Readery · Last updated: July 14, 2026
Short version: Readery does not collect, store, transmit, or sell any personal data. Your saved articles stay on your own device.
What we collect
Nothing. Readery does not collect or transmit any personal information, browsing history, or usage analytics. The developer has no servers and receives no data from your use of the extension. Readery sends nothing about you or your reading to the developer or any third party.
What is stored, and where
The articles you save, along with their text, your tags, and your settings, are stored only on your own computer using Chrome's local storage (chrome.storage.local). Your theme and reader preferences are stored in the browser's localStorage for the extension. None of it ever leaves your device. Readery has no account and no sign-in, and nothing is synced to the cloud. You can export a JSON, HTML, or CSV backup at any time, and delete everything from the Data settings.
Saving a page
When you save a page, Readery reads that page in your browser to pull out the article text and make a clean, readable copy, which it stores locally. For a link you save to read later, or an article imported from another app's export, Readery opens that page in the background once to extract its text. This is your own browser loading a page you chose to save; it reads only the pages you save, and it sends nothing to the developer.
Images in saved articles
A saved article can include images. When you read it, those images are loaded from the website they came from, the same way your browser would if you visited the page. This is the only routine outbound request involved, it happens in your own browser, and no information about you is sent to the developer.
Permissions and why they are needed
- Access to websites (all sites): you can save an article from any website, so Readery needs to be able to read the page you choose to save (and, for saved links and imported links, load it in the background to extract the text). It reads only the pages you save.
- Storage / unlimited storage: to save your articles, their text, tags, and settings on your own device for offline reading, without a size cap.
- Scripting: to read the article text on the page you are saving so it can produce a clean reader copy.
- Active tab: to save the page in the tab you are currently on when you click Save or use the keyboard shortcut.
- Context menus: to add the right-click options (Save page, Save link, Open Readery library).
None of these permissions is used to read, collect, or send your data anywhere.
Third parties
Readery does not share data with any third party, because it does not collect any. The optional "Donate" link opens an external page (Ko-fi) only if you click it; any payment there is handled by that service under its own privacy policy.
Children
Readery is a general-purpose utility and does not knowingly collect information from anyone, including children.
Changes
If this policy changes, the updated version will be posted on this page with a new "last updated" date.
Contact
Questions? Contact the developer at contact@mcguigansoftware.com.
© 2026 McGuigan Software. This policy applies to the Readery browser extension.