Privacy Policy

Effective date: 2026-11-01

Wi-Fi Share puts your privacy first. Your saved Wi-Fi names, passwords, and any network info you see are stored on your own phone; we can't see them or touch them. If your phone's system backup (such as iCloud Backup or Google backup) is on, a copy also goes to your own cloud account. This page describes how the app and this website handle your data.

In-app data

We do not collect any personal data

Wi-Fi Share never uploads the Wi-Fi entries, passwords and settings you save to the cloud by itself, and has no cloud sync of its own. We have no servers of our own and no accounts, so your data simply never reaches us.

Data scope

The app may store the following on your device locally:

  • The Wi-Fi entries you add: network name, password and security type (kept in the system’s encrypted storage)
  • History of speed tests, network health checks and device scans (time, speed, device IP addresses), plus the names you give devices and your Wake-on-LAN device list
  • A few small settings, such as how many speed tests you have run today
  • Your purchase status (whether you have unlocked Premium)
  • From version 1.2.0: room names and test results for Room-by-room comparison, the venue name and welcome message on the Guest Wi-Fi card, and the Wi-Fi QR widget settings (whether it is on and which network it shows). The Weekly home network report is built from your existing records and stores nothing extra

Wi-Fi Share never sends any of this to us and has no cloud sync of its own. If your phone's system backup (iCloud Backup on iPhone, Google backup on Android) is on, it is backed up to your own account along with your other apps and comes back when you restore a new phone from that backup. The one exception is Wi-Fi passwords on Android, which are deliberately left out (they're encrypted with a key that exists only on this phone, so a new phone couldn't read them); on a new Android phone you'll need to re-enter them.

Permissions

The app asks for the permissions below only when you use the matching feature. Internet access and reading the Wi-Fi status need no separate consent and are used only for speed tests, showing your current network details, running the network tools and checking for updates:

Local network access (iPhone)

“Scan” lists the devices on the same Wi-Fi; iPhone asks the first time you scan. Scanning happens only between your phone and your router, never through the cloud

No — can be declined (you then can’t scan for devices)
Camera

Reads a Wi-Fi QR code live while you scan; no photos are taken or stored, and images are never uploaded. On Android, QR recognition uses Google’s ML Kit component, which sends device information and diagnostic data (never the image or your Wi-Fi password) to Google to maintain and improve it

No — can be declined (you then can’t scan QR codes)
Add to Photos (iPhone)

Asked only when you share a Wi-Fi QR code and choose “Save Image”. It saves just that QR image; your photo library is never read

No — can be declined (you then can’t save the QR image)
Receive multicast packets (Android)

Granted automatically with no prompt. Lets the mDNS / Bonjour Browser hear replies from devices on your Wi-Fi while it scans

Granted automatically, no prompt
Location

Not requested. As a result the app cannot read the name of the Wi-Fi you are connected to, so you type it in; everything else displays normally

Not requested
Other permissions

Notifications, contacts and microphone are never used or requested

Not requested

Guest Wi-Fi card (from version 1.2.0)

The card itself is made on your phone. The first time you make one, Wi-Fi Share downloads the card fonts from Google's font service and keeps them on your phone for later. That request only asks Google for the font files; your Wi-Fi name, password and card text are never sent. Printing and sharing hand the finished PDF to the system; Wi-Fi Share doesn't upload it.

Home screen widget (from version 1.2.0)

The widget is off until you turn it on in Settings, pick one Wi-Fi and confirm you understand that anyone who sees the widget can join it. Only then does Wi-Fi Share place that one network's QR image and name in a shared area on your phone that the widget can read. Turning it off deletes them right away. Nothing is uploaded. This shared area is not carried over by iCloud or Google system backups. On iPhone, the lock screen widget is only a shortcut: it shows the network's name and opens the QR code in the app when tapped; the lock screen itself never shows the QR code or the password. Anyone who can see your home screen can scan the QR code and join that network, so a guest network is the better choice.

Rating requests (from version 1.2.0)

Now and then, after you finish something, Wi-Fi Share may ask your phone to show its built-in rating prompt. Whether you rate and what you write is up to you; ratings are handled by the App Store or Google Play, and Wi-Fi Share never receives them.

App connections and third-party services

The app has no analytics or tracking tools (no Google Analytics, Firebase Analytics or Meta tracking), and the Wi-Fi names and passwords you save are never sent anywhere. Apart from checking for updates when it opens (see "Checking for updates" below), it connects to outside services only when you use these features: speed tests download test files from public test servers (Cloudflare, Hetzner, OVH); looking up your public IP asks public services such as ipify, ipinfo and ipapi; DNS Speed Compare, Email DNS Check and Slow Network Diagnosis query the public DNS of Cloudflare, Google and Quad9; Whois / RDAP Lookup goes through rdap.org; TLS Certificate Inspector and HTTP Header Inspector connect directly to the site you enter, just like opening it in a browser; the app does not route or keep these lookups. These services can see your public IP and the address you look up, which the lookup itself requires, and the results are shown only to you. On Android, scanning a Wi-Fi QR code also uses Google’s ML Kit component, which sends device information and diagnostic data to Google (see Camera in the permissions table above). The free version allows 5 speed tests a day; after that you can choose to watch a Google AdMob ad for one more run. AdMob may read information such as the device’s advertising identifier to decide which ad to show, and that goes only to Google. On iPhone, the app asks once, the first time you open it, whether you allow tracking: if you allow it, Google may use the advertising identifier to show ads that are more relevant to you; if you don't, ads don't get that identifier and everything else works the same. You can change this any time in Settings → Privacy & Security → Tracking. Premium doesn't ask. In regions that require consent, such as Europe, the app also asks for your ad consent first. On Android, Google may use your phone’s advertising ID to show more relevant ads; you can delete or reset it in Settings → Google → Ads. Premium loads no ads at all. The Premium one-time purchase is handled by Apple App Store / Google Play; card details are handled by the platform and the app never touches your payment data. From version 1.2.0, the first time you make a Guest Wi-Fi card, the app downloads the card font from Google's font service and keeps it on the phone for reuse; that connection only fetches the font file and never sends your Wi-Fi name, password or card text. Printing and sharing hand the finished PDF to your phone's system; the app uploads nothing.

Deleting your data

Long-press a Wi-Fi entry on the home screen to delete it; its password is removed from the encrypted storage too. When you delete Wi-Fi Share, Android wipes all of its data. iPhone wipes the rest, but Wi-Fi passwords live in the system keychain and may not be removed with the app — they can reappear if you reinstall. To delete them for sure, remove your Wi-Fi entries in Wi-Fi Share first, then delete Wi-Fi Share. Delete the copy in your phone’s system backup from your phone’s backup settings.

Website contact form

When you submit the contact form on this site we receive your name, email, subject, message, IP and user-agent. We use them only to reply to your inquiry — never for marketing, never shared with third parties.

Website third-party services

This site's connection and security protection are provided by Cloudflare, and notification emails from the contact form are sent through Postmark / Resend. These services only handle what is needed to show the site and send mail, and never touch the data the app keeps on your device.

Your rights

Email buy.weimi@gmail.com any time to query, correct or delete your contact record.

Children's privacy

Wi-Fi Share isn't specifically designed for children under 13 and doesn't knowingly collect children's personal information. There's no sign-up, and it never asks for a name or contact details; your saved Wi-Fi passwords are never sent to us. The speed-test ads (AdMob) and the QR scanner on Android do send device and diagnostic data to Google in their own way — see the sections above. This website doesn’t knowingly collect children’s personal information either.

Checking for updates

To let you know when a new version is out, Wi-Fi Share checks App Store or Google Play for the latest version and reads the version notice on the Wi-Fi Share website when it opens. Like opening a web page, these checks only fetch public version information and never send any of your data or records in Wi-Fi Share.

Policy changes

Material changes will be reflected by updating the effective date on this page. Please check back periodically.

Contact

For questions about this policy, email buy.weimi@gmail.com.