Delete Your Data
Last updated: October 5, 2026
This page explains how to delete the data held by Pocket Money Manager (the “Money Manager” app), published by StepUp Technosys. It covers data stored on your device, the optional backup stored in your own Google Drive, and the diagnostic and advertising data our service providers hold.
1. Delete the data on your device
Your transactions, accounts, categories, notes, and receipt photos are stored only on your device. To erase them:
- Open the Money Manager app.
- Go to Settings → Privacy policy.
- Tap Delete all my data, then Delete everything.
- Confirm with Delete. The app wipes the data and restarts itself.
This deletes the app database, the receipt photos, the automatic backups the app keeps on the device, the copies it makes while sharing or restoring a file, your passcode and lock settings, your preferences, any scheduled reminders, and the app's push-notification registration. The deletion is immediate and cannot be undone by us — we never had a copy.
Two things are kept, so that you can start again or restore a backup: the app remembers that you have seen its introduction, and a connected Google account stays connected, with its name, email address, and photo kept on the device to show which account it is. Before you hand the device to someone else, disconnect it under Settings → Backup → Google Drive backup → Disconnect; otherwise whoever has the device could restore your Drive backups.
Backup files you saved yourself (.mmbak or
.mmbak2), spreadsheets you exported (.xlsx),
and receipt photos you copied to a folder — such as the MoneyManager
folder on your device and its Photo Backup folder — are
not removed by this step, because they live outside
the app. Delete those with your device's Files app if you no longer
want them.
Uninstalling the app also removes the data stored in it. On iPhone and iPad, iOS keeps the app's passcode settings in the device's Keychain after an uninstall, and the app clears them the next time it is installed and opened; and if you back up the device to iCloud or a computer, those device backups include the app's data, as they do for most apps.
2. Delete your Google Drive backup
Google Drive backup is off until you turn it on. If you did, the app keeps up to ten encrypted restore points in the hidden app data folder of your own Google Drive. Receipt photos are never included, and we have no access to the folder. Delete all my data leaves the restore points in place, so that you can still restore from them, and switches automatic Drive backup off.
To delete them:
- On a computer, open drive.google.com and sign in with the Google account you connected.
- Click Settings (the gear icon), then Settings, then Manage apps.
- Find Money Manager, click Options, and choose Delete hidden app data.
Google describes this step in its help article Clear Google Drive space.
If you also want the app to stop making backups, disconnect the account — in the app, under Settings → Backup → Google Drive backup → Disconnect, or by removing Money Manager from your Google Account at myaccount.google.com/connections. Disconnecting stops the app from reaching your backups; it is the steps above that delete them.
3. Diagnostic and advertising data
Unless you switch it off, the app sends usage data — analytics events, crash reports, and performance timings — to Google Firebase, and registers for push messages through Firebase Cloud Messaging. Where Google's consent form applies, such as in the EEA and the UK, it sends none of this until you agree. To check for updates and fetch app settings, it also sends Firebase an installation identifier and basic device information. Ads are served by Google AdMob, which uses your device's advertising identifier. None of this includes your transaction amounts, account or category names, notes, or receipt images, and none of it carries your name or email address.
To limit or remove it:
- Usage data: turn off Share usage data in Settings. The app stops sending analytics, crash reports, and performance timings, discards crash reports it has not sent yet, and removes its push registration. Where the consent form applies, you can also withdraw your consent under Settings → Your Privacy Choices.
- Usage data already sent is kept by Google under Firebase's retention settings, up to 14 months, and then deleted. The app sets no user ID and shows no identifier, so we cannot pick out the records of one installation to delete them sooner.
- Advertising: change or withdraw your consent under Settings → Your Privacy Choices, which appears where Google's consent tool requires a choice for your region. Your choice is kept by Google's ad software until you uninstall the app; Delete all my data does not reset it. On Android, delete or reset your advertising ID under Settings → Google → Ads; on iPhone and iPad, switch Money Manager off under Settings → Privacy & Security → Tracking.
4. What is deleted, and what is kept
| Data | On deletion | Retention |
|---|---|---|
| Financial records, receipt photos, passcode and lock settings, preferences, reminders, automatic backups on the device | Deleted by Delete all my data, immediately | None — never stored on our servers |
| The connected Google account, and that you have seen the introduction | Kept — disconnect under Settings → Backup → Google Drive backup | On the device until you disconnect or uninstall |
| Google Drive backup (up to ten restore points) | Kept — delete it in Google Drive under Manage apps (section 2) | In your Google Drive until you delete it |
| Backup files, spreadsheets, and photos you saved yourself | Kept — delete them with your device's Files app | Wherever you chose to save them |
| Usage data already sent (analytics, crash reports, performance) | Not deleted by the app — stop further sending with Share usage data | Up to 14 months under Firebase retention settings |
| Advertising consent choice | Kept — change it in Your Privacy Choices | On the device until you uninstall |
| Advertising ID | Belongs to your device — delete or reset it in device settings | Handled under Google AdMob policies |
5. Request deletion by email
If you cannot use the in-app option — for example you no longer have the device — email stepuptechnosys@gmail.com with the subject “Delete my data”, and tell us which app you are writing about. We respond within 30 days. Without the device, you can still delete your Google Drive backup from a computer, as in section 2.
Because the app has no accounts and we hold no copy of your financial records, we cannot identify or delete an individual's ledger on request — it exists only on your device and in backups you made yourself.