Privacy

Photos are named on your Mac. They leave it only when Claude names them: with your own Claude key, or with Pro's hosted naming.

On your Mac

• Apple Vision and Apple Intelligence name photos on the Mac. Nothing is sent.
• City names come from a built-in table, so coordinates never leave the Mac.
• Your Claude key and Pro licence key are saved in files only your user can read.

When Claude names a photo

With a Claude key or Pro, the Automatic engine uses Claude. For each photo it sends:

• a 768 px JPEG copy with all metadata removed (no EXIF, no GPS)
• as text: the capture date, the city and country, the camera model, the app that created it, the detected kind, on-device labels, and up to 300 characters of text found in the image

File names, coordinates and the original file are never sent.

• Your own key: straight to Anthropic, on your account.
• Hosted naming (Pro): to BetterAirdrop's server on Cloudflare, with your licence key. It passes the image and text to Anthropic on BetterAirdrop's account.

Anthropic handles API data under its privacy policy. To keep everything on your Mac, pick Apple Vision or Apple Intelligence in Settings → Naming.

What the hosted-naming server keeps

No photos, text context or names. It keeps:

• per licence key: a SHA-256 hash of the key (not the key), Polar's last answer about it, and this month's name count
• one count of today's Claude requests across everyone
• one log line per request with its status and outcome, kept by Cloudflare for 3 to 7 days. No IP addresses, headers, keys or images are logged.

Cloudflare runs the server and handles each connection under its privacy policy.

Payments and licence keys

Polar takes payment, sends the receipt and issues your key. The app contacts Polar to activate a Mac (with the key and the Mac's name, shown in your Polar customer portal) and to check the key about once a week. The hosted-naming server checks it with Polar too.

Updates

The app checks BetterAirdrop's site for updates. Turn it off in Settings.

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