FilmTexture App — Privacy

Last updated: October 31, 2026

FilmTexture has two halves, and they answer this question differently. The camera and the editor work entirely on your device: nothing you shoot or edit is sent anywhere. The community is the half that leaves — and it sends only what you choose to post, when you post it. If you allow it, the app also sends a short daily performance report, never your photos or videos.

The camera and the editor

Every picture you take and every edit you make stays on your device. The film simulation, the grain, the halation, the bloom and the colour work all run on the device’s own processors — there is no server in the picture, and no step of it is done anywhere else.

• Your photos and videos are not uploaded.
• Your edits, adjustments and saved looks are kept on the device.
• No usage analytics or device identifiers are collected. The optional performance report below describes how the camera ran, never what you shot or who you are.
• No advertising, analytics or social SDKs are in the app, and it never asks for tracking permission, because it does not track.

Performance data, only if you allow it

The first time you open this version, the app asks whether to share performance data, and you can change your answer in Settings → Share Performance Data.

If you choose Share, once a day it sends:

• the report iOS prepares about the app: launch and response times, memory, processor, graphics and battery use, and crash and hang reports showing where in our code they happened;
• for each video: its format (resolution, frame rate, stabilization, lens, which film effects were on), length, dropped frames, and how warm the iPhone became;
• your iPhone model, iOS version and app version.

It never includes photos, videos, sound, location, your account, name or email, the films you use, or any identifier for you or your iPhone, and it is not linked to your community profile. We remove the region setting and your iPhone’s storage size from Apple’s report before sending. Your network address reaches our server with the request, as any request does; it is not kept with the report or used.

The data is used only to fix stability, heat and smoothness. It is never used for advertising or shared with anyone, and it is deleted after 90 days. Turning sharing off deletes anything not yet sent. Because reports carry no identifier, we cannot find yours afterwards. You can see what was sent in Settings → Share Performance Data → Sent Data.

The community

The community is optional. The camera and the editor work without an account, and nothing below happens until you make one.

When you take part, this is what leaves your device:

• Your account. An email address, used to sign you in and to reach you about your account. Sign-in codes are sent to it by an email delivery service acting on our behalf. If you sign in with Apple instead, Apple gives the app an identifier for your account and the email address you choose to share — your own, or a private address that forwards to it — and, the first time only, your name, which is used just to suggest your profile’s name.
• Your profile. The handle, name, short description, link and picture you give it. A profile is public.
• What you post. The picture or clip itself, a smaller copy of it for the feed, the frame it started from if you chose to show it, an optional title, and which film stock it used. Unless you choose to share the picture only, the post also carries the settings of its edit, so others can see how it was made and use the look. A post is public.
• The looks you share. A name, the settings of the edit, and a number that counts its versions, so an older change never replaces a newer one. No picture travels with a shared look — every device draws it over the same frame that ships inside the app.
• The looks you keep. When you keep a look from someone’s profile, which look it was and when. Only you can see that you kept it; others see how many people have. When the app opens, it asks which of the looks you kept have since been taken down by moderation, sending only those looks’ ids, so they leave your camera and editor too.
• What you do in the community. The accounts you follow, and the posts you appreciate or save. Who follows whom is public: anyone can see the accounts a profile follows and the accounts that follow it.
• What you do about other people. Accounts you block, and reports you file.

What a post does not carry

• Where it was taken. A shared photo is encoded fresh, so no camera metadata travels with it, and a shared clip has its metadata removed before it is sent. The place stays in your own copy, in your own library.
• Anything you did not post. Nothing is read from your library except the picture you chose.

Where it is kept, and for how long

What you post is held in a hosted database and file store operated on our behalf. The providers that host it and deliver our email handle it only to provide those services to us, and are bound to protect it at least as this policy does. You can delete a post at any time, and deleting it removes its files with it. Deleting your account removes your profile, your posts and their files, the looks you shared, the record of the looks you kept, and your follows, appreciations and saves. If you signed in with Apple, the app asks Apple once more before the account goes, and a one-time code from that request is used on our server only to end the app’s link with your Apple Account. Performance reports are kept for 90 days, then deleted automatically.

One thing outlives a deletion, and for the reason the community exists to serve: a report someone filed stays, so that a decision about it can still be made and understood. The link between that report and the person who filed it is removed with their account, and no report carries anyone’s pictures.

Age

Posting, and taking part at all, asks the system for your age range before it is allowed. The app never sees your birthday — only whether you are old enough. An account the system tells us is under 13 cannot take part.

Subscriptions

Apple processes every purchase. FilmTexture is told what you are entitled to and nothing else — not your name, not your email, not your payment details.

Crash reports from Apple

If you have it switched on in iOS, Apple may share anonymised crash logs with us. You can turn it off at any time in Settings → Privacy & Security → Analytics & Improvements. This is separate from the app’s own Share Performance Data choice.

Our website

filmtexture.com uses Plausible Analytics to count visits. It sets no cookies and collects no personal data: visits are counted in aggregate, and your IP address is not stored.

Permissions

FilmTexture asks for a permission only when a feature needs it, and each can be withdrawn at any time in Settings → FilmTexture.

• Camera. To take photos and video.
• Photo Library. To save what you shoot, and to edit pictures you already have.
• Microphone. To record sound with video.
• Location. Optional. Used only to write the place into your own captures, the way any camera does. It is not sent to us, and it is removed from anything you post.

Your rights

You can see everything of yours in the app, change your profile, delete any post, and delete your account outright — the last one from your own profile. If you would rather ask us, write to us and we will do it. You can withdraw consent to performance data at any time in Settings → Share Performance Data; nothing more is sent from then on.

Changes

If this policy changes, the “Last updated” date above changes with it. Any change to what leaves your device is said plainly in the app with the next update, not only here.

Contact

Questions about privacy? Write to info@filmtexture.com.