Life Capture Privacy Policy

Your life is never the product#

Life Capture's mission is legacy without strings or monetization. We sell a tool, once. We never sell, rent, mine, or monetize what you make with it. There is no subscription that can lapse and lock you out of your own past, no advertising between your memories, no analytics watching how you use them, and no training of AI models on your photos, your voice, or your words. Revenue comes from the price of the app and nothing else — so the app answers to you, not to an engagement metric.

This policy is short because the business model asks nothing of you beyond the purchase.

The short version#

Life Capture does not collect your captures. There is no account to create, no hosted sync, no analytics, no advertising, and no third-party AI. Your photos, voice notes, transcripts, Journals, lookbacks, search indexes, and manifests stay in your archive or the Life Capture Studio local container on your Mac. If you use weather, Studio sends only the day and location needed for that lookup to Apple's WeatherKit service.

What Life Capture collects#

Life Capture reads the local files you choose to import and writes its derivatives back to local storage. It does not send your photos, video, voice, writing, transcripts, Journals, or search data to Life Capture or any hosted AI service. Life Capture receives no user data.

For App Store privacy disclosure purposes, the posture is: data collected — none; tracking — no; third-party SDKs — none; analytics — none; advertising — none; accounts — none required.

On-device processing#

When Life Capture Studio transcribes a voice note or reads a photo, it does so on your Mac using Apple's own frameworks — Apple Speech for transcription and Apple Vision for photo understanding. Your captures are never routed to a hosted or third-party AI service.

Life Capture Studio may perform Apple-local capability checks and provision Apple's on-device models (for example, through Speech, Foundation Models, and Apple's asset installation paths). Those paths prepare local Apple capabilities on your machine; they are not channels for uploading your content.

Optional weather lookups#

When a day has a location, Studio can request that day's weather from Apple's WeatherKit service. The request contains the date and location needed to return weather; it does not include your photos, video, voice, writing, transcripts, or Journal. No weather request is made for a day without a location.

What stays on your device#

All of the following remain local to your Mac: raw photo, audio, and text captures; capture metadata and import manifests; checksums and archive integrity metadata; Apple Speech transcripts or local placeholders; normalized event data; generated daily drafts; reviewed journals; weekly and monthly lookbacks; and rebuildable local search indexes and app state.

Your control#

Your archive is stored as inspectable folders, JSON, Markdown, and your original files. Because everything is local and in open formats, you can read it, move it, back it up, or delete it whenever you like, without asking anyone. Deleting the archive removes the data; there is no copy held elsewhere for us to retain.

Children#

Life Capture is a general-purpose personal journaling app and is not directed to children. Because Life Capture receives no user data and requires no account, it does not knowingly collect information from children.

Changes to this policy#

If the app's privacy posture changes, this policy will be updated here with a new effective date. The intent is to keep Life Capture a local, no-collection app, matching the repository's no-leakage release review.

Contact#

Questions about this policy or about Life Capture: Gregory Stoltz, [email protected].