NexusIRL privacy policy

Last updated: 2026-10-25

NexusIRL is a free, open-source live-streaming app. It has no accounts of its own, no ads, analytics, crash reporting or tracking, and the developers run no servers that the app talks to. The developers never receive any of your data.

What stays on your phone

• Camera and microphone. Used for the preview while the app is open, and while you stream or record. Video and audio go only to the streaming server you enter, and recordings and snapshots are saved on your phone (Movies/NexusIRL, Pictures/NexusIRL).
• Stream URLs, stream keys, passwords and sign-ins. Stored on your phone, encrypted with a key held in the Android Keystore, excluded from backups, and removed from logs and diagnostics.
• Location (off by default). Only when you turn it on, for widgets that show speed, distance or a map. It appears in your stream only through those widgets, and areas you mark as private are hidden.
• Network state. Read to bond mobile data, Wi-Fi and Ethernet together (SRTLA). Not stored or sent anywhere.
• Settings. Saved on your phone. Exports are created only when you ask, without keys unless you choose otherwise; with keys they can be encrypted with a passphrase of your choice.

When the app contacts other services

Only when you use the feature, and only the service named:

Feature	Service contacted	What it receives
Streaming	The server in your stream URL	Your video and audio
Twitch chat (reading)	irc-ws.chat.twitch.tv	The channel name you enter (read anonymously)
Twitch sign-in	id.twitch.tv, api.twitch.tv, eventsub.wss.twitch.tv	Your Twitch sign-in, used to send chat, show alerts and viewer counts, and change your stream’s title and category when you ask. Permissions requested: user:write:chat, channel:manage:broadcast, moderator:read:followers, bits:read, channel:read:redemptions, user:read:chat, channel:read:hype_train, channel:read:ads, channel:read:polls, channel:read:predictions, moderator:read:shoutouts. Signing out revokes the sign-in at Twitch.
Twitch badges	static-cdn.jtvnw.net	Requests for badge images
Kick chat	kick.com, files.kick.com, ws-us2.pusher.com	The channel name you enter
Kick sign-in	kick.com, search.kick.com	You sign in on Kick’s own website inside the app; the app keeps Kick’s session (encrypted) and uses it to send chat messages and chat bot answers, and to change your stream’s title and category when you ask. Kick’s website data is deleted from the app once you are signed in. Signing out deletes the session from the app; it stays valid at Kick until it expires or you sign out on kick.com.
YouTube chat	www.youtube.com	The channel handle or video you enter
Emotes (off by default)	api.betterttv.net, cdn.betterttv.net, 7tv.io and their image servers	The Twitch channel whose emotes are shown
Map widget	tiles.openfreemap.org, or the map style you set	Map tile requests, which reveal the area shown
Browser widgets	The web pages you add	What any website receives from a browser
Remote control	The assistant or relay address you enter	Status and preview images of the stream

Each service handles data under its own privacy policy.

Things that never leave your phone unless you share them

• Stream logs. For each of your last 10 streams the app keeps a technical log on the phone: times, frame rate, bitrate, connection quality per network and state changes. It contains no stream keys, picture or sound, and is deleted with the app.
• Diagnostics. “Share diagnostics” creates a text file (app and phone details, settings without keys, the stream logs, the app’s recent log) and opens the share sheet. Nothing is sent unless you choose where to send it.
• Local network servers (web remote control, remote-control assistant, Moblink). Off by default; when on, they accept connections only from your local network, hotspot or Tailscale, protected by an access link or password.

Permissions

Camera and microphone (streaming and recording), location (only for location widgets, only when you turn it on), notifications (the ongoing notification that keeps a stream running in the background), and network access.

Changes and contact

Changes to this policy are tracked in the project repository. For questions, open an issue at https://github.com/mesmerize08/NexusIRL/issues.