Last updated: October 19, 2026
ROM Reaper ("the app") is an app from EERIE for Windows, Mac, iPhone, iPad and Android. It compresses game disc images and ROMs that are already on your device into the formats emulators read: CHD, CSO, RVZ, XISO, trimmed 3DS and 7z. This policy covers all of these versions. The app does not include, download or provide any games. It has no accounts and no sign-in, and it is not made by, endorsed by, or affiliated with any console maker or emulator project.
From the Windows, Mac, iPhone and iPad versions, nothing. From the Android version, one small record used only for the free trial: a scrambled identifier for your phone and the date and time the trial was started on it (see "Free trial and purchase" below). ROM Reaper has no accounts, no analytics, no telemetry and no advertising. EERIE never receives the names of your files, the folders they are in, or anything else about your device.
On Windows and Mac, the app reads only the files and folders you drop on it or choose with its file picker, and on Windows also files you paste into it. On iPhone, iPad and Android, it reads only the folders you pick in the device's own folder picker. It writes each compressed copy to the folder you choose, or beside the original. If you turn on the option to remove the originals, the app moves them to the Recycle Bin on Windows or the Trash on Mac, or deletes them on iPhone, iPad and Android, and only after the new file has been read back and checked. All of this happens on your own device. Your files are never uploaded, and the app does not keep a list of them after you close it.
So that a folder you picked still opens the next time you use the app, the Mac, iPhone and iPad versions keep a bookmark to it and the Android version keeps the permission Android grants for it. These stay on your device.
On Windows the compressing is done by programs that are installed inside the app: chdman from the MAME project, DolphinTool from the Dolphin project, extract-xiso, and 7-Zip. DolphinTool keeps a small settings folder inside the app's own data folder. On Mac, iPhone, iPad and Android it is done by code built into the app. Either way it runs on your device and does not connect to the internet.
On Windows, when you press Ctrl+V in the app's window, it reads the files or file paths on the clipboard so it can add them to the list. It does not read the clipboard at any other time, and it does not store or send what it reads. The other versions do not read the clipboard.
The Windows version is sold through the Microsoft Store and has no trial and no purchase inside the app.
On Mac, iPhone and iPad, the 7-day free trial and the one-time purchase are handled entirely by Apple through the App Store. We never see your payment details or your Apple ID. The app only asks the App Store whether the trial has started and whether the purchase has been made.
On Android, the app offers a 15-day free trial and then a one-time purchase handled by Google Play. The app asks Google Play whether you have bought it. We do not receive your name, your payment details or your Google account details, and no purchase information is sent to any server of ours.
So that the Android trial cannot be restarted by reinstalling the app, the date the trial started is kept on a server we run on Cloudflare. It is stored next to a scrambled identifier for your phone: a one-way hash made on the phone from the identifier Android gives this app on that device (the Android ID). The Android ID itself never leaves your phone, and the hash cannot be turned back into it. The record holds no name, email address, Google account or file of yours, and it is used for nothing except the trial. Cloudflare, which runs the server, handles the connection under its own privacy policy.
We keep this record so the trial is not given twice on the same phone. Because it holds nothing that identifies you, we have no way to tell from a request which record belongs to whom.
Under the app's name the app shows how much processor time and memory it is using, and how much space its own files take up. These figures are measured on your device, shown on screen, and never sent anywhere. They can be switched off in the settings.
The converting itself never sends your files, or anything about them, anywhere. The Windows version works fully offline and makes no connection at all, including when you open it.
The Mac, iPhone and iPad versions connect only to the App Store, to check the trial and the purchase. The Android version connects only to Google Play and to our server for the trial's start date. Each does this when it opens, when you come back to it, before it converts, and when you start the trial, buy, or restore a purchase.
In every version, a connection is also opened when you click or tap one of the links in the app, which opens that page in your web browser under that site's own privacy policy.
Your settings are saved on your own device: the light or dark theme, whether the app usage readout under the title is shown, whether PSP games become CHD or CSO, the folder the new files are saved to, whether the originals are removed, and on Windows and Mac the size and position of the app's window so it reopens the way you left it. On Mac, iPhone, iPad and Android the app also keeps a small file with the last answer about your trial and purchase.
The app contains no third-party trackers, advertising SDKs, or analytics libraries. Purchases are handled by Apple and Google, and Cloudflare runs the server that keeps the Android trial record, each under its own privacy policy. ROM Reaper shares nothing else with anyone. Links inside the app, such as "Support This Project", "Report Issue", "Discussions" and "Feature Request", open in your web browser only when you click or tap them, taking you to third-party websites that operate under their own privacy policies.
If the app is obtained through the Microsoft Store, the App Store, Google Play or another platform, that platform may process data related to download, install, purchase and licensing under its own policies. This policy describes only what ROM Reaper itself does.
ROM Reaper does not ask for or collect personal information from anyone, including children. The Android trial record holds no name, contact details or account.
If this policy changes, the updated version will be posted at this URL with a new "Last updated" date.
Questions about this policy can be sent to eeriegoesd@gmail.com.