Privacy

Plans are saved automatically in your browser’s own storage (IndexedDB), on this device only, and so is everything in them: the reference images you add to trace over and the text you paste in are saved as part of the plan. A few preferences — your unit system, the plan you had open last, when you last made a backup, the latest version whose “What’s new” notes you’ve seen, and whether you’ve dismissed the first-visit help and the “designed for desktop” notice — are kept in the same browser’s localStorage. Which sections of the Items library you’ve collapsed is kept in its sessionStorage, which the browser clears when you close the tab.

None of it is sent to us or anyone else, so we can’t see, recover or restore your plans. They don’t sync between browsers or devices either; to move them, export a plan or back up all of them from the Plans list and import the file on the other side.

Once you start drawing, Layitout asks your browser to keep this storage rather than clear it automatically when space runs low. Most browsers decide on their own; Firefox may ask you first.

Clearing this site’s data in your browser deletes your plans for good, and Safari can clear it by itself if you don’t open Layitout for a week or so. Back up anything you want to keep.

Exports (PNG, PDF, SVG, plan files and backups) are created right in your browser and saved straight to your device. Files you import — plan files, backups and reference images — are read in your browser too, and never uploaded.

An image you paste, drop or pick is scaled down where needed, to at most 4096 pixels on its longest side, and re-encoded in your browser before it’s saved with the plan. That also leaves out the file’s hidden details, such as where a photo was taken.

When you paste into Layitout, your browser hands it what’s on your clipboard so it can be added to the plan, right on this device; it isn’t sent anywhere. The clipboard is only read when you paste. Using Paste here from the right-click menu, your browser may first ask whether Layitout may read the clipboard.

Copying inside Layitout puts a short line of text on your clipboard rather than the plan itself: something like “Layitout selection (3 items)” followed by a random code, so that Layitout can recognize its own copy. Pasting into another app gives just that line.

There’s nothing to sign up for and nothing to log in to. Layitout doesn’t set cookies or show ads, and never sells or shares your data.

We use Vercel Web Analytics to count page views, so we know roughly how many people use Layitout. It records which page was opened, the site that linked you here, and your general country, browser, operating system and device type.

It doesn’t use cookies, doesn’t collect personal information, and can’t follow you across other sites. The plan id in an editor page’s address is stripped out before anything is sent, and the contents of your plans are never part of it.

While the editor is open, it occasionally asks Layitout’s own server which version is published — about every half hour, or when you come back to the tab — so it can offer to reload when there’s a newer one. The request is the same for everyone and carries nothing about you or your plans; the answer is just a version number.

The site is hosted on Vercel. Like any web host, it handles the standard technical details of each request — such as your IP address — to deliver the pages to you.

Layitout is made by Utkarsh, founder of Viwidh Foodcraft.

If any of this changes, this page will be updated first, with a new date at the top.