Privacy

What Glancio collects

Last updated 3 October 2026

Glancio turns a phone or tablet into a live display for your computer. It’s built so that almost everything stays on your own Wi‑Fi. This page explains the little that doesn’t.

Who we are

Glancio is made by Aayush Kedawat, an independent developer in India, who is responsible for the data described here (its “controller”, in the language of laws such as the GDPR). For anything about your data, write to support@glancio.app.

Stays on your network

Your computer’s system metrics, focus timer, project and git details, coding-agent status, AI usage, what’s playing, and your calendar and reminders (only if you allow Glancio to read them) are read on your computer and sent only to the phones you’ve paired with it, over an encrypted local connection. They are never sent to us.

AI usage is read from Claude Code’s and Codex’s own log files on your computer, only if you turn that feature on, and only token counts, dates and project folder names are used.

If you sign in

Signing in is optional. It’s only needed for Glancio Pro, so that a purchase follows you to your other devices. If you sign in, we keep:

Your account: your email address (with Sign in with Apple, the address Apple gives us, which can be a private relay address), your name if you share it, and an account ID. Sign-in is handled by Google Firebase Authentication.
Your Pro status: whether you have Pro, until when, and whether you’ve used the free trial. Purchases are made through the App Store or Google Play and recorded by RevenueCat. We never see your payment details.
Emails about Pro: when you start Pro, a trial or cancel, we email you from support@glancio.app: a welcome, a reminder before a free trial becomes a payment, and a note if you cancel. Only about your Pro, never marketing.
Your devices: the names of the computers and phones that use your Pro (for example “MacBook Air”), an identifier for each, and when each was last used. This is how Pro works on several devices, up to a limit.

Free trials

Free trials of Pro are run by Google Play and the App Store, under their own rules. When we run a free trial of our own instead, so it can’t be restarted with a new account, starting it records the phone it was started on, and using it records the computer. We never store the device’s own identifier, only a one-way, keyed code made from it (from Android’s app-specific device ID, or on iPhone and iPad from the app’s vendor ID), which can’t be turned back into the identifier or linked to you. On iPhone and iPad, Apple’s DeviceCheck also remembers, on Apple’s side, that the device has had the trial. Separately, to protect against abuse, the app proves to our servers that it’s the genuine Glancio app, using Google Play Integrity or Apple App Attest.

How the apps are used

The phone and tablet app and Glancio for Mac send anonymous usage events through Google Analytics for Firebase, so we can see whether Glancio works for people and what to improve: how setup goes (for example that a computer was found, paired, or a pairing code scanned, and how long it took), which Screens and pages are opened, which features are used (for example that a Deck button was pressed and what kind it was, such as a keyboard shortcut from the Xcode pack, or that the teleprompter started; never a button’s name, what it opens or what it said), style choices, and whether invitations to try Pro were shown, tapped or put off, and purchases started or completed. With them, Google Analytics records basic device details (model, operating system, country) and a random identifier for this install of the app.

They carry nothing from your computer or your screens: no system figures, projects, calendar, music, focus tasks, scripts, or anything you type. They aren’t linked to your account, and never use an advertising identifier. Google keeps them for two months.

You can turn them off at any time: on your phone, open the menu and switch off Share anonymous usage stats; on your Mac, it’s under Settings › Privacy. That also clears the install’s identifier.

Testing Glancio early

If you try a test version through TestFlight or Google Play testing, Apple or Google may pass us crash reports and anything you choose to send as feedback (such as a screenshot or a comment), under their own privacy policies. We use them only to fix and improve Glancio.

Notifications

The phone and tablet app sends notifications only if you turn them on: when your free trial is about to end, when a new computer starts using your Pro, and now and then (a few times a month at most) news about Glancio. To deliver them, Google’s Firebase Cloud Messaging gives the app a random notification address (a token). If you’re signed in, we keep that token with your account, so account notices reach your phone; it’s removed when you sign out, turn notifications off, or delete your account. Which general notifications you get depends on a few groups the app puts itself in, the same as its usage properties: phone or tablet type, whether it’s used with a computer, and free or Pro. Nothing about you or your screens is in a notification.

Turn them off at any time in the app’s menu (Notifications) or in your phone’s settings.

When you visit glancio.app

This website uses Google Analytics to count visits and a few clicks, such as downloading Glancio for Mac. Google records the pages you view, roughly where you are (country and city), your browser and device type, and a random identifier kept in a cookie. It isn’t used for advertising, and Google signals are off. If you’re in the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom or Switzerland, no analytics cookie is set; Google receives only anonymous, cookieless pings.

When the app crashes, or is slow

If the phone or tablet app crashes, it sends a crash report through Firebase Crashlytics, so we can fix it: what went wrong in the app’s code, the app version, and basic device details (model, operating system) with a random identifier for this install. Crash reports carry nothing from your computer or your account. Google keeps them for 90 days.

With usage stats on, the app also sends timings through Firebase Performance Monitoring, so we can keep it fast on older phones: how long it takes to start, to connect to your computer and to load prices, how smoothly it draws, and how long its requests to our servers take (the address and time, never what’s sent). They come with the same device details and a random identifier, and nothing from your computer or your account. Turning usage stats off in the app stops these too.

What your computer downloads

Your computer occasionally downloads Glancio’s feature settings and a list of withdrawn Pro passes from glancio.app’s servers. Like any website, those servers see your IP address when it does.

Where it’s kept

Account data is stored with Google Cloud (Firebase) in Mumbai, India. Firebase Authentication keeps sign-in accounts in the United States, and Resend sends emails from the United States. RevenueCat, Apple and Google keep their own records of purchases.

So if you live elsewhere, for example in the European Economic Area or the United Kingdom, your data is transferred to India and the United States. Those transfers are covered by our providers’ data processing terms, which include the European Commission’s Standard Contractual Clauses.

Who we share it with

Nobody, beyond the services that run Glancio for us: Google (Firebase and Google Analytics), RevenueCat, Resend (which sends our emails), and Apple or Google for purchases. We don’t sell data, show ads, or use tracking or advertising IDs.

Why we use it

To provide what you asked for (performing our contract with you): your account, Pro status, devices, purchases and the emails about them.
Legitimate interests, which you can object to: crash reports and timings, to fix Glancio and keep it fast; usage stats in the apps and on this website, to improve them, which you can also switch off; and checks that the app is genuine and a trial isn’t reused, to prevent abuse.

How long we keep it

Until you delete your account. A device you haven’t used for 30 days stops being listed. Records of withdrawn Pro passes are kept only until those passes would have expired anyway, at most 7 days. The one-way trial codes above, if any, are kept after an account is deleted, since their purpose is to stop the trial being restarted; they aren’t linked to the deleted account.

Your rights

Wherever you live, you can ask us for a copy of your data, to correct it, to delete it, or to stop using it for something above, and to receive it in a form you can take elsewhere. Write to support@glancio.app; we answer within 30 days, and don’t charge for it. If you live in the European Economic Area or the United Kingdom, you can also complain to your data protection authority. If you live in California, we don’t sell or share your personal information, and we won’t treat you differently for using these rights.

Deleting your data

You can delete your account and everything above at any time, except the one-way trial codes. If you signed in with Apple, deleting also withdraws Glancio’s access to your Apple ID. See Delete your account.

If you live in India

Under India’s Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023, we use your account data to give you what you asked for when you signed in, and anything optional (usage stats, notifications) only while you leave it switched on; you can withdraw that at any time in the app. You can ask us to correct or erase your data, and to name someone to act for you.

Grievance contact: Aayush Kedawat, support@glancio.app. We reply within 30 days. If we don’t resolve it, you can complain to the Data Protection Board of India.

Children

Glancio isn’t directed at children, and we don’t knowingly collect their data. It isn’t for anyone under 13; in India, anyone under 18 should use it only with a parent’s or guardian’s consent.

Changes and contact

If this changes, we’ll update this page and its date. Questions: support@glancio.app.