Privacy Policy

Foldout is two apps that work together: Foldout for Mac, a free menu bar app from this website, and Foldout for iPhone, from the App Store. This policy covers both apps and this website. “We” and “us” mean the makers of Foldout.

What stays on your devices

• The picture and your touches. Foldout for Mac makes an extra display and sends its picture to your iPhone, and your iPhone sends your taps, swipes and pinches back. They travel directly between your two devices, over your Wi‑Fi network or a direct peer-to-peer Wi‑Fi link, encrypted with a key that only those two devices have (TLS with AES-128-GCM). They never pass through a server of ours, and nothing is recorded or saved.
• Pairing keys. When you pair, your iPhone and your Mac each keep the key they share in their own keychain. Forget a device on either side and its key is deleted.
• Device names. So you can tell your devices apart, your iPhone tells your Mac its name, such as “iPhone”, and your Mac tells your iPhone its own. Each keeps a list of the devices it’s paired with.
• Settings. Your choices, such as where the display sits and how big text looks, are saved on your Mac.

Permissions, and what they’re for

• Screen Recording, on your Mac: to capture the extra display Foldout makes and send it to your iPhone. Foldout never captures your Mac’s own screens.
• Accessibility, on your Mac: to turn your touches into clicks, scrolls and zooms. Foldout doesn’t use it to read what’s on your screen or what you type.
• Local Network, on your iPhone (and on your Mac with macOS 15 or later): so your devices can find each other and connect.

Subscriptions

Foldout Pro is sold through the App Store, and Apple handles the payment. We never see your name, email address, Apple Account or payment details. The app checks whether you’re subscribed with Apple, on your iPhone. Apple gives us sales reports that don’t identify you.

Updates for the Mac app

Foldout for Mac checks for new versions by downloading a small file from our website. Like any web request, this tells our web host your IP address and which version of Foldout you have. It sends nothing else.

Crash reports

If you’ve turned on Share With App Developers on your iPhone, in Settings › Privacy & Security › Analytics & Improvements, Apple shares crash reports and usage statistics for Foldout with us, in a form that doesn’t identify you. You can turn it off at any time.

This website

This site doesn’t use cookies, analytics or tracking, and it loads nothing from other companies. Like every website, our web host receives standard information such as IP addresses, which it uses to deliver pages and protect the site from abuse.

Email and feedback

If you email us or send us feedback, we receive what you choose to send, such as your email address, your message, and any details you include, like your device model or app version. We use it only to reply and to fix problems, keep it only as long as we need it for that, and never sell or share it.

Children

Foldout doesn’t collect personal information from anyone, including children.

Your choices

Because Foldout doesn’t collect your data, there’s nothing for us to show you, correct or delete, apart from messages you’ve sent us. Wherever you live, you can ask for a copy of those or ask us to delete them.

Changes to this policy

If this policy changes, we’ll post the new version here with a new date. If a new version of Foldout would collect something it doesn’t today, we’ll update this page before that version comes out.

Contact

Questions about privacy? Email support@foldout.app.