Delete your Skim account
Deleting your account is permanent. It removes the account itself and everything Skim holds for it, listed below. There is no recovery window and no "deactivated" state: once confirmed, the data is gone.
Option 1 — from inside the app
- Open Skim and go to the Library tab.
- Scroll to the More section at the bottom.
- Tap Delete account. It appears only while you are signed in.
- Read the confirmation and tap Delete everything.
Deletion runs immediately. When it finishes you are signed out and the app shows "Your account and its contents were deleted."
Option 2 — by email, without the app
If you have uninstalled Skim, or cannot sign in, email engr.mu.shah@gmail.com with the subject line "Delete my Skim account".
Send it from the Google account you used to sign in to Skim. Your Google email address is how the account is identified, and it is the only way we can confirm the request is yours. We will not delete an account on a request from a different address.
Requests are actioned within 30 days, usually much sooner, and you will get a reply confirming it is done.
What is deleted
Everything, across all storage. In particular:
- Your account record: Google identifier, email address and display name.
- Everything you added: links, uploaded PDFs, screenshots, chat transcripts, forwarded emails, and X bookmarks if you connected X.
- Everything derived from it: distilled cards, search embeddings, and generated audio narration.
- Your notes, saved lines and commonplace entries.
- Your reading history, sessions, deck rotation state, preferences and onboarding state.
- Push notification device tokens.
- Your subscription entitlement record. An active subscription is not cancelled by this — manage it in Google Play or the App Store.
- Any X (Twitter) access tokens you authorised.
What may persist, and for how long
- Crash reports already sent to Sentry are kept under Sentry's retention (90 days) and do not contain your email or content.
- AI provider logs. Content that was sent to an AI provider for distillation may be held by that provider for abuse monitoring under its own API terms, typically up to 30 days. See the privacy policy.
- Purchase records held by Google Play, the App Store and RevenueCat are governed by those services.
- The token on your phone. The app clears it as part of deletion. If you delete by email instead, uninstalling the app removes it.
We do not keep separate database backups, so there is no backup copy to expire.
Deleting some data but keeping the account
Individual pieces can be let go from Daily Review in the app. To disconnect X without deleting your account, revoke Skim under Settings → Security → Connected apps on X, then email the address above and we will remove the stored token. For anything else, email the address above.