Privacy

Edgeleaf’s privacy policy

In effect from 8 November 2026. It covers Edgeleaf on Mac, Windows, iPhone and Android.

Edgeleaf has no account, no analytics, no advertising and no servers of its own. It collects nothing about you, and nothing you read, highlight or write leaves your devices unless you send it.

What stays on your device

Your books, your place in each, your highlights, notes, corrections, reading statistics and settings are kept in Edgeleaf’s own folder on the device you’re using. Nobody else can see them, Harshit Bisht (who makes Edgeleaf) included.

If your device backs up its apps (Time Machine, iCloud Backup, Android’s backup to your Google account), that backup includes Edgeleaf’s folder, held by Apple or Google under your account and their terms.

When Edgeleaf uses the network

Only when you ask it to do something that needs it:

Looking up a word. If your Mac’s own dictionary doesn’t know it (and always on Windows, iPhone and Android), that one word is sent to Wiktionary, run by the Wikimedia Foundation, with a note saying the request comes from Edgeleaf.
Saving a page from the web. When you share, paste or drop a web address, Edgeleaf fetches that page (and, if you ask, the chapters after it) straight from the website it’s on, as a browser would. The site sees an ordinary visit.
Ambient sounds. Some sounds are downloaded the first time you choose them, from Edgeleaf’s website (hosted by GitHub).
Syncing your phone and computer. This happens only over your own Wi-Fi, directly between your two devices, after you scan the code your computer shows and say yes on the phone. Nothing passes through anyone else’s servers.

Becoming a patron

If you tip on Ko-fi or join on Patreon, that happens on their websites, under their privacy policies. The patron code you get is checked inside the app, without contacting anyone. In the App Store and Google Play apps, the purchase is handled entirely by Apple or Google; Edgeleaf only learns whether your account owns Patron, never your payment details.

Permissions on your phone

Local network (iPhone): to find your computer when you sync.
Display over other apps (Android, if you allow it): to show the reading tab at the edge of your screen while a book is open.
Vibration (Android): for the light tap when you turn a page.

Edgeleaf doesn’t ask for your location, contacts, photos, camera, microphone or notifications.

Children

Edgeleaf isn’t aimed at children, and it collects no information from anyone, children included.

Changes

If Edgeleaf ever starts handling anything about you differently, this page will say so before it does, with a new date at the top.

Questions about privacy: edgyhd.dev@gmail.com