Intent helps you put the phone down for a set time. It does not create an account and does not ask for your name, email, or phone number. Almost everything it remembers stays on your phone. It does not run its own website that collects your focus time, steps, or screen-time history.
What stays on your phone
Intent may keep, only on this device:
- Your focus timers, and a simple history of sessions you finished or ended early.
- Choices you make: apps allowed during focus, whether Phone stays allowed, quiet mode during a session, uninstall protection, and how quickly the screen turns off.
- Whether you have already seen the first-run screens.
- If you turn on step access: daily step counts used to earn Keys, and which Keys you hold or have used.
- If you turn on usage access: a weekly picture of how long apps were open, used only for Your tree.
- A note on the phone of whether Google Play says you have Intent Pro, and whether you already used a free look at Keys or Your tree.
While a focus session is running, Intent looks at which app is on screen so it can bring you back and lock the phone if you leave an allowed app. It does not save that live view, and it does not read what you type or your messages.
The list of apps you can pick is built on your phone so you can choose what stays allowed. That list is not sent away.
Steps and Keys
Keys come from walking. If you allow it, Intent reads only your daily step total through Health Connect. It does not ask for other health information and it does not add or change your health records.
Those daily totals stay on your phone to decide when you have earned a Key. Intent does not send your steps to the developer. Health Connect is part of Android and Google on your device; anything it shares with other health apps is up to you and those apps, not Intent.
You can turn step access off in Health Connect or Android settings. Intent will stop reading new steps. What is already on the phone stays until you clear Intent’s storage or uninstall the app.
Screen time and Your tree
Your tree is optional (included with Intent Pro, with a short free look the first time). If you switch on usage access in Android settings, Intent can see how long apps were in the foreground, and when the screen was on or off. It cannot see what you did inside those apps.
Phone and the apps you allow during focus count as time on the phone, but not as “distracting” time. Your tree is drawn from that. Usage access is only for the tree, not for blocking apps during focus.
This weekly picture stays on your phone. It is not included if you back the phone up or copy apps to a new device, so another phone does not inherit this tree. Intent does not upload it. If access is off, or Android has no records for a day, that day is shown as unknown — not as a quiet day.
Focus sessions and your settings
When you start a session, Intent remembers the timer and your settings on the phone. When it ends, a line is added to History. During a session it may quiet notifications if you asked, dim or lock the screen, hide the notification shade, and bring you back to the countdown.
Uninstall protection, if you turn it on, stops the app from being removed until you turn that protection off. Locking the screen happens on the device. Nobody can lock your phone from the internet through Intent.
Backups and deleting data
Your session history and everyday settings may be included in Android backup if you use it. Keys, Your tree, your Pro status on the phone, and the free-preview note are not copied in backup, so a restore cannot bring back used Keys or a used-up preview.
There is no Delete everything button inside Intent. Uninstall the app, or clear its storage in Android settings, to remove what it saved on the phone. A subscription with Google Play stays with Google until you cancel it there. Step history in Health Connect stays with Health Connect.
Why Intent asks for access
- Alarms — so a session can end on time even if the app is closed.
- Notifications — to tell you when a session is over, or still running after a restart.
- Vibration — light taps in the buttons.
- Start at boot — to continue a session that was still running.
- Do Not Disturb — optional quiet during a session, then your usual setting comes back.
- Change screen timeout — optional short delay before the screen sleeps during a session, then your usual delay comes back.
- Notification shade — to close it if you pull it down during a session.
- Accessibility — required for focus: see which app is open, bring you back, lock the screen. It does not collect typing or read messages.
- Uninstall protection — optional, so the app cannot be removed while you leave it on.
- Steps — optional, for Keys.
- App usage — optional, for Your tree.
Payments
Intent Pro is a subscription you buy in Google Play, monthly or yearly. Prices, payment, restore, and cancel all go through Google Play. Intent only remembers on the phone whether Play last said the subscription is active. Your card details stay with Google.
To cancel or change the plan, use Payments & subscriptions in Google Play. Intent can open that page for you.
Internet, ads, and other services
Intent does not include ads, and it does not include a tracker that reports how you use the app to the developer. It does not send your focus sessions, steps, or screen-time history to a site the developer runs.
The phone may still talk to Google when you use Play to pay, Health Connect for steps, or when the app loads its on-screen font. Links you tap (Play Store, Health Connect, this policy, or About) open other apps. Those companies have their own privacy rules.
Sharing and how long things stay
Intent does not sell your information. The developer cannot see your sessions, steps, or app use on a dashboard. Google may see what you already share with Play, Health Connect, backup, or fonts.
History and settings stay until you clear the app or uninstall. Older step days used for Keys are not kept forever. Your tree weeks stay until you clear the app. Pro status and the free-preview note stay until you clear the app.
Children
Intent is meant for people who can manage their own phone permissions. It does not offer child accounts and does not try to collect a child’s name or email. If a child used the app, uninstalling it removes what it saved on that phone. Age ratings are on the Google Play listing.
Changes
If how Intent handles information changes, this page will be updated and the date at the top will change. Settings in the app opens this page.
Operator
Pugal G, an individual software developer and student in Karnataka, India (PIN 560099).
Privacy contact
This page describes the Intent app. It is not legal advice. Google Play, Health Connect, and other Google services follow Google’s own terms and privacy policy.