Privacy Policy

Last updated: 2026-08-24

Reshow ("the App") is a local-only Android utility. This policy explains what the App does and does not do with your data.

What Reshow does

• Reads WhatsApp's public Status media cache folder (while a status is still live) so you can preview and save it to your own device gallery.
• Listens to system notifications, only for apps you explicitly select, to keep a local copy of notification content (text/media previews) so it remains viewable if the sender later deletes the original message.

What Reshow does not do

• Reshow does not upload, transmit, or store any message content, media, contact names, or notification data on any server. Everything stays on your device, in the App's local storage.
• Reshow does not read WhatsApp's (or any app's) encrypted database. It only ever replays notification content that has already been delivered to your device by the operating system.
• Reshow cannot and does not capture messages you send — Android does not generate a notification for the device owner's own outgoing messages, so only the other party's messages/reactions can ever be recovered.
• Reshow does not recover messages deleted before you granted Notification Access, and does not recover status posts that expired or were deleted before the App had a chance to read them while live.

Data this App may send to our servers

The only network calls the App makes are to a stateless configuration API that returns non-personal data: current app version (for update prompts), feature flags, the list of apps Reshow has special integrations for, and this legal text. The App also sends anonymous, non-identifying event counters (e.g. "app_opened") so we can see aggregate usage patterns — never message content, filenames, or contact identifiers, and never anything that identifies you individually.

Permissions

• Notification Access — required to capture notification content for apps you select. You can revoke this at any time from Settings.
• Storage / SAF folder access — required to read WhatsApp's Status folder and to save recovered media into your device's Download folder.
• Exact Alarm — used only to keep background status-checking reliable.

Your control

You may revoke any permission, and delete captured data at any time, by clearing app storage or uninstalling the App.

Contact

For privacy questions, contact the developer through the Play Store listing.