AnyFinder
AnyFinder does not track you, profile you, or collect personal data about you. The app runs no advertising analytics and does not set cookies of any kind. The only thing AnyFinder collects is anonymous, aggregated statistics about which kinds of places are searched for in which areas — described in the next section — and this can never be tied to you as an individual.
Instead of cookies, AnyFinder stores a small amount of data directly on your device, using your browser's local storage and its built-in database (IndexedDB), so the app can remember your settings and respond faster. This data never leaves your device and is never transmitted to us. It consists of:
To understand which kinds of places people look for and where, AnyFinder keeps simple, anonymous statistics on its own server. Each time a search runs, the app sends one small message containing only:
Before anything is stored, the location is deliberately made imprecise: the centre of your map is rounded to a grid of roughly one kilometre, so it points at a neighbourhood or town — never a building, a street, or you. No IP address, no device or user identifier, no cookie, and no exact time are kept. These rounded messages are immediately added together into plain counters — how many searches were made for a category, in a given ~1 km area, on a given day — so there are no individual records to trace back, only totals. Because of this, the statistics are anonymous and cannot identify you.
AnyFinder uses these totals to see which categories matter in which regions and to build a rough map of how busy different areas are, which helps improve the app. The data is never sold and never shared for advertising.
To display maps and help you find places, AnyFinder relies on the third-party services described below. When your browser contacts them, they may process your IP address and, under their own policies, may use cookies or similar technologies on your device. AnyFinder does not control that. The following sections explain exactly what is sent to each of them, when, and why.
The map is drawn from image tiles that your browser loads directly from the map providers. AnyFinder operates no proxy in between, so these providers receive your IP address together with the tiles you request — which indicate the area you are currently viewing — as is normal for any interactive map on the web. AnyFinder neither adds to, stores, nor processes this information.
The standard street map is rendered from tiles provided by OpenStreetMap, and, when you switch to the satellite view, the imagery is loaded from Esri (World Imagery). The data each of these providers receives is handled under its own terms and policies.
When you search for points of interest, your browser sends the search query directly to the Overpass API operated by overpass-api.de, a public service that provides OpenStreetMap data. The request goes straight from your device to that service — AnyFinder operates no proxy in between — and contains the categories you are searching for together with the geographic area currently shown on your map (its bounding-box coordinates). Because your browser connects to the service directly, the operator of overpass-api.de necessarily receives your IP address, as is the case for any website you visit. AnyFinder neither adds to, stores, nor processes this information. The data the operator receives is handled under its own terms and policies.
AnyFinder uses the Photon geocoding service operated by komoot in two situations. First, when you type the name of a place or an address into the search field, the text you type is sent to komoot so that matching locations can be suggested to you. Second, when you open the details of a point of interest whose address is missing or incomplete in OpenStreetMap, AnyFinder automatically sends that point's coordinates to komoot to retrieve the missing address parts; this happens in the background and is not something you trigger yourself.
Both kinds of request are routed through a small proxy so that your browser can reach the service despite cross-origin restrictions. In doing so, the proxy forwards your IP address to komoot in a standard forwarding header. This lets komoot distinguish individual users, detect abuse, and apply rate limits as it sees fit, rather than treating every request as coming from AnyFinder as a single entity. IP addresses are not logged, stored, or otherwise retained — they are only passed along as part of the live request and then discarded. The data komoot receives is handled under komoot's privacy policy.
Last updated on Jul 3, 2026