BeatDesk Privacy Policy2026-10-15

Privacy Policy

How BeatDesk handles information, permissions, and connected services.

Effective
2026-10-15
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BeatDesk Privacy Policy

Effective date: 2026-10-15

BeatDesk is a shot desk for short-form authors. You paste a reel script line or drop a location still, land it as a Beat, and stack Frames into a Sequence you can film from. This policy explains what BeatDesk handles, where it is kept, and when anything leaves your iPhone.

No sign-in and no BeatDesk server

BeatDesk has no account and no login. We do not operate a server that receives your Beats. Everything you make is kept in the app's own storage on your device.

Kept on your iPhone

  • Beats: script lines, edits, ordering and accepted status.
  • Location stills you shoot or pick, and Frame stills you keep.
  • Sequences and their labels, plus shot lists you build.
  • Short desk notes BeatDesk records about your earlier edits and choices, so later suggestions fit your style.
  • Settings, including your AI sharing choice.

The desk helper: DeepSeek and MiniMax

The desk helper drafts a Beat and proposes a Frame still using two third-party AI services. Nothing leaves your iPhone until you tap Share this Beat on the consent sheet. You can stop sharing at any time under Settings > AI data sharing; turning it off also cancels a request already in flight, and your desk, Beats and Sequences keep working.

When sharing is on, BeatDesk sends DeepSeek (to draft Beat text):

  • the Beat's script line and any text you type or speak to the helper (as text);
  • the location still attached to that Beat, when there is one;
  • the labels of the Sequence and Frames already on your strip;
  • a few recent desk notes about your edits and preferences.

BeatDesk sends MiniMax (to draw a Frame still) a text prompt only: the Beat's script text, any edit you add, and a few short preference notes. Your photos are not sent to MiniMax. MiniMax returns an image that BeatDesk shows you to keep, edit or reject.

Your contacts, location, device identifiers and other Sequences are not sent. BeatDesk does not detect or blur faces in a still, so if a person is in the frame, they will be part of the image shared with DeepSeek. Each provider handles the data under its own privacy terms.

Permissions

  • Camera – to photograph a location for a Beat.
  • Photos (read) – to pick a location still you already shot.
  • Photos (add only) – to save an accepted Frame still back to your library.
  • Microphone and Speech Recognition – to turn a spoken beat line into text. Recognition uses Apple's speech service, which may process the audio on Apple's servers. BeatDesk itself does not upload recordings.

Every permission is optional. Declining one turns off only the feature that needs it.

Tracking, ads and analytics

BeatDesk does not track you across apps or websites, does not show ads, and contains no analytics or advertising SDKs. There are no in-app purchases.

Exporting shot lists

When you share a shot list, it goes only where you send it through the iOS share sheet.

Retention and deletion

Your data stays on your device until you remove it. You can delete a Sequence and its Beats in the Sequence library. Deleting BeatDesk removes all of its local data. We cannot recover data for you, because we never hold a copy. Data already sent to DeepSeek or MiniMax is subject to their retention practices.

Children

BeatDesk is not directed at children under 13 and we do not knowingly collect their information.

Changes

If the app's data handling changes, this page will be updated and the effective date revised.

Contact

Questions about privacy: framecall@beatdesk.app