Privacy Policy
Last updated: October 4, 2026
Photo Relato is an iPhone, iPad and Mac app for recording spoken stories over the photos in your Apple Photos library. It is built to work with your Apple Photos and your own iCloud account and nothing else. This policy explains what the app handles and where it lives.
Questions? Email photorelato@bladon.ca. It goes straight to a real person. Emailing us is separate from the app, which never sends anything on your behalf.
The short version
- Photo Relato has no accounts, no servers, no analytics, no tracking and no advertising.
- Your photos stay in Apple Photos. The app does not copy or upload them, and never edits or deletes them.
- Your recordings are saved to your own Photos library. Transcription happens on your device.
- Syncing between your devices goes only through your own iCloud account.
What Photo Relato handles
- Your Photos library — the app requests full access so it can show your albums and find photos from stories started on your other devices.
- Camera and microphone — used only while you record a narration, to capture your face and voice.
- Narration recordings — saved as videos in a “Photo Relato Narrations” album in your Photos library.
- Transcripts — text produced on your device from your narration, using Apple’s on-device speech recognition. Nothing is sent to a server.
- Stories — the titles, notes, dates, text captions and photo order you create, and the timing that links each narration to its photos.
Where your information is stored
Your photos and recordings live in Apple Photos. Your stories and transcripts are stored in the app and, if you use iCloud, synced between your devices through your own iCloud account using Apple’s technology. Photo Relato does not have a copy, and there is no Photo Relato server.
What touches the network
Photo Relato does not send your content to us or to any third party. The only network activity is Apple’s own: iCloud sync for your stories, iCloud Photos downloading originals that are stored only in your iCloud, and App Store purchases. These are governed by Apple’s privacy practices.
Your controls
- You can revoke Photos, camera or microphone access at any time in your device’s Settings.
- Deleting a story never deletes your photos, videos or recordings.
- Recordings in your Photos library can be deleted like any other video.
Subscriptions
Photo Relato offers an optional “Photo Relato Pro” upgrade, as an auto-renewing monthly or yearly subscription or a one-time lifetime purchase, handled entirely by Apple through the App Store. Apple manages the purchase and your payment details; Photo Relato never sees your payment information.
Children
Photo Relato is not directed at children and does not knowingly collect information from children. The app collects no data off your device.
Changes
If this policy changes, the “Last updated” date above will change, and the current version will be available at this URL.