Privacy Policy — ReMoKey
Last updated: 15 August 2026
ReMoKey lets your iPhone act as a keyboard, trackpad and remote for your own Mac.
ReMoKey has no servers, no accounts and no analytics. Nothing you type, say or do in the app is sent to us, and there is nowhere for it to be sent to. The one exception is a problem report, which only ever leaves your device because you wrote it and pressed send yourself — described below.
What the app sends, and where
Your iPhone talks only to your Mac. The connection is made either over your local network or to an address you type in yourself, and it is encrypted. It does not pass through us or through anyone else. What travels over it is what you would expect: keystrokes, pointer movement, the name you have given your iPhone, and — so a button can wear the right icon — the names and icons of apps installed on your Mac.
Dictation never leaves your iPhone. Speech recognition is forced to run on-device. If your language has no on-device model downloaded, dictation refuses to start rather than quietly sending your voice to Apple. This is deliberate: the app types into your Mac, and what you dictate could be anything.
The Mac app checks for updates. It fetches a small file from updates.remokey.app to see whether a newer version exists. That address is hosted by GitHub, which therefore sees your IP address and the fact that a request was made, as it would for any download. No information about you, your Mac or your usage is included in that request. You can turn automatic checks off in the Mac app.
Those are the only ways ReMoKey uses the network. There are no other services, no advertising, no tracking and no third-party analytics of any kind.
What is stored on your devices
Kept locally, and never transmitted to us:
- Which Macs you have paired with, and the credentials that let you reconnect (held in the system Keychain on your iPhone)
- Your settings — button layouts, macros, appearance, the name you gave your phone
- A diagnostic log, described next
Deleting the app removes all of it. Removing a Mac in ReMoKey deletes that Mac’s credentials from your iPhone and, when it can reach it, tells the Mac to forget your iPhone too.
The diagnostic log
Both apps keep a small local log so that a problem can be diagnosed if you choose to report one. It is capped in size and old entries are discarded.
It is built so that it cannot contain what you type. Log entries are not free text: each one is an event name plus a small number of typed values, and there is no way for a keystroke, a dictated phrase or a password to be written into it. Beyond that:
- Device and computer names are stored as a one-way digest, not as names
- Network addresses are reduced to a category — “local network”, “VPN”, and so on — never the address itself
- The pairing PIN, pairing credentials and the contents of anything you type are never recorded
The log stays on your device unless you send a report.
Problem reports and feedback
If you choose to send a report, ReMoKey prepares one and hands it to your own email app. You see the whole thing before anything happens, you can edit or delete any of it, and nothing is sent unless you press send. It arrives from your email address, so we see that address in the same way as any email you send.
A report contains what you wrote, the diagnostic log described above, and version numbers for the app and operating system. If your iPhone is connected to your Mac at the time, the Mac’s log is included too; if it is not, the report says so and is sent without it.
We use reports only to fix problems and decide what to build. We do not sell them, share them or use them for advertising. They may be recorded in a private issue tracker so the work can be followed through, and are kept only while they are useful.
If you would rather not send diagnostics at all, you can email us directly instead.
Children
ReMoKey is not directed at children and does not knowingly collect information from anyone. It collects nothing from anybody.
Your rights
Because we hold no accounts and receive nothing automatically, there is normally no personal data of yours for us to hold, correct or delete.
If you have emailed us a report, that email is personal data, and under the UK and EU GDPR you may ask us for a copy of it, ask us to correct it, or ask us to delete it. Write to the address below and we will do so. The lawful basis for holding it is our legitimate interest in supporting and improving the app; you gave it to us by choosing to send it.
Changes
If this policy changes, the date at the top changes with it, and the current version always lives at this address.
Contact
ReMoKey is made by an independent developer.