Video, an Android guest, and the two things they change about privacy
Support gains four answers about video — how to use one, why every device has to
be given the whole file before anything starts, why the sound is muted, and what
to do when one screen drifts — and one about Android, framed as what it is: in
progress, not released, and a guest rather than a host. It also says up front
that an Android screen has to be told its own size, because Android exposes
neither the screen's physical dimensions nor the device's reliably, and that the
border estimate is what decides whether the seams line up.
Two changes were not optional. The Privacy Policy described what leaves your
device as "pictures"; a whole video file now leaves it too, and is cached on
every device that receives it. And the plain connection that lets a non-Apple
device join is **not encrypted**, unlike Apple's own local networking — so the
network you are on is now part of who you are trusting. Both are stated plainly
rather than left to be discovered, and the effective date moves with them.
Conditions follow: what you show includes a video, and the unencrypted door is
named there too.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Dag
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Sep 2, 2026
Say "show", and answer the language, appearance and rotation questions
The interface no longer says "mosaic", so neither does the documentation:
Start a show, Join a show, and "a show" wherever the pages described the shared
thing. "A mosaic physically wider than that resolution" becomes "an
arrangement", which is what that sentence is actually about.
Three new answers in the FAQ — the app's seven languages, that it follows the
device's light or dark appearance, and that rotation is free everywhere except
the screen showing the picture. Corrected the start button to "Start the show",
and gave the picture limit its real ceiling of 48.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Dag
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Sep 1, 2026
Add the privacy policy and conditions of use
Polyptych's privacy story is not the usual "everything stays on your device":
it does send your pictures, to every device that joins the mosaic, over Wi-Fi
and Bluetooth. The policy says so plainly, and spells out the consequence —
anyone holding the six-character code, or able to see the QR on the hosting
screen, receives them. Nothing reaches us or the internet either way.
Also covers what else crosses between devices (device name, screen dimensions,
draw instructions, clock timestamps), the camera being used only to scan a code,
and where saved shows live on disk.
The conditions are the plain-language essentials: free and as-is, your pictures
stay yours, you are responsible for what you show and for having the right to
show it, and the join code is disambiguation rather than security.
Home page rewritten from the placeholder to introduce the app and link both.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Sep 1, 2026