Welcome to WiFiShare (the "App"). Privacy is built into the core of how this App is designed. This document explains, in plain language, how the App handles your data.
The Wi-Fi names, passwords, and any network details you save stay only on your phone. We cannot see them. We cannot reach them.
So you don't have to start from scratch every time you open the App, the following items are kept on your phone — and only on your phone:
Wi-Fi entries you've added (network name / SSID, password, encryption type)
Whether you've unlocked the paid version
Minor settings (such as your remaining speed-test count for today)
Sensitive items like passwords are stored in your phone's encrypted vault (iOS Keychain / Android Keystore), not in plain files.
None of this leaves your phone. Switching phones means re-entering everything; deleting the App removes all of this data with it.
We don't ask for your name, email, phone number, or date of birth
No registration. No account.
We don't send your saved Wi-Fi names or passwords to any cloud
We don't send your network info or speed-test results to our servers
Core features (QR sharing, network info, password tools) have zero ads
We don't track which features you use or what you tap
The "Network Status" page shows your current Wi-Fi name, router address, the IP your phone has been assigned, and so on. The point is to let you copy this and pass it to family members or tech support.
This information is read from the phone's system only at the moment you open that page; once the page closes, it's gone. It is never transmitted and never logged.
This is not a bug. It's a restriction Apple introduced in iOS 13: an App must hold "location permission" before it can read the connected Wi-Fi name (SSID).
Apple did this because a Wi-Fi name can leak your physical location. To avoid bothering you, this App deliberately does not request location permission — we genuinely don't need to and don't want to know where you are.
As a result, on iPhone the "Wi-Fi Name" field on the Network Status page may appear blank. This is the App proactively respecting your privacy, not a tracking attempt.
When you tap the speed-test button, the App downloads test files from public speed-test endpoints (such as Cloudflare, OVH, and Hetzner) and calculates your current download speed.
This is the same kind of network activity as a browser loading a web page. The App does not send the result to us. The number is shown only to you and disappears when you close the page.
The free version allows 5 speed tests per day. After the daily quota, you may optionally watch a short rewarded ad to earn 1 extra test. The paid version removes this limit and is fully ad-free.
Ads are served by Google AdMob. AdMob may read device-level advertising identifiers (such as iOS IDFA or Android Advertising ID) to decide which ad to show. That information goes only to Google. The App itself cannot see it and does not record which ads you've seen.
The App deliberately does not request App Tracking Transparency (ATT). Ads are served as "non-personalized," which keeps the ad experience as simple as possible for you.
If you'd rather see no ads at all, the paid version also makes speed tests ad-free. If Google's ad service is temporarily unreachable (for example, when you are offline), the App falls back to a 5-second wait screen so your speed test is never blocked.
For details on how Google AdMob processes ad data, please see the Google Privacy Policy.
Generating Wi-Fi QR codes, generating random passwords, and checking password strength all run entirely on your phone. None of these features need an internet connection, and none of them ever transmit what you type.
The hotspot QR feature and the router default-credentials lookup use a list bundled inside the App — no live online queries are made.
Network access: used for the speed test and for opening external links
Read Wi-Fi state: to determine whether you're connected to Wi-Fi, and to read the network name and IP for display
The App does not request access to your camera, photos, location, contacts, or microphone. It doesn't use them, so it never asks.
When you purchase the paid version, the transaction is handled entirely by the Apple App Store (iPhone) or Google Play (Android). Your card number and account credentials are given only to Apple or Google. The App never sees them and never stores any payment record.
The App only receives a small "this user has paid" receipt, which is used solely to unlock paid features.
Pro users may choose to back up their Wi-Fi entries to their own iCloud Drive (iPhone) or Google Drive (Android). The backup lives only inside your own cloud account. The App has no backend server, so we cannot see your backup contents at all.
Backup is optional. Core features work without it, and you can turn it off at any time from Settings.
You can do any of the following at any time:
Long-press a Wi-Fi entry on the home screen to delete it
Delete the App from your phone (all of its data goes with it)
If you enabled cloud backup, delete the "Wi-Fi ShareKit" backup folder from your iCloud or Google Drive settings
Because we hold none of your data, there is no need to email us to request deletion.
The App is suitable for everyone in the household, including children. Because we collect no user data, children's use leaves no trace anywhere outside their own device.
The App complies with the United States' Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) and does not collect any personal information from children under 13.
If this Privacy Policy is ever revised (for example, if a future feature requires network access or sync), we'll update this page when the corresponding App update ships, so you can see what's different.