Privacy

The app collects nothing.

Last updated 8 August 2026 · applies to the FoldRender Android app (dev.foldrender.app) and to this site.

The short version

FoldRender has no account system, no analytics, and no server of ours. We do not collect, store, or receive any personal data. Everything you open stays on your device, and the only place the app sends anything is GitHub — when you ask it to.

What stays on your device

  • Your documents and repositories. Files are read through Android's Storage Access Framework, from folders you pick yourself, and cloned repositories are written to the app's own storage. The app never uploads them anywhere.
  • Reading preferences — theme, font size, recent files, the folder you last opened — in app-private storage.
  • Your GitHub access token, if you sign in. It is kept in app-private storage and is used only to talk to GitHub. Signing out deletes it; so does uninstalling the app.

What leaves your device

  • GitHub (github.com and api.github.com), only when you sign in, clone, pull, or push. Those requests go straight from your phone to GitHub and are covered by GitHub's privacy statement.
  • Nothing else. No telemetry, no crash reporting service, no advertising SDK, no third-party analytics anywhere in the app.

The local push endpoint

FoldRender can open a small HTTP endpoint so a machine on your own network can send a document straight into the reading pane. It is off by default, binds only while you have it switched on, requires a token generated on your device, and only ever accepts documents — it never serves your files back out. It is reachable from your local network only, never from the internet.

Permissions

The app requests one Android permission, INTERNET, which is what git operations and GitHub sign-in need. Access to your files comes from the folders you choose in the system picker, not from a storage permission.

This website

foldrender.dev uses Google Analytics 4 to see which pages get read. It records page views, an approximate region derived from your IP address, and a client identifier stored in a cookie (_ga). We do not use it to build advertising profiles, and the site shows no ads. Blocking analytics cookies in your browser costs you nothing on this site. Hosting is Vercel, whose servers keep standard request logs.

None of this touches the app: FoldRender itself still contains no analytics of any kind.

Children

FoldRender is a developer tool and is not directed at children under 13. Since we collect no data at all, we hold no information about anyone, children included.