Last updated: 3 September 2026
Obiter is a case diary for lawyers. This policy explains, in plain terms, what the app does with your information. It was previously called Ain Diary; nothing about how it handles your information has changed with the name.
Everything you type — cases, parties, courts, notes — stays on your own device. The app has no account, no login and no advertising, and it collects nothing about you at all. There is one thing you can switch on, and it is off until you do: a copy of your diary kept in your own Google Drive, so that a lost phone is not a lost case book. That copy goes to your Google account, never to us.
Case details you enter — case type and number, court, district, party names, the side you appear for, client phone number, act and section, stage, next date, outcomes and your notes — are saved in the app’s own storage on your phone or tablet. The country you have the app set to is stored there too, so it knows which court vocabulary to show you.
Your case information does not come to us. The app has no user account and no login. It does not send your cases, your clients’ names, case numbers, courts, notes or hearing dates to us or to anyone else. It uses no advertising and does not track your location.
The one place your cases can go is a place you own — see Copy to your own Google Drive below. That is off unless you switch it on.
This is off by default. If you switch it on, the app copies your diary into your Google Drive whenever it changes, so that a lost or replaced phone does not mean a lost case book — sign in on the new phone with the same Google address and the diary comes back.
Obiter’s use of information received from Google APIs follows the Google API Services User Data Policy, including its Limited Use requirements. The data is used only to provide the backup and restore feature you asked for; it is never transferred to anyone, never used for advertising, and never read by a human.
To keep working as the law changes, the app quietly fetches two things: the list of courts for your country, and the case types and court names your country uses. Both are ordinary downloads of public information. Nothing about you or your cases is sent in order to ask for them.
On the Backup screen (press and hold the app name to open it), when you tap “Save backup file”, the app writes a file containing your cases to wherever you choose to save it. That file is under your control. If you place it in a cloud service, that service’s own terms apply to it. We never receive a copy.
Obiter is published on Google Play and installed from there. There is no other download, and no separate paid version — everybody runs the same app.
The app requests no device permissions and works without an internet connection. The Drive copy above is not a device permission but a permission you give Google, and only if you ask for that feature; it can be withdrawn from your Google account page at any time.
Deleting a case removes it and its date history from the device, and — if the Drive copy is switched on — from that copy as well, the next time it is written. Uninstalling the app removes everything it stored on the phone; the Drive copy is deliberately left, because that is what a reinstall restores from. To remove it too, go to your Google account: Data & privacy, Third-party apps, Obiter.
Because we never hold a copy, there is nothing for us to delete and nothing for you to request from us.
The app is designed so that client information never leaves the device you control, which is what makes it suitable for privileged material. Keeping the device itself secure — a screen lock, and care over where backup files are stored — remains your responsibility.
The first month is free. After that a yearly subscription is bought through Google Play, and Google handles it entirely — the app is told only whether a subscription is active. No card, billing or payment information of any kind reaches us. If a subscription ends, your cases stay on your device and stay readable; only adding and editing pause.
The app is a professional tool and is not directed at children.
If this policy changes, the updated version will appear at this address with a new date.