DeskHop Privacy Policy
Effective 12 July 2026 · Applies to the DeskHop iPhone/iPad app and DeskHop Host for Mac.
DeskHop lets you see and control your own Mac from your iPhone or iPad. It is built to know as little about you as possible: there are no accounts, no analytics, no ads, and we never sell data.
What DeskHop handles
Your Mac's screen and your input. During a session, your Mac streams its screen to your phone and your phone sends taps and keystrokes back. Whenever the two devices can reach each other directly (for example on the same Wi-Fi), this flows peer-to-peer and never touches our servers. When a direct path isn't possible, the stream is carried by our relay server. It is always encrypted in transit (WebRTC's standard DTLS-SRTP encryption). Honest note: like most remote-desktop tools, our relay is a trusted middle step — full end-to-end encryption where the relay itself cannot see the stream is on our roadmap.
Pairing data. When you pair, our server checks the PIN and issues your phone a private session key for your Mac. The server stores that key only in a hashed form, together with your Mac's name and your device's name (for example "Mehrdad's iPhone") so it can tell your devices apart. Wrong PIN attempts are counted briefly to block guessing.
Connection metadata. Our server briefly processes connection details (IP addresses, timestamps, connection state) in its operational logs, kept only for troubleshooting and abuse prevention, and routinely rotated.
What DeskHop does not do
No account creation. No tracking or analytics SDKs. No advertising. No sale or sharing of any data with third parties. The camera is used only to scan the pairing code shown on your Mac, and images from it never leave your phone. Nothing from your Mac's screen is stored on our servers.
Where things run
The relay runs on our own server in an EU data centre. Screen data passes through it only when a direct connection isn't possible, and is never written to disk.
Your choices
"Forget this Mac" on the phone removes the pairing from the device; regenerating the PIN or removing DeskHop Host from the Mac ends its registration. To have any server-side pairing records removed, just ask.
Contact
Questions or deletion requests: forderit@gmail.com.
If this policy changes, the date above changes with it.