until Tokumo puts them on your screen.
• A cache of app and shortcut icons and each app’s main color, made on your device so screens load quickly.

Tokumo keeps Android’s record of your app usage and your device’s status only in memory and never saves them.

Tokumo also writes short technical notes, such as errors, to Android’s system log on your device. In versions from Google Play they don’t name your apps, shortcuts or controllers. Tokumo doesn’t send them anywhere.

Tokumo doesn’t sync any of this, and Android’s cloud backup is turned off for it. On some devices, though, Android’s device-to-device transfer during a new device’s setup can still copy it across.

To erase it: Android Settings › Apps › Tokumo › Storage › Clear storage (a backup file stays where you saved it). Uninstalling Tokumo erases it too.

Backup files

A backup file is made only when you ask, and goes only to your Downloads folder or the place you pick. If that place is a cloud service, that service uploads it. Tokumo never uploads it.

• What’s in it: when it was made and your Tokumo version; your favorites, collections and folders with their names, hidden apps and “Show in…” choices; and every Customize setting except Button hints. It lists the apps and shortcuts in them by their IDs (a shortcut’s ID comes from the app that made it), so keep it like a private note.
• What isn’t: your apps themselves, the pins behind your shortcut tiles (pin them again), learned button maps, the button letter check, play history, Tokumo Pro, and what Android asks for again (default home app, Usage access, brightness control).
• It isn’t encrypted. It’s a plain text file, so anyone who can open it can read it.
• Restoring shows you what would change first. Nothing is replaced until you choose Restore.

What leaves your device

Tokumo itself

Every Tokumo screen is built into the app. Tokumo has no ads, analytics, tracking or crash-reporting code of its own. Its web view loads only Tokumo’s built-in screens and refuses every other web address, and Tokumo’s screens make no other connections. Tokumo sends nothing about you to us: not your apps, not your play time, not your settings.

Apart from the apps and shortcuts you start, the only web pages Tokumo opens are this privacy policy, our terms of use and Google Play’s subscriptions page, and only when you choose them. They open outside Tokumo, in your browser or in Google Play.

Google Play purchases

Versions of Tokumo that sell Tokumo Pro include Google’s billing library, which works with Google Play on your device to show prices, start a purchase, check your purchases and confirm new ones to Google Play. Google Play is Google’s own app, and what it does with those requests follows Google’s privacy policy, not this one. See Buying Tokumo Pro.

The library also brings in Google’s data transport, a part that would upload the library’s technical logs to Google. In the versions of Tokumo we now release on Google Play, we removed the entry that connects the transport to Google’s logging service, its one upload route. We tested a version with this change on a real device: prices and a test purchase still worked, Android’s log showed no upload from Tokumo, and Android’s count of Tokumo’s network traffic didn’t go up. That test covers that version on that device, not every device.

Android’s web view

Tokumo draws its screens with Android’s web view, which comes with your device, and has turned off the web view’s usage statistics for Tokumo. If you’ve agreed to share usage and diagnostics data with Google on your device, the web view may still send Google a report when it crashes. That reporting is Google’s and follows Google’s privacy policy. Tokumo doesn’t see it.

Crash reports through Google Play

If you’ve agreed to share usage and diagnostics data with Google, Google may give us reports when Tokumo crashes or stops responding, through its tools for developers. Tokumo has no crash-reporting code of its own.

Things you choose to share

• If you save a backup to a cloud folder, that app uploads it, not Tokumo.
• SYSTEM › Controller › Copy support report copies a plain-text report to your clipboard, only when you press it. It lists the app and Android versions, your screen size, your controller settings, and each connected controller’s name, model IDs, layout, stick and trigger ranges and battery level, with no serial numbers or addresses. Nothing is sent unless you paste it into a message yourself.

Buying Tokumo Pro

• Tokumo Pro is sold only through Google Play. Google processes the payment under Google’s privacy policy. We never see your card or other payment details.
• In versions that sell Tokumo Pro, Tokumo asks Google Play on your device for prices and for your purchases, confirms new purchases to Google Play, and keeps Google Play’s last answer on your device. Purchases are checked on your device: there is no Tokumo server, and the app sends nothing about your purchases to us.
• For each purchase, Google gives us an order record for accounting, tax, refunds and support: the order number, date, product, price, tax and currency, the device model, and the buyer’s country and, where Google provides them, state, city and postal code. The sales reports Google gives us don’t include your name or email address.
• If you write to us about a purchase, we can find the order in Google Play’s records by its order number, or by your Google account’s email address if you give it to us.
• Tokumo Pro is never in a backup file. Google Play restores it on a new device signed in to the same Google account.

Reviews and tests on Google Play

If you review Tokumo on Google Play, we see your review as Google shows it to us: the name on it, your rating and words, and details such as your device, Android version and Tokumo version. We may reply, and Google shows our reply publicly. If we invite you to test Tokumo before its release, we keep the email address we invited while the test runs, and we see any feedback you send through the test.

This website

tokumo.app sets no cookies of its own, has no analytics, ads or scripts, and loads nothing from other sites.

Our web host delivers the pages and protects the site against attacks. To do that, it processes technical information about each visit on our behalf, such as your IP address, the page you asked for, the time and your browser type. We can see a sample of these records, including IP addresses, for up to 31 days, and we use them only to keep the site working and secure. If the host ever needs to check that a visitor isn’t a bot, it may set a strictly necessary security cookie. If a page fails to load, your browser may send our web host a short error report.

Links to Google Play and to Google’s pages take you to Google, where Google’s privacy policy applies.

When you email us

If you write to support@tokumo.app or privacy@tokumo.app, we get your email address, your message and anything you attach, such as a controller support report. We use them to answer you, to keep a record of what we agreed, and to fix problems and improve Tokumo, and we never add you to a mailing list. Our email provider stores the messages for us. Please don’t send passwords or card numbers.

Who else gets information

We don’t sell personal information, and we don’t share it for advertising. Information reaches others only in these cases:

• Google, when you buy through Google Play, and for the Android and Google Play reporting described above, under Google’s privacy policy.
• Our service providers: our email provider and our web host, which store and deliver our email and this website for us, and the tools we use to keep track of bug reports and ideas, which can include AI assistants that help us sort them and draft replies.
• Our accountant or bookkeeper, for tax and accounting (order records only).
• A company that takes over Tokumo, for example one set up just for Tokumo. This policy keeps applying to what it receives, and we’ll say so here first.
• A cloud service you pick for a backup file, under its own terms.
• Authorities, if the law requires us to share something.

Keeping it safe

• Tokumo keeps its data in its private app storage, which other apps can’t read.
• Its screens are built in, and its web view refuses every outside web address, so nothing from the web runs inside Tokumo.
• Tokumo’s debugging tools are turned off in versions from Google Play.
• Backup files aren’t encrypted, so keep them somewhere private.
• Our Google Play developer account is protected with 2-Step Verification, and our email account with two-factor authentication.

How long it’s kept, and deleting it

• On your device: until you delete it. Android Settings › Apps › Tokumo › Storage › Clear storage erases it, and so does uninstalling Tokumo. Tokumo never saves Android’s record of your app usage. It keeps only the time you last started each app or shortcut from Tokumo (see What Tokumo keeps on your device).
• Backup files: yours to keep or delete.
• Emails to us: we keep them for 12 months after the conversation ends, then delete them.
• Order records: we keep our own copies, such as downloaded sales reports, for 7 years after the purchase, for tax and accounting and as a record of what you bought, then delete them. Google keeps its own records in Play Console under Google’s privacy policy, and we can’t delete those.
• Test invitations: we remove your email address from our list of testers when the test ends.
• Website records: we can see them for up to 31 days.

To ask what we hold about you, or to have your emails deleted sooner, write to privacy@tokumo.app. We’ll do it unless the law requires us to keep something. We can’t delete Google’s own records.

Children

Tokumo is for people 13 and over and isn’t directed to children. We don’t knowingly collect personal information from children under 13. If we learn that a child under 13 has written to us, we delete the message. Parents can contact privacy@tokumo.app.

Do Not Track

Tokumo and tokumo.app don’t track you over time or across other sites and apps, and we don’t let other companies do so through them, so there is nothing for a browser’s Do Not Track signal to switch off.

Changes to this policy

When we change this policy, we post the new version here with a new effective date, and keep the earlier version on this site at a dated address linked from this section. If a change is significant, we also say so in the app. Before Tokumo sends any new kind of information off your device, beyond what this policy describes, the version that does so explains it and asks you first, and sends nothing unless you agree. We update this policy before that version is released.

Earlier versions: the policy effective November 5, 2026, the policy effective November 4, 2026.

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