Odd Little Art Privacy Policy

Last updated: November 11, 2026

Odd Little Art is a small art studio with twelve creative experiences and an editable gallery. You can save pictures and short, silent videos of your canvas. This policy describes Odd Little Art for Android, distributed through Google Play, and Odd Little Art for iPhone, iPad, Mac and Apple Vision Pro. Both keep your artwork on the device you use; each has its own section below.

On Android

The short version

Odd Little Art keeps your artwork on your device. There’s no Odd Little Art account or server, no ads, no analytics and no tracking, and the Android app has no permission to use the internet. Odd Little Art never sends your artwork, or anything else, to the developer.

What Odd Little Art keeps on your device

Odd Little Art stores these in its private app storage, which other apps can’t read:

• each artwork you make, kept editable: its material or experience, positions and colors, the vessel’s shape and turn, motion settings, and the tools you were using;
• a small preview picture of each artwork for your gallery;
• exact copies of any artwork file the app couldn’t read, kept rather than deleted, so a damaged save never erases your work;
• the tools, color and vessel you used last, so a new artwork starts the way you like;
• your appearance choice, personal colors and palettes, sound preferences for each experience, and collection display, sort and filter choices;
• local creation counts, recent-use dates and active canvas time, used to organize and display your collection.

Odd Little Art doesn’t add a lock or encryption of its own: anyone who can unlock your device and open the app can see your artwork.

Saved pictures and videos

Saving a picture puts a PNG image of your artwork in your device’s Pictures folder. Saving a canvas video puts a short, silent video in Movies. Android needs no storage permission for these exports. They become ordinary media files on your device: your gallery app, and any app you’ve allowed to see your photos and videos, such as a backup service, can see them under its own terms. Odd Little Art doesn’t read your other pictures or videos, or use your camera or microphone to record the canvas.

Device tilt

When device tilt is on, Odd Little Art reads your device’s motion sensor while an artwork is open, to choose which way is downhill. Android needs no permission for this. The readings aren’t stored or sent anywhere; only the resulting downhill direction becomes part of your artwork. You can switch tilt off and use the direction dial instead.

Backup and moving to a new device

Android can include your artwork and your Odd Little Art preferences in your device backup, and can copy them to a new device when you set it up. Odd Little Art allows cloud backup only when Android encrypts it end to end with your screen lock (PIN, pattern or password), so the developer can’t read it. Without that encryption, Odd Little Art is left out of cloud backup. A direct transfer to a new device goes from device to device rather than through a server. Saved pictures and videos follow your gallery’s or photo app’s own backup settings.

You control backup in your device’s settings. The Android app doesn’t sync with other devices.

What Odd Little Art doesn’t do

• No account or sign-in.
• No ads, analytics, crash-reporting or tracking tools, and no third-party code that collects data.
• No selling or sharing of your information.
• No internet access: the Android app doesn’t request the permission.
• No access to your contacts, location, camera, microphone or files, and it doesn’t read your photos.

Google Play and Android may give the developer statistics such as install counts, and crash or freeze reports from people who chose to share diagnostics with Google. Google provides those reports under its own privacy policy. Odd Little Art doesn’t write your artwork into logs or diagnostics.

Keeping and deleting your artwork

Your artwork stays on your device until you remove it. Starting something new keeps the previous artwork in your gallery. Odd Little Art doesn’t yet have a way to delete a single artwork inside the app; to remove everything Odd Little Art keeps on a device, clear its storage in Android settings or uninstall it. Pictures and videos you saved stay in Pictures and Movies until you delete them there. An encrypted backup in your Google account follows your Google backup settings.

Odd Little Art never sends your artwork to the developer, so there’s nothing for the developer to delete on a server.

On iPhone, iPad, Mac and Apple Vision Pro

The short version

On Apple devices, Odd Little Art keeps the same editable studio library on the device you use. It doesn’t sync between devices, and there is no Odd Little Art account, server, advertising, analytics or tracking. Odd Little Art doesn’t send your artwork to the developer.

What Odd Little Art keeps on your device

Odd Little Art keeps your editable artwork, gallery previews, exact copies of any artwork file it couldn’t read, your last-used tools, color and vessel, personal colors and palettes, appearance, per-experience sound, and collection display, sort and filter preferences in its private app storage. It also keeps local creation counts, recent-use dates and active canvas time to organize and display your collection. On devices that save pictures to Photos, local export records help recognize artwork already saved there and avoid accidental duplicate pictures. These records stay on your device.

Saved pictures and videos

On iPhone, iPad and Apple Vision Pro, saving a picture or canvas video adds it to Photos. The first time, your device asks whether Odd Little Art may add photos; that permission lets it add pictures and videos but not see your library. On Mac, saving asks where to put the picture or video, and Odd Little Art can write only the file you choose: it runs in Apple’s app sandbox with access only to files you pick. Canvas videos are silent recordings of the artwork; they do not use your camera or microphone.

Device tilt

On iPhone and iPad, Odd Little Art can read your device’s motion sensors while an artwork is open, to choose which way is downhill. The readings aren’t stored or sent anywhere; only the resulting direction becomes part of your artwork.

Backups

Your device’s own backups, such as iCloud Backup or a backup to your computer, may include your Odd Little Art library, under Apple’s settings and terms. Pictures and videos you saved to Photos follow your Photos settings.

Deleting your artwork

On iPhone, iPad and Apple Vision Pro, deleting the app removes its local app data. On Mac, deleting the app alone can leave its local library behind; contact us if you need help removing it. Pictures and videos you saved stay in Photos, or wherever you saved them on your Mac, until you delete them there.

This website and questions

This website is hosted by GitHub Pages and uses no scripts, cookies, analytics or outside resources. GitHub may record technical information, such as your IP address, when it serves the pages; see the GitHub General Privacy Statement. Questions are public GitHub issues: posting requires a GitHub account, and everything you post there is public.

Changes to this policy

If Odd Little Art starts keeping or sharing anything new, this page will change first, with a new date at the top.

Contact

Odd Little Art is made by Dan Bretl. For questions about this policy, open a GitHub issue.