Privacy policy

Last updated: 7 November 2026

CamCutStudio is a screen recorder, video editor and live streaming app for Mac, iPhone and iPad, made by Md. Touhidul Islam ("we"). This policy explains what happens to your information when you use it. This website has no analytics and sets no cookies.

The short version

There is no account, no advertising and no tracking. Your recordings and projects stay on your device. If, and only if, you agree, the app sends us anonymous usage and crash reports so we can find what is hard to use and fix problems.

Anonymous usage and crash reports (only with your permission)

The first time you open the app it asks whether it may send them. You can change your answer at any time in Settings. When it is on, the app sends to our own server:

• what you use, not what you make: screens opened, features and settings used, how long a recording or export took, and the codes of errors you saw;
• crash reports: where in the app's code it crashed and the last few actions before it, with no file names;
• your device's basics: system version, model family, language, region format, time zone and the app's version;
• a random ID made on your device, so one person's sessions can be counted together. It is not linked to you, your hardware or any account.

These reports never include your recordings, project or file names, or anything you type, and we never keep your IP address: the server uses the address only to tell the country and city, then discards it. Usage data is kept for 13 months and crash reports for 12. Delete my data in Settings removes everything we have for your ID at once. Turning reports off stops them and forgets the ID.

Feedback you send

If you use Send feedback in the app, we receive what you write, the kind of message you chose, your email address if you give one, and the app version, system version, device model, region, language and time zone so we can act on it. This is sent only when you press Send, and we use it only to improve the app and to answer you. If you have also allowed usage reports, it carries the same random ID, and Delete my data removes it too; otherwise, write to us to have a message deleted.

What stays on your device

• Screen, camera, microphone and system-audio recordings, and the projects you edit. On a Mac they are saved in your Movies folder (~/Movies/CamCutStudio) or wherever you choose to export them; on iPhone and iPad, inside the app's own storage until you export or share them.
• If you turn on "Record keystrokes" on a Mac, the keys you press while recording are saved with that recording, so shortcuts can be shown in your video. macOS never gives the app keys typed into password fields.
• Your settings, your live stream keys and, on a Mac, your Anthropic API key if you add one. Keys are kept in the system Keychain.

Going live

When you start a live stream, your picture and sound go directly from your device to the service you chose, such as YouTube, Facebook or another RTMP address. They do not pass through our server. That service's own terms and privacy policy apply to what you stream.

Downloads

The first time you make captions, the app downloads speech-recognition model files from huggingface.co. No information about you or your recordings is sent to do this. After that, speech recognition runs on your device.

Optional features that use the internet

• On iPhone and iPad: if you choose to translate captions, the caption text is sent through our server to our AI provider, Anthropic, and the translation comes back. We keep only a usage record (your random ID, the task, its result and its size), not the text.
• On a Mac: if you add your own Anthropic API key, caption translation and finding highlights send the text of your captions directly from your Mac to Anthropic, using your Anthropic account. We never see this data. You can remove your key at any time in Settings.

Anthropic's handling of this text is covered by its privacy policy.

Permissions

The app asks your device for screen recording to record the screen, and only when you use the related feature for camera, microphone and, on a Mac, Input Monitoring. You can change these at any time in your system settings.

Children

The app does not knowingly collect information from anyone, including children.

Changes

If this policy changes, the new version will be posted at this address with a new date.

Contact

support@camcutstudio.com