The short version: PictureFramer collects no data. Straightening happens entirely on your iPhone — no accounts, no analytics, no ads, no tracking. One optional feature, AI reflection removal, sends the image region you mark to the AI provider you configure, only when you tap Remove. Nothing is ever sent to us.
What the app does with your photos
PictureFramer processes photos on your device:
- Importing uses Apple's system photo picker. The app only ever receives the single photo you choose — it has no access to the rest of your photo library.
- Shooting (optional) uses the iPhone camera, with your permission, to capture a photo of the painting directly in the app. The capture stays in memory on your device — it is not saved to your photo library or sent anywhere; only the straightened result you export is saved.
- Editing (detecting the frame, straightening, adding a margin) happens locally on your iPhone using Apple's built-in image frameworks. No network is involved.
- Reflection removal (optional) uses a cloud AI model to repaint glare you mark by hand. When — and only when — you tap Remove, a cropped region of the straightened image around your mask is sent over an encrypted connection (HTTPS) directly to the provider you selected in Settings (OpenAI or Google), using an API key you supplied. That transfer is governed by the chosen provider's own privacy policy and your agreement with them; PictureFramer has no server of its own and never sees the data. If you never set up a provider, the app makes no network requests at all.
- Saving uses an add-only permission: the app can add the finished image to your photo library but cannot read, modify, or delete anything else in it.
API keys
Your OpenAI or Google API key is stored in the iOS Keychain on your device and is transmitted only to that provider's official API endpoint to authenticate your requests. It is never sent anywhere else, never logged, and never stored outside the Keychain.
Data collection
None. PictureFramer itself does not collect, store, transmit, or share any personal data or usage data. The app contains no analytics frameworks, no advertising SDKs, and no third-party code. The only network requests it can make are the reflection-removal calls described above, initiated by you, to the provider you chose.
App Store privacy label
PictureFramer's App Store listing declares that the developer collects no data. Image data used by the optional AI feature travels directly from your device to the provider you configured — never to us.
Children's privacy
Because the app collects no data from anyone, it collects no data from children.
Changes to this policy
If a future version of the app ever changes any of the above, this page will be updated before that version ships, and the change will be noted in the App Store release notes.
Contact
Questions about privacy or the app? Contact Sascha Corti at sascha@corti.com.
Last updated: August 6, 2026