FAQ

Email support@little-eye.com. Feature requests, bug reports, and detector suggestions all go to the same address.

No. Little Eye reads the system pasteboard locally (NSPasteboard on macOS, UIPasteboard on iOS) and decodes everything in-process. Nothing leaves your device. Network-touching detectors (DNS, URL fetch) are gated behind explicit settings and only fire on inputs you can see in the panel.

Yes, on macOS. Privacy Mode is a one-click kill-switch in the menu bar that blocks every network-touching detector — DNS, URL fetch, ISBN lookup, and WHOIS — while it's on, and purges any results that were already fetched. It persists across restarts. Privacy Mode is macOS-only for now: the iOS app already asks for your consent on each network action, so it has no separate switch.

On macOS the menu bar is the smallest always-reachable surface — Little Eye is available the moment you copy something and invisible the rest of the time. iOS doesn't have a system menu bar, so the same idea ships as a full app you can open from the Home Screen, plus a share-sheet extension that lets you hand a value off from any other app and get the same decoded view.

No. Contactless payment cards don't store the NDEF records the NFC Tag card decodes — they speak the EMV payment protocol, which iOS does not expose to third-party apps. Scanning a bank card shows at most a hardware tag ID, and most payment cards randomize that ID on every read. The scanner is for ordinary NFC tags: stickers, posters, badges, and the like.

No. The chip in an e-passport doesn't store the NDEF records the NFC Tag card decodes — it speaks the ICAO 9303 e-passport protocol, and it refuses to release any data until the reader authenticates with keys derived from the machine-readable zone printed inside the passport. Little Eye doesn't implement that protocol, so scanning a passport shows at most a hardware tag ID. The scanner is for ordinary NFC tags: stickers, posters, badges, and the like.

We're polishing the first public release. The website is up early so the detector catalog is browsable; the binary will follow shortly.

After macOS. The iOS build is a full app with an accompanying share-sheet extension, and it depends on the App Store review process. No firm date yet.

No — the macOS app and the iOS app are licensed separately. On macOS, Pro is a one-time purchase that unlocks every Pro feature for all of version 1, verified offline with no account. On iOS, Pro is an App Store in-app purchase. The two stores and their unlocks are independent, so a macOS license doesn't activate iOS Pro, and vice versa.

Yes. Email support@little-eye.com with a short paste sample and a one-line description of what you'd want surfaced. Good detector requests are small, common, and obvious to recognize.