QuickText connects to your own phone over your own network. Your contacts, your messages and the replies you receive stay on your PC: none of it is uploaded, and none of it reaches us. This page explains, in plain words, what the app reads from your phone and what it cannot reach at all.
The formal version, including what leaves your PC when you check a license or send a support message, is the QuickText SMS Privacy Policy.
What QuickText asks your phone for #
When it connects, the app tells your phone exactly which kinds of data it is prepared to receive: text messages, and answers about contacts. Nothing else is requested, and the KDE Connect app on the phone does not send what was not asked for.
So QuickText has no access to your notifications, your files, your photos, your clipboard, your call log, your location or your battery status, even though the KDE Connect app itself can do some of those things with other software on other computers.
QuickText replies and optional phone messages #
Your phone may share texts unrelated to QuickText over the local connection. The automatic reply recorder saves incoming messages only from numbers this PC previously texted through QuickText, with a timestamp check and a small allowance for clock differences. This includes replies after a quick reply sent from the Messages page. Reconnection recovery requests up to 250 recent messages per eligible conversation, subject to what the phone shares.
Include phone messages is a separate, explicit choice offered when you first use Messages. You can also enable it under Settings > Messages > Other SMS from your phone. It saves other incoming one-to-one text messages in the local database. These copies persist across navigation, disconnection and app restarts, and are included in database backups and message exports. The page combines both sources into one conversation per person.
Turning off Include SMS from outside QuickText conversations under Settings > Messages stops new imports while retaining saved copies. Delete saved phone copies removes imported copies but keeps eligible QuickText replies. QuickText retains message fingerprints to prevent deleted copies from being imported again; the deleted message body is not kept in that deletion record. These actions do not change messages on your phone or existing backup/export files.
Turning off Keep replies to messages sent from QuickText under Settings > Messages disables the automatic QuickText reply recorder and its opt-out handling. Optional phone syncing has its own control and does not enable the recorder.
Message limits #
QuickText reads incoming text shared by KDE Connect and shows its own sending history. RCS chats, MMS attachments and group conversations are not supported. A one-to-one MMS text part may appear if the phone shares it. Messages sent directly in the phone’s messaging app may not appear. Quick replies are sent as SMS.
Phone syncing initially covers seven days, with an option to request up to 90 days. Checks are bounded to 100 conversations per phone and a limited number of recent messages per conversation. This is not a complete phone backup.
Contacts: only when you ask #
Your address book is read only when you click Import from phone on the Contacts page, and only after you confirm it twice on the phone. The cards that arrive are shown to you in the import window first, and QuickText keeps only name, up to three numbers, one email, company, job title, city, birthday and note. Photos and everything else are ignored. See Import contacts from your phone.
What is stored on your PC #
Everything lives in a folder called QuickText SMS inside your Windows user folder: your contacts, messages, templates, sending history, the replies and optional phone-message copies you kept, your notes, your block list, your settings and license key, a record of each paired phone, and daily backup copies of the database.
It is protected by your Windows account like your other documents, and it is deliberately kept out of any cloud-synced folder. Uninstalling the app leaves the folder in place, so a reinstall picks up where you left off. To erase everything, use Delete local app data under Settings, or delete the folder.
The people you message #
The numbers you import and the replies you receive are personal data about other people, held on your computer and under your control. Sending to people who agreed to hear from you, and honouring their opt-outs, is your part as the sender.
QuickText helps with the second half: an eligible reply of STOP to a number contacted through QuickText can block that number automatically and skips it from that moment on, even mid-send, and any message, reply, contact or the whole history can be deleted whenever you like. Unrelated imported STOP messages do not trigger automatic blocking or campaign opt-out counts. You can block a number from QuickText manually without blocking it on your phone. See Handle opt-outs.