SenseScan · Last updated 25 October 2026
SenseScan is developed and published by Saurabh Arora, operating under the trading name SA SecLabs. Any reference to “we”, “us” or “our” means that. You can reach us at support@saseclabs.tech.
Nothing. SenseScan does not collect or receive any personal information. The one thing it stores stays on your phone and is described below, under My shop. Specifically, we do not collect:
SenseScan uses the camera for one purpose: to read a code in front of it. Frames are examined on your device as they arrive and are then discarded. No image is saved, and no image is sent anywhere. There is nowhere for one to go — the app has no internet permission.
You can also decode a code from a picture already on your phone, or share a picture into SenseScan from another app. To read it, SenseScan works on a temporary copy of that picture in the app's own private storage, and deletes that copy as soon as it has finished reading, whether or not a code was found; if the app is closed before it can, the copy is deleted the next time it starts. A shared picture never starts the camera. Nothing is transmitted, and no copy is kept once the scan is over.
You can also send SenseScan a link or other text: share it from another app, or select it and choose SenseScan from the menu that appears over the selection. SenseScan reads it on your device the way it reads a code, and shows it as text that was sent, not scanned. It is not saved to a file, not kept between sessions and not sent anywhere, and SenseScan never changes the text you selected. Sending text never starts the camera.
They are decoded on your device, shown to you, and forgotten. SenseScan keeps no history: scanned codes are not saved to a file, not counted, and not retained between sessions. The one exception is a QR you deliberately save as your own, described next.
If you save a QR as your own under My shop — the one on your shop counter, say — SenseScan keeps that QR on your phone, exactly as it reads: for a shop's payment QR, the payment address and the name and any other details written in it. It uses it for one purpose: to tell you whether a QR you check later is the same one. It is kept in the app's private storage, excluded from every backup and from phone-to-phone transfer, and never sent anywhere — the app has no internet permission. Nothing is saved unless you tap "Yes, save it", and a code that carries a secret, such as a private key, is never saved. Remove a saved QR under My shop, or remove them all by clearing the app's data or uninstalling it.
This is a deliberate trade. A history would be genuinely useful, and it would also be a list of every payment, every network and every link you had ever pointed your camera at, sitting on your phone. We would rather not create that.
SenseScan requests one permission: camera. It does not request internet access, storage, location, contacts or the microphone. The app's manifest explicitly removes internet, network state, microphone and storage permissions, so that no library built into the app can bring them in.
You do not have to take our word for this. Open Android Settings, find SenseScan, and look at its permissions.
Nothing opens on its own. If you choose to act on a scanned code — opening a link, dialling a number, starting a payment — SenseScan hands the request to another app on your phone, such as your browser or your payment app. Once that happens, what that app does is governed by its privacy policy, not this one. Links always open in your real browser, never inside SenseScan.
SenseScan is not directed at children and collects no information from anyone, including children.
Data protection law gives you rights to access, correct and delete personal data held about you. We hold none, so there is nothing for us to give you, correct or erase. Everything the app produces stays on your device. Codes you scan are not kept between sessions, and a QR you saved under My shop stays until you remove it, clear the app's data or uninstall the app.
SenseScan contains no advertising, no analytics and no tracking libraries. We share nothing with anyone, because we receive nothing to share.
The app carries one reference file inside it: the
Public Suffix List, a published list of
domain endings such as .com and .co.uk. It is used to
work out which part of a web address is the site you would actually reach, so
that an address written to read as a familiar name can be shown for what it is.
The list is a plain file shipped with the app and read on your device. Nothing is looked up, nothing is requested, and no address you scan is sent anywhere — the app has no internet permission and could not send it in any case.
If a future version of SenseScan ever involves a network — it is not planned — that will be disclosed plainly, it will be something you choose to turn on, and this policy will be updated before it happens. The date at the top of this page tells you when it last changed.
Questions about this policy, or about anything the app does: support@saseclabs.tech.