Account & Data

Delete Your Data

Last updated: 21 August 2026

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Budget Lock stores all data on your device. If you connected a Google account for Cloud Backup, you can disconnect it and delete all remote data entirely from within the app — no email confirmation, no waiting period, no support ticket.

Delete everything from your device

  1. Open Budget Lock and unlock your vault as normal.
  2. Go to Settings → Destroy Vault.
  3. Confirm three times, then type ERASE when prompted.

That’s it. Everything is wiped from the device — your data, your keys, your recovery key, your avatar. The app returns to its fresh-install state.

Disconnect your Google account

If you signed in with Google for Cloud Backup, Budget Lock holds a limited connection to your Google account (Drive appdata scope only — it cannot read your personal files). To fully disconnect and revoke access:

  1. Open Budget Lock and unlock your vault.
  2. Go to Settings → Data & Backup.
  3. Tap Sign Out — this revokes the OAuth token and tells Google to forget the app.

After sign-out, Budget Lock no longer has any access to your Google account. You can verify at myaccount.google.com/permissions — Budget Lock will no longer appear.

Budget Lock never creates a separate account. The Google Sign-In is used solely to access your own Google Drive for encrypted backups. No profile, no username, no password is created within Budget Lock itself.

Delete cloud backups (only if you used Cloud Backup)

If you want to delete the encrypted backup files stored on your Google Drive before disconnecting:

  1. Open Budget Lock and unlock.
  2. Go to Settings → Data & Backup.
  3. Tap Delete all Drive backups.
  4. Then tap Sign Out to disconnect your Google account.

You can verify at drive.google.com — the Budget Lock backup folder will be empty.

Then uninstall the app

Once Destroy Vault is complete (and Cloud Backup is cleaned up if you used it), you can uninstall the app like any other Android app:

  1. Long-press the Budget Lock icon on your home screen.
  2. Tap Uninstall (or drag to the uninstall area).

After uninstall, no trace of you is left anywhere — not on your phone, not with us, not with any third party.

What if you lost access and can't open the app?

If you have your recovery key, tap "Forgot password?" on the lock screen, then "Use recovery key". Then follow the steps above. This works on the phone that created the vault; on a different phone the recovery key will not open it, so use your master password there.

Lost both? There’s nothing to recover — just uninstall.

Need help?

Email support: support@budgetlock.app · AAS Codeworks. Mention which step you're stuck on and what device you're on.