Privacy

Privacy policy.

Last updated 2026-09-01

Summary

Cuts Studio is a desktop video editor that runs entirely on your Mac. We do not collect, transmit, or store any of your videos, transcripts, edits, or usage data on Cuts-controlled servers. We do not use analytics, tracking pixels, fingerprinting, advertising IDs, or third-party SDKs that do those things.

What stays on your Mac

• Source video files you import.
• Whisper transcripts and word-level timestamps.
• Edits, cuts, color, subtitles, render settings.
• Render outputs and intermediate caches under ~/Library/Application Support/Cuts/ and the app sandbox container.

What may leave your Mac

None of your material. The Whisper transcription model and its CoreML encoder ship inside the app bundle, so transcription works entirely offline from first launch, and your videos, transcripts and edits are never uploaded anywhere.

Cuts Studio makes one kind of network request, and only when you ask for it: downloading an optional local language model. The Editor's contextual cuts run on Apple Intelligence where the Mac has it; where it does not, you can install Gemma 4 E2B (about 3.6 GB, from Hugging Face) into Application Support, and from then on it runs on your Mac like everything else. Nothing about your project is sent with that download.

This build does not include chat, OpenAI, Claude, or any remote text-generation provider integration. No text, audio or video ever leaves the Mac for a model to read.

What we do not do

• We do not run any servers that receive your data.
• We do not include analytics SDKs (no Mixpanel, Amplitude, Sentry, etc.).
• We do not include advertising SDKs.
• We do not track you across apps or sessions.
• We do not collect crash reports remotely. Apple's built-in crash reporter may collect crashes if you opt into Apple's program — that's separate from Cuts Studio and governed by Apple's policy.
• We do not share, sell, or rent any data to anyone.

API access disclosures

Per Apple's Required Reason API requirements (declared in PrivacyInfo.xcprivacy):

• UserDefaults — used to persist your in-app preferences. Reads/writes happen only in the app's own container.
• File modification timestamps — used to invalidate caches when you re-open a source file you've edited externally. Only files you explicitly opened via Cuts Studio are inspected.

Children

Cuts Studio is not directed at children and we do not knowingly collect any data from anyone — including children — because we don't collect data at all.

Your control

You control everything:

• Delete ~/Library/Application Support/Cuts/ to remove local support files.
• Delete ~/Library/Containers/com.brenno.cutsdesktop/ to remove the sandboxed container, if installed from the Mac App Store.
• Uninstall the app to remove it entirely.

Changes to this policy

If we ever change how Cuts Studio handles data, we will update this page and bump the "Last updated" date above. Until then, the answer to "what does Cuts Studio do with my data?" remains: nothing.

Contact

Questions, concerns, or anything else: contact@brennocastro.com.