Privacy policy

Effective November 8, 2026. Applies to the Wristory app for Wear OS and to getwristory.com.

Wristory doesn't sell your data, show ads or use analytics. The app talks to the Audiobookshelf server you set up and control. The only thing it sends to CLS Studio, the developer, is crash reports.

Who this is from

Wristory is made by CLS Studio. It's an independent app and isn't affiliated with or endorsed by the Audiobookshelf project. For anything about this policy, email [email protected].

What stays on your watch

• Your server address and username, and a sign-in token, encrypted with a key held in the watch's secure hardware. Your password is never stored.
• Audiobooks and podcast episodes you download, with their cover images.
• Your listening position, what you played recently, bookmarks and your settings.

None of this is backed up to the cloud or copied when you move to a new watch.

What goes to your Audiobookshelf server

To work, the app sends your own server what any Audiobookshelf app does: your username and password when you sign in (or an SSO sign-in, if your server uses one), your listening progress, listening sessions, bookmarks, and a standard identifier for the watch so the server can tell your devices apart. Your server is run by you or whoever gave you an account, and what happens there is up to them.

Crash reports

When the app crashes or hits a serious error, a report goes to Google's Firebase Crashlytics so CLS Studio can fix it. A report can include:

• a technical trace of what the code was doing, and short notes the app logs along the way (item ids and counts, never titles, names or addresses);
• the watch model and Android version;
• random installation identifiers that aren't linked to your name or Google account;
• the error message, with sign-in tokens and server addresses removed before it leaves the watch.

Google keeps crash data for 90 days. The app doesn't have a setting to turn crash reporting off.

What Wristory doesn't do

• There's no Wristory server or account. Nothing you listen to passes through CLS Studio.
• No analytics or advertising tools are built in.
• Your data isn't sold, rented or shared with anyone, and you aren't tracked across other apps or websites.

Permissions

• Network access to reach your server, and to turn on the watch's Wi-Fi when it needs it to sync or download.
• Notifications for playback controls and download progress. You can turn them off in the watch's settings.
• Foreground service and wake lock so playback and downloads keep going with the screen off.

Deleting your data

Signing out of Wristory deletes the sign-in token straight away. Uninstalling the app, or clearing its storage in the watch's settings, deletes everything it kept on the watch, downloads included. Data on your Audiobookshelf server is managed there. To ask about crash reports linked to your installation, email [email protected].

Children

Wristory isn't directed at children, and CLS Studio doesn't knowingly collect information from them.

This website

getwristory.com is a static page hosted on Cloudflare Pages. It sets no cookies, runs no analytics and loads nothing from other services. Like any web host, Cloudflare handles your IP address and browser details to deliver the page and protect it from abuse. The donation link goes to Ko-fi, which has its own privacy policy.

Changes

If this policy changes, the new version will be posted here with a new date, and anything significant will be mentioned in the app's release notes. This version replaces the one that was on Google Sites, and adds that server addresses are now removed from crash reports and a section on this website.