WallShuffle

Privacy policy

Last updated: 29 September 2026

WallShuffle is a wallpaper app for Android. This policy explains what it does with your information. The short version: WallShuffle has no account, no advertising and no server of its own, and it does not send your photos or any other personal information to its developer or to any third party. The one thing it sends is anonymous usage statistics, described below, and you can switch that off.

Usage statistics

WallShuffle records which of its features are used — for example that a photo source was added, that rotation was switched on, which transition was chosen, that the unlock was bought — and sends those events to PostHog, an analytics service, so the app can be improved. Each event carries the feature's name and a few coarse details such as the kind of source or a count. It never carries a photo, a file name, a folder name, a place, a search term or anything you type. Events are tied to a random identifier generated on your device, not to your name, email or Google account. Along with the events, the app's version, your Android version and device model are sent, as is usual for this kind of service. The data is processed by PostHog in the European Union; see the PostHog privacy policy.

You can switch this off at any time under Settings → Privacy. Nothing is sent after that, and the choice is kept across restarts. To have events already recorded deleted, write to the address at the end of this page with the approximate dates; without an account there is no other way to tell which events were yours.

What WallShuffle stores, and where

Everything WallShuffle keeps is stored on your device only:

  • Photos you add from Google Photos or Unsplash, and pictures shared to WallShuffle from another app, are copied into the app's private storage so they can be set as your wallpaper without a network connection.
  • Photos you add from your own albums or folders are not copied. WallShuffle reads them in place, through the access you granted.
  • Your settings, the framing you choose per photo, how many times each photo has been shown, and a list of the last fifteen wallpapers you were shown.

Uninstalling WallShuffle removes all of it.

Photos and their location data

WallShuffle reads the EXIF metadata inside your photos, including GPS coordinates when a photo carries them, so it can show where a picture was taken. To turn coordinates into a place name it asks Android's built-in geocoder, which is part of the operating system and may contact Google to answer. WallShuffle does not receive, store or transmit your own device location, and it never asks for location permission.

Permissions and why they are needed

  • Photos and media — to list your albums in the built-in picker and to read the photos you choose as wallpapers.
  • Internet and network state — to download the photos you picked in Google Photos, and to respect your "only on Wi-Fi" setting.
  • Set wallpaper — to do the one thing the app is for.

Services WallShuffle can talk to

WallShuffle only contacts a service when you ask it to:

  • Google Photos Picker API, when you pick photos from Google Photos. You sign in with Google and the app receives only the photos you selected. Google's handling of your data is covered by the Google Privacy Policy.
  • Google Play Billing, if you buy the unlock. The purchase is handled by Google Play; WallShuffle never sees your payment details.
  • Unsplash, if you add an Unsplash access key of your own and search or download photos there. Requests carry that key and your search terms, and Unsplash is told when a photo is downloaded, as its guidelines require. Your own photos are never sent to Unsplash. Unsplash's handling of your data is covered by the Unsplash Privacy Policy.
  • PostHog, for the anonymous usage statistics described above, unless you have switched them off.
  • Google Static Maps, only if you choose a map as the background of the home screen widget: the coordinates of the photo on your wall are sent to Google to draw the map, and nothing else. The photo itself is never sent. With any other background chosen, nothing goes to Google.
  • Google Public DNS, only as a fallback: if the network you are on cannot resolve the address of one of the services above, WallShuffle asks dns.google over an encrypted connection instead. The only thing sent is the name being looked up.

What WallShuffle does not do

  • It does not collect crash reports, and sends no usage statistics once you switch them off.
  • It does not show advertisements.
  • It has no user accounts and no backend server operated by the developer.
  • It does not sell or share any information with anyone.

Children

WallShuffle is not directed at children and collects no information from anyone, including children.

Changes

If this policy changes, the new version will be published at this address and the date above will be updated.

Contact

Questions about this policy: hello@wallshuffle.com