Effective date: 2026-10-17 Last updated: 2026-10-17
Trugbook is a notebook for a vegetable garden that you fill in yourself: your beds, what you sowed and planted in them, what you harvested, and a diary of the season with photos if you add them. We do not create accounts, do not ask for your email, and do not ship any analytics or tracking SDK. Your beds, plantings, harvests, diary and photos stay on your phone. Trugbook never sends them anywhere and never reads your location. They leave the phone only if you save a backup or a CSV file where you choose. A backup file and a CSV file are plain files and are not encrypted.
Trugbook has no location, camera or photo-library permission. There is no weather in it and it never knows where your garden is. A photo comes through Android’s own photo picker, which hands the app only the one picture you chose. Every total, season report and rotation note is worked out on the phone, so keeping the notebook never uses the internet. The app contains no code that can reach a server at all, apart from the advertising SDK described below, which receives nothing from your garden.
If that’s all you wanted to know, you’re done. The sections below spell it out in detail.
com.dashfusion.listgarden)The following is created and kept locally, in the app’s private storage:
Your garden, your diary and your photos are kept here and nowhere else. They leave the phone only when you act: a backup you save carries your whole garden and every photo, and a CSV file carries the harvests or plantings you chose. Trugbook never sends them anywhere itself.
The app explicitly opts out of Android cloud backup and device-to-device transfer, so Android never copies your garden to Google Drive or to another phone. A new phone starts with an empty garden unless you restore a backup you saved. The app says so in Settings.
You can delete a harvest, a diary entry, a planting with its harvests and diary, or a bed with everything in it; use Settings → Delete everything; or uninstall the app — Android removes the local data with it. Delete everything keeps only the month your season starts, how weights are shown, the rotation setting and your app preferences. We have no servers and no cloud storage. We cannot see your garden and we cannot recover it if you lose your device.
Trugbook asks for no storage permission for any of this: files go through Android’s own file picker.
The app contains the Google Mobile Ads SDK. It shows an occasional full-screen interstitial ad — only after you save a new harvest or a new diary entry, once its form has closed, never while you type and never as the app opens — plus an optional rewarded ad you can choose to watch to remove ads for 24 hours. There are no banner ads. Google may collect and process:
AdMob receives nothing from your garden: no bed, no crop, no harvest, no diary word, no photo, no keyword and no content URL. Like any ad in any app, an ad request does name the app it comes from. The approximate location above is Google’s estimate from your internet address; it is never your phone’s location, which Trugbook cannot read. Google’s handling of the data above is governed by Google’s own policies:
Consent (EEA, UK and Switzerland): on first launch the app shows Google’s certified consent form, and you choose whether personalised ads are allowed. You can change your answer at any time from Settings → Advert privacy options inside the app. You can also opt out of personalised advertising via your device’s system settings (Android: Settings → Privacy → Ads).
None. We don’t run any backend. We have no analytics SDK, no crash reporter that phones home, no Firebase, and no custom telemetry. There is no HTTP client anywhere in the app’s own code, and the build fails if one is ever added.
AD_ID) — required by Google Play for apps that serve ads; used by
AdMob as described above.That is all of them. Trugbook asks for no permission at runtime: Android never stops to ask you about one. It has no access to your location — no GPS, no fine or approximate location, no background location — and none to your camera, photos, media, files, contacts, messages, calendar or microphone, and it asks for none of them. It sends no notifications and asks for no notification permission: there is no reminder.
A few more permissions are merged into the final app package by the libraries the app is built on, so the list Google Play shows you is slightly longer than the one above. They are the Android Ad Services permissions, from the Google Mobile Ads SDK; wake-lock and foreground-service, from the Android scheduling library the ads SDK brings in; and one permission that only lets the app’s own parts talk to each other. None is a permission Android stops to ask you about, and none is used by any code we wrote: Trugbook holds no wake lock and runs no foreground service of its own. A test reads the built app’s own merged manifest on every run and fails the build if that list ever changes, or if any location, camera or media permission appears in it.
Trugbook is for adults who keep a vegetable garden or an allotment, and is intended for adults. It is not directed to children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect data from children — and, as above, we collect no personal data from anyone.
Trugbook writes down what you enter. It has no crop list and gives no growing advice: it never says when to sow, what to plant where or what a crop will give. A rotation note says which plant family grew in a bed in the seasons before, and never stops you saving. There is no money in the app at all.
If we change the data we collect or the third-party services we integrate, we will update this page and bump the “Last updated” date above. Material changes will be flagged in the app’s release notes as well.
Questions, requests, complaints: dash.fusion@outlook.com.