Privacy

Privacy policy.

Last updated 2026-05-06

Summary

Splits Studio is a desktop scene-detection tool that runs entirely on your Mac. We do not collect, transmit, or store any of your videos, detected scenes, exported frames, or usage data on Splits-controlled servers. We do not use analytics, tracking pixels, fingerprinting, advertising IDs, or any third-party SDKs that do those things.

What stays on your Mac

• Source video files you import.
• Detected scene boundaries and the diagnostic color bar.
• Per-scene midpoint frames, MP4 segments, and GIF previews.
• Render outputs and intermediate caches under ~/Library/Application Support/Splits/ and the app sandbox container.

What may leave your Mac

Nothing. Splits Studio does not connect to any network. Scene detection runs entirely on-device using local computer-vision routines — there is no cloud component, no API call, no upload.

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 Splits 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 (sensitivity, output formats, default save location). Reads/writes happen only in the app's own container.
• File modification timestamps — used to invalidate cached scene boundaries when a source file is re-encoded externally. Only files you explicitly opened in Splits Studio are inspected.

Children

Splits 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/Splits/ to remove local support files.
• Delete ~/Library/Containers/com.brenno.splitsstudio/ 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 Splits Studio handles data, we will update this page and bump the "Last updated" date above. Until then, the answer to "what does Splits Studio do with my data?" remains: nothing.

Contact

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