Privacy
Riftgate is private by design: what you do in it stays on your computer. This page says exactly what leaves it, and when.
What stays on your computer
Your library, Journal, shows, eBooks, wishlist, themes, settings and backups live in Riftgate's data folder on your computer (%APPDATA%\riftgate on Windows). Ask the Rift, the recommendations and Rift Rewind are worked out there too. None of it is uploaded anywhere.
What Riftgate asks the internet for
To show films, games, books, deals and free games, Riftgate asks public services for them: TMDB, RAWG, SteamGridDB and YouTube (through Riftgate's own server, so no keys sit in the app), and Steam, CheapShark, Epic Games, GOG, itch.io, GamerPower, Open Library, Project Gutenberg, LibriVox, Jikan, TVMaze, OpenStreetMap and GitHub directly. These requests carry what's needed to answer them: a search you typed, your country for prices and streaming, your city if you look for cinemas, and your SteamID if you add it for playtime and achievements. Like any website, these services see your IP address. The full list says which one is used for what. Settings → Sources shows each one and how it's doing.
Only if you say yes: the weekly count
Riftgate asks once whether it may count your computer. Only with a yes, once a week it sends a random number made on your computer, the version and whether it's Windows or Mac. Never your name, account, library or what you do. Settings → Help Riftgate grow turns it off at any time.
Only if you make one: your Riftgate account
An account is optional. If you make one, Riftgate's server (Supabase) keeps your username, a bcrypt hash of your password, your email and date of birth if you give them (the date only decides whether mature titles may be shown) and your choice about those titles. It also keeps what you choose to share: suggestions, themes you publish and apps you put forward. Your password is never stored on your computer; a sign-in token is, encrypted with your system's key store. Account emails (confirmation, password reset) are sent through Resend.
Updates
On Windows, Riftgate checks GitHub for a new version and always asks before downloading it.
No ads, no trackers, nothing sold
Riftgate has no advertising, no analytics trackers and sells nothing about anyone. It's open source under the GNU GPL v3.0, so all of the above can be checked in its code.
Questions, or deleting your account
Email riftgateappdev@zohomail.eu. Uninstalling Riftgate keeps your data folder unless you delete it; Settings → Open data folder shows where it is.