Delete your Travel Kitty data

Travel Kitty · last updated 4 September 2026

You do not have to delete your account to delete your data. A single expense and a whole trip can each be removed on their own, from inside the app, and the photos attached to them go at the same time. Deleting the account removes everything at once, and can also be requested by email if you cannot sign in.

Delete a single expense

Open the trip and go to the Expenses tab.
Tap the expense to open it.
Tap the bin icon in the top bar.
Confirm Delete.

The expense is removed for everyone on the trip and the balances update to match. Its receipt photo is deleted from storage with it — including one that was taken offline and had not finished uploading yet.

Delete a whole trip

Open the trip.
Tap the ⋮ menu in the trip header.
Tap Delete trip.
The app tells you how many expenses will go. Confirm to delete.

Everything belonging to the trip goes: every expense and its photo, the trip's cover photo, the member list, the invite code and any unanswered invitations. Only the owner of a trip can delete it, and deleting it removes it for everyone on it. If you are a member rather than the owner, you can leave the trip instead: swipe it sideways on the trips list and confirm Leave. Leaving removes you from the member list; the expenses you added stay, because the balances would not add up without them.

Deleting an expense or a trip is immediate and cannot be undone. If you want a record first, export the trip from Settings → Import & export data before you delete it.

Delete your account, in the app

Open Travel Kitty.
Tap your avatar, top right, to open Settings.
Tap your name to open Profile.
Scroll down and tap Delete account.
The app tells you how many trips will be deleted and how many you will leave. Type DELETE to confirm, then enter your password.

Deletion begins immediately and cannot be undone.

Delete your account, by email

If you cannot sign in, send a message to support@travelkitty.nz from the email address the account uses, with the subject Delete my account. The request will be actioned within 30 days, and usually much sooner. Sending from the account's own address is what confirms the request is yours; a request from a different address cannot be honoured, because there would be no way to tell it apart from someone trying to delete a stranger's data.

What deleting the account removes

Deleted	Kept
Your profile — display name, avatar colour Your sign-in credentials Your custom categories Your place search count — how many places you picked from place search each month The shop categories the app remembered from what you imported — including the copy shared with each trip you were on — and any import settings saved by older versions of the app Your receipts and your receipt scan count Your Akahu tokens, from the phone you delete the account on Every trip you own, for everyone on it All expenses, photos and balances on those trips Invitations you sent Your subscription records — the Play purchase token, the plan, its state and expiry	Trips owned by someone else, which you are simply removed from Expenses you added to those trips, because the balances would not add up without them — they show as added by a former member Copies of your custom categories on those trips, so the expenses filed under them keep their category rather than reading as unknown Your Google Play subscription itself, which only you can cancel

Deleted

Kept

Your profile — display name, avatar colour
Your sign-in credentials
Your custom categories
Your place search count — how many places you picked from place search each month
The shop categories the app remembered from what you imported — including the copy shared with each trip you were on — and any import settings saved by older versions of the app
Your receipts and your receipt scan count
Your Akahu tokens, from the phone you delete the account on
Every trip you own, for everyone on it
All expenses, photos and balances on those trips
Invitations you sent
Your subscription records — the Play purchase token, the plan, its state and expiry

Trips owned by someone else, which you are simply removed from
Expenses you added to those trips, because the balances would not add up without them — they show as added by a former member
Copies of your custom categories on those trips, so the expenses filed under them keep their category rather than reading as unknown
Your Google Play subscription itself, which only you can cancel

Deleting your account does not cancel a Premium subscription. It renews, and Google charges for it, until you cancel it yourself: Play Store → your profile → Payments and subscriptions. Nothing on this page and nothing in the app can do it for you — the agreement is between you and Google. Cancel there as well, whichever order you like, or you will go on paying for an app you have deleted.

If you own a trip that other people are still using, deleting your account deletes it for them too. If you want the trip to survive, ask another member to recreate it, or export it first from Settings → Import & export data before you delete.

How long it takes

An in-app deletion is immediate: the app works through your trips, removes their photos, and then removes the account itself. Backups held by the hosting provider roll off within 30 days. Nothing is retained for marketing, and there is no grace period during which the account can be restored.