Draggy Privacy Policy

Last updated 20 October 2026

Draggy moves files and text between your iPhone or iPad and your Mac over your own local network. Nothing you move goes through a server. This policy explains what the apps handle, what they keep on your devices, and what leaves them.

What this policy covers

The Draggy app for iPhone and iPad, its share extension, the Draggy app for Mac, and the pages that describe them. It describes version 1.0.

What the apps handle

  • Files you send. When you drag a file off one screen, share it into Draggy, or import it, the file is read on the sending device and copied to the receiving device. Draggy does not inspect the contents beyond making a thumbnail and checking that the copy arrived intact.
  • Text you send. Text is read only when you act: when you tap "Send Clipboard to Mac" on iPhone or iPad, or drop text on the Mac's screen edge. The receiving device puts it on its clipboard. Draggy never reads your clipboard in the background.
  • Device details. Each device has a name (the one you gave it in Settings), a random identifier created on first launch, and an encryption key pair. These are exchanged when you pair so the devices can recognise each other.

Permissions

  • Local Network (iPhone and iPad): to find your Mac and connect to it.
  • Automation for Finder (Mac): to place a received file on your Desktop where it landed. If you decline, files still arrive; they just are not positioned.
  • Launch at Login (Mac, optional): to start Draggy when you log in.

You can turn these off at any time in Settings on iPhone and iPad, or System Settings on the Mac.

What is saved on your devices

  • Your files. On iPhone and iPad, files live in Draggy's folder, which you can see in the Files app. Items shared from other apps wait in a folder shared with the share extension until Draggy opens. On the Mac, files arrive in ~/Library/Caches/com.draggy.mac/incoming and are then moved to your Desktop or the folder you choose in Settings.
  • Pairing. The other device's name, identifier and public key, and your own key pair, are stored in the Keychain.
  • Preferences. Which side of the Mac your iPhone sits on, the destination folder, sounds, and diagnostics settings.
  • Diagnostics, only if you turn them on. Crash and hang reports that Apple provides to the app are saved on the device, in ~/Library/Logs/Draggy on the Mac and the equivalent folder inside the app on iPhone and iPad. They stay there until you export them.

Network activity and sharing

  • Local only. The devices find each other with Bonjour on your local network. The Mac advertises its name and a random identifier there while Draggy runs. Every connection is encrypted (TLS with a key the two devices agreed when you paired). Draggy refuses mobile data and never contacts the internet.
  • No developer servers. Draggy has no accounts, cloud sync, analytics, advertising or automatic crash upload. It does not use AI services to process your files or text.
  • Exports you choose. A diagnostics export is a zip you create and decide where to send. It contains the saved crash reports and the current session's Draggy log lines. These carry sizes, timings and error descriptions, not file contents or clipboard text. Your home folder is replaced with ~. Review it before sharing.
  • Apple. macOS may contact Apple to check the Mac app's signature. If you install a beta through TestFlight, Apple shares crash reports and feedback you choose to send with the developer under TestFlight's terms.
  • Email. If you email us, we receive your address and what you write, and use it only to reply.

We do not sell personal information or use it for advertising.

Retention and your choices

Everything above stays on your devices until you delete it. Delete files in Draggy or the Files app on iPhone and iPad, or in Finder on the Mac. Unpair a device from either app to remove its pairing details. Deleting the apps removes their data, apart from Keychain items, which macOS keeps until you remove them in Keychain Access, and any backups you control. We cannot access or erase anything on your devices.

Where applicable law gives you rights over personal information you sent us by email, you can ask us to access, correct or delete it, and you can complain to your local data protection authority.

Children

Draggy is a general-purpose utility, not directed at children under 13. It asks for no age or account information.

Changes

We will publish changes here and update the date above.

Contact

Draggy is developed by Joao Valente. For questions or privacy requests, email joao.valente@outlook.com.