Keep your film on your phone.

Who we are

We are Doved Studio. We build and publish Backlit, the film negative scanner (Android package com.dovedstudio.localai.backlit), and this website. Write to [email protected] with any privacy question or request.

Your negatives and photos stay on your phone

You scan, find your frames, develop, enhance, crop and export on your own phone. Your camera feed, the photos you take of your film, the photos you import from your gallery or your files, the positives you develop, your rolls, your keepers, your notes and your settings never leave your device. We run no server that receives your pictures, and we never see them.

• Camera: you allow it so you can shoot your film. You see the live picture and the frame outlines on your screen, and only the shots you take get saved, inside the app.
• Photos and files: you pick the pictures you import. When you save or share a photo or a contact sheet, you choose where it goes.
• No account: you never sign up, so we hold no name, email or password for you.
• No analytics, no ads: we put no analytics tool, no advertising tool and no cross-app tracking in Backlit.

When your phone goes online for Backlit

You go online in Backlit for purchases only, plus one optional check you start yourself:

• Google Play billing: when you buy Backlit Pro on Android, Google Play handles the payment under its own terms and privacy policy. We never see your card or your payment details.
• Apple: once you can buy Backlit on iPhone, Apple handles the payment the same way through the App Store.
• RevenueCat: we use RevenueCat, Inc. to confirm your purchase and unlock Pro on your phone. RevenueCat receives a random anonymous ID made on your phone, your purchase history in Backlit (which product, when, renewals, trial and refund status), your store country and currency, the app version and basic device details such as the operating system version. It never receives your photos and holds no name or email for you. Read RevenueCat's privacy policy.
• Review code (optional): if you type a review code in Settings or on the paywall on Android, your phone sends only that code to our server on Cloudflare Workers to check it. The request carries no photo and nothing else from Backlit.

We never sell your personal information and we share none of it for advertising.

How long we keep it

Your film and photos stay on your phone until you delete them in Backlit or delete the app. RevenueCat and the store keep your purchase records as long as they need them to manage your subscription, handle refunds and meet their legal duties.

Your choices

• Turn the camera or photo access off in your phone's settings at any time; you can still import from your files.
• Delete a photo, a roll or the whole app to remove what you stored in Backlit. Android backups of Backlit stay off, so nothing goes to a cloud copy.
• Ask us for a copy or a deletion of the purchase records tied to your anonymous ID by writing to [email protected]. Tell us roughly when you bought, so we can find the record.

This website

We set no advertising cookies on getbacklit.app and run no analytics on it. When you join a launch list, you give us your email, the phone you picked, the page and the spot you signed up from, and your consent; we store them in Cloudflare D1 and send you the email you asked for. Cloudflare Turnstile checks you're human and processes your IP address for security. Our server keeps standard request logs (IP address, browser, page, time) for security and reliability. The negative inverter on this site runs in your browser, so the picture you open never reaches our server. Write to [email protected] to leave the list or delete your signup.

Children

We collect no personal data in Backlit from anyone, children included. If you think a child gave us an email on this website without valid permission, write to [email protected] and we delete it.

Where your data travels

Google, Apple, RevenueCat and Cloudflare may process the purchase and website data above outside your country, under different data protection laws.

Changes to this policy

When our features, providers or legal duties change, we update this page and its date. When a change affects your choices, we tell you in Backlit before it applies.