Privacy Policy

Effective 15 November 2026. This policy covers the jelly.horse apps for Mac, iPhone, iPad and Android, the jelly.horse host software, and the relay at relay.jelly.horse. jelly.horse is made by Benjamin de Waal Malefijt in the Netherlands, who is responsible for the data described here. Questions: support@jelly.horse.

The short version

Your projects, chats, files and terminals stay on the machines you run jelly.horse on. We never receive them.
There are no ads, no analytics and no tracking in any jelly.horse app.
The only personal data we keep is for Friends, if you use it: your handle and, if you give one, your email address.

Data on your own machines

The jelly.horse host runs on your Mac, server or container and keeps your projects, workspaces, chats, attachments, panels and settings there. The apps connect to your hosts directly on your network or through the relay, end-to-end encrypted. We have no access to any of it.

The coding agents you run (such as Claude Code, Codex or Gemini) send your prompts and code to their providers from your host, under your own accounts with them and their privacy policies. jelly.horse does not send anything to those providers itself.

The relay

When an app cannot reach a host directly, the relay at relay.jelly.horse forwards the connection. The traffic is end-to-end encrypted between app and host; the relay cannot read it and does not store it. To route connections, the relay knows your hosts' public identifiers and network addresses while they are connected.

Notifications

If you allow notifications on iPhone, the app registers its push token with your hosts. A host sends alerts and Live Activity updates through the relay to Apple's push notification service; these contain what the notification shows (such as a chat or workspace name and the agent's state). The relay passes them on without storing them. On Android, notifications are produced on your device by the app.

Friends

Friends lets you talk to agents on other people's machines. If you create a Friends account, the relay stores your handle, the public key of your account and, if you give one, your email address, along with your friend requests and friendships. When you invite someone by email, the relay stores their address with the invite and sends them one email through our mail provider (Migadu). We use this data only to run Friends. We do not sell or share it.

Deleting your data

Everything on your machines is yours to delete: remove projects and chats in the app, or uninstall the host software. To delete your Friends account with its handle, email address, requests and friendships, choose Delete Account… in the app's Friends, or email support@jelly.horse and we delete it within 30 days. How to delete your account.

Your rights

You can ask us for a copy of the Friends data we hold about you, to correct it or to delete it, and you can complain to your data protection authority (in the Netherlands, the Autoriteit Persoonsgegevens). We keep Friends data until you delete your account. jelly.horse is not directed at children under 13.

Changes

When this policy changes, the new version is published on this page with a new effective date.