Privacy

Privacy policy.

Last updated 2026-08-22

Summary

Splits 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, transcripts, exported clips, or usage data on Splits-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.
• Detected scene boundaries and your in/out refinements.
• Transcripts and chapter titles produced by Context cuts — they are made on your Mac and never sent anywhere.
• Per-cut settings — framing, color, format, frame rate, clip names.
• Exported clips, frames, and GIFs, saved only to the folder you picked.
• Preferences and export history, inside the app's sandbox container.

What may leave your Mac

Nothing of yours. Splits never uploads your videos, your cuts, your transcripts, or anything else. Detection, transcription, chapter titles, preview and export all run locally, through Apple's media frameworks and models held on your own Mac.

Two things do cross the network, and both go one way — inward, at your request. The first is a model download: Context cuts can use a Whisper transcription model, or Gemma 4 E2B (3.6 GB) to title the chapters. If you ask for one, Splits fetches the weights once from their host and then runs them entirely on your Mac. Nothing about your video is sent with that request, and Google's Gemma Terms of Use apply to Gemma. With the models already installed — or unused — the app works with the network turned off.

The second is Apple itself: if you buy Splits Pro or restore a purchase, the transaction is processed by Apple's StoreKit and governed by Apple's privacy policy. Splits never sees your payment details — only the receipt that says Pro is unlocked.

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 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:

• UserDefaults — used to persist your in-app preferences (export defaults, appearance). Reads/writes happen only in the app's own container.

Children

Splits 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:

• Exports live only where you saved them — delete them like any file.
• Delete ~/Library/Containers/com.brenno.splitter/ to remove the sandboxed container and all app state.
• Uninstall the app to remove it entirely.

Changes to this policy

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

Contact

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