Playzy – Privacy Policy
Effective 8 November 2026 (version 0.3.1) · Applies to Playzy for Android (com.satyamlabs.playzy) · Developer: Satyam Kumar (Satyam Labs)
- Playzy plays the videos and music already on your phone, and the stream links you open. Everything it keeps stays on your phone.
- No account, no ads, no analytics, no crash reporting, no tracking. The app sends nothing to the developer.
- It goes online only when you ask it to: to play a link or playlist you open, and for the optional subtitle search after you add your own OpenSubtitles.com API key.
What the app keeps on your phone
To work, the app stores the following in its own private storage on your device. None of it is sent anywhere.
- A list of the videos and songs Android shows it (names, folders, length, size, video details) and their thumbnails.
- Where you stopped in each video and song, and the subtitle and audio timing you set for a file.
- What you played and when, for the History tab. You can remove items or clear it, or turn off Keep play history in Settings → Privacy.
- Your video and music playlists, the folders you excluded from the library (only their paths), and the icon, shape and color you chose for folders.
- Your settings, including recent searches.
- Subtitle files you opened or downloaded.
- Stream links you played (shown in History, with any name you gave them and the channel's logo address), the links and channels you added to Favourites, and the M3U playlists you imported, with their channel names, groups, logo addresses and links.
- Your equalizer settings.
- For the Privacy folder: the files you moved into it, and your PIN stored only as a salted hash (the PIN itself is never stored).
- If you use the optional subtitle search: your OpenSubtitles.com API key, username and password, if you enter them. They stay in the app's private settings on this phone and are only ever sent to OpenSubtitles.com.
The app turns off Android cloud backup for its data. Uninstalling the app, or clearing its data in Android settings, deletes all of it. This includes the files in the Privacy folder, so move them out first. Files in the Privacy folder are hidden and locked with your PIN; they are not encrypted.
When you share several files at once, the app makes a zip file in Download/Playzy so you can send it. That file is in your phone's shared storage and stays until you delete it.
Screenshots you take in the player are saved as pictures in Pictures/Playzy, in your phone's shared storage, where your gallery shows them. Videos from the Privacy folder can't be captured: the player blocks screenshots, screen recording and the recent-apps preview for them.
Streams: links and playlists you open
Playzy can play a link instead of a file: one you type or paste in the Stream tab, a link you share to Playzy or open with it from another app, or an entry of an M3U playlist you imported. Playzy does not provide, suggest or list any streams or channels; every link comes from you.
- To play a link, the app connects directly to the address in it, like a browser does, and fetches the video from there. That server receives the request with your IP address and the app's name and version, as with any internet connection. What it does with them is up to whoever runs it.
- When you import a playlist from a link, the app downloads that file once from its address. A playlist's channel logos are loaded from the addresses in the playlist.
- You can share a playlist you imported as a playlist file (.m3u) through Android's share menu. The app writes the file in its own private storage for that share (the next share replaces it) and Android hands it to the app you choose; it never goes through the developer. A playlist file someone sends you, opened with Playzy or shared to it, is imported like one you pick yourself.
- If a link fails to play, the app checks it once to tell you why: it asks the same server for the first few kilobytes at that address, as playing it would. The answer is only read on your phone.
- None of this goes through the developer, who never receives your links, playlists or what you watch.
The optional online subtitle search
Playzy can find subtitles on OpenSubtitles.com, an independent service. This only works after you add your own free OpenSubtitles API key in Settings → Subtitle; without a key, the app never connects. The developer does not receive any of this data.
What is sent to OpenSubtitles.com
- A fingerprint of the video (a hash worked out on your phone from the file's size and its first and last 64 KB). The video itself is never uploaded.
- The title, year, season and episode read from the file's name, or the title you type in the search box.
- The subtitle languages you want.
- Your API key, and the app's name and version.
- Your OpenSubtitles username and password, only if you entered them, to sign in for downloads.
- Like any internet connection, your IP address.
When it happens
- When you tap Search online in the player's subtitle menu and pick a result.
- Automatically, if Download subtitles automatically is on (it is on by default): when you open a video of 20 minutes or more that has no subtitle in your language, the app searches and downloads the best match. You can turn this off in Settings → Subtitle.
What OpenSubtitles.com does with requests is covered by its own privacy policy, on opensubtitles.com.
Permissions
| Permission | Why |
|---|---|
Videos and music (READ_MEDIA_VIDEO, READ_MEDIA_AUDIO, READ_MEDIA_VISUAL_USER_SELECTED; READ_EXTERNAL_STORAGE on Android 12L and older) | To find and play the videos and songs on your phone. Music access is asked the first time you open Music. |
Storage write (WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE, Android 10 and older only) | To rename, move and delete files when you ask, and on Android 9 and older to save player screenshots. Newer Android versions ask you each time instead, or need no permission. |
Internet (INTERNET, ACCESS_NETWORK_STATE) | To play the stream links and playlists you open, and for the optional subtitle search above. The network-state permission comes with the video engine and is not used by the app. |
Modify system settings (WRITE_SETTINGS) | Only when you choose Set as… for a song, to make it your ringtone, notification or alarm sound. Android asks you to allow it the first time; the app changes nothing else. |
Background playback (FOREGROUND_SERVICE, FOREGROUND_SERVICE_MEDIA_PLAYBACK, WAKE_LOCK) | To keep music (and video with Background play on) playing when you leave the app or the screen turns off, with controls in the notification. |
Fingerprint or face (USE_BIOMETRIC, USE_FINGERPRINT) | To unlock the Privacy folder with Android's own prompt. The app never sees your fingerprint or face. |
The app does not use your camera, microphone, location, contacts, phone, SMS, calendar or accounts, and does not read any device or advertising identifier.
Sharing
The developer does not sell, share or receive any of your data. When you share a file, it goes to the app you choose in Android's share menu. When you send an email from the About screen, your email app sends it; the developer uses your address only to reply.
Support payments
The About screen shows an optional UPI QR code and UPI ID for anyone who wants to support the app. It unlocks nothing and the app does not process payments: if you pay, your own UPI app and bank handle it. As with any UPI payment, the developer sees the name and UPI ID that the payment shows, and uses them only as a payment record.
Children
Playzy is a general media player for your own files. It is not aimed at children under 13 and does not knowingly collect personal information from anyone, children included.
Your choices
- Use the app fully offline: don't play stream links, and don't add an OpenSubtitles key (or turn off Search subtitles online in Settings).
- Remove favourites and imported playlists in the Stream tab, and played links in History, at any time.
- Remove items from History or clear it, or stop it from recording with Keep play history in Settings → Privacy.
- Remove your OpenSubtitles details in Settings → Subtitle at any time.
- Delete everything the app keeps by clearing its data in Android settings or uninstalling it.
Changes to this policy
If the app changes what it does with data, this page will be updated before the new version is released, with a new effective date at the top.
Contact
Satyam Kumar (Satyam Labs), Motihari, Bihar, India
Email: satyam0236@gmail.com
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