Last updated: July 13, 2026
HouseSense is built on one principle: your data is yours. The app has no server, no user accounts and no tracking — and the developer cannot see your scans, photos or notes.
If you choose to share a house, sharing happens directly between your Apple accounts through Apple's iCloud sharing (CKShare). The recipient can see the contents of the house; the developer cannot.
Estate subscribers can share a home with a prospective buyer via a code. Creating a code uploads a copy of the home's drawings and numbers — floor plan geometry, room names, areas, the home's name, and (if set) its address and coordinates — to the app's shared area in Apple's CloudKit, outside your personal iCloud. Photos, notes and AI content are never included. The app states this clearly before the first code is created.
The code is an unguessable key: anyone who has it can view the copy in a browser or fetch it into their own app, and there is no way to list or search shared homes without a code. Each code expires automatically after 30 days, and the seller can revoke it at any time in the app ("Web sharing" → Revoke); revocation takes effect immediately. Expired copies are removed no later than the next time the seller opens the sharing sheet. Apple acts as data processor for this storage. The seller is responsible for deciding what to share and with whom — including the home's address.
View counting: when a shared home is opened in the browser or fetched into an app, an anonymous counter for that code is increased on housesense.jegerlars.dk — the count and a timestamp only. No IP address, no cookies, no identity. The seller sees these numbers in the app; they answer "has anyone looked?" and nothing else.
The blog on housesense.jegerlars.dk counts how many times each article is read. The counting happens entirely on our own server, in PHP — no analytics provider, no tracking scripts, and nothing is stored on your device: no cookies, no local storage. That is also why the site shows no consent banner; there is nothing to consent to storing.
To tell one reader from another without identifying anyone, each request is reduced to a fingerprint: a SHA-256 hash of a secret daily salt, your IP address and your browser's user-agent string, shortened to 16 characters. The salt is replaced every night and never archived, so yesterday's fingerprints cannot be recreated or linked to today's. Your IP address is never written to disk — it goes into the hash and is discarded.
What is kept: the number of views per article per day, a coarse source label (for example "google", "direct"), and daily unique counts. Session files used to work out how many pages a visit covered are deleted after seven days; only the aggregate numbers remain. Nothing here identifies you, and nothing is shared with anyone.
HouseSense can compose a ready-made prompt for external AI services (e.g. ChatGPT). The app never sends anything on its own — you copy text and images yourself, and you are a user of the external service on their terms.
If you delete a house or a room in the app, the data is deleted both locally and in your iCloud. If you delete the app and its iCloud data (Settings → Apple ID → iCloud → Manage Storage), no copy exists anywhere.
Subscriptions are purchased and managed through Apple's App Store. HouseSense receives no payment information — only an anonymous receipt confirming that the subscription is active.
Privacy questions: see the support page.