Privacy Policy

Last updated: November 3, 2026

We never keep your sides or takes, and nothing is ever used to train AI.

The short version

Your sides, scripts and takes stay on your iPhone. We never keep them, and nothing you make is ever used to train AI. There are no accounts, and nothing you make in the app is sent to us.

What the app stores, and where

• Your auditions, scripts and sides (PDFs): stored inside the app on your iPhone.
• Your takes and slates (video and audio): stored inside the app on your iPhone. If you choose, the app saves copies to your Photos library.
• Recorded reader lines: a voice memo or video you bring in (from a friend or yourself) is stored inside the app on your iPhone, and split into lines on your iPhone.
• Reader voices: the automated reader uses your iPhone's own built-in voices. Its audio is made on your iPhone.
• Your name and profile choices: stored on your iPhone, used for export file names and slates, and shown on a reader device you connect ("Connected to Sam's iPhone"). Your name goes to that device only over the encrypted link between them; devices nearby see only "Self Tape on iPhone".
• A small app log: to help fix bugs, the app keeps a short technical log on your iPhone of what it did and when (the last 14 days, at most 2 MB), in a folder the Files app doesn't show and backups leave out. It never includes your sides, takes or the words it heard, and the app never sends it. If you report a problem, we may ask you to send it, and that's your choice.

Your iPhone's own iCloud Backup may include the app's data, under Apple's terms and your backup settings. We never see it.

What leaves your iPhone, and why

• Reader on another device: if you play the reader from another device (Self Tape on it, or its web browser), the reader's audio, the reader's name and line number, and your first name for its "Connected to" line go directly between your devices over your local Wi-Fi or Bluetooth, encrypted. None of it goes through us, and the script's words are never sent.
• Usage statistics: see What we collect below. You can turn them off.
• Subscriptions: Pro is bought through Apple. Apple handles payment; we never see your payment details. The app checks with Apple whether your subscription is active.

What the app uses, and why

• Camera and microphone: to record your self-tapes, slates and (if you choose) the reader's lines yourself; and to scan paper sides.
• Speech recognition: to follow along as you and your reader speak, and to find each line in a recorded reader. It runs on your iPhone using Apple's on-device speech recognition. Audio is not sent to us.
• Local network: only to find and connect to your own reader device, or to show the reader page to a browser you choose, when you play the reader from it.
• Photos: to save takes to your library when you ask, and to pick a video for a recorded reader.
• Notifications: for due-date reminders. These are created on your phone.
• Files and share sheet: to bring in sides, voice memos and videos you choose, and to export takes you choose.

What we collect

The app has no advertising and doesn't track you across other apps. To learn what to make better, it can send us usage statistics: which screens and buttons are used, how long takes are, whether the script kept up, and crash and speed reports. They never include your sides, scripts, takes or voice. They're tied to a random ID for your install, not to your name. PostHog (EU) processes them for us; like any internet service, it receives your iPhone's IP address with each request, which we don't use to work out where you are. Nothing is sent before you've seen the "Share usage to improve Self Tape" switch on the last Welcome screen. It starts off in the EU, the EEA and the UK and on elsewhere, and you can change it any time in Profile > Settings.

Help improve script following is off unless you turn it on. Self Tape asks once, the first time you open it, and you can change it any time in Profile > Settings. When it's on, the app also sends the lines where the script lost you and the words it heard at those moments, never your takes, your voice or the rest of your sides. They're used only to make script following better, are kept for up to 12 months, and are never used to train AI.

Nothing you make in the app, including your acting and your scripts, is ever used to train AI.

We keep usage statistics for up to 12 months, then delete them. After that we keep only totals and trends.

Test versions

If you test Self Tape through TestFlight, the test version also sends us a test log after a one-time notice: how you use the app, the app's technical log including the words it heard (yours and your reader's), your settings, the names of reader devices you connected, your iPhone model and iOS version, crash and freeze reports, and the first name you choose to give on the notice, if any. Never your videos, audio or sides. The log is sent through your iCloud account to our Apple-hosted database, so Apple also knows it came from your account. Test logs are deleted 90 days after they're sent.

Launch email list

If you sign up on walnuttechnologiesllc.com to hear when Self Tape is out, we keep your email address in a private Google Form owned by Walnut Technologies LLC. We use it only to send you that announcement, never share it, and delete the list after launch. To be removed sooner, email hello@walnuttechnologiesllc.com.

Sharing

We don't sell or share data. When you export or share a take, or send your sides to a reader, it goes where you send it (for example Mail, Messages, AirDrop or a casting site), under that service's terms.

Your rights (EU, UK and elsewhere)

You can ask what we hold about you, or ask us to correct or delete it: email hello@walnuttechnologiesllc.com and we'll answer within 30 days. In the EU and UK you also have the right to complain to your data protection authority.

Children

Self Tape isn't directed at children under 13.

Deleting your data

Delete an audition, take or recorded reader in the app, or delete the app to remove everything it stored. Copies you saved to Photos or shared elsewhere stay where you put them.

Your sides and takes never reach us. Usage statistics are tied only to a random install ID. To have yours deleted, email us from the app's Report a problem screen and include the ID shown there.

Changes

If a future version adds anything like accounts or cloud storage, or collects more than this policy describes, we'll update this policy first and, where required, ask for your consent.

Contact

Self Tape is made by Walnut Technologies LLC, c/o Northwest Registered Agent, 418 Broadway Ste N, Albany, NY 12207, USA, which is the data controller for this app.

Questions about privacy: hello@walnuttechnologiesllc.com