Your media stays local
Picsout processes your photo library on your Mac. Photos and videos are not uploaded to Picsout servers, because Picsout does not operate a media storage service. The app has no own analytics, advertising, upload, or telemetry requests.
Data stored locally on your Mac
Picsout may store the following local app data: a file catalog containing paths, names, sizes, dates, types, and file and iPhone identifiers; import state, including which files were transferred, importedAt, and the mapping to an iPhone file; photo metadata, including GPS coordinates present in the file; failed-transfer records with the file name, reason, and attempt count; content and similarity indexes for screenshots, similar photos, and duplicates; a cache of place names; settings, the selected folder, and its security bookmark; the monthly free-transfer counter; and temporary files and preview or thumbnail caches.
Picsout no longer creates a permanent transfer-log.txt or a chronological log of new transfers. A legacy ImportRecord table may remain in older databases for compatibility; Delete Local Data removes it.
What Picsout sends to Apple
Picsout has no own analytics, advertising, upload, or telemetry requests. Its own requests to Apple occur in the following system-provided scenarios:
- Reverse geocoding. When location recognition is enabled, Picsout sends the GPS latitude, GPS longitude, and the current locale to Apple's network-based reverse-geocoding service. It does not send file names, photos, folder paths, the catalog, or import history for this request. See Apple's CLGeocoder documentation.
- StoreKit. Picsout uses StoreKit for the product
com.pavelshugaev.picsout.unlimited, including product requests, purchases, restores, and entitlement checks. The App Store handles the standard transaction data required for those operations. Picsout does not receive or store bank-card details. See Apple's StoreKit documentation.
Apple and macOS may also handle standard technical data generated by the relevant system service, such as network or diagnostic data. This is not a custom Picsout payload sent to the developer. Apple handles its services under its own policies.
Location recognition
Location recognition is disabled by default. If you enable it, GPS coordinates from photo metadata are sent to Apple Reverse Geocoding to resolve them into place names. The returned place names are cached locally for filtering and display. No GPS coordinates are sent for this feature while it is disabled.
Deleting media
Picsout can delete selected files from the connected iPhone after you explicitly select the files and confirm the action. It does not delete iPhone media automatically. When you remove a local item through Picsout, it is moved to the macOS Trash.
Deleting local app data
To remove local Picsout data, choose Settings → General → Privacy → Delete Local Data and confirm. This removes the catalog database, import-state history, failed-transfer records, content and similarity indexes, the place-name cache, settings, the selected-folder security bookmark, the free-transfer quota, temporary files, in-memory caches, and the legacy import records.
This action does not delete photos or videos in a selected Mac folder or external drive, on the connected iPhone, or in iPhone albums. Picsout then creates an empty database so you can continue using the app without the previous local records.
Deleting the Mac app alone does not guarantee that its created documents and other local files are removed. For guaranteed deletion of Picsout's local data, use Delete Local Data first. See Apple Support's guidance on deleting Mac apps.
Your choices
You choose the destination for every transfer, whether to enable location recognition, whether to confirm deletion from your iPhone, and when to remove local app data. We do not sell your information or use your photo library for advertising.
Contact
Questions about privacy can be sent to hello@picsout.com.