Privacy
Privacy
Chatge has no account system and no server that holds your chats. Here is what stays on your device, and every service the app talks to and why.
In short
- No Chatge account, no tracking in the app. There are no analytics, ads or third-party trackers.
- Your settings, history and notes stay on your device, in your browser's storage or the desktop app's data folder.
- The app talks directly to Twitch, YouTube and the emote services, the same way their own sites do. Chatge has no server in between.
What stays on your device
- Settings, themes, highlight rules, hotkeys, layouts and workspace presets
- Chat scrollback and chat statistics (stored in IndexedDB)
- Notes you write about chatters, your copypasta library and message drafts
- Sign-in tokens for Twitch and Google, which are only ever sent to Twitch and Google
Clearing the site data in your browser, or uninstalling the app, removes all of it. You can export everything to a file under Settings → General → Backup & restore.
Services the app talks to
| Service | What for | When |
|---|---|---|
| Twitch | Chat, sign-in, channel info, emotes and badges, clips and VODs | Always, for Twitch channels |
| Google / YouTube | Reading and sending YouTube chat, sign-in | When you open a YouTube channel |
| 7TV, BetterTTV, FrankerFaceZ | Third-party emotes, badges and 7TV name paints | When a channel loads |
| recent-messages.robotty.de, logs.ivr.fi | Recent messages when you join, and filling gaps in history | Depending on the history service you pick in settings |
| Chatterino, DankChat, Chatsen | Supporter badges of those clients | When a channel loads |
| Stream Database | How a badge is unlocked, in badge tooltips | When you hover a badge |
| GIPHY | GIF search and playback | When you use the GIF picker |
| MyMemory (translated.net) | Translating a message: its text is sent to translate it | Only when you click translate |
| Your Kick relay | Kick chat, through a relay you host | Only if you set one up |
Each of these services has its own privacy policy and sees your IP address when the app contacts it, as with any website.
Feedback you send
The feedback form sends what you type: the kind of feedback, your message, where you use Chatge, the page you came from and, only if you give one, your email address. It reaches the people building Chatge and is used to improve the app and, if you asked, to reply. Your IP address is not stored with it.
This website
chatge.app is a static site. It sets no cookies. The emotes in its illustrations load from the emote services' servers (Twitch, 7TV, BetterTTV, FrankerFaceZ). If visitor statistics are enabled, they use Cloudflare Web Analytics, which uses no cookies and does not track you across sites. The theme you pick is remembered in your browser's local storage.