Last updated: 12 October 2026
Little Edit is a photo editor that edits photos on your device. It has no accounts, and the developer receives no photos or face data. Versions that offer optional rewarded ads use Google AdMob; Google processes advertising-related technical information, and the developer can see aggregate advertising reports. On Android, the Google component that finds faces also collects technical data of its own. These services are described below.
Version scope. The rewarded-ad information below applies only to app versions that provide a watch-ad option for premium export credits. Earlier versions without this option have no advertising. Adding this disclosure does not add ads or change the behavior of an older installed version.
Your photos never leave your device.
Everything the app does to a photo — effects, stickers, text, the date stamp, blemish retouching and reshaping — happens in the app on your phone. Nothing is uploaded to the developer, and there is no server that could receive it. Face detection uses Apple's Vision framework on iOS and Google's ML Kit Face Detection on Android. Both run on the device, and neither sends your photo or your face coordinates anywhere.
Edited copies are written to your photo library when you tap Save. In versions with premium export credits, sharing an edit covered by an ad reward or a free retouch allowance first asks to save a copy to the photo library, then opens the share sheet. Only a successful library save uses an allowance; cancelling sharing afterward does not undo that saved copy. Your originals are not modified or deleted.
When you tap Share, the app hands the edited image to whichever app or service you pick. What happens to it after that is covered by that service's privacy practices, not by this policy.
Little Edit uses face data when you use blemish retouching, or the automatic part of reshaping. Manual reshaping — pushing part of the photo with your finger — uses no face detection at all.
The app temporarily processes the pixels of the photo you opened and produces a face bounding box and coordinate points for the face outline, eyes, eyebrows, outer lips and nose. It also creates temporary coordinates and masks for possible blemishes.
That information is used only to:
Little Edit does not use face data to identify or authenticate anyone, create a face template or profile, infer identity, demographics, emotion or health, train a model, or for analytics, advertising or marketing.
All of this processing takes place on your device. Face coordinates, landmarks, blemish coordinates and masks are held only in the app's memory. They are never written to storage, uploaded, transmitted, shared, sold or disclosed to the developer or to anyone else. They are dropped when you open another photo, and they are gone when the app closes. The app has no server that could receive them.
On iOS, before face analysis runs for the first time, Little Edit explains this use and asks for your consent. You can withdraw it at any time in the app's Settings by turning off Allow on-device face analysis. After withdrawal no further face analysis takes place unless you consent again. Only your choice is stored, and that choice is not face data.
This setting exists on iOS only. The Android build uses the on-device ML Kit face detector and does not show the same consent switch.
To make the Recent Photos feature work, the app keeps local copies of up to seven recently opened photos, and small thumbnails, inside the app's private storage. The oldest copy is deleted automatically when an eighth photo is added. These files never go to the developer, and they are deleted when you delete the app.
You can withdraw either permission at any time in your device's iOS or Android settings. The app keeps working with whatever you allow.
The developer's app list. The settings screen shows a short list of the developer's other apps. To do that the app downloads a small file of names, icons and store links from demeroa.github.io, at most once a day, and caches it. That request contains nothing about you or your photos. As with any web request, the server that answers it can see your IP address and the time of the request. GitHub hosts the file; their privacy practices are their own. If the request fails, the section simply does not appear.
Google ML Kit — Android only. The Android build uses Google's ML Kit Face Detection to find faces on the device. Google documents that the ML Kit SDK collects technical data of its own: device and application information, per-installation identifiers, and diagnostic and usage metrics, encrypted in transit with HTTPS. This is Google's collection, not the developer's, and it is separate from your photos and your face coordinates, which stay on the device. Google's disclosure is at https://developers.google.com/ml-kit/android-data-disclosure.
The stores. Purchases go through Apple on iOS and Google Play on Android, as described below.
The app does not add a separate developer-operated analytics, crash-reporting or attribution service. Advertising SDK diagnostics and reporting, where optional rewarded ads are available, are described next.
In versions that provide this feature, you may choose to watch a Google AdMob rewarded ad to receive two premium export credits. Ordinary free editing and saving do not require watching an ad. Premium purchasers are not offered rewarded ads. Separately sold sticker packs are not unlocked by these credits.
Google's Mobile Ads SDK may collect and share technical information including your IP address (which can indicate approximate location), device or app identifiers, advertising interactions such as video views, and diagnostic or performance information. Google uses this information for advertising delivery, measurement, analytics, security and fraud prevention. A request for non-personalized ads does not mean that no technical information is processed.
Little Edit requests non-personalized ads. It does not supply your photos, face coordinates, blemish masks, photo contents, precise location, name or email address to the advertising SDK. It does not ask for iOS App Tracking Transparency permission. The absence of that permission does not prevent Google from processing other technical information described here.
Before requesting an ad, the app uses Google's User Messaging Platform (UMP) to check whether ads may be requested and to present applicable regional consent choices. You can revisit available choices through Settings → Ad privacy choices. Where no privacy form is required or available, the app reports that there are no choices to update. You can always choose not to watch rewarded ads and continue using the free tools, or use purchased Premium features without rewarded ads.
Advertising-related information is processed by Google and its applicable advertising service providers under their policies, not stored as a photo or face-data database by the developer. Google's processing may involve servers outside your country. Its retention and deletion practices are governed by Google's Privacy Policy, including its retention and privacy-control sections. Deleting Little Edit removes its local records but does not by itself delete information already processed by Google. We do not promise a fixed retention period for Google's records that we cannot control.
Google's SDK disclosures provide more detail for iOS and Android. You can also review Google's ad privacy controls. Photos and derived face data remain subject to the separate on-device rules above and are never shared with AdMob.
Purchases are handled by Apple on iOS and by Google Play on Android. The app is told what you own, so it can unlock the right things. It never sees your payment details. Tips for the developer are available on iOS only, and the app does not record who tipped or how much.
These app-owned records remain in private app storage until they are replaced or the app is deleted. Google UMP may separately store consent preferences on the device and exchange consent-related information with Google as part of the choices described above.
One exception is worth naming. On Android the app allows the system backup, so these settings files — including the list of edit identifiers above — can be copied into your own Google Drive backup and restored onto a new phone. That is Android backing up your own data under your Google account. None of it goes to the developer.
The app has no accounts and does not ask users to submit their name, email address or other contact details. It is not specifically directed to children. Optional advertising SDKs may still process technical information as described above; selecting general-audience ad content does not mean no information is processed. On Android, the technical data collected by Google's ML Kit, described above, applies to everyone who uses the app.
If this policy changes, the date at the top changes with it.