Effective date: August 5, 2026
Glint has no server. Every check it performs runs entirely on your iPhone, and nothing it sees is uploaded anywhere. That is not a policy choice we could reverse quietly — it is how the app is built.
The infrared detector and lens-glint finder show you a live camera feed and highlight bright points in it. Frames are analysed on your device, in memory, as they arrive. Nothing is recorded, saved, or transmitted. Point the camera wherever you like; Glint keeps no copy.
Glint lists the devices connected to the Wi-Fi network you are on, using Apple's local-network discovery and by checking which devices answer on a handful of ports. This traffic never leaves your local network, and the resulting list stays on your device. We never see it.
Glint does not ask for your location, and scanning does not need it. On iOS the only thing location permission would unlock is reading the name of the Wi-Fi network — a label, nothing more. We would rather do without it.
Magnetic readings are taken from the phone's own sensor and displayed live. They are not stored or sent.
Purchases are processed by Apple. We use RevenueCat to manage subscription status; RevenueCat receives an anonymous app user ID and purchase information from Apple. See RevenueCat's privacy policy. We never see your payment details, and we do not know who you are.
Everything Glint stores lives on your device. Deleting the app deletes it.
Glint is not directed at children and collects no personal information from anyone.
If a future version of Glint ever needs to send data off the device, this page will say so before that version ships.