Privacy Policy

Effective October 26, 2026

Tootrove doesn't collect your data. It has no accounts of its own, no analytics, no ads and no tracking, and none of what you do in it passes through servers of ours.

Tootrove is a Mastodon app for iPhone, iPad and Mac. This page explains where your information goes when you use it.

What Tootrove doesn't do

• It doesn't ask you to make an account with us. You sign in with a Mastodon server you choose.
• It has no analytics or advertising code, and doesn't track you across apps or websites.
• We never receive your posts, messages, photos, contacts or location, and we don't sell or share anything about you.

Where your information goes

Tootrove connects straight from your device to the following.

Your Mastodon server

What you do in the app goes to the server you sign in to: posts and replies, likes, boosts and follows, private messages, the photos and videos you upload, reports, and your settings there. That server keeps and handles it under its own privacy policy and rules, which you can read in Tootrove under Settings › Your Server.

Private messages on Mastodon aren't end-to-end encrypted: the people in the conversation can read them, and so can the administrators of the servers involved.

Other Mastodon servers and websites

Pictures, videos, avatars and custom emoji load from the servers that host them. When you browse another server's public posts, Tootrove asks that server directly, without signing in. Links you open load in a browser inside the app. Like any website, these servers see your device's IP address.

joinmastodon.org

When you sign in, the suggested servers come from joinmastodon.org's public directory. Nothing about you is sent with that request.

Apple

• Typefaces you choose, such as the Chinese ones, download from Apple the first time you use them.
• Translating on your device uses Apple's translation, with languages downloaded from Apple. The text you translate stays on your device.
• When you translate a post with your server instead, the post goes to your server, which may use a translation service of its own.

What stays on your device

• Your sign-in is kept in the Keychain on this device and isn't synced to iCloud. Signing out revokes it with your server and deletes it.
• Timelines, drafts, settings and the skins you make are stored in the app's own storage, which Tootrove's widgets share. Deleting the app deletes them.
• Shortcuts and Siri actions run on your device.
• Tootrove asks for access to your photo library only to save a picture you choose to save. When you pick photos to post, the system's photo picker gives the app only the ones you pick.
• A theme you share as a link contains only its name, colors and display settings.

Crash reports

If you've chosen to share analytics with app developers (Settings › Privacy & Security › Analytics & Improvements on your device), Apple sends us crash reports and usage statistics that don't identify you. You can turn this off there at any time.

Children

Tootrove isn't directed at children under 13. Mastodon servers set their own minimum ages.

Changes

Before Tootrove handles information in a new way, for example if it adds push notifications that pass through a server, this policy will be updated here with a new date.

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