Privacy Policy

Last updated: 2026. Publisher: HedgieLabs.

Gridless is built so there is almost nothing to have a privacy policy about. Here is the whole truth.

We do not collect your data

Gridless has no servers, no accounts, and makes no network calls to us or to any third party. We do not collect, receive, store, transmit, sell, or share any personal information. We have no analytics and no advertising. We cannot read your messages, and neither can anyone else who is not one of the two paired phones.

Where your data lives

Everything stays on your device or travels directly to the other paired phone over Bluetooth:

• Your messages and rooms are stored encrypted on your phone (SQLCipher, AES-256), sealed behind your Face ID or Touch ID or passcode and a passphrase you choose.
• Messages between two paired phones are end-to-end encrypted (Noise protocol) and are exchanged directly over Bluetooth, never through a server.
• "Delete all data" crypto-erases every room and message on your phone, permanently.

The only things that persist a wipe

So that free trials and purchases work without a server, two small, anonymous records are kept in your device Keychain and by the App Store, and they survive erasing or reinstalling the app:

• A trial timestamp (a date only, with no content, no identity, no contacts).
• Your App Store purchase state (managed by Apple, tied to your Apple ID, not to us).

These contain nothing about who you talked to or what you said.

Permissions

• Bluetooth: the transport for the entire app.
• Camera: only to scan a pairing QR code (optional; a recovery phrase works too).
• Notifications: optional; a local notification when a message arrives while the app is backgrounded.

Payments

Purchases are handled entirely by Apple via the App Store. We never see your payment details.

Children

Gridless is not directed at children and collects no data from anyone.

Contact

Questions: support@hedgielabs.com. Bluetooth is a trademark of Bluetooth SIG, Inc.