Privacy

We don’t have your photos. We don’t have anything.

Pocket Album is an app that runs on your Mac and reads a folder you choose. There is no server behind it, no account to create and no analytics inside it. This page explains the few things worth knowing.

What stays on your Mac

Everything. Your photos are read where they are. The index, thumbnails, face groups, names, favourites and albums are stored in a folder called .pocketalbum next to your photos (or in your Mac’s Application Support folder if the drive is read-only).

Faces

Faces are detected and grouped on your Mac, using Apple’s Vision framework and an open-source model bundled with the app. Face data never leaves the folder described above. You can turn the feature off in Settings, and “Start Over with People” erases all of it.

The one network request

To give a trip or a photo a place name, the app sends its coordinates to Apple’s geocoding service through macOS and gets back a town and country. Only coordinates are sent, never photos. Results are saved so each place is looked up once. If you’re offline, trips are simply named by month until you’re back.

What the app writes

Only the .pocketalbum folder. Your photos and videos are never modified, renamed, moved or deleted.

This website

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Questions

Email info@predotai.com.