Tokay privacy policy

Last updated: November 14, 2026

Tokay is an iPhone client for Rex servers that you run on your own Macs. It has no account, no backend, and no analytics, and it collects no data about you.

What stays on your iPhone

• The Macs you add: their names and addresses, kept in the app’s settings.
• What you’ve seen: which terminals you’ve opened and when, so finished agents can show as unread.
• A log of the app’s connections, for troubleshooting. It never leaves your iPhone unless you share it yourself from Settings › Log.

What goes to your own Macs

Tokay talks only to the Rex servers you add, over your own Tailscale network. What it sends them, such as the keys you type and the answers you give, goes to that Mac and nowhere else.

If a Mac runs tokay-notifier, Tokay gives it this iPhone’s push notification token through Rex, so that the Mac can tell you when an agent finishes or needs you. The Mac keeps that token, with your device’s name, in a file on that Mac, and sends notifications through Apple’s Push Notification service. Turn notifications off in iOS Settings, or remove the Mac from Tokay, to stop them.

Keeping and deleting it

What Tokay keeps on your iPhone stays there until you remove a Mac in Settings, which forgets what it kept for that Mac, or delete the app, which deletes all of it. Tokay keeps nothing anywhere else, so there’s nothing for us to delete: we never receive your data. A Mac’s tokay-notifier keeps your push token until you uninstall it (python3 tools/tokay-notifier.py uninstall) or delete its file of devices.

Permissions

• Camera: only to scan the pairing code that Rex shows on your Mac. No image is kept.
• Local network: to reach Rex servers on your network and tailnet.
• Notifications: to show what your Macs’ notifiers send. Tokay asks only once a Mac runs one.

Third parties

Tokay has no third-party SDKs. Your connection to your Macs runs over Tailscale, which has its own privacy policy, and notifications pass through Apple’s Push Notification service.

Children

Tokay is a developer tool and isn’t directed at children.

Changes

If this policy changes, the new version will be posted here with a new date.

Contact

Questions about this policy: GitHub Issues.