How to shoot with a film
- Tap the color panel button.
- Tap a film in the strip.
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.
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, device identifiers or behavioural data are collected.
- No advertising, analytics or social SDKs are in the app, and it never asks for tracking permission, because it does not track.
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.
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
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 .
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.
- Local network. Optional. Used to receive files from a camera on your own network.
Our website
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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.
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 .