Privacy

SwipeAtelier is a photo editor without upload: your photos are processed by your browser, on your device, and are not sent to any server. This page explains what that means in concrete terms, and what it implies for you.

Your photos stay on your device

When you import a photo into the editor, it is read directly by your browser. Cropping, adjustments, filters, layout and export are all computed on the spot, by your phone or your computer.

No photo, no text and no project is transmitted to us. We therefore have no way to see, keep or reuse your images. This is also why the tool keeps working offline after a first visit: it does not need a server to do its job.

The same goes for every other tool in the app. When you add a watermark to photos in bulk or resize photos for Instagram, the photos are processed on your device; your logo and watermark settings are remembered there too. The Instagram caption formatter saves your draft in the browser, not online.

Your projects are stored in your browser

Autosave stores your projects in your browser's local storage. That is where the "My collages" gallery finds them. This data does not leave the device.

No account

There is no sign-up, no email address and no password to provide. We do not ask for any personal information to use the tool, and we do not build any user profile.

No tracking cookies, no ads

Neither the site nor the tool uses tracking cookies, and neither shows ads.

The fonts are hosted on the site itself. Viewing a page or choosing a font in the editor therefore triggers no request to a third-party service.

What the hosting provider may log

As with any website, loading a page means your browser contacts the server that hosts it. The hosting provider may keep technical logs: IP address, date and time, page requested. These logs are used to run and secure the service. They contain neither your photos nor your projects, which never pass through the server.

What this means in practice

Local processing has consequences worth knowing about:

• No sync. A project created on your computer does not appear on your phone, and vice versa. Each device, and each browser, keeps its own projects.
• Clearing browser data clears your projects. If you clear your browsing data or the site's data, saved projects disappear. We cannot restore them, because we have no copy.
• Your exports are your backup. Exported images are ordinary files, saved wherever you decide. Export a finished carousel if you want to keep it.
• On a shared device, projects remain visible in the gallery to anyone using the same browser.

Why we built it this way

Many online editors send photos to a server to process them, and ask for an account so you can find them again. To put together a seamless panoramic carousel or a photo collage, that is not necessary: a modern browser can do it on its own. Keeping photos on the device is the simplest way to offer private photo editing, because there is nothing to protect remotely.

Other practical questions (pricing, formats, export) are covered in the frequently asked questions.