Privacy policy
The short version: Hikari has no accounts, no analytics, and no tracking. The long version, with everything that does leave the device, follows.
Last updated · April 22, 2026
1 · Who runs Hikari
Hikari is an open-source project maintained by a small group of volunteer contributors. There is no company behind it and no central account database — the App itself doesn't report to any server the maintainers operate. The App is distributed as an APK from the project's GitHub repository.
2 · What Hikari collects
Hikari, as shipped, collects nothing about you. There is no analytics SDK, no event tracker, no opaque ID, and no IP logging.
What the App does exchange with the outside world is limited to: catalogue metadata from AniList (always), your AniList account data if you choose to connect it, artwork/episode-metadata lookups if you point the App at an optional backend, and source resolution requests to addons you've configured yourself. Each is described below.
3 · Third-party services
Hikari calls the public AniList GraphQL API to fetch anime metadata — covers, synonyms, episode counts, accent colors, synopsis. These calls are unauthenticated and contain no information about you.
If you choose to connect your AniList account (via a QR code scanned from your phone, from Settings → AniList Sync), Hikari additionally exchanges an AniList access token so it can read and update your list, scores, and watch progress. That token is stored on your device and used only to talk to AniList on your behalf — see Section 6. AniList may, like any web service, log the IP address of these requests as part of normal server operation; the Hikari project has no access to those logs.
Hikari does not embed Google Analytics, Firebase Analytics, Crashlytics, AppsFlyer, Adjust, Sentry, or any equivalent third-party SDK by default.
4 · Addons
When you add an addon, you give Hikari a manifest URL. From that point on, the App will make HTTPS requests to that addon's endpoints whenever you ask it to resolve sources for a show. Hikari has no control over what data those addons collect or what their privacy practices are. Read the privacy policy of each addon you install.
You can remove an addon at any time from Settings → Addons. After removal, the App will no longer contact it.
5 · Optional self-hosted backend
Hikari can optionally be pointed at a backend — either one you self-host on your own network, or a community instance you choose to configure — that resolves artwork (backdrops, logos, episode stills) and handles AniList sign-in. If you set this up, that backend in turn may contact TMDB, Fanart.tv, TVDB, IDs.moe, and AniSkip on your behalf to fetch that metadata. If no backend is configured, none of these requests happen — Hikari falls back to AniList's own artwork.
6 · Data stored on the device
The following data is stored locally on your TV box, in Hikari's app-private storage. None of it is transmitted off-device except as described above.
- Watch progress — which episodes you've started, paused, or finished, and how many seconds in.
- “My list” / favourites — shows you've explicitly bookmarked.
- An AniList access token, if you've connected your account, used to sync your list, scores, and progress.
- Configured addon manifest URLs, and your backend URL if you've set one.
- UI preferences — playback speed, subtitle language, autoplay-next setting.
- An on-disk cache of recently-fetched AniList responses (cleared when the App is uninstalled or its cache is wiped).
Uninstalling Hikari removes all of the above. Android does not back this data up to your Google account.
7 · Crash reporting
Crash reporting is off by default. If you opt in via Settings → About → Send crash reports, the App will, when it crashes, send the stack trace and the App version string to the project's self-hosted crash collector. No personal data, no device identifier, no addon URLs, and no watch history are included. You can opt back out at any time.
8 · Children's data
Hikari does not knowingly collect any personal data, from anyone, of any age. There is no signup, no profile, no demographic targeting. The App is suitable for use by anyone old enough to operate a TV remote.
9 · Your rights
Because Hikari does not maintain a record of who you are, there is no centralized data the maintainers can access, export, or delete on your behalf. You retain full control over the data on your device — uninstalling the App, or clearing its app storage in Android settings, removes everything, including any connected AniList token.
If you are in a jurisdiction (such as the EU/EEA, UK, California, or Japan) whose data-protection law gives you specific rights — access, rectification, erasure, portability — those rights apply to whatever data we hold about you, which is, in practice, none.
10 · Contact
Privacy questions, takedown requests, or anything else governed by this policy can be sent to the addresses on the Contact page. We aim to acknowledge inquiries within seven days; substantive answers usually take longer because the project runs on volunteer time.