Privacy

Tortie for iPhone and Tortie for Mac are made by Ita Vero, LLC. We do not collect your data. Tortie for iPhone needs no account with us and has no analytics and no advertising, and no data passes through a server we run.

On your Mac, SpecStory capture is off until you turn it on. When it is on, Tortie runs SpecStory, which sends usage analytics to SpecStory, including the session’s folder and the command that started the agent. If you are signed in to SpecStory, it also uploads the conversation to SpecStory Cloud.

While Tortie for iPhone is tested through Apple’s TestFlight, Apple sends us its crash reports, and any feedback or screenshot you choose to send, under Apple’s terms.

What leaves your iPhone

Tortie for iPhone talks only to the Mac you pair it with. To pair, it sends that Mac its public keys and a generic name such as “iPhone”, sealed so only your Mac can read them. Then it sends signed requests to read your sessions, to end one you choose, and to pass on what you type or tap. Your Mac answers with your sessions: their names, projects, status, conversations and terminals.

Your terminal

When you open a session’s terminal, your Mac sends your phone what it shows and what it printed before. Every key you type there goes into that session, as if you typed it at your Mac. If the session runs a coding agent, that agent may send what you type to the company that makes it, under that company’s terms. Your phone keeps none of it: no file, no log and no picture, only text you copy yourself.

How it gets there

Your phone reaches your Mac over the internet through Tailscale Funnel, which your Mac runs under your own Tailscale account. The connection is encrypted from your phone to your Mac. Tailscale’s relay can see your phone’s internet address, your Mac’s name, when you connect and how much is sent, but not what is sent.

Your Mac’s name

While your Mac lets your phone reach it, anyone on the internet can look up its Tailscale name. That name often holds your first name. You can rename your Mac in Tailscale.

Alerts

Only Tortie’s publisher can send alerts for now. Your phone asks iOS for alerts only when its Mac says it can send them, and then gives that Mac, sealed, the address Apple uses to reach it. Each alert goes through Apple. It can say a session’s name, project, agent, machine and status, and never its question or its terminal.

Camera, Face ID and Touch ID

Tortie uses the camera only to read the pairing code, and receives the code’s text, never a picture. It asks for Face ID, Touch ID or your passcode only before you end a session. iOS checks it and tells Tortie only whether you were confirmed.

What your phone keeps

Your phone keeps its pairing in this iPhone’s Keychain, never synced or restored to another phone. It also keeps which sessions the Sessions tab shows, and how it groups and sorts them. Tortie stores nothing your Mac sends. If you delete Tortie, the pairing can stay in the Keychain, but a new install forgets it before reading anything, and you pair again.

Cutting off a phone

On your Mac, press Remove beside the phone in Settings then Phone, or switch off Let my phone reach this Mac. Either cuts it off at once, without the phone. Unpair this iPhone, in the phone’s Settings, makes the phone forget your Mac, and your Mac lists it until you press Remove.

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