Privacy Policy
Last updated 11 November 2026. SidePane is published by Yuen Mun Chan.
In short: SidePane collects no personal data. There are no accounts, no analytics and no ads. The picture and your touches go only between your own Mac and iPhone.
What stays on your devices
- The display stream and your touches travel directly between your Mac and iPhone over the USB cable or your local network. They never pass through a server of ours or anyone else's.
- Pairing creates a secret that's kept in the Keychain on your Mac and your iPhone. It's never sent over Wi-Fi.
- Settings such as text size and Use Wi-Fi are stored on each device.
- Handwriting in the Pencil's Write mode is read on the iPhone by Apple's on-device text recognition.
Purchases
The unlock is bought through the App Store. Apple processes the payment; we receive no payment details.
Updates
The Mac app checks getsidepane.com for updates about once a day (you can turn this off in its settings). Like any website, the server sees the request's IP address and the app's version; we don't use them to identify you.
Camera and local network
The iPhone app uses the camera only to scan the pairing code shown on your Mac, and the local network only to find and connect to your Mac.
Children
SidePane isn't directed at children and collects no data from anyone.
Contact
Questions about privacy: vincentchanbiz@gmail.com.