The short version
Snap3D runs on your device. There are no accounts, we run no servers that receive your content, and your captures are processed by your own iPhone or iPad. The only place your models can go besides your device is your own iCloud Drive, which you control with a switch in Settings.
What stays on your device
- Captures and models. Photos you shoot in the app, segmentation masks, capture sessions and finished 3D models are stored in the app's local storage (and in your own device backups). Reconstruction (photogrammetry) and background masking run entirely on the device.
- Edits. Mesh edits (crops, cuts, sculpting, painting) happen locally and are saved into the same on-device model packages.
- Sharing is yours to start. Exporting USDZ, OBJ or STL through the share sheet, AirDrop or Files sends the file where you point it, not to us.
iCloud sync (optional)
Settings has a “Sync with iCloud” switch. When it is on, the app keeps your library and capture sessions in its folder in your iCloud Drive, so your own devices can share one library. That data is stored and synced by Apple under your Apple Account and Apple's privacy policy. It is not sent to us, and we have no access to it. Turn the switch off and the files move back to local-only storage.
What the app collects
- Nothing sent to us by default. Using Snap3D requires no sign-up, no email and no personal information, and we operate no analytics backend.
- Platform-provided data. Apple may provide us aggregate, anonymized App Store install and crash statistics as part of its standard developer services, governed by Apple's own privacy policy.
- Remote configuration. The app periodically fetches a small configuration file (used, among other things, to control whether ads are enabled) over an ordinary anonymous HTTPS request. No identifiers are attached to it.
Ads
The app includes the Google Mobile Ads (AdMob) SDK, but ads are remotely switched and ship disabled by default. Whether any ad appears is controlled by the configuration file described above, and if it cannot be reached, ads stay off. If ads are enabled in a future release, Google may collect device information (such as advertising identifiers, IP address and coarse ad-interaction data) to serve and measure them, under Google's privacy policy. On iOS, any cross-app tracking would also need your explicit App Tracking Transparency consent. If we turn ads on, we will update this policy first to describe exactly what runs.
Analytics and tracking
No third-party analytics or tracking SDKs are embedded beyond the ad SDK described above. This website uses no analytics, no cookies and no trackers.
Children
Not directed at children under 13, and no personal information is knowingly collected from anyone, children included. If you believe a child has sent us personal information, contact us and we will delete it.
Your choices and rights
- Delete the app to delete everything it stores on your device.
- Turn iCloud sync off to pull your library back to local-only storage; manage or delete the iCloud copies from the Files app or your iCloud settings at any time.
- Contact us to access or delete anything you have sent us directly. Depending on where you live you may have additional rights (access, correction, deletion, portability); we honor reasonable requests regardless of jurisdiction.
Changes
We will post any changes to this policy on this page and update the date above. Material changes will be called out in the release notes.
Contact
Use the support form. It reaches the people who make the apps.