Legal
Last updated: October 30, 2026
Short version: Pointly does not collect, store, or share any personal data. Everything you draw stays on your screen. The app has no accounts and no tracking. This website counts visits with cookieless, privacy-friendly analytics that cannot identify you. If you ask us to email you the download link, your address is used for that one email and is not kept.
Pointly is a macOS screen annotation application developed by Lyubomir Stavrev ("we", "us", or "our"). This Privacy Policy explains how we handle information in connection with the Pointly app and this website.
The Pointly app collects no personal data whatsoever. Specifically:
Pointly requests macOS Screen Recording permission only for three tools that need to see what is under your annotations: Cut & Move (captures a selected region into a floating panel), Blur Brush (blurs the content under the brush) and Presenter Zoom (magnifies a frozen image of the screen). The captured content:
You can revoke this permission at any time in System Settings → Privacy & Security → Screen Recording.
Pointly Pro and Pointly Pro+ are purchased through Apple's in-app purchase system. All payment processing, billing information, and transaction data are handled exclusively by Apple Inc. We never see, receive, or store your payment details. Apple's privacy practices are described in the Apple Privacy Policy.
This website (trypointly.com) uses no cookies, no advertising, and no cross-site tracking. To see which pages are useful, we use Cloudflare Web Analytics, which counts page views, referring sites, browser, device type and country in aggregate. It stores nothing in your browser (no cookies or local storage), does not fingerprint visitors, and Cloudflare discards your IP address at its nearest data center rather than storing it. We cannot identify you from it. The site does not require any sign-up.
On phones and tablets the site offers to email you the download link for your Mac. If you use it, your email address is sent to our email provider, Resend, to deliver that one message. We don't add it to any list and we don't store it. To stop repeat sends and abuse we keep a one-way scrambled fingerprint of the address and of your IP address for 24 hours; it can't be turned back into either. When you tap the email box, Cloudflare Turnstile runs a short automatic check that a person is using the form. It looks at technical signals from your browser, not at what you type, and it only runs if you tap the box.
Pointly does not knowingly collect any information from children under 13 (or under 16 in the EU). The app collects no data at all, so there is nothing to collect from any age group.
Because we keep no personal data, there is nothing for us to access, correct, delete, or export on your behalf. If you are an EU resident (GDPR) or a California resident (CCPA) and have any questions, please contact us and we will respond within 30 days.
The Pointly app does not integrate with any third-party analytics, advertising, or data-sharing services; the only third party involved in using it is Apple (for app distribution and payment processing). This website is hosted by Cloudflare, which also provides the aggregate visit counts described in section 5 (Cloudflare privacy policy). The "email me the link" form uses Resend to deliver that one email (Resend privacy policy) and Cloudflare Turnstile to keep bots out (Turnstile privacy addendum).
If we ever update this policy (for example, if we add a feature that involves data), we will update the "Last updated" date at the top of this page. We encourage you to review this page periodically. Continued use of Pointly after any changes constitutes acceptance of the updated policy.
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us at: