What it can see

An app that reads notifications should explain itself.

You are about to give an app permission to read what appears on your phone. That is a fair thing to be careful about. Here is precisely what it does with it.

It only reads the apps you tick

Notifications are filtered on the app they came from, before their contents are read. Anything from an app you have not ticked is discarded unread — WhatsApp, Viber, email, social apps, everything.

It stays on your phone

Payments are stored on that phone only. There is no LaariAlert server, no account, and no sync. Nothing leaves the device unless you switch on Telegram forwarding, and then only to your own bot and channel.

It cannot touch your money

LaariAlert never sees a banking password and can never move money. It reads notifications the bank has already shown on the screen. That is the entirety of its relationship with your bank.

Nothing is watching you

No analytics, no tracking, no advertising identifier, no third-party SDKs. The app makes no network requests except the ones you switched on and its own update checks.

Worth stating outright

There is no SMS permission.

LaariAlert cannot read your text messages. It never asks for the permission that would let it, which means Android would stop it even if it tried.

Some banks send alerts by SMS rather than through their app. For those, you can optionally tick your Messages app so LaariAlert reads the notification that Messages posts on screen — the same thing you would see yourself. It is off by default, and it is not the same as reading your message history.

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Onboarding disclosure

What the app tells you it reads, shown before any permission is granted.

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Permissions

Every permission, and why it exists.

This is the complete list. If a permission is not here, the app does not have it.

Permission	How it is granted	Why it exists
Notification access	Special access, granted by you in Android's settings	The whole point: read the bank's notifications. Restricted to the apps you ticked.
Internet, network state	Normal	Telegram forwarding and update downloads. Nothing else is sent anywhere.
Post notifications	Normal	Show the payment alert and the warnings.
Foreground service	Normal	Keep the listener at high priority, so alerts are immediate rather than five minutes late.
Ignore battery optimisation	You are asked	Ask to be spared by the battery manager, which is the usual reason apps like this go quiet.
Start on boot	Normal	Start listening again after the phone restarts.
Install packages	You are asked	Install its own updates. Android still confirms with you every time.

Updates

How updates are handled.

The app checks for a new version daily and downloads it in the background over an encrypted connection. Each download is verified against a published fingerprint before it is offered to you, and Android will refuse any build that is not signed with the same certificate as the app already on the phone.

Installing an update always needs a tap from you. The download is automatic; the install is not.

Common questions

The ones people actually ask.

Does it connect to my bank account?

No. It reads the notifications your banking app already shows on the phone. It has no password, no account access, and no way to move money.

Can it read my other notifications?

Android grants notification access as a single permission, so technically the phone hands it everything. LaariAlert filters on the app name before reading anything: only the banking apps you ticked are examined. Nothing from WhatsApp, Viber, email or social apps is read.

Where do my payment records live?

On that phone, in the app. There is no LaariAlert server to hold them, and no account to sign in to. App data is also left out of Android's backup — which means a factory reset loses the history for good.

What if I turn Telegram forwarding on?

Then each payment is sent to your own Telegram bot and channel, and nowhere else. You choose which fields are included. With it off, nothing about your payments leaves the phone at all.