Last updated: October 22, 2026
The short version
- Fling has no accounts, no servers and no cloud storage.
- Fling doesn’t collect, sell or share personal data, and it has no analytics or advertising.
- What you fling travels directly between your nearby devices and is end-to-end encrypted.
What you send
When you fling a photo, video, file, text, link or contact, it goes directly from the sending device to the receiving device over Bluetooth and your local network. It is end-to-end encrypted, so only the two devices involved can read it. It never passes through a server run by us or anyone else.
Fling only sends to devices you have paired with. Pairing happens once, in person, by confirming that both devices show the same code.
What stays on your device
Fling keeps a few things on your device so it can work. None of it is sent to us.
- Recent items: things you received, so you can find them again. You can delete them anytime from the recents list.
- Paired devices: the names you gave them and the encryption keys used to recognize them.
- Settings: such as your display name, auto-save and auto-open choices, and your chosen save folder.
Deleting Fling removes this data from that device.
Permissions
- Bluetooth: finds your paired devices nearby and senses which one you’re pointing at.
- Local Network: sends and receives what you fling, directly between devices.
- Motion (iPhone): detects the fling gesture. Motion data is used in the moment and never stored or sent.
- Photos (add only): saves photos and videos you receive to your library when you ask, or automatically if you turn on auto-save. Fling can’t read your library.
- Notifications (Mac): lets you know when something arrives while Fling is in the background.
Link previews
When a link is flung, the device shows a preview with the page’s title and image. To build it, your device loads that page directly from the website, the same way your browser would. Fling doesn’t route that request through any server of its own.
Children
Fling doesn’t collect personal information from anyone, including children.
Changes
If this policy changes, the updated version will be posted on this page with a new date.
Contact
Questions about privacy? Email support@tryfling.app.