nest-view

Nest View privacy policy

Last updated: 8 November 2026

Nest View is an Android app that shows live video from your own Nest cameras. It is not distributed through any app store: each copy is built and installed by the person who uses it, connected to their own Google Cloud and Device Access project. This policy describes the app as published at https://github.com/dzemskov/nest-view. If your copy was changed, ask whoever changed it what it does differently.

What the app accesses

When you connect your Google account, you choose which Nest cameras Nest View may use. With that permission (Google’s sdm.service scope) the app reads the list of those cameras, their names and rooms, and opens live video streams from them.

Where your data goes

• Only to Google. The app talks directly to Google’s servers: Google sign-in (accounts.google.com, oauth2.googleapis.com), the Smart Device Management API (smartdevicemanagement.googleapis.com) and Google’s WebRTC connection service (stun.l.google.com). Video streams come straight from Google to your device.
• Nothing goes to the app’s authors or to whoever set up your copy. Nest View has no server of its own, no analytics, no advertising, no crash reporting and no tracking. No data is sold or shared with anyone.

What is stored on your device

• Your Google sign-in token, encrypted with a key kept in the Android Keystore.
• The camera list and your settings (nicknames, layouts, hidden cameras).
• One small still image per camera, kept in the app’s cache so the screen is not blank while the stream starts.

Video is not recorded. Device backup is turned off, so none of this leaves the device in a backup.

Removing your data

• Sign out in the app’s settings deletes the stored Google sign-in token.
• Uninstalling the app, or clearing its storage in Android settings, deletes everything it stored.
• To withdraw access on Google’s side, remove Nest View at https://myaccount.google.com/connections or in the Google Home app’s partner connections.

Google API data

Nest View’s use of information received from Google APIs follows the Google API Services User Data Policy, including the Limited Use requirements.

Contact

For questions about your copy, write to the support email shown on Google’s sign-in screen for Nest View. For questions about the app itself, open an issue at https://github.com/dzemskov/nest-view/issues.