Privacy policy – Anikki
Last updated: 12 November 2026. For users in Germany the German version is the binding text.
Controller
Manuel Oberlein
Germany
E-mail: kontakt@anikki.app
Anikki is a free anime list for Android. The current version needs no account and contains no advertising and no analytics or tracking tools. If that changes, I will update this policy first.
What stays on your phone
Your list (status, ratings, progress, notes), your settings and, if you enter it, your name for the greeting are stored only on your phone. Anikki sends none of this to me or to any third party. Notifications for new episodes are also created on the device itself.
If you import your list from a file (for example your MyAnimeList export), the file is read on your phone and not uploaded. With “Back up data” Anikki writes a backup file to a place you choose yourself.
If Android device backup is turned on, Android may back up Anikki’s data to your Google account. You control this in the Android settings.
The data is kept until you delete it: when you uninstall Anikki or clear the app’s data in the Android settings, it is removed from your phone.
What Anikki loads from the internet
To show covers and current air times, Anikki loads files directly from other parties’ servers. As with any request on the internet, the provider learns your IP address and which file is requested. Your list is not transferred.
- Covers, when they are shown: from Kitsu, Anime News Network, TVmaze and Studio Ghibli. You can turn this off with the switch “Load covers from the web” (Profile > Settings); Anikki then shows designed covers.
- Air times and a small control file for images, at most once a day: from GitHub Pages. This download does not depend on the switch.
These providers process the data under their own responsibility, in part outside the EU, for example in the USA. I receive and store none of it.
The legal basis is Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR: the legitimate interest in showing you covers and current air times. The download is not required: without internet Anikki keeps working, just without covers from the web and without new air times.
This website and e-mail
anikki.app is also hosted on GitHub Pages; when you open it, GitHub learns your IP address. If you e-mail me, I use your address and message only to reply (also Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR) and delete them once your request is dealt with.
Your rights
You have the right of access, rectification, erasure, restriction of processing and data portability. Write to kontakt@anikki.app.
Objection: You can object at any time to processing that is based on legitimate interest. The easiest way to stop the cover downloads is the switch itself.
You can also lodge a complaint with a data protection supervisory authority, for example the Berlin Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information.