Your data stays on your device.

Last updated: September 3, 2026

Interlude is a browser extension and an Android app, both built with no accounts, no backend, and no server of any kind. This page explains exactly what that means in practice, for either version, so you don't have to take our word for it on faith.

What Interlude collects

Nothing leaves your device, on either platform. The only information Interlude has is whatever you choose to give it directly, inside the extension or the app: the sites or apps you add, the category you assign them, any one-line reflections you write, your fast settings, and basic local counts used for your own weekly and yearly summaries. None of it is collected, transmitted, or visible to us. There's nowhere for it to go, since Interlude has no server to send it to, on the browser or on Android.

Where it's stored

In the browser extension, everything is saved using your browser's own local storage (chrome.storage.local in Chrome, the equivalent in Firefox), directly on your computer. In the Android app, everything is saved in a local database on your phone, using Android's own on-device storage - never a cloud database, never anything we host. Neither version ever syncs to any account, ours or anyone else's, and neither ever touches a network request to do so. Uninstalling the extension or the app deletes all of it immediately and permanently.

What Interlude never does

No accounts or sign-in of any kind
No cloud sync, no servers, no database we host
No analytics or usage tracking inside the extension or the app
No ads, and no selling or sharing of data, because none is ever collected to sell or share
No access to your browsing beyond the specific sites you've chosen to add
No internet permission on Android - the app has no way to reach a network at all, let alone send anything over one

Permissions in the browser extension

Interlude only ever runs on the exact domains you add yourself. It does not request access to every site you visit, and it never has the ability to see, read, or interact with any site you haven't explicitly added. The one browser permission it uses is local storage, so your settings and reflections persist between sessions, entirely on your own device.

Permissions in the Android app

There's no such thing as a browser extension on a phone, so the Android app asks for a couple of things differently - here's exactly what each one does.

Accessibility Service. This is the one Android specifically asks you to confirm yourself, in its own settings, since it's a powerful permission and it's worth being precise about it. Interlude uses it for exactly one thing: noticing which app you've just opened, so it knows when to show you a pause screen for an app you've chosen to pause on. It never reads anything on your screen, never logs what you type, and never sends anything anywhere. Android's own permission screen for this is intentionally cautious in its wording, since the same permission could be misused by a different app to do far more - Interlude simply doesn't.

Display over other apps. This is what lets the pause screen actually appear on top of the app you opened, instead of underneath it. It's used only to show that screen, for the apps you've chosen, and for nothing else.

No internet permission. The Android app never requests internet access at all. It has no ability to make a network request, receive one, or send anything anywhere - not a policy, an actual absence of the permission that would make it possible.

This website is not the extension or the app

This page you're reading right now, interludeapp.org, is a separate marketing website, not the extension or the app itself, and it does use standard web analytics (Google Analytics and the Meta Pixel) to understand traffic to this site. Those tools set cookies, but they only load after you actively accept the cookie banner shown on your first visit, they never load automatically. You can decline, and nothing loads at all. They have no connection whatsoever to the extension, the app, or to anything you do inside either one. The privacy guarantees above apply to the Interlude browser extension and Android app specifically.

Children's privacy

Interlude is not directed at children under 13, and we don't knowingly collect information from anyone, of any age, since neither the extension nor the app collects information at all.

Changes to this policy

If anything here ever changes, meaningfully, we'll update this page and the date above. Given neither the extension nor the app has a backend by design, there isn't much room for that to happen, but we'd rather say so plainly than leave it unstated.

Contact

Questions about any of this: hello [at] interludeapp [dot] org.