privacy
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schmamera doesn't collect anything. there are no accounts, no ads, no analytics and no third-party code, and the app doesn't make any network requests at all. your photos and everything else stay on your phone.
what the app uses, and why
- camera. to show you the picture and take it. the camera feed is only ever on your screen and in the photos you take.
- photo library. the photos you take are saved to your library. schmamera asks for full access so review stays in step with your library: if you delete one of its photos in the photos app, it drops out of review. it can see your library, but it only ever looks up the photos it saved itself. it deletes a photo only when you ask it to from review, and ios asks you to confirm first. if you'd rather give it limited access, that works too.
- motion sensors. the gyroscope and accelerometer drive the steady dot in the shutter and the level. the readings are used in the moment and never stored. ios doesn't ask about these.
what it doesn't do
- it doesn't ask for your location, so the photos it saves don't carry one.
- it doesn't send anything anywhere. no servers, no crash reporting, no tracking, no ad networks, no third parties.
- it doesn't use your contacts, microphone or anything else not listed above.
one thing that isn't the app: if you're in the testflight beta and you've chosen to share crash reports or send feedback, apple passes those to me through testflight. that's apple's system and your choice, and you can turn it off in ios settings.
what stays on your phone
the checks that tell you a shot came out soft or that someone blinked run on your phone and only look at the photo you just took. your settings are kept in the app's own storage on your phone. photos taken from the lock screen are saved the same way; if they can't go into your library right away, they wait in the app's own storage until you next open it.
deleting the app removes its settings and anything it was holding. photos already in your library stay there, because they're yours.
if this ever changes
this page will say so first, with a new date at the top.
questions
email me at me@vijay.io.