Privacy Policy
RepoGlance for GitHub · Effective 12 November 2026
What the app stores on your device
- Your GitHub credentials (a personal access token you paste, or the token from Sign in with GitHub), in the iOS Keychain, readable only by RepoGlance after you first unlock your iPhone and never included in device backups or transfers to another device.
- The repositories you choose and their open issue and pull request counts, including up to 14 days of daily counts used for trends. These are kept in storage shared only between the app and its widget.
What leaves your device
To show counts, the app sends your token and the names of the repositories you track to GitHub's API (api.github.com) over HTTPS. That request goes directly from your iPhone to GitHub; it does not pass through any server we operate. GitHub's handling of that request is covered by GitHub's Privacy Statement.
We, the developer, receive none of this data. We do not run servers for the app.
If you use Sign in with GitHub
GitHub requires the app's secret to complete a sign-in, and that secret can't safely live inside an app. So two steps go through a small sign-in helper we run on Cloudflare (repoglance-auth.philip-a-dsouza.workers.dev): turning GitHub's one-time sign-in code into a token, and renewing that token about every 8 hours. The helper adds the app's secret, passes the request to GitHub and returns GitHub's answer to your iPhone. It doesn't log or look at your token, your code or anything about you, and it has no database of users. The one thing it keeps is GitHub's answer to a renewal, for up to 2 minutes, so a renewal interrupted by a dropped connection can finish without signing you out. That copy is encrypted with a key that only your iPhone's own renewal token can unlock, which the helper doesn't keep, so the helper can't read it, and it is deleted automatically. Reading issue and pull request counts still goes directly from your iPhone to GitHub. You choose which repositories the app can read on GitHub, and you can remove its access at any time in GitHub under Settings → Applications.
Purchases
The optional one-time unlock is processed entirely by Apple through the App Store. We receive no payment details. Apple's handling is covered by Apple's privacy policy.
What we don't do
- No analytics, crash-reporting or advertising SDKs.
- No tracking across apps or websites, and no data sold or shared.
- No account creation; we hold no profile about you.
Deleting your data
In the app, go to Settings → Log Out to remove your token, your repository list and trend history from the device. Deleting the app removes everything as well. You can also revoke a pasted token in GitHub under Settings → Developer settings → Personal access tokens, or remove Sign in with GitHub access under Settings → Applications.
Children
RepoGlance is a developer tool and is not directed to children.
Changes
If this policy changes, the updated version will be posted on this page with a new effective date.
Contact
RepoGlance is an independent app and is not affiliated with or endorsed by GitHub, Inc. GitHub is a trademark of GitHub, Inc.