Effective 11 September 2026
The short version: your photos stay on your iPhone. The app sends anonymous usage information, never your photos, so I can see which features are used and improve them. There are no accounts, no ads and no tracking.
Cutie Cutouts is made by Marcella Devvy, an independent developer ("I", "me").
Your photos
- You choose photos through Apple's photo picker. The app receives only the photos you pick and can't browse your library.
- Editing happens on your iPhone. Your photos and finished cutouts are never uploaded to me or anyone else.
- When you save, the app adds the PNG to Photos. It asks for add-only permission, which lets it add images but not see your library.
- When you share, Apple's share sheet opens. The app or service you choose handles the image under its own privacy policy.
What stays on your iPhone
- Your most recent settings, such as shape, colours, frame, border and saved size, so the app opens the way you left it.
- Temporary PNG files created while saving or sharing. iOS clears these over time.
Deleting the app removes all of this.
Anonymous usage analytics
The app uses PostHog (posthog.com) to record how it's used. PostHog stores this information for me on servers in the United States and doesn't use it for anything else.
What is sent:
- When the app is installed, updated, opened and closed.
- When the editor is opened (from a photo or a colour), when a cutout is first changed, and when a cutout is saved, shared or fails to save, with the reason it failed.
- The design choices behind a saved or shared cutout: the shape and shape family, the fill type and its direction, whether the file was trimmed or square, and whether it had a border. Changes to the saved size, and openings of the How it works page.
- Basic technical details added automatically: app version, iOS version, device model, language and time zone.
- A random ID the app creates the first time you use it, stored on your iPhone. It isn't linked to your name, email, Apple ID or advertising identifier. It lets me count how many people use the app and how often, not who they are. Deleting the app resets it.