RipplePrivacy policy
Ripple collects nothing about you. It reads your WiFi signal on the phone to notice when someone walks between the phone and your router, and nothing leaves your phone.
For the Ripple app for Android (com.hexhad.ripple), made by HEXHAD Studios. Last updated 5 November 2026.
What Ripple reads
While you have watching switched on, Ripple reads, on your phone only:
- the WiFi signal strength and link speed of your current connection,
- how long your router takes to answer pings on your local network,
- your phone's motion sensors, to pause when the phone is moved.
These readings are kept in memory to spot changes. The list of crossings is kept until you clear it or close the app. Your settings (theme, sensitivity, alerts) are stored on your phone.
Permissions
On Android 17 and later, Ripple asks for Nearby devices (local network access). It uses it only to ping your router. It doesn't look for, list or connect to any other device on your network. If you say no, Ripple still works from the WiFi signal alone and catches fewer crossings.
It also asks to send notifications and to show a card over other apps, so it can tell you about a crossing. It doesn't ask for your location.
What Ripple doesn't do
- It doesn't collect, send, sell or share any personal or device data.
- It has no account, no ads, no analytics and no crash reporting, and it contacts no server.
- It doesn't use your location, camera, microphone, contacts or files.
- Its only network traffic is pings to your own router on your local network.
Children
Ripple is not designed for children and doesn't knowingly collect data from anyone.
Changes
If this policy changes, the new version will be posted on this page with a new date.