No accounts
PlayAnyVideo has no sign-up or login, so no account data is kept. The files you play — and their sound, subtitles and thumbnails — never leave your device.
Data kept only on your device, and how to delete it
- History, resume positions, favorites, notes and settings: clear them in the app under Settings → Privacy & data.
- Script panel (line search history, word book), lecture summaries / quizzes, learned opening lengths: stored only in this device's browser storage (IndexedDB, localStorage). Use Clear line history and the word book's Clear all in the script panel, or the one-step options below.
- Allowed subtitle folders (web): forget them in Settings.
- On-device AI engines and models (Windows app, only if you downloaded them): in
%LOCALAPPDATA%\app.openplay.player\tools— delete that folder. - Everything at once: on the web, clear site data for playanyvideo.com in your browser settings; on Android, Settings → Apps → PlayAnyVideo → Storage → Clear data; on Windows, uninstall the app and delete
%LOCALAPPDATA%\app.openplay.player.
Data that passes through our server or stays only as anonymous totals
- Anonymous diagnostics (optional, off by default): aggregate counts such as playback success per format, not linked to any device or user identifier, so there is no per-person record to delete. Turning the option off stops sending immediately.
- Visit statistics: only the page path, language, device kind (mobile/desktop) and the referring site's name, kept as anonymous daily totals (about 25 months). The anonymous hash that counts daily visitors changes every day and is deleted after 2 days. No IP addresses are stored, and nothing is sent when your browser's Do Not Track or Global Privacy Control is on.
- Watch together: room code, names, chat, drawings and polls are relayed in real time from server memory and never written to disk; they disappear when the room closes. A host's own Cloudflare Realtime key is kept in memory only while that room is open and is deleted when the host leaves. Call video and voice connect directly where possible; on strict networks they are relayed, still encrypted, through Cloudflare TURN (or the host's own Cloudflare), and never reach our server.
- Phone remote: only the pairing code and secret, playback commands, and the title, time and current subtitle line the player shows on the phone are relayed in memory, never stored, and expire after at most 12 hours.
- Online subtitle search: only when you press it, the search words (title, season, episode) are passed to OpenSubtitles. A downloaded subtitle file is kept in server memory for up to 24 hours to answer the same request quickly, then dropped; it is never written to disk. No video or file path is sent.
Request deletion
For any other request, email [email protected] with the subject “[PlayAnyVideo] Data deletion request”. We reply within 7 business days and delete any matching data we hold without delay, unless the law requires us to keep it.