What this app keeps

Last changed 17 October 2026. Plain words, because you should be able to tell what happens to your things without a lawyer.

Where it runs

Neko Outfitters runs on a single computer in a house in Ontario, reached through a Cloudflare tunnel. There is no cloud account holding your wardrobe and no company behind it. If that machine is off, the app is off.

What it stores

Your account: username, display name, and a password stored as a PBKDF2 hash. If you signed in with Google, the email Google returned.
Your clothes: names, brands, colours, categories, photos you upload, and whether each piece is clean, worn or in the wash.
Your fits: photos you take and which pieces were in them.
Messages you send other members, and friend connections.
A location, if you set one, so outfits can account for the weather. A town, not a precise position.
On your phone, the Neko app keeps only your sign-in, in the phone's own secure storage (the Keychain on iPhone, the Keystore on Android). Your closet and photos stay on the server.

What it does to photos

Every photo is decoded and re-encoded before it is saved. That strips the EXIF block, which on a phone photo carries the GPS coordinates of the room it was taken in. Your photos are served only to you, and to friends if you have turned on closet or fit sharing.

What leaves the machine

Weather: your town's coordinates go to Open-Meteo to get a forecast. No account, no identifier.
Photo lookups: when the app finds a picture for a garment, the garment's name and brand go to a web search. Never anything about you.
Notifications: if you turn them on, the text of a notification goes to your browser's push service (Apple's or Google's), as the web push standard requires.
Claude: only if an API key is configured, and only the photo or text you are asking about. There is no key set at the time of writing, and everything runs on the machine itself.

Nothing is sold, and there is no advertising or analytics of any kind. The shopping suggestions are ordinary web search results with no affiliate link.

The shared catalogue

When you add a garment, its description can be contributed to a catalogue everyone can search: name, brand, colour, category, and the product photo. Never who owns it, never your wear counts, never your laundry. You can turn this off in your profile.

Leaving

Profile → Delete my account on the website, or You → Delete account in the phone app, removes your account, pieces, fits, messages and sessions. Catalogue entries stay, because they describe clothes rather than you. It cannot be undone.

Asking

It is a beta run by one person. Ask in the app, or open an issue wherever you got the link.

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