Privacy policy

Last updated: 10 November 2026

In short: the Swipt apps collect no personal data. There are no ads, no tracking, no analytics and no account. Your files go straight from one of your devices to another over your own Wi-Fi, never through us. Swipt has no servers. The only personal data we ever handle is an email you choose to send us.

This policy covers the Swipt apps for iPhone, Android, Windows and Mac, and this website.

Who is responsible

Swipt is made by Rafael Capucho Paulo, Switzerland ("we"). For anything about privacy, write to hello@swiptapp.com.

How your files travel

• Files go directly from one of your devices to another over your local network (your Wi-Fi). They never go over the internet and never through a cloud service, and we never see them.
• Your phone only talks to computers you paired it with, by scanning the QR code on that computer's screen and confirming on the computer.
• Every transfer is encrypted (HTTPS/TLS). Your phone checks the computer's identity against the code it scanned, so another device can't pretend to be your computer.
• Received files are saved on the receiving device: on a computer in the folder you chose (Downloads ▸ Swipt by default); on an iPhone in Photos or in the Files app; on Android in your gallery or in Downloads ▸ Swipt.

What the apps keep on your devices

Swipt keeps a few things so it works the next time. They stay on your devices and are never sent to us:

• On your phone: the computers you paired with (their name, network addresses and a random access key), your phone's name, how many of your free files you've used, whether you unlocked Unlimited Transfers, and how many transfers you've completed (so Swipt asks for a store rating only once). On iPhone this is in the Keychain. On Android it's in Swipt's own storage and in Google's Block Store on the phone, which Swipt sets to stay on the device.
• On your computer: the phones you paired (name, an ID, a fingerprint of their access key, and the free-file count they last reported), Swipt's settings, and the files you received.
• What your computer learns from your phone: the phone's name, an ID that identifies it to your computers, and how many free files it has left. On Android, the ID is derived from Android's own ID for Swipt on that phone, scrambled so the original can't be read back. All of this stays on your computer.
• Your own backups: if you back up your phone (iCloud, or Google's backup on Android), the backup can include these settings, like any app's. That's between you and Apple or Google; we have no access to it.

Purchases

The one-time purchase "Unlimited Transfers" is handled entirely by Apple (App Store) or Google (Google Play), under their own privacy policies. We never receive your payment details. To unlock and restore the purchase, Swipt only asks the store whether you own it. Apple and Google send us sales reports for our accounting, which don't include your payment details. If a store shares any order information with us, we use it only for accounting, refunds and support.

Statistics and crash reports from the stores

Apple and Google may show us statistics about Swipt, such as how many people installed it or how often it crashed. They collect this themselves, only if you allowed sharing with app developers in your device's settings, and give it to us in a form that doesn't identify you. Swipt itself contains no analytics or crash-reporting code.

Permissions Swipt asks for

• Local network: to find your computer on your Wi-Fi and send files to it.
• Camera: only to scan the pairing QR code. Images are not saved or sent anywhere.
• Photos: to show your photos and videos so you can pick what to send, and to save photos and videos you receive.
• Notifications (Windows and Mac): to tell you when files arrive.
• Start with your computer (Windows and Mac): so phones can send to it after a restart. You can switch this off in Swipt's settings.

You can turn any of these off in your device's settings; Swipt explains what stops working.

Other companies' components

• Apple and Google handle purchases and app downloads (see above). On iPhone, if you send a photo that's only stored in iCloud, iOS first downloads it from your iCloud. That's between your phone and Apple.
• Android QR scanning uses Google's ML Kit, which runs on your phone. Swipt switches off ML Kit's usage reports, so nothing is sent to Google from scanning.

When you write to us

If you email hello@swiptapp.com, we receive your email address and what you write, and use them only to answer you. Our email is hosted by Infomaniak in Switzerland. We keep these emails only as long as needed to help you, then delete them.

This website

swiptapp.com sets no cookies and has no analytics, tracking or third-party content. It's hosted on GitHub Pages by GitHub, Inc. (USA), which may log technical data such as visitors' IP addresses to run and protect the service. GitHub handles that under its own privacy statement, which also covers transfers to the USA.

Your rights

Because the apps don't send us any data about you, there is usually nothing we hold about you. If you've emailed us, you can ask what we have, and ask us to correct or delete it, at hello@swiptapp.com. You can also complain to a data protection authority: in Switzerland the Federal Data Protection and Information Commissioner (FDPIC), in the EU the authority of your country.

Children

Swipt doesn't collect data from anyone, including children.

Changes

If this policy changes, the new version will be posted on this page with a new date.