LinkNest

What LinkNest does

A focused link organizer — not a read-later service, and not a general-purpose notes app.

• Nested categories

  Organize links into categories, and categories inside other categories, as deeply as your collection needs.

• Favourites

  Mark the links you return to most and reach them in one tap.

• Search across everything

  Search your whole library at once, rather than one category at a time.

• Trash and recovery

  Deleted links go to Trash first, so a mistaken delete can be undone rather than mourned.

• Backup and restore

  Export your whole library to a file whenever you want, and restore it later or on another device.

• Optional Google Drive sync

  Off until you turn it on. When enabled, LinkNest keeps a single backup file of your library in your own Google Drive, so you can restore it or move to another device. See how LinkNest uses Google Drive below.

How LinkNest uses Google Drive

LinkNest works fully without a Google Account. Google Drive is used for one optional feature — backing up your link library so you can restore it or move it to another device — and LinkNest asks for access only at the moment you turn that feature on.

Why LinkNest requests access

To save and retrieve one backup file containing your LinkNest library — your links, your categories, and your app preferences — in your own Google Drive. That backup is what lets you recover your library after reinstalling, or continue on a second device.

When access is requested

Only when you open Settings and enable Google Drive sync, and then sign in with the Google Account you choose. Sync is off by default, and every other feature works without signing in. You can sign out at any time.

What LinkNest asks for

A single permission: https://www.googleapis.com/auth/drive.file This is the narrowest Drive permission Google offers. It grants access only to files LinkNest itself creates — which is all LinkNest needs, since it only ever reads and writes its own backup file. A broader permission would let LinkNest see files that have nothing to do with it, so it does not request one.

What LinkNest does with it

It uploads its backup file when a sync runs — either when you tap Sync now, or automatically at app start if you have switched automatic sync on — and downloads that same file when you restore or set up another device. Nothing else in your Drive is read, written, or deleted.

What LinkNest cannot see

Any other file in your Google Drive. Documents, photos, and files created by other apps are outside the requested permission, and LinkNest never asks for, receives, or stores them.

Where the data goes

Into your own Google Drive account, directly from your device. LinkNest has no server, so your library and your Google data are never sent to KaRZMa Code, never shared with anyone else, never sold, and never used for advertising or analytics.

Limited Use

LinkNest's use of information received from Google APIs adheres to the Google API Services User Data Policy, including the Limited Use requirements.

Read the Privacy Policy

Local first, and private by default

LinkNest has no server of its own. There is no account to create and nothing to sign up for.

• Your links are stored on your device, not uploaded to us.
• No analytics, no crash reporting, no advertising, and no tracking identifiers.
• Google Drive sync is optional, off by default, and limited to the single backup file the app creates.
• The full detail — including the few occasions LinkNest uses the internet — is in the privacy policy.

Read the Privacy Policy