Last updated: 28 July 2026
LoopOut ("the app") counts the short-form videos you watch — Instagram Reels, YouTube Shorts, TikTok, Snapchat Spotlight and Facebook Reels — and helps you stay under a daily limit you set.
This policy describes exactly what the app accesses, what stays on your phone, and what is uploaded if you turn on cloud backup.
We do not sell your data. The app contains no ads, no analytics SDK, and no crash reporting.
To count videos, the app inspects the on-screen view hierarchy of a fixed list of apps, and no others:
com.instagram.android)com.google.android.youtube)com.zhiliaoapp.musically)com.snapchat.android)com.facebook.katana)This list is enforced by Android itself, from the app's accessibility configuration. The system delivers the app nothing at all about any other app you use.
The service looks for the signature of a full-screen short-video player and increments a counter. It reads video captions and creator names only in memory, and only to tell one video from the next so the same video is not counted twice. That text is never written to storage, never logged, and never uploaded. Messages, photos, browsing history and the content of any app are never read, stored or transmitted.
You enable this service yourself in Android Settings, after an explicit in-app explanation, and can disable it at any time in Settings → Accessibility.
With your permission, the app reads Android's own app-usage statistics to show how many minutes you spent in the tracked apps. This is queried live from the system each time it is displayed and is not stored in the app's database.
You can add other installed apps to track their screen time. For those apps the app stores the package name and label, and reads screen time only. Their on-screen content is never inspected.
This is removed when you uninstall the app or clear its storage in Android Settings.
Cloud backup is off until you both sign in with Google and choose "Enable backup" in the dialog shown immediately after sign-in. Declining leaves the app fully functional; nothing is uploaded.
Sign-in uses Google. The app receives your Google account identifier, name, email and profile-picture URL. Your Google password is never seen by the app. Sign-in alone uploads no usage data — backup is a separate choice.
Your profile picture, when shown in the app, is loaded directly from Google's servers.
If backup is on, the app uploads one row per completed day. Today is never uploaded; only days that have already ended. The complete list of fields is:
| Field | What it is |
|---|---|
user_id | Your account identifier |
date | The calendar date the row is for |
reels_instagram, reels_youtube, reels_tiktok, reels_snapchat, reels_facebook | Number of videos watched that day, per platform |
limit_instagram, limit_youtube, limit_tiktok, limit_snapchat, limit_facebook | The daily limits you had set |
minutes_instagram, minutes_youtube, minutes_tiktok, minutes_snapchat, minutes_facebook | Minutes spent in each app — only for the most recently completed day |
brain_health_score | The day's score, 0–100 |
under_limit, streak_day | Whether you stayed under your limit, and your streak length |
That is the entire list. Nothing else is transmitted. In particular the app never uploads: screen content, video titles, captions, creator names, which specific videos you watched, the apps you added to tracking, your per-app limits, your settings, or your parental PIN.
Backup begins from the day you turn it on. Days before that are not uploaded.
Backup data is stored with Supabase (Supabase Inc.), which provides the database and the
sign-in service. Data is held on Supabase infrastructure in Sydney, Australia (region
ap-southeast-2). If you are outside Australia, turning on backup means the data listed
above is transferred to and stored in Australia.
Access is enforced by database row-level security: rows are readable and writable only by the account that created them. Data is transmitted over HTTPS.
Supabase's privacy policy: https://supabase.com/privacy
No other third party receives your data.
All three controls are in the app, under Settings → your account:
If you cannot reach the app, email mehdiaasar0@gmail.com from the address you signed in with and your account and backed-up data will be deleted.
Solely to run the app's features: counting videos, enforcing the limits you set, showing your stats and streaks, and — if you enabled it — backing up your daily totals to your own account. It is not used for advertising or profiling, and it is not shared with anyone.
The app is not directed at children under 13 and does not knowingly collect data from them.
Material changes will be reflected by updating the date at the top of this policy.
Aasar Mehdi — mehdiaasar0@gmail.com