Privacy Policy

Short version

Pink Reel is a micro-film editor. You write and edit a narration script (Apple's on-device Foundation Models can draft one for you), build a storyboard of up to three scenes (your own photos and video clips picked in Apple's photo picker, scenes painted via Apple's Image Playground, or clean backdrops), cast a narrator from the system voices via Apple's built-in AVSpeechSynthesizer, and Apple's AVFoundation composes the finished MP4 locally. The MP4 files, scripts, scene images, the photos and clips you pick, and thumbnails stay on your device. No script text, no audio clip, and no photo or clip ever leaves your phone. When Apple Intelligence paints a scene, Apple may process your prompt (which includes the idea line you typed) on its Private Cloud Compute servers; Apple says these requests are not stored. Pink Reel itself has no servers. There are no accounts, no analytics, and no third-party SDKs that contact a server. The only network calls the app makes are to Apple's StoreKit when you choose to subscribe or unlock the Lifetime tier.

Who we are

Pink Reel is published by Danielius Studio LLC, a Wyoming limited liability company at 30 N Gould St, Suite #5280, Sheridan, WY 82801, USA (“we”, “us”).

Data we do NOT collect

• No account, no email, no password - the app has no signup.
• No analytics, no telemetry, no event tracking.
• No advertising identifiers (no IDFA, no fingerprinting).
• No usage data sent off the device.
• No camera access. The app never opens the camera.
• No microphone access. The narration is synthesized by Apple's text-to-speech voices; the app does not record audio of any kind.
• No photo library access. When you add your own photos or video clips to a film, you choose them in Apple's system photo picker, which runs outside the app and hands Pink Reel only the items you pick. The app never browses or reads the rest of your library.
• No location, no contacts, no calendar.
• No HealthKit, no Health data.

iOS permissions the app requests

Pink Reel requests no sensitive iOS permissions. System voices used for narration are part of iOS and require no permission prompt. Image Playground is presented through a system-provided sheet that runs in its own process; it does not require Pink Reel to hold any permission. The same is true of the system photo picker you use to add your own photos and clips.

What stays on your device

• Your micro-film entries: the idea line you typed, the narration script text, the MP4 filename, the thumbnail image data, the duration in seconds, and the created-at timestamp. Stored in on-device SwiftData records.
• Copies of the photos and video clips you pick for a film, kept in the app's sandboxed storage while the film is made. A clip you remove from a scene is deleted.
• The composed MP4 video files themselves, written to the app's sandboxed Documents directory.
• The date the app was first launched. Stored in UserDefaults.
• If you allow reminders, the time of day you usually open the app, so a few tips and reminders arrive at a good moment in your first week. They are scheduled on your device and nothing is sent to us.

All of the above lives on your device. Uninstalling the app deletes it.

Generation (Apple Intelligence)

Script drafting uses Apple's on-device Foundation Models, accessed through the public LanguageModelSession API on iOS 26. This model executes on your iPhone's Neural Engine. The idea text you type is passed to the model in-process, and the model does not send it off the device; you can also skip the draft entirely and write the script yourself. The app does not use Apple's Private Cloud Compute fallback for this feature.

Painted storyboard scenes use Apple's Image Playground, presented as a system sheet. Each scene it produces is handed back to the app and written into the MP4. Image generation needs Apple Intelligence-capable hardware, and Apple may make the image on its Private Cloud Compute servers, as described above. You can also build scenes from clean backdrops without any generation.

Narration uses Apple's built-in AVSpeechSynthesizer. The narrator voice you cast reads your script locally; no audio is recorded, and no audio is uploaded.

Composition uses Apple's AVFoundation to cut your scenes (your own photos and clips, painted scenes, or backdrops) to the length of the synthesized narration and write a single MP4 file on disk. Composition runs on your device.

The AI-assisted steps (script drafts and painted scenes) require iOS 26 or later on an Apple Intelligence-capable device (iPhone with A17 Pro or newer, iPad with M1 or newer, or iPad mini with A17 Pro). On other devices, the app shows a clear notice that those assists are unavailable.

In-app purchases

If you choose to subscribe (Monthly, Annual) or buy the Lifetime unlock, that transaction is handled by Apple's StoreKit. Apple processes the payment and shares only the receipt with the app so we can verify your entitlement. We never see your card number, billing address, or any personal information beyond Apple's opaque transaction identifier.

Subscription receipts are stored on-device by iOS and used to validate your entitlement when you re-open the app. They are not sent to any server we operate.

Free vs Pro

Everything is unlocked for your first three days. After that, free use is capped at three micro-films in total. Pro unlocks unlimited micro-films.

Family Sharing

Pink Reel Pro purchases (Monthly, Annual, Lifetime) are Family-Shareable through Apple's standard Family Sharing mechanism. Apple handles eligibility checks; we do not see who is in your family group.

Children

Pink Reel is rated 4+ in the App Store. Because the app collects no data at all, it complies with COPPA and similar children's-privacy regulations by design.

Your rights

Because Pink Reel does not collect data, there is nothing for us to export, correct, or delete on your behalf. To revoke all access and remove all on-device state, simply delete the app.

For questions, write to support@danielius.studio.

Changes

If we ever introduce a feature that involves any data leaving the device (for example, cloud sync of your micro-films), this page will be updated and the “Last updated” date at the top will change. For v1.0, no such feature exists.