Privacy

Futo is a mail app that runs on your Mac. It has no servers of its own, no accounts with us, and no analytics. Your mail travels between your Mac and your mail provider, and nowhere else.

This page explains exactly what Futo stores, what it connects to, and why.

What stays on your Mac

• Your mail. Futo keeps a copy of the messages you've opened or that it has loaded, so it can show them quickly and offline. It lives in Futo's own folder on your Mac.
• Your passwords and sign-ins. They're stored only in your Mac's Keychain.
• Your settings, reminders and muted conversations. They stay on the Mac where you set them, and aren't synced anywhere.
• Your contacts. If you allow it, Futo reads your Contacts to suggest people as you write. Nothing from Contacts leaves your Mac.

Removing an account in Futo deletes its copy of that account's mail and its sign-in from your Mac.

What Futo connects to

• Your mail servers, to fetch, send and organise your mail, always over an encrypted connection.
• Google or Microsoft, only if you sign in with them. Futo uses their own sign-in and never sees your Google or Microsoft password. The access it asks for is used only to read, send and organise your mail.
• Account settings lookups, when you add an account by email address. Futo asks Thunderbird's public database of mail providers, then the provider's own address, for the right server settings. Only the domain is sent, such as example.com, never your address or password.
• Senders' published logos. When a company publishes a verified logo for its email (a standard called BIMI), Futo downloads it from the address the company publishes, to show beside its messages. The company's server can see that a copy of Futo asked for its logo, but not which message or account it was for.
• Pictures in emails, but only after you allow them for a message or a sender. Until then, Futo blocks them, so senders can't use them to tell when or where you opened their mail.
• Unsubscribe links, when you choose to unsubscribe from a mailing list, and any link you click yourself.

What we never do

• We don't collect analytics, crash reports or usage data.
• We don't read, scan or store your mail on our side. There is no our side.
• We don't sell, share or rent anything about you, because we don't have anything about you.
• We don't show ads.

Google user data

If you sign in with Google, Futo uses Google user data only to provide its mail features to you on your own Mac: showing, sending and organising your Gmail. That data is kept only on your Mac, it is never transferred to us or to anyone else, and it is never used for advertising or to train AI models. Futo's use of information received from Google APIs adheres to the Google API Services User Data Policy, including its Limited Use requirements.

AI features

AI features are on Futo's roadmap. When they arrive, they'll run entirely on your Mac. Your mail won't be sent to a cloud AI service, ours or anyone else's, and it won't be used to train models.

This website

tryfuto.com has no analytics, tracking scripts or cookies. It's hosted on Cloudflare, which processes the technical details any web request carries, such as your IP address, to deliver the pages and protect the site.

Changes and questions

If this policy changes, we'll update this page and the date at the top. Questions are welcome at hello@tryfuto.com.