CurrencyHover

Privacy Policy

Last updated: 16 October 2026

1. What the app reads, and when

CurrencyHover uses Android's Accessibility service, which you switch on yourself after agreeing to an in-app explanation of what it reads. With it, the app can:

• Read the text shown by the app in front, but only while price tags or Translate screen are switched on (with the floating bubble, the Quick Settings tiles, or, for price tags, Auto-on for apps you chose), so it can find prices or translate the text.
• Take a screenshot for text recognition, if "Also read prices and text inside images" is on, to find prices and text drawn in pictures or maps. Translate screen also uses it to match the colors of the original text.
• Check which app is in front, so Auto-on can switch tags on in the apps you added and off elsewhere. Only the app's name is used.

In Price camera, the app reads the camera image, after you grant the camera permission.

On iPhone there is no Accessibility service, and the app cannot see other apps or your screen. It reads only:

• A screenshot or photo you give it: one you share to CurrencyHover from the share sheet, pick inside the app, or pass to its Shortcuts action (for example from a Back Tap shortcut you set up).
• The camera image, while the price camera is open, after you allow camera access.

2. How it is used

Only to find prices and show them converted, or to translate the text and show the translation where the original was, on your phone. Screen text, screenshots and camera images are processed in memory and then discarded. They are never logged or transmitted, by CurrencyHover or by us.

The one thing kept is a list of the last 30 prices CurrencyHover found or you converted in its Quick convert box, shown on its home screen: each price, its conversion, where it came from and when. It stays in the app's private storage on your phone and is cleared with one tap on the home screen. On Android the list names the app the price was in and is left out of backups and device transfers. On iPhone it says whether the price came from the price camera, a photo or a screenshot, and it is left out of iCloud and computer backups.

Text recognition, and on Android telling which language a text is in and translating it, use Google's ML Kit libraries, which run on the phone. As described in Google's ML Kit data disclosure, the libraries send Google basic diagnostics about how the features perform: device model and Android version, the app's name and version, a per-installation identifier that is not meant to identify you, and timings, sizes and error codes. Google uses these for diagnostics and usage analytics, encrypts them in transit and does not pass them to third parties. They describe how the features ran, not what was on your screen.

On iPhone, text recognition uses Apple's Vision framework, and Translate uses Apple's Translation framework; both run on the iPhone itself. Images are read in memory and discarded; they are not stored or sent anywhere.

3. What stays on your phone

Your settings, the list of Auto-on apps, your trip log, the last 30 prices found or converted and the cached exchange rates are kept in the app's private storage. Uninstalling the app or clearing its data removes them. If backup is switched on in your phone's settings, Android can include your settings and trip log (never the recent prices) in your own Google backup, which Google handles under its privacy policy and which we cannot read.

On iPhone, the same things are kept in the app's private storage, shared only with its own widget and share extension. Your settings and trip log (never the recent prices) are included in your iPhone backups, which Apple handles under its privacy policy and which we cannot read. Deleting the app removes them from the iPhone.

4. What we receive

Nothing. CurrencyHover has no account or sign-in, no analytics of its own, no advertising identifiers and no server of ours. It does not track you across apps or websites. The iPhone app's App Store privacy label reads "Data Not Collected", and the privacy manifest inside it declares no collected data and no tracking.

5. Internet use

The app downloads the exchange-rate table from ExchangeRate-API (open.er-api.com) and, if that is unavailable, from the free currency-api project (cdn.jsdelivr.net and currency-api.pages.dev). These requests carry no personal data; like any web request, those services see your IP address.

On Android, the first time you translate from or into a language, ML Kit downloads that language pack (about 30 MB) from Google. The request names the language, not anything on your screen; as with any web request, Google sees your IP address. Once downloaded, translation works offline.

On iPhone, the first time you translate from or into a language, iOS asks you before downloading it from Apple, which handles it under its privacy policy. The download names the language, not anything you photographed. Once downloaded, translation works offline.

6. Children

CurrencyHover is not directed at children.

7. This website

This site is static and sets no cookies. It loads Cloudflare Web Analytics, which counts page views without cookies, without fingerprinting, and without storing anything that identifies you.

8. Your rights

Depending on where you live you may have rights to access, correct or delete personal data we hold about you. For CurrencyHover we hold none. If you have emailed us, we hold that correspondence; write to the address under Contact and we will act on it. For your Google backup or Google Account, Google is the controller; for your iPhone backups or Apple Account, Apple is.

9. Changes

If our data practices change, this page and its date will change first, and the app's release notes will say so plainly.

10. Contact

CurrencyHover is made by Backrock Studios, a brand of 100 MPH Private Limited · show our email address