Privacy & safety
Short version: your photos never leave your phone unless you save or share them yourself. Shootsy has no accounts, no ads, no analytics and no tracking.
What the app does
- Shootsy is a web page that runs entirely in your browser. There is no Shootsy server that receives your pictures.
- Every film look (grain, colour, glow, texture) is worked out on your own device.
- A normal roll, its prints, handwriting and collage live only in the page's memory. Closing or reloading the page clears them.
- If you turn on photo challenges, that roll is saved on this phone so you can come back to it (see below).
Camera
- The camera is only used after you tap Live camera or the shutter, and your browser asks your permission first.
- Live view frames are processed on your device and are never recorded or uploaded. Stopping live view turns the camera off.
- You can take back camera access at any time in your browser or phone settings.
Saving and sharing
- Nothing is saved until you tap Save. Saved prints and collages go only where you choose, such as Photos or Files.
- Saved images are redrawn from scratch, so they carry no location or camera details from your original photo.
What is stored on your device
- Three small settings: whether to skip the welcome screen, your camera body colour, and whether photo challenges are on.
- A photo challenge roll in progress: its 10 prompts, the developed prints and your handwriting. It is kept in this browser's own storage on this phone and is never uploaded. It is deleted when you start a new roll, when you tap Delete roll, or automatically 30 days after you started it. Original camera photos are not kept.
- The installed app keeps a copy of its own files so it opens offline. Clearing this site's data in your browser removes everything.
Network
- The only things downloaded are the app's own files and fonts. The app never sends your photos or anything you do to anyone.
- Like any website, the host that serves the app (Cloudflare) may keep standard request logs, such as IP address and time.
How you're protected
- The app is served over HTTPS only.
- A strict security policy only lets the page run its own code and load its own files, and stops other sites from embedding it.
- Camera access is limited to this site, and microphone and location are switched off entirely.
- Photos you open are size-checked and decoded by your browser; the app never runs anything from them.
Last updated 9 October 2026.