Privacy Camera: Secure, Simple

Privacy Camera is a camera that does nothing else. It has no internet permission. Not "we promise not to upload" - the permission is absent from the app, so the operating system will refuse the connection even if the app asked. You can check this yourself: open the permission list for this app and see for yourself what is not there. WHAT IT DOES Photo, video and barcode scanning. Pinch to zoom, tap to focus, long-press to lock it. Exposure compensation on a slider you can actually reach one-handed. Timer, grid, flash, aspect ratio, and a level horizon for straightening shots. The scanner reads 17 barcode types - QR codes, product barcodes, tickets and passes, parcel labels - and lets you pick which ones to look for so it stops guessing. WHAT IT REMOVES Every photo is rebuilt before it is saved. Location, camera model, timestamps, timezone, lens data, serial numbers, colour profiles and maker notes are all discarded. Only the orientation is kept, because without it your photos appear sideways in other apps. This is not a list of tags we remember to delete. Nothing is copied forward at all, so metadata your phone invents in a future update cannot survive either. Geo-tagging exists if you want it, off by default, and asks for location only when you turn it on. WHAT IT WILL NOT DO No account. No sign-in. No cloud. No ads. No analytics. No crash reporting. No notifications. No "upgrade to Pro". Nothing to dismiss. Captures are saved straight to your gallery in DCIM/PrivacyCamera, as ordinary JPEG and MP4 files. There is no separate vault to lose them in and nothing proprietary about the format. If you uninstall this app tomorrow your photos are exactly where you left them. WHY IT COSTS NOTHING Every feature is free and always will be. There is a tip jar in Settings if you want to buy me a coffee. It unlocks nothing, it is one collapsed line you can scroll past, and the app never mentions it again. BUILT ON Android's CameraX, so it uses the same capture path your phone's own camera app does, including hardware stabilisation and full sensor resolution. Requires Android 8.0 or later.

Privacy Camera is a camera that does nothing else. It has no internet permission. Not "we promise not to upload" - the permission is absent from the app, so the operating system will refuse the connection even if the app asked. You can check this yourself: open the permission list for this app and see for yourself what is not there.