PodCutPrivacy
Updated November 11, 2026
In short: PodCut doesn't collect any data. Your videos, faces, voices and words are analyzed on your Mac and never leave it.
Who we are
PodCut is an app by Josuar Ochoa (“we” on this page). If you have questions, write to [email protected].
What the app does with your files
- The XML files and videos you choose or drop are read on your Mac. The app only reads the videos: it never changes or uploads them.
- The analysis (faces, lips, camera movement, voices, music and transcription) runs on your Mac's processor, with models that come inside the app and with macOS.
- What the app remembers: your projects, the names you give people and numeric “prints” of their faces and voices, to recognize them in later chapters. They're stored only on your Mac, in the app's folder, and are only used for your own projects. They're deleted when you delete the project or the app.
- The folder permissions you grant to read your videos are stored on your Mac and can be removed in Settings.
Apple features it uses
- Transcription (to remove filler words in “Shorten a video”): uses macOS speech recognition on your Mac. The first time, macOS may download the language from Apple; the audio isn't sent.
- Apple Intelligence (to choose which sentences to remove when you ask for a length): runs on your Mac.
- Purchases: processed by Apple with your App Store account. We don't receive your name, email or payment details; the app only checks that the purchase exists.
What Apple does with those services is governed by Apple's privacy policy.
What we don't do
- No accounts, sign-up or log-in.
- No analytics, ads, tracking cookies or third-party tools inside the app.
- We don't sell or share data, because we don't have any.
This website
podcut.site uses Google Analytics (through Google Tag Manager) to count visits in aggregate: which pages are viewed, from which country, on which device and where people come from. We don't use it for advertising, we don't identify anyone and we don't sell data. In the European Economic Area, the UK and Switzerland it works without cookies. You can block it with the Google Analytics opt-out add-on or a content blocker; more details in Google's policy.
The server that hosts the site may log technical data from each visit (IP address, browser, date) for a short time, only to run it and for security.
The example videos are on YouTube: their thumbnails load from YouTube, and the video only when you press play (in privacy-enhanced mode, youtube-nocookie.com). From then on Google's privacy policy applies.
Children
PodCut is a video editing tool for all ages and doesn't collect anyone's data, children included.
Changes
If this policy changes, we'll say so on this page with the new date. If the app ever sent data off your Mac, we'd ask you first inside the app.