HTML Lens is designed so we do not receive your documents.
Last updated 17 October 2026
The short version. The HTML Lens app has no account, analytics, advertising, tracking, backend, or cloud storage. Your HTML Lens library is stored locally on your device. We do not receive it. The app does check for app updates when it opens (see App updates). If you separately join the website launch list, we receive only the email address you submit for those updates.
The HTML Lens app collects no personal information. There is no email, sign-in, profile, advertising identifier, analytics SDK, or crash-reporting service in the app. The only thing the app itself sends is the update check described in App updates, which contains no documents and nothing that identifies you. The optional website launch list is described separately below.
Files you paste, open, edit, and save are kept in the app's local storage. HTML Lens does not upload them to us or to an HTML Lens server. There is no HTML Lens server, cloud sync, or remote document storage.
Sharing, printing, or exporting a document sends it only to the destination you choose through iOS.
Deleting a document moves it to Recently Deleted on your device. It can be restored for 30 days, after which HTML Lens permanently removes it from local storage. You may also empty Recently Deleted sooner.
HTML Lens may ask iOS for clipboard access so it can recognize copied HTML and offer to render it. Clipboard inspection happens on your device. Clipboard text is not sent to us and is not added to your library unless you choose to render it.
HTML Lens itself does not contact an HTML Lens backend. An HTML document can still contain links, remote images, fonts, stylesheets, video, or JavaScript that requests information from other websites. Loading that document may therefore contact those third parties, just as opening the document in a browser would.
So fixes can reach you without a full App Store update, the iPhone app checks Expo's update service (EAS Update) when it opens and downloads an update if one is available. That check sends your device's operating system, the app's version and update channel, and a random install number the app creates for itself. Expo uses that number to count how many installs downloaded an update. The check never includes your documents, library, clipboard, name, email, or contacts. If you are offline, the app simply keeps using the version it already has. Expo describes how it handles this data in its privacy explanation.
HTML Lens for iPhone is a paid App Store download, not a subscription or in-app purchase. Apple processes the purchase under Apple's privacy policy. HTML Lens does not receive your payment details.
The free HTML Lens tools run in your browser and use local browser storage. They set no analytics or advertising cookies. As with the iPhone app, HTML you render may itself request remote resources from third parties.
The website counts visits, page views, and completed tool actions to help us understand which tools are useful. The footer shows TU (total tool uses), DF (Device Frame), FS (Flow and Stitch), HV (HTML Viewer), and IR (Image Resize). These are action totals, not unique people. Tool counts began on 17 October 2026. Sample renders and failed actions do not count.
Tool-use receipts contain only a tool code and a random number for that action. They never include your HTML, images, clipboard, filenames, or document titles. The website visit counter uses the page path, referring website, browser session storage, and temporary IP-based rate limits; marked owner visits are counted separately. Hosting services process normal request information. The iPhone app does not send these website tool-use events.
If you join the launch list on htmllens.com, our website host, Netlify, receives the email address and form metadata you submit so we can send TestFlight invitations and App Store launch updates. The form does not receive your HTML documents or library. We do not sell your email or use it for advertising. To have it deleted, email hello@htmllens.com.
The HTML Lens app does not collect personal information from anyone, including children. There is no in-app account, profile, advertising, or communication feature. The website launch list is not intended for children.
Privacy laws may give you rights over personal data held by a company. HTML Lens does not hold your documents, so there is no remote HTML Lens account or document copy for us to access, correct, sell, or provide. If you joined the website launch list, you may ask us to access or delete that email address by contacting support.
If a future version changes these practices, this page and its date will be updated before that version is released.
HTML Lens is made by Kassandra Nolan in San Francisco, California. She is responsible for the launch-list email address described above, and is the person to contact about it.
Questions: hello@htmllens.com.