Prosper Remote ("the app") lets you attach to terminal sessions running on your own Mac, optionally wake that Mac from sleep and get live status and alerts from it, and includes the Prosper keyboard for other apps. It is built to collect as little data as possible. You can use the terminal, the keyboard and the demo without an account. Only the optional Remote Wake and Live status features require signing in.
Nothing leaves your device for us. No account, no analytics, no advertising, no third-party tracking SDKs. Machine addresses you enter and terminal traffic stay between your device and your Mac (see below).
To wake a sleeping Mac, or to push you its status, the app talks to our account server. Signing in is passwordless: you enter your email address and we send a one-time magic link.
We store on the server only what the feature needs:
This is off until you tap Turn On (or the switch in Settings) and allow notifications. Then the app sends our server:
Your Mac, signed in to the same account, sends our server the names and states of its sessions (for example "working" or "needs you") and counts, never terminal content. We keep its latest status to decide what to push, and send it through Apple's push service to your devices as a Live Activity and, only when a session needs you, a notification. Turning the switch off, turning notifications off for the app, or signing out deletes this device's push tokens from the server.
We do not collect your machine addresses on the server — your Mac's Tailscale names and IPs are stored only on your device (see below). We do not track you across apps or sites, and we run no advertising.
Machine names and addresses you enter (your Mac's Tailscale name or IP) are stored locally on your device only, so you don't have to retype them. They are never transmitted to us. Your sign-in session is held in the device Keychain and never synced to iCloud.
When you connect to your Mac, terminal input and output flow directly between your device and your Mac over your private Tailscale network. This traffic does not pass through any service operated by us — we cannot see it. The same goes for everything else the app exchanges with your Mac: clipboard history sync (if you turn on Sync with Mac on both), your Mac's snippets and quicklinks (Sync from Mac), shared items, chats with your Mac's local model, and your Mac's commands.
The keyboard makes no network requests and sends nothing to us. With Full Access it shares its settings, toolbar, emoji recents, learned words, snippets, quicklinks and clipboard history with the Prosper app through an App Group on this device; its clipboard history leaves the device only to your own Mac, as above.
Dictation turns your speech into text on the device, with Apple's speech engine; the audio and text are not sent to us. Fix, Rewrite and Summarize, and Clean Up Dictation, use Apple's on-device model (Apple Intelligence); the text is not sent to us.
If you have ever supported the project (a separate, optional one-time contribution), a supporter record may be retained for accounting and to display your supporter status.
Open Settings → Delete Account in the app. This permanently deletes your account and remote-wake and live status data from the server (subject to the email tombstone described above) and signs you out on this device. It cannot be undone.
Connections rely on Tailscale, a third-party network. Your use of Tailscale is governed by Tailscale's own privacy policy: https://tailscale.com/privacy-policy
The app is not directed at children and collects no data from anyone beyond what is described above.
If this policy changes, the updated version will be posted at this URL.
Questions: open an issue at https://github.com/ventsislav-georgiev/prosper-ios/issues