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Privacy

Last updated September 30, 2026.

Home Economics is built so that your household's paperwork stays with you. This page says what that means for the app, the beta, this website and email.

The app

  • Your documents, and everything you add to them, stay in the folder you choose on your own devices. The app sends nothing to us or to anyone else.
  • There are no accounts, no advertising, no analytics and no tracking in the app.
  • The app doesn't check for updates on its own. You get new versions from this website or from TestFlight.
  • Every household starts with the Device-Only setting. Features that could use the internet may come later; each will ask before it sends anything, and you can refuse.
  • If you keep your library in a folder that a service such as iCloud Drive or Dropbox syncs, copies of your documents are stored by that service under its own privacy policy. The app tells you when a folder is synced.

The beta on iPhone and iPad

The iPhone and iPad beta is distributed through Apple's TestFlight. When you're invited, Apple shares with us the name and email address the invitation was sent to. In TestFlight you can choose to send feedback: a comment, a screenshot, or a crash report, along with your device model and system version. Nothing is sent unless you send it, and Apple shows you what will be sent first.

Screenshots show whatever is on the screen, so open a sample document before you take one, or describe the problem in words. Crash reports don't include your documents.

Apple handles this information under Apple's privacy policy. We use it only to fix problems in Home Economics, and we don't share it.

This website

This website has no cookies, no analytics and no content from other companies. It's hosted on GitLab Pages, and Mac downloads come from GitLab, whose servers may record your IP address as part of normal operation, under GitLab's privacy statement.

Email

If you write to us, we keep your message and address only to reply to you and to follow up on what you asked. We don't share them.

Changes and contact

If this policy changes, the new version will be posted here with a new date. Questions: beta@homeeconomics.dev.