Privacy

LightCruiser Privacy Policy

Effective November 11, 2026

LightCruiser doesn’t collect your data. Your photos, and everything the app learns from them, stay on your Mac. There are no accounts, no servers, no analytics and no advertising.

What the app reads

With your permission, LightCruiser reads your Apple Photos library: your photos and videos, and the date and location each was taken. It analyzes them on your Mac to build your globe, search, Look, Color, Rhymes and Passport, and keeps what it learns (small thumbnails, search vectors, statistics) in its own folder on your Mac (~/Library/Application Support/LightCruiser). Deleting the app and that folder removes all of it.

People (off unless you turn it on)

If you turn on People, LightCruiser uses the faces Photos has already recognized on your Mac (this needs Full Disk Access, which you grant in System Settings) and compares faces to find more photos of each person. Face data is sensitive, so People is off until you choose it. Faces, and the names and birthdays you add, never leave your Mac and are never used for anything else. “Turn off People and delete its data” erases all of it at any time. If you choose “From Contacts”, LightCruiser reads birthdays from Contacts (it asks first) and uses them only to fill in birthdays.

What goes over the internet

• Maps and place names: areas of the map, and the rough location of groups of photos, go to Apple Maps to draw maps and look up place names. Apple’s privacy policy applies to those requests.
• Elevation: map tiles of terrain heights come from Mapzen’s public Terrain Tiles on Amazon Web Services, which sees your IP address and which areas of the world were requested.
• iCloud Photos: if your library is in iCloud, Photos downloads small copies of your photos for the app through Apple’s own iCloud service.

The developer receives none of this, and no photo is ever uploaded by LightCruiser.

Films

Videos you record with the Showcase are saved only to your Mac (Movies › LightCruiser).

Feedback (only if you send it)

Help › Send Beta Feedback opens a message in your own Mail app containing what you wrote, a short list of facts the app shows you first (your Mac’s model, memory and macOS version, how many photos your library has, how long analyzing took, and whether the app quit unexpectedly) and LightCruiser’s own crash reports. It contains nothing from your photos, and nothing goes anywhere unless you send that message yourself.

This website

lightcruiser.app uses no cookies, analytics or trackers.

Children

LightCruiser isn’t directed to children, and it collects no information from anyone.

Contact

Questions: hello@lightcruiser.app