Privacy Policy

Good Takes for iPhone and Android · Last updated 1 November 2026

What the app stores

Your projects, your marks and their timecodes, your button names and your settings are saved on the device itself. They are not sent anywhere. Nobody but you can see them.

Deleting the app removes all of it. There is no copy held elsewhere to delete.

Purchases

Good Takes Pro and the 14-day trial are bought through the App Store or Google Play. Apple or Google takes the payment and holds your payment details under their own privacy policies. Good Takes never sees them.

The app keeps one note on your phone: whether the trial or Pro is active, and the day the trial started. It asks the store to confirm what your account owns, so a restore or a refund is picked up. Nothing about the purchase is sent to us.

The microphone

Good Takes can read a timecode signal (LTC) from a timecode generator plugged into the phone's audio input. Reading that signal is the only reason the app ever asks for the microphone.

• The audio is analysed on the device, live, and thrown away frame by frame.
• Nothing is recorded. No audio file is written, kept or sent.
• The prompt only appears if you tap Connect timecode box (Menu, Sync timecode, Timecode box). It never appears at launch.
• If you never use a timecode cable, the app never asks and never listens.

The app can keep decoding while your phone is locked or in a pocket, because losing the signal in the middle of a take would put every later marker on the wrong frame. It only does this while you are connected, and stops the moment you disconnect.

What we do not do

• No analytics or usage tracking of any kind.
• No advertising, and no advertising identifiers.
• No crash reporting services.
• No third-party software development kits that collect data.
• No location, contacts, photos, camera or calendar access.
• Nothing is sold or shared, because nothing is collected.

Exports

When you export a CSV, EDL, XML or tags file, the app hands the file to your phone's own share sheet and stops there. Where it goes next — AirDrop, email, a cloud drive, a message — is your choice, and is handled by that app or service under its own privacy policy. Good Takes does not upload the file anywhere.

Children

Good Takes is a professional tool for film and video crews. It is not directed at children, and since it collects no information, it does not knowingly collect information from anyone of any age.

Changes

If a future version of the app collects or transmits anything, this page will be updated before that version is released, and the change will be described here rather than quietly made.

Contact

Questions about this policy, or about anything the app does with your data: info@goodtakesapp.com