Lighting Keyboard by Waveclues is an Android keyboard with LED-lit keys, neon themes, text art and wallpapers. It has no account, no server, no analytics and no ads, and it cannot send what you type anywhere. This policy describes version 1.0.0, which is in testing on Google Play.
1. What you type
Like every Android keyboard, Lighting Keyboard sees what you type, because that is how text reaches the app you are typing in. It does not keep your messages or a log of your typing. To correct spelling, suggest words, delete an emoji whole and know when a capital is due, it reads the word you are typing and the text just before the cursor, in the moment.
If Learn my words is on, which it is by default, the app remembers single words and pairs of neighbouring words, with a count of how often you use them, so that its suggestions improve. That list stays on your phone. It is not a record of your messages, though a word you type often, such as a name, can be in it. Turn it off, or tap Forget learned words, in Settings.
Password fields get none of this: no suggestions, no autocorrect, no swipe typing, no stylish text and no learning. Nothing is learned from web address, email or number fields, or from any field that asks keyboards not to learn from it.
2. Information the app holds
- Your current theme, your saved designs and your favourites, your settings and your chosen stylish text style, stored on the device.
- Learned words and word pairs, as described above, up to a few thousand entries.
- Clipboard history, if it is on, which it is by default: the text you copy while Lighting Keyboard is your keyboard. Items are removed after one hour unless you pin them. Copies that an app marks as sensitive, and anything copied while you are in a password field, are not kept. Turn it off, or clear it, in Settings.
- Recent emoji and the skin tones you chose.
- Stickers you send: a temporary image in the app's cache.
- Trial and purchase status: when your free day started and whether the keyboard is unlocked.
- Background photos, if you choose them: a scaled-down copy of each in the app's private storage. You pick a photo through Android's own photo picker, so the app sees only that picture and needs no access to your gallery.
3. What leaves the device
Lighting Keyboard sends nothing to us or to anyone else. It holds no internet permission at all - not restricted, absent from the app entirely - so it cannot make a network connection. There is no account, no cloud sync, no analytics, no advertising and no crash reporting. Every theme, background and wallpaper is drawn by the app on your phone; nothing is downloaded. Android's automatic cloud backup is switched off for this app, so what it holds is not copied to a Google account.
Text, text faces and stickers go only to the app you are typing in, when you enter or send them. That app's own policy then applies. Text you copy from the Text Art tab goes to your phone's clipboard. On Android 11 and later, a password manager you use can show its choices above the keys; those come from that password manager, and Lighting Keyboard does not store them.
4. Permissions
Besides being a keyboard, the app asks Android for two things: vibration, for key presses, and setting the wallpaper, used only when you tap a button on the Wallpapers tab. It does not ask for your contacts, storage, microphone, camera or location.
5. Trial and purchase
Lighting Keyboard is free to install, with one free day from when you first use it. After that it stops typing until you make a one-time purchase, ₹199 in India, or switch to another keyboard. The purchase runs through the Google Play app on your phone and is handled by Google under its own policy. Lighting Keyboard asks the Google Play app whether you have bought it, and never sees your payment details. This does not add an internet permission to Lighting Keyboard.
6. Children
The app is not made for children under 13 and does not knowingly hold information about them. It holds nothing beyond what is listed above, for anyone.
7. Deleting your data
Settings can forget your learned words and clear your clipboard history. Pinned clipboard items stay until you remove them yourself. Deleting a saved design removes its photo once no design uses it. Uninstalling the app removes everything it holds.
8. Changes to this policy
If this policy changes, the new version will be posted here with a new date, and described in the app's update notes on Google Play.
9. Contact
support@waveclues.com.