Privacy Policy

Effective October 15, 2026

This policy covers the House Control app for iPhone, the House Control app for Mac, their widgets, and this website. "We" means the developer of House Control, 0xProbability.

What we collect

Nothing. The apps contain no analytics, crash reporting, advertising or tracking code, and they never send anything to us. We do not sell or share data, because we do not have any.

What stays on your devices

• Your floor plan: rooms, furniture, lamps and air conditioners, and which real device each one is linked to. It is stored in the app's own storage on your iPhone or Mac.
• Your connections: the address and access token of your Home Assistant server and the key of your Hue Bridge. On iPhone they are kept in the iOS Keychain; on Mac in the app's own folder, readable only by your user account.
• Settings such as your quick actions and scenes, and the home the widgets draw, which the app shares with its own widgets on the same device.

Deleting the app deletes all of this. On Mac, also remove ~/Library/Application Support/HouseControl.

What the apps send, and where

The apps only connect to what you set up, and only to show and control your devices:

Home Assistant

The app talks directly to the Home Assistant server whose address you enter, using the token you provide. To find servers on your Wi-Fi it uses Bonjour on your local network.

Philips Hue

The app talks directly to your Hue Bridge on your local network. If it cannot find a bridge by itself, it asks Philips Hue's public discovery service (discovery.meethue.com) for the address of bridges on your network. That request is answered by Signify, the maker of Hue, under its own privacy policy.

Apple Home (HomeKit)

With your permission, the iPhone app reads the homes, rooms and accessories in your Home app and controls the lights, air conditioners and thermometers you link. HomeKit data is used only to show and control those devices inside House Control. It is never used for advertising or any other purpose, never sent to us or to any third party, and never leaves your devices, except to a Mac you pair yourself (see below).

Your Mac

If you pair your iPhone with House Control on your Mac, the two exchange your floor plan, your Home Assistant and Hue connections and, from the iPhone, the list of your Apple Home devices, so the Mac can show them. They talk directly over your local network through an encrypted connection, set up by scanning a code shown on the Mac.

Mac app only

• Smart Life: when you sign in to Smart Life or connect a Tuya Cloud project, the Mac app sends commands to and reads device states from Tuya's servers, under Tuya's privacy policy.
• AI Access: only while you turn it on, the Mac app makes your home reachable to the AI assistant you choose through a temporary Cloudflare tunnel (or on your Mac only). What the assistant asks and receives is governed by that assistant's provider. Stopping AI Access closes the address.

Permissions

• Local network: to find and talk to Home Assistant, a Hue Bridge and your Mac.
• Home data: to show and control your Apple Home accessories.
• Camera: only to scan the pairing code shown by House Control on your Mac. Images are not stored or sent anywhere.

This website

This website uses no cookies, no analytics and no third-party scripts or fonts. It is hosted by Vercel, which processes standard request data such as IP addresses to deliver and protect the site, under Vercel's privacy policy. Links to GitHub, X and the App Store take you to those services and their own policies.

Children

House Control is not directed at children and collects no data from anyone.

Changes

If this policy changes, the new version will be published on this page with a new effective date.

Contact

Questions about privacy: open an issue on GitHub or send a message to @0xProbabillity on X. See also Support.