PayTally — published by Vibed Games
Last updated: 3 September 2026
This Privacy Policy explains what information the Android app PayTally
(the “App”, package com.vibedgames.paytally) handles, and where that
information goes. PayTally is a counter display for small merchants: it reads the payment
notifications your bank app already posts, announces them out loud, and keeps a running total
of the day’s takings. It is developed and published by Vibed Games
(“we”, “us”).
PayTally does not declare the android.permission.INTERNET permission. Android
refuses network access to any app that has not declared it, so PayTally cannot open a
network connection — not by mistake, not through a third-party library, and not in a
future update without that permission appearing in the app’s manifest, where anyone can
check for it.
You can verify this yourself: on the Google Play listing, under App info → Permissions, no network or internet permission is listed.
With notification access, which you grant yourself in Android’s settings, PayTally is shown notifications posted on your device. It records what it was shown in a local database so you can see what it did with each one. That record is only ever read on the device, and it is never transmitted.
Amounts, senders, account suffixes and the original notification text of matched payments are stored in a local database in PayTally’s private app storage, readable only by PayTally.
Voice, speech speed, business-day start hour and display preferences are stored locally on your device.
So the rule editor can show you a picker with names and icons instead of asking you to type a
package name, PayTally keeps a list of the apps that have posted a notification to this device
— the package name, the app’s name and its icon. PayTally does not
read the list of apps installed on your device; it does not hold the
QUERY_ALL_PACKAGES permission that would let it. The list is used only to draw
that picker, and is never transmitted.
All of it lives in PayTally’s private storage. Uninstalling the app deletes all of it
permanently. PayTally has automatic backup disabled
(android:allowBackup="false"), so none of it is copied to Google Drive or any
other cloud backup.
Two features move data off the device, and both require you to act:
In both cases you choose the destination, and this policy stops at PayTally’s edge: whatever you send the file to has its own privacy policy.
BIND_NOTIFICATION_LISTENER_SERVICE)
— the core function. Without it PayTally records nothing at all. You grant it yourself
in Android’s settings, and can withdraw it there at any time.
POST_NOTIFICATIONS — only so the Log screen can post test notifications to
itself. PayTally never notifies you about a payment; it speaks it.
REQUEST_IGNORE_BATTERY_OPTIMIZATIONS — so Android does not stop the
listener while your shop is open.
PayTally does not request internet access, location, camera, microphone, contacts, shared device storage, or the list of apps installed on your device.
There are none. PayTally contains no advertising, analytics, crash-reporting or attribution SDKs, and no backend of ours or anyone else’s. We do not sell your data, we do not share it, and we do not receive it in the first place.
PayTally is a business tool and is not directed at children. We do not knowingly collect personal information from anyone, children included.
PayTally’s database and settings live in the app’s private storage, which Android makes readable only by PayTally. Because nothing is transmitted, there is no server to breach and no account to compromise. No method of storage is completely secure, and data on your device is only as protected as the device itself — a screen lock is worth having.
Any change to this policy will be published here with an updated date. If a future version ever collects data, that will require new permissions visible on the Google Play listing before you update.
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, contact:
Vibed Games
Email: vibedappsgames@gmail.com