Privacy policy.

The short version

Silo Gif collects no data. There is no account, analytics, telemetry, advertising identifier, crash beacon, or hosted conversion service. Your source video, frames, and settings stay on the device where you use the app, and the exported GIF goes only where you save, copy, or share it, or to a shortcut you run.

The app uses Apple's AVFoundation, Core Image, Image I/O, PhotoKit, and Uniform Type Identifiers frameworks locally to inspect a chosen video, read the motion component of a chosen Live Photo, and write an animated GIF. These are local operations; Silo Gif does not upload the source or a thumbnail for processing.

Files and Photos permissions

• Chosen videos and files. Silo Gif can read a video you explicitly import through the document picker, drop onto the app, send from the Finder share extension on a Mac, or hand to the Make a GIF Shortcuts action. On macOS, the sandbox grants access to that chosen file rather than to your whole disk.
• Photos and Live Photos. On iPhone and iPad, you can choose a video or Live Photo through the system picker, which does not ask for photo-library access. Save to Photos asks for add-only access the first time you use it. The Mac app does not read or write your Photos library.
• Export destinations. When you save to Photos on iPhone or iPad, or to Files or a location you select, Apple's system UI handles that destination. Silo Gif does not receive a copy beyond the export you requested.

Silo Gif does not request Contacts, Location, Camera, Microphone, or Full Disk Access.

Network activity

Silo Gif has no app-owned server and makes no network requests of its own. The only network activity associated with using it is handled by Apple or by an app you choose, outside the converter itself. If you save to, or pick a file from, iCloud Drive, iCloud Photos, or another cloud location, Apple or that provider may sync it. Beyond that:

1. App Store services. Apple delivers updates and, on Mac, the purchase receipt through the App Store. After a successful save, copy, or Shortcuts export, Silo Gif may ask Apple's system to show its standard rating prompt; Apple decides whether it appears and receives any rating you submit. Silo Gif sends no content or usage data with it.
2. Links and shares you choose. If you tap a link or share an exported GIF, the destination app or your browser handles that request. Silo Gif does not receive a copy of the destination's response.

Local data and cleanup

When you import a video, Silo Gif copies it into a temporary session folder inside its own container; the original stays where you chose it. The file-size estimate encodes a few sample frames into a trial GIF in that temporary space and deletes it as soon as the size is measured. A cancelled export leaves no partial file. The finished GIF waits in the session folder until you save, copy, or share it, and starting a new GIF removes the session. Named recipes hold settings only, never media, and stay in the app's container. Deleting the app removes its private container according to Apple's platform rules.

Children's privacy

Silo Gif is not designed to collect personal information from anyone, including children. The same no-data-collected policy applies to every user.

Changes

If the app ever changes its data practices, we will update this page, describe the change in release notes, and request any new permission through Apple's system UI before using it. The current policy is: the converter collects no data.

Contact

Questions about this policy: admin@ohmslaw.net

For product questions, visit Silo Gif support.