Privacy Policy

What Rake Plus is

Rake Plus, formerly Rake, changes a photo after it was taken. It reads how far away each part of the picture is — the depth a Portrait-mode photo carries, or an estimate made on your device for any other photo — and uses it to take out haze, place lights that cast shadows, add fog and shafts of light, and move the focus. Rake Plus Pro, an optional purchase, adds window light, rain and snow, colour grading by distance, short camera-move clips, Live Photo merges and borders with the camera's settings. It runs on iPhone and iPad.

Information we collect

None. Rake Plus has no user accounts, no sign-in, no analytics, no advertising identifiers and no crash-reporting service. It never opens a connection to send us — or anyone else — anything at all. We do not know how many people use it, which photos they open, or whether they use it, because none of that is ever sent anywhere.

Your photos

Photos come into Rake Plus through the system photo picker. The picker is part of iOS, not of Rake Plus: you choose a photo there, and Rake Plus receives that one photo and nothing else. It never asks to read your photo library, and it cannot see the photos you did not pick.

The photo you pick is decoded and worked on in the app's memory, on your device's processor and graphics chip, together with what your iPhone saved with it: the depth, and for Portrait photos of people, the outline of the person. Rake Plus does not upload it, does not keep a copy of it in its own storage, and lets it go when you pick another photo or the app is closed.

When a photo carries no depth of its own, Rake Plus estimates it with a depth model that is built into the app — Depth Anything V2 Small, in Apple's Core ML conversion. It runs on your device like the rest of the app. The photo is not sent to the model's authors, to Apple, or to anyone.

To make a Motion clip from a photo without a Portrait outline, Rake Plus finds your subject's outline with the same subject lifting iOS uses in Photos. That also runs on your device, and nothing is sent anywhere.

When you pick a Live Photo to merge, the picker hands over its still and its short movie. Rake Plus copies the two into the app's temporary folder so it can read the movie's frames, and iOS clears that folder by itself. If the Live Photo is kept only in iCloud Photos, iOS downloads it from your own iCloud account to make the copy; Rake Plus has no network code of its own. The merged picture you save carries the still's date, camera and place, the same facts the still already had, and leaves out the identifier that ties a still to its movie, so Photos does not mistake the merge for the Live Photo.

A photo or clip leaves Rake Plus only when you choose to save or send it.

Save to Photos adds a new photo to your library: the original as it was, the finished picture, and the edit's settings as Photos' adjustment data, so Photos can revert it and Rake Plus can open it again. It uses the same add-only permission described below and does not change the photo you picked.
Save Image (under Share…) and Save Video write the photo or clip into your library. The first time, iOS asks whether Rake Plus may add photos. That permission is add-only: it lets Rake Plus put a photo into your library and does not let it read anything already there. You can change it in the Settings app, under Privacy & Security, Photos.
A border, if you choose one, is drawn round the saved or shared picture, with the camera, lens and settings that the photo itself already records written underneath. Nothing else is added.
Sending the photo through Messages, Mail, AirDrop or any other app hands it to that app. From then on, its handling is governed by whatever you sent it through rather than by us.

Rake Plus in the Photos app

When you open Rake Plus from Photos' Edit menu, Photos hands it that one photo, and for a photo edited with Rake Plus, its settings, and takes the result back when you tap Done. The extension keeps its own interface settings, described below, in its own storage. It cannot read Recipes, which stay in the app. When you merge a Live Photo there, its frames are kept in a temporary file in the extension's own storage while they are merged, and deleted afterwards; Photos keeps the result and the merge's settings as it keeps any edit, and Revert undoes it.

What stays on your device

A Motion clip is written to the app's temporary folder while you preview and share it, so the share sheet has a file to hand on. Each new clip replaces the last one of the same move and size, and iOS clears the temporary folder by itself.

Rake Plus keeps three settings of its own in the app's preferences: whether you have seen the guide, whether the controls are folded away, and which sections of the controls are closed. Recipes you save are kept in one file in the app's own storage: their names and tool settings, nothing from the photos. Otherwise the adjustments you make go when the photo does, unless you save them to Photos with the photo. The settings contain nothing about you or your photos. They belong to Rake Plus alone — there is no app group and no shared container, so no other app can read them — and they are never sent anywhere.

The purchase

Rake Plus is free, with one optional in-app purchase, Rake Plus Pro, that unlocks saving and sharing with its tools, Live Photo merges, borders, and Recipes. That purchase goes through Apple's App Store. Apple tells the app whether it has been bought and nothing else: we receive no payment details, no Apple Account name, and no record of who bought it. StoreKit, Apple's purchase system, is the only part of the app that talks to a network, and it talks to Apple.

Advertising and third parties

There are none. Rake Plus has no subscriptions, no advertising and no third-party SDKs. The depth model described above is a file inside the app, not a service: it has no code that reaches the internet.

Deleting your data

Deleting the app removes its settings, its Recipes and its temporary folder from your device. Whether you bought Rake Plus Pro is kept by Apple with your Apple Account, not by us, so reinstalling and choosing Restore Purchase brings it back. There is nothing else to delete and no remote copy for us to remove, because none was ever made. Photos you saved with Save to Photos or Save Image are yours, in your library, and stay there until you delete them.

Children's privacy

Rake Plus does not knowingly collect information from anyone, of any age. Since the app collects nothing at all, this applies equally to everyone who uses it.

Changes to this policy

If this policy ever changes, we will update the date at the top of this page. Given how the app is built, with no network of its own and nothing kept about you, we do not expect that to happen often.