Smooth PDF Reader: Privacy Policy

Last updated: 8 November 2026

Smooth PDF Reader reads your PDFs aloud with your device's own voice. It is built so that nothing you read, highlight or write ever leaves your device.

What the app collects

Nothing. The app has no account, no analytics, no ads and no tracking. It does not even have permission to use the internet.

What stays on your device

• The PDFs you add, copied into the app's private storage.
• Your library, reading position, bookmarks, highlights and notes.
• Your settings, such as voice, speed, zoom and crop.
• Text the app reads from scanned pages, recognised on the device.

Removing a book from the library deletes its copy, its highlights and its notes. Uninstalling the app deletes everything.

Reading aloud

Speech comes from the text-to-speech engine installed on your device (for example Samsung's or Google's). The app hands that engine the text to speak. If you choose a voice that your engine marks as needing a connection, the engine itself, not this app, may use the internet under its own provider's privacy policy.

Backups

If you have turned on Android's own backup, Android may include your library, notes and settings in your device backup to your Google account. That backup is controlled by you and Google; the app's developer never sees it.

Sharing

When you choose to copy text or send a highlight to another app such as Google Keep, that text goes to the app you picked, under its own privacy policy.

Children

The app collects no personal information from anyone, including children.

Changes and contact

If this policy changes, the new version will be posted on this page with a new date. Questions: support@punishapp.com