One Tap FilmPrivacy policy
Your photos stay yours
Summary
One Tap Film does not collect personal data. There is no account, no analytics, no advertising SDK, no tracking and no One Tap Film server. The app never sends your photos, edits or settings to the developer. The developer can't see your photos or how you use the app.
Some services the app uses are run by Apple or Google. These are the App Store and Google Play for purchases, and the phone's speech recognition when you speak a request. On Android, they also include Google's ML Kit. This policy explains what each of them handles.
What stays on your phone
When you take a photo, the app keeps the camera's picture and your film choice in its own storage on your phone. It keeps them until the photo is developed. It then saves the finished photo to Photos (iPhone) or the gallery (Android) and removes its working copy. If a save fails, the app keeps the photo so it can try again.
The app keeps your settings in its storage on your phone: the film you picked, Favourites, flash, timer, shape and DATE. Your Describe Edits conversations are kept there too. Deleting the app deletes them. Photos already saved to Photos or the gallery stay there.
The app doesn't ask for your location and doesn't add a location to your photos.
When you share a photo, the app makes a copy with the frame and caption you chose and hands it to the system share sheet. It goes only where you send it.
On iPhone, your phone's own backup (iCloud Backup or a backup on a computer) can include the app's data, under Apple's terms. The developer can't see these backups.
Describe Edits
Describe Edits turns a request like “a bit warmer” into edits. On iPhone, the request is worked out on the phone by Apple Intelligence (Apple's on-device model). Finding the sky, the subject, people or a face in the photo also happens on the phone. Neither the request nor the photo is sent to the developer or to any server by the app. Apple may need to download its model to your phone first, under Apple's terms.
On Android, see One Tap Film for Android.
Speaking a request
You can tap the microphone in Describe Edits and say your request. The app listens only while the microphone is on, turns your words into text and puts them in the request field. It doesn't record or keep the audio.
On iPhone, the app uses Apple's speech recognition. When your iPhone can recognise speech in your language on the phone, the app requires that, so the audio stays on the phone. When it can't, Apple's speech recognition service may process the audio on Apple's servers, under Apple's privacy policy. Nothing goes to the developer. If you'd rather not use speech recognition, type your request instead.
Purchases and the free trial
On iPhone, purchases go through Apple's App Store (StoreKit). The 7-day trial is a free item in the App Store, so Apple keeps the date you started it. The app reads that date from StoreKit on your phone to know when the trial ends, and checks whether you own All Films. The developer doesn't receive your name, email address or payment details. Apple shares sales reports with developers, which don't name you.
On Android, see One Tap Film for Android.
Permissions on iPhone
| Permission | Why |
|---|---|
| Camera | To take photos. |
| Add to Photos | To save your finished photos to Photos. |
| Photos (full or limited access) | To find the photos taken with One Tap Film and show them in the app's gallery. It also lets the app notice when you edit or delete one. The app shows only its own photos. It doesn't copy or send any photos. With limited access, it shows only the ones you allowed. Saving still works if you say no. |
| Microphone | Only when you tap the microphone in Describe Edits. |
| Speech Recognition | Only when you tap the microphone in Describe Edits, to turn your words into text. See Speaking a request. |
The app doesn't ask for your location, contacts or permission to track you.
One Tap Film for Android
Everything above applies to the Android app too, unless this section says otherwise.
The Android app sends nothing to the developer. It has no analytics, no crash reporter, no account and no One Tap Film server. Photos are saved to your phone's gallery. The app reads back only the photos it saved itself, so it doesn't ask for permission to read your photos. Saving needs no permission either.
Describe Edits and ML Kit. On Android, Describe Edits uses ML Kit, Google's machine-learning library. Requests are worked out on the phone by Gemini Nano, Google's on-device model, through ML Kit's GenAI Prompt API. ML Kit also finds the subject, a person or a face in the photo, on the phone. Your photos and requests are not sent to Google or anyone else. Google may download these models to your phone through Google Play services or Android's AICore. But ML Kit itself sends Google some data about how it works, to help Google improve it. Google lists this data on its ML Kit data disclosure page. It sends your device's maker, model and Android version, and the app's name and version. It sends an ID for this install of the app, which Google says is not meant to identify a person or a device. It also sends how long each task took, and settings such as the image size and format. Google says it encrypts this data on the way (HTTPS) and doesn't give it to other companies. Google handles it under its own privacy policy, and the developer doesn't receive it.
Speaking a request. When your phone can recognise speech in your language on the phone, the app uses that, so the audio stays on the phone. Otherwise it uses your phone's speech recognition service and asks it to work offline where it can. On most phones Google provides this service, and it may process the audio on Google's servers, under Google's privacy policy. Nothing goes to the developer.
Purchases. Purchases go through Google Play Billing, under Google's privacy policy. The app checks on your phone whether you own All Films. The developer doesn't receive your name, email address or payment details.
The trial and Android backup. On Android, the 7-day trial runs on the phone. The app stores the day you started it. It also stores the latest time it has seen on the phone's clock, so moving the clock back doesn't restart the trial. And it stores whether you own All Films, and whether it has already shown you the trial and purchase offers. Android may back up this small file to your own Google account, and copy it to a new phone when you move. That way the trial doesn't start again after you reinstall. This is the only app data in the backup. Your settings, Favourites and Describe Edits conversations are not backed up. The developer can't see the backup, and you can turn backup off in Android's settings.
| Permission | Why |
|---|---|
| Camera | To take photos. |
| Microphone | Only when you tap the microphone in Describe Edits. |
| Internet and network state | Used by Google Play Billing for purchases and by ML Kit for its models and the data described above. The app has no server of its own. |
| Google Play Billing | To buy All Films and check that you own it. |
The app doesn't ask for your location, contacts, photos or files, or permission to track you.
iPhone beta on TestFlight
The iPhone beta runs through Apple's TestFlight. When you join with the public link, Apple handles your Apple Account under its own privacy policy. Apple shows the developer some details about testers, such as how they joined, the build they installed and, if they give it, their email address. TestFlight can also send the developer crash reports and any feedback or screenshots you choose to send from the TestFlight app. The developer uses these only to improve the app. You can leave the beta at any time in the TestFlight app.
Android beta on Google Play
The Android beta is a Google Play closed test. To join, first join the Google Group [email protected]. Then opt in at play.google.com/apps/testing/app.onetapfilm.camera, and install One Tap Film from Google Play.
The developer, Abu Ashraf Masnun, makes several apps, and all of his Android app betas share this group. Google runs the group and handles membership under its own privacy policy. As the group's owner, the developer can see members' email addresses. Members can't see each other and can't post to the group. Testers in the group make test purchases, so they aren't charged.
By joining, you agree that we may email you at that address. We'll write to ask for feedback on the beta and to share news about One Tap Film. To stop these emails, write to [email protected]. To leave the beta, leave the Google Group, or opt out on the same Google Play testing page.
If you write to [email protected], the developer uses your email address and what you send only to answer you and to fix problems. It isn't added to any list unless you ask.
This website
onetapfilm.app is a set of static pages hosted on Cloudflare Pages. It has no cookies, analytics or trackers. Cloudflare handles the web requests and may keep standard logs, such as IP addresses, for security, under its own privacy policy.
Children
One Tap Film is not directed at children and collects no data from anyone, including children.
Changes
If this policy changes, the new version will be posted on this page with a new effective date. If One Tap Film ever starts collecting data, this page will say so before it happens. So will the App Store privacy label and Google Play's Data safety section.
Contact
Questions about privacy: [email protected].