Privacy Policy
Rawed edits your photos on your Mac. We don’t collect your photos or personal data, and there is no account, advertising or tracking. This policy covers Rawed (Mac App Store), Rawed+ (direct download) and this website.
Last updated October 25, 2026
Rawed on the Mac App Store
Rawed runs entirely on your Mac and has no network access. Your photos, your edits (saved in a small .rawed.json file next to each photo), presets and settings stay on your Mac. We do not collect, transmit or share any data.
Purchases are handled by Apple under Apple’s privacy policy. We don’t receive your name, email address or payment details from Apple.
Rawed+
Editing in Rawed+ works the same way: on your Mac, offline. The trial start date is stored only on your Mac. If you bought Rawed on the Mac App Store, Rawed+ reads the purchase record that Rawed leaves on your Mac and checks Apple’s signature on the Mac; nothing is sent.
Rawed+ checks for updates on its own. While it’s open, it fetches rawed.sbryu.com/appcast.xml about once a day to see whether a new version is out. The request carries only the names and versions of Rawed+ and Sparkle, the update framework it uses (the User-Agent). Nothing in it identifies you or your Mac. When you install an update, the new version is downloaded from this site. There is no setting to turn the check off.
Apart from that, Rawed+ uses the network only when you do one of these things:
- Buying a license. Checkout is handled by Stripe, which processes your payment details under its own privacy policy. We receive your email address and the order details, email your license key to you, and keep your email address with the key so we can send it again if you lose it. The license key contains your email address.
- Activating or deactivating a license on a Mac, or listing the Macs that use it (Settings › License › Manage Macs). Rawed+ sends your license key, the Mac’s name and an identifier for the Mac. The identifier is a one-way hash, not your Mac’s serial number. We keep these with the license so it can be used on up to 3 Macs, and show you the list so you can deactivate a Mac. After activation, the license is checked on your Mac, offline.
- Asking for your key again, or for a link to manage your Macs. We email it to the address you bought with.
Your IP address is used briefly to limit repeated requests and is not stored. Emails are sent through Cloudflare.
AI agents (Rawed+)
Agent access is off until you turn it on in Settings. Rawed+ then accepts connections only from your own Mac, through a local socket with a per-session token. It is never reachable from the network, and Rawed+ doesn’t pass anything from these connections off your Mac.
An agent you connect can read the photo information and previews it asks for. What that agent does with them, for example sending them to its AI model provider, is governed by the agent’s own terms and privacy policy.
This website
This site uses no cookies, advertising, or third-party scripts, fonts or embeds.
English pages open in your browser’s language when the site has it. If you pick a language from the list at the bottom of a page, your browser keeps that choice in its local storage so the site doesn’t switch back. It stays in your browser and is never sent to us.
The site is hosted on Cloudflare, which processes technical request data such as IP addresses to deliver the site and protect it from abuse, under Cloudflare’s privacy policy. We don’t use that data to identify you.
Children
Rawed does not collect personal data from anyone, including children.
Changes
If this policy changes, we will update this page and the date at the top.
Contact
Questions about privacy? See the support page.