Privacy Policy
Molwee is built to keep your library on your device. This page says exactly what the app sends, where, and why.
In short
- No account. Molwee does not ask for your name, email address or phone number.
- Your links stay on your device. Molwee has no server of its own. Your links, titles, notes, tags and collections are not sent to us or to any other service; to show a preview — and, with Molwee Pro, to keep an article’s text — Molwee asks each saved link’s own website for that page.
- Usage events and crash reports go to Google's Firebase, so we can see which features are used and what breaks. They carry counts, lengths and fixed labels — never a link, a web address, a page title, a note, a tag, a collection name or a search.
- No ads, no tracking across other apps and websites, nothing sold.
What stays on your device
Your library — the links you save, their titles, descriptions and preview images, your own titles, notes, tags, stars, collections, what you archived and how often you opened each link — your settings and recent searches, and, with Molwee Pro, the text of the articles you save and the reminders you set, are stored inside Molwee on your iPhone or iPad. The widget and the share extension use the same library, on the same device.
Deleting the app deletes this data. Like other app data, it is part of the backups your device makes, if you have them turned on.
When Molwee goes online
Reading the pages you save
To show a title, a description and a picture, Molwee fetches the page you saved — directly from that website, from your device — and the preview image and icon the page names. The website sees a request from your device, much as if you had opened the page in a browser. Nothing passes through a Molwee server. Molwee keeps the link and those details, not a copy of the page.
With Molwee Pro, Molwee also fetches the article the same way — from that website, from your device — and keeps its text on your device, so you can read it offline and search it. Links you saved before buying Pro are fetched only when you tap Start on the Molwee Pro screen.
Usage events
The app and its share extension send usage events to Firebase Analytics, a Google service. Each event is a fixed name with a few values: the kind of site a link is from — one of nine fixed labels: LinkedIn, Instagram, YouTube, X, TikTok, Reddit, Medium, GitHub, or “web” for everything else — counts, lengths in characters, ranges, on-or-off values and other fixed labels. No event contains a link, a web address or domain, a page title, a note, a tag, a collection name, a file name, the words you search for, or anything that identifies a particular saved link. The full list is below.
Firebase also records a few events of its own — such as the first launch, the start of a session and time spent in the app — with the device model, iOS version, app version and language. Google works out an approximate location, such as the country, region or city, from the IP address the data arrives from; Molwee never asks for your location.
Firebase tells installations apart with two identifiers: an app instance ID that Firebase creates for Molwee on your device, and the identifier for vendor (IDFV) that iOS gives every app from the same developer on that device. Neither contains your name, your email address or your Apple ID. Molwee does not ask for permission to track you across other companies' apps and websites, so iOS does not give it your device's advertising identifier.
Crash reports
If the app or the share extension crashes, Firebase Crashlytics, also a Google service, sends a crash report: where in the code it happened, and details of the device at that moment, such as the model, the iOS and app versions and the free memory and storage. It can also include the usage events from the list below that came just before the crash. Crashlytics tells installations apart with an identifier of its own. Molwee adds nothing of its own to these reports.
Reminders
If you turn it on, the weekly digest reminder is scheduled by your device, on your device — and so are the reminders you set with Molwee Pro, with their notes. Molwee does not use push notifications.
Import and export
A file you import is read on your device. An export is created on your device and leaves it only if you share it; the copy Molwee made is removed afterwards.
Every usage event Molwee sends
| Event | When | What it carries |
|---|---|---|
app_opened | Molwee comes to the front | How many links you have saved |
bookmark_saved | You save a link | The kind of site (platform) |
bookmark_opened | You open a saved link | Platform |
recall_open | You open a link that the widget, Worth revisiting, the weekly digest or Related brought back | Which of these, the link's age as a range, and whether you had marked it in some way — starred, tagged, noted, retitled or opened before |
bookmark_detail_viewed | You open a link's page | Platform; whether it has your own title; whether it has a note |
bookmark_favorited, bookmark_archived | You star or archive a link, or undo it | Platform; whether it is now starred, or archived |
bookmark_deleted | You delete a link | Platform |
bookmark_tag_added | You add a tag | Platform; the tag's length in characters |
bookmark_tag_removed | You remove a tag | Platform only |
bookmark_collection_added | You put a link in a collection | Platform; the collection name's length in characters |
bookmark_collection_removed | You take a link out of a collection | Platform only |
bookmark_title_edited, bookmark_note_saved | You change a title or a note | Platform; its length in characters |
bulk_action | You change several links at once in Select | The action (tag, collection, archive, unarchive or delete) and a range: 2–5, 6–20 or 21 and more |
filter_applied | You change a filter on Saved | The kind of filter and a fixed value such as “unread” or “selected” — never a tag or collection name |
search_performed, search_no_results | You search | The search's length in characters; the number of results or of active filters |
widget_tapped | You open a link from the widget | Nothing else |
widget_reminder_shown | Saved suggests adding the widget | Nothing else |
digest_viewed | You open the weekly digest | How many links it holds; the week number |
notification_opened | You open the Sunday reminder | Its type |
digest_reminder_changed | You turn the Sunday reminder on or off | On or off; whether iOS allows Molwee's notifications |
settings_viewed | You open Settings | Nothing else |
appearance_changed | You pick an appearance | System, Light or Dark |
import_completed, export_completed | An import finishes, or you share an export | The source or format, and ranges for how many links (and how many were skipped) |
onboarding_completed | You finish the first screens | Seconds until your first save; whether you chose to add the widget |
onboarding_skipped | You skip the first screens | Nothing else |
rating_prompt_shown | The App Store's rating prompt is shown | Which screen it appeared on |
With these events, Molwee sets a few values that describe the installation: how many links are saved, the platform you save from most, how many days since you installed, and four flags left from an earlier plan for accounts and sync, which are not in the app; they read “free” and “false”, and buying Molwee Pro does not change them. Molwee sends no event about Molwee Pro, purchases, reminders or saved text; a search sends the same event as any search — its length and the number of results.
Who else is involved
- Google runs Firebase Analytics and Firebase Crashlytics, and keeps that data under its own terms: Google Privacy Policy and Privacy and Security in Firebase.
- Apple handles downloads, ratings and reviews, and the purchase of Molwee Pro, through the App Store, under Apple's privacy policy. We do not receive your payment details.
- The websites you save receive the requests described above, and whatever you do when you open them.
This website
molwee.com sets no cookies, runs no analytics and loads nothing from other websites — no scripts, fonts or images. It is hosted by Cloudflare, which handles each request in order to deliver the page and, if a page fails to load, may receive your browser’s error report.
Children
Molwee is not directed at children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from them.
Changes
When what the app or the website does changes, this page changes with it, and the date at the top moves.
Contact
Questions and requests about privacy: support@molwee.com. Molwee is published by OXAVION.