Capture

Privacy Policy

Effective date: October 6, 2026

Short version: Capture does not collect, store, transmit, or share any personal data. Everything happens on your device. There is no account, no server, no analytics, and no tracking.

1. No data collection

Capture has no backend and makes no network connections to send your content or information anywhere. Your photos, videos, and their metadata (such as capture date and location) are read and written entirely on your device and never leave it through Capture.

2. Photos access

Capture requests access to your Photos library for two reasons: (a) to add the photos and videos you choose to import, and (b) to compare incoming items against your existing library so it can flag duplicates you have already imported. This comparison runs locally on your device. Capture never uploads, copies, or transmits your library anywhere.

3. Camera and memory-card access

When you choose a camera or memory card through the system file picker, Capture reads the media files you select so it can import them. You grant this access per selection, and it is used only to perform the import you requested.

4. Location and recorded tracks

Capture can record the route you walk, so photos you take along the way can be given the right location afterwards. Location is used in two places: to centre the map when you set a photo’s location by hand, and, only while a recording is running, to log the track itself.

Nothing is logged until you start a recording, and recording stops when you stop it. While a recording is running it continues with the screen off and the app closed, which is why iOS shows the location indicator and asks for background location permission. If you allow Motion & Fitness, Capture also listens for your first steps after a stop — only to wake the GPS again; motion data is never stored or sent anywhere. You can refuse or revoke either permission at any time in Settings; the rest of the app works without them.

Recorded tracks are saved as ordinary GPX files in Capture’s own storage on your device. They are never uploaded, and no location data is transmitted anywhere. They are included in your device backup because they live in app storage, and you can delete any track from inside the app or remove all of them by deleting the app. Exporting a track with the share sheet sends the file wherever you choose to send it. That is the only way a track leaves the device, and only you can start it.

5. Purchases

Capture offers optional paid upgrades (subscriptions and a one-time “Lifetime” unlock) through Apple’s App Store. Purchases are processed by Apple under Apple’s Privacy Policy. Capture receives only the App Store entitlement needed to unlock features and never sees your payment details.

6. On-device storage

To function, Capture stores small amounts of data on your device, for example your settings, your free-tier usage count, and a local index of which items have been imported (used for duplicate detection). This data stays on your device and is removed when you delete the app.

7. No analytics, advertising, or tracking

Capture contains no analytics tools, no advertising, and no third-party tracking. It does not use the Advertising Identifier and does not track you across other apps or websites.

8. No third-party sharing

Because Capture collects no data and has no server, there is nothing to sell or share with third parties.

9. Children’s privacy

Capture is a general-audience utility and does not knowingly collect any information from anyone, including children.

10. Diagnostics you choose to send

iOS gives Capture reports of its own crashes and freezes (MetricKit), and Capture keeps them on your device, in Settings › Diagnostics. Nothing is sent automatically. If you choose Email Reports there, Mail opens a message to capture@karololszanski.com with the reports, the app version, your iOS version and your device model attached, and nothing is sent unless you send it; Share Reports hands the same reports to the share sheet, to go wherever you choose. The reports contain technical details about the app, not your photos. Reports we receive are used only to find and fix problems in Capture, and are deleted once they have served that purpose.

11. iCloud Shared Albums

If you choose a shared album as the destination, Capture opens Apple’s Add to Shared Album with your photos, and Photos uploads them to iCloud for the album’s members under Apple’s Privacy Policy. Capture itself sends nothing to any server.

12. Changes to this policy

If this policy changes, the updated version will be posted on this page with a new effective date.

13. Contact

Questions about this policy? Contact capture@karololszanski.com.