Your photos, your phone.

The short version

• To check a photo, PicSentry sends it to Anthropic's Claude AI and gets the result back. That's the only place your photos go.
• Your scan history, pets, saved email addresses and settings are stored on your device, not on our servers.
• PicSentry has no face recognition and never builds a profile of the people in your photos.
• We don't sell your data, and the app has no ads.

Photos you check

When you scan, the photo is shrunk to 1568 pixels or less and sent with your request (what to look for, the mode and your language) to Anthropic's Claude API over an encrypted connection. Anthropic processes it to return the result. Anthropic's privacy policy

Photo data (EXIF), such as the date, camera and GPS position, is read on your phone from the original file to fill in the forensic report.

Data kept on your device

• History — past scans. You can delete any scan by swiping it away. In the browser version, history lasts only until you close the tab.
• Pets — a small photo and a description of the markings of pets you name, so PicSentry can recognise them later. Remove them in Settings → My pets. This works for animals only.
• Settings — your language, emergency number and the email addresses you send reports to. An API key, if you use your own, is kept in your phone's secure keystore.

Reports you share

When you send a report, PicSentry opens your email app or share sheet with the report filled in. You choose who gets it and you tap Send. We don't see it.

This website

• If you join the early access list, we store your email address, which phone you use and the date. We use it only to tell you when the app launches. Ask us to delete it at any time.
• The site uses no tracking or advertising cookies and no analytics. Fonts are loaded from Google Fonts, which receives your IP address as part of loading them.
• Our host keeps standard web server logs (IP address, page and time) for security.

Children

PicSentry is not meant for children under 13, and we don't knowingly collect their data.

Contact

Questions or deletion requests can be sent through the contact details in the app store listing.