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Privacy

Last updated 14 October 2026

What yapcut keeps, what it sends, who handles it, and how to delete it. Questions: hello@getyapcut.app.

On your Mac

  • Your videos and images, at full size. yapcut never uploads them.
  • Your projects, with yapcut’s own copy of each video and image you add, so a project keeps working when you move or delete the original. On the same disk the copy takes no extra space.
  • The videos you export and the CapCut projects yapcut writes.

Sent to yapcut’s server, to edit your video

  • The audio, as a small mono file.
  • A small silent copy of each video (at most 360 pixels on its short side, 10 frames a second), so the editor can see what happens on camera. It’s deleted when the edit is done, and after three days at most.
  • Your script, your Editing Guide and your notes for the video.
  • The edits (not the videos) of the CapCut projects you pick as references.
  • A small preview of each image and a few stills of each b-roll clip (at most 512 pixels, location and camera details removed), with their file names and your notes.

Everything travels encrypted (HTTPS).

Recorded while you use yapcut

Unless you turn off Share usage data in Settings, yapcut also records:

  • Usage data: the steps you reach, how long they take, the errors you hit, the app and macOS versions and your Mac’s model. Never the content of your videos, audio or script.
  • For each video: the changes you make in yapcut, each export and send to CapCut (with the error if one fails), how smoothly the preview played, and the names, folders, sizes and formats of the files you used. If you keep editing the video in CapCut, yapcut reads back the timeline of the CapCut project it made (its clips, tracks and the words on screen).

Turning it off stops all of this and deletes anything not yet sent.

Who handles it

  • Cloudflare runs yapcut’s server, stores its data, sends sign-in emails and hosts this site.
  • ElevenLabs turns the audio into a transcript.
  • Anthropic’s Claude makes the edit from the transcript, your script, guide, notes, references, image previews and stills. If Anthropic is unavailable, the same request goes to Claude through OpenRouter.
  • Stripe handles payments. Your card goes to Stripe, never to yapcut.
  • PostHog keeps the usage data and the web editor’s (below), so we can see where yapcut works and where it doesn’t. When you’re signed in, it’s filed under your email address and name.
  • Apple or Google, if you sign in with them.

Your account

  • Signed in with an email code: your email address.
  • Signed in with Apple or Google: your account id there and the email it shares (with Google, also your name and picture, shown only to you).
  • The Macs you’re signed in on, by their names.
  • If you pay: your Stripe customer id, plan and billing dates.

How long it’s kept

  • Your account and everything about your videos (audio, transcripts, scripts, guides, edits, previews and what was recorded above): until you delete your account.
  • The silent video copies: until the edit is done, three days at most.
  • Sign-in codes: ten minutes.
  • Sign-in attempts and free edits counted per network, to stop abuse: one day.
  • Feedback you send: kept. If you delete your account, it stays without your name or email.
  • Usage data: kept. If you delete your account, your email address and name are removed from it, and nothing in it points to you any more.

Deleting your account

In the app: Settings › Account › Delete Account…. This ends any subscription, signs every Mac out, erases your account and everything about your videos from yapcut’s server, and asks ElevenLabs to delete its transcripts. Your projects, videos and CapCut projects on your Mac stay as they are.

Two things stay: Stripe’s payment records, and a one-way fingerprint of your email address (not the address) with how many free videos you used, so free videos can’t be reset by signing up again.

This website

The pages you read here: no cookies and no tracking scripts. Each page you open, and each download, is counted with a daily hash, with the site that sent you and your country; your network address and browser aren’t kept.

The web editor, unless you turn off Share usage data in its Settings: which buttons you use, the errors you hit (without their messages), and replays of your sessions with every word, field and video hidden. It keeps an id in your browser’s storage, not a cookie.