Android Digital Photo Frame
PhotoCloud Frame Slideshow (“PhotoCloud”, “the app”) collects no analytics, sends no crash reports and shows no ads. No server of mine ever sees your photos: the app reads them straight from the sources you set up. This page lists every time PhotoCloud goes online and what it sends.
PhotoCloud is published by Martin Vysný, Finland. Everything else on this page happens on your device or between your device and services you choose, and never reaches me. The one exception is a city search for the weather overlay: the name you type, together with your IP address, as every request on the internet carries it, reaches my city-search server. For that, I am the one responsible.
PhotoCloud shows photos from the sources you set up: your device, your network shares (Samba, SFTP, DLNA, WebDAV, Nextcloud, ownCloud) and your cloud accounts (Dropbox, OneDrive, Box, Flickr, Mega, iCloud shared albums). It connects to each source directly from your device, only to sign in, list your folders and download your photos. It only reads them; it never changes, uploads or deletes your photos. Each service you connect keeps its own privacy policy.
Downloaded photos and their thumbnails are cached on your device for quicker display. Android may clear the cache at any time, and so may you, in Android’s settings for the app.
For Samba, SFTP, Nextcloud, ownCloud, WebDAV and Mega, PhotoCloud remembers the username and password you enter. For Dropbox, OneDrive, Box and Flickr it remembers the access token the service gives it, never your password; for an iCloud shared album, the album’s link. PhotoCloud sends them only to that source, to sign in.
They are kept in the app’s private storage on your device. Removing the source deletes them, and so does uninstalling the app. If your device backs up app data, for example Android’s backup to your Google account, that backup includes them, as it does most apps’ data.
Only when you turn on the weather overlay:
PhotoCloud from Google Play sells its in-app purchases through Google Play. PhotoCloud learns only which products you own, never your name, payment details or e-mail. Google’s handling of your payment data is covered by the Google Privacy Policy.
PhotoCloud from the Amazon Appstore is paid for up front, in Amazon’s store and under Amazon’s privacy notice; the app checks nothing about the purchase online.
In PhotoCloud from Google Play, when you cast, the slideshow streams from your device to the Chromecast you pick, over your local network, through Google Play services. Google’s casting library also sends Google anonymized usage data, such as which Chromecasts were found and when a cast started, to improve casting. The Google Privacy Policy covers casting.
Your settings and your list of sources stay on your device. Sharing a photo hands it to the app you pick. Showing a photo’s location on a map opens your map app, and links open in your browser, under those apps’ and sites’ own privacy policies.
I keep no data about you: the city-search server answers and forgets. If you still have a question about your data under the GDPR, write to support@android-photo-frame.eu. You may also complain to a data protection authority; in Finland that is the Data Protection Ombudsman. For anything else about the app, please use the issue tracker.
PhotoCloud 1.15.8 and older could also show photos from Google Drive and Google Photos; they signed in with an access token, never your password, and only read your files and photos. Newer versions use no Google API to access your data.
When this policy changes, the new version is published on this page, with its date.
Last updated: 2026-11-10