Live coaching runs entirely on your iPhone. The camera view is analyzed on the phone and never uploaded. Photos you take are saved to your own photo library. If you allow it, the app shows the photos you took with it (to view, share or delete them in the app); they stay on your phone.
Your ideas (the AI's idea pictures) are kept on your iPhone in My ideas, with their words and date, and saved to an "Aestro Ideas" album in your photo library unless you turn that off. Sharing one is up to you.
Locations (off unless you turn on Save locations): the app adds where you were to the photos and ideas you save, on your iPhone and in your photo library, and looks up the place's name with Apple's maps service. It is never sent to the AI or to our server.
Your account: when you sign up (with Apple) we keep your email address (or the private one Apple gives us), your first and last name, how you signed in, and whether you're a founding member. We use them only to run your account.
AI review and ideas (optional): when you use them, a shrunk copy of the photo or camera view (1024 px), with the app's current tips, is sent from your phone to OpenRouter and on to the AI model that answers, asking only for services that don't store or train on it. It does not pass through our server. Our server gives your app a temporary key for this and records when; OpenRouter tells us how much each key spent.
Next shot preview (only when you tap Preview on a review): the photo just reviewed (the same shrunk copy) is also sent to the AI image model, which redraws the people in it as a cartoon of themselves in the suggested pose. The preview stays in the app, marked as an AI preview, and is never saved to your photo library.
Improving the AI (on unless you turn it off: ☰ menu → AI review and ideas → Share usage to improve Aestro): the app keeps a text record of each AI review or idea on your phone and sends them to our server once a day: the AI model, the instructions it was given (which describe the scene and the people in words), what the app measured (the mode, zoom, how many people and where, what it recognised in the scene), its answer, what it cost and how long it took. Never the photo. We keep the words (the instructions, what was measured and the answer) for 7 days to check and improve the AI's advice; after that only the model, the time, the cost and how long it took stay, for a year, to see how the app is used. All of it is deleted with your account.
Usage (same switch): when you open the app, it tells our server your iPhone model, iOS version and the app's version, and we count how often it's opened, so we can see which phones the app runs on. Deleted with your account.
Hong Kong mode (optional, in Settings): some AI services don't serve Hong Kong. If you turn this mode on, the app uses AI services that may store the photos you send for review or ideas, under their own terms. Turn it off to use only services that don't store or train on them.
No tracking or ads. Nothing is sold or shared for advertising.
Deleting your account: in the app, ☰ menu → Account → Delete account. That removes your account and its records.
Questions: info@aestro.tech.