Privacy Policy

Applies to the Pear desktop and Android apps · Last updated 2026-08-29

Pear has no accounts, no backend and no telemetry. Everything you put into Pear stays on your device, and Pear connects only to servers you configure.

What Pear stores, and where

Host configurations, workspaces, settings and command history are stored locally on your device. They are never uploaded anywhere — there is nowhere to upload them to; we operate no servers.
Passwords, passphrases and private keys are encrypted at rest by your operating system's secure storage: Keychain (macOS), DPAPI (Windows), libsecret (Linux) or the Android Keystore. If no secure storage is available, Pear does not persist the secret and asks again at connect time.

What Pear sends over the network

SSH traffic to your servers. Pear connects only to the hosts you add, over SSH. That traffic goes directly from your device to your servers (or through bastion hosts you configure).
Nothing else. No analytics, no crash reporting, no update pings from the app, no third-party SDKs that phone home.

The AI assistant (optional)

Pear can integrate with Claude Code, running as your own Claude CLI under your own Anthropic account. If you use it, the content of your conversations and any context the assistant reads from your servers is processed by Anthropic under Anthropic's privacy policy — the same as running the CLI yourself. Pear never sees or stores your Anthropic credentials, and the assistant reaches your hosts only through a local-loopback interface on your device. If you don't use the assistant, no AI-related network traffic occurs.

Android permissions

INTERNET — SSH connections to your servers.
FOREGROUND_SERVICE + notification — keeps your SSH sessions alive while the app is in the background, with a visible "sessions active" indicator.
WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE (Android 9 and below only) — saving files you download from your servers.

Data collection and sharing

We collect no personal data, so we share none, sell none, and have none to disclose in a breach. The Play Store data-safety declaration for Pear is "no data collected, no data shared".

Children

Pear is a developer/operations tool and is not directed at children under 13.

Changes

If this policy ever changes, the new version will be posted at this URL with an updated date. Since Pear is open source, the history is public in the repository.

Contact

Questions or concerns: open an issue on GitHub.