Privacy for Folio Refresh

This is the policy for Folio Refresh, the Mac photo app. The other apps have their own: RefreshYourMac, RefreshYourMac Storage and RefreshMyPhone.

The app

• No account. There is nothing to sign into.
• No analytics, no adverts, no tracking. No usage data and no counts of what you cleaned.
• No network connections except the purchase and updates. No photo, file name or result is ever sent anywhere. What each edition does connect to is below.
• The free clean-up count. How many of your 100 free photos you have used is kept on your Mac, in its keychain, so that reinstalling the app does not reset it. It is never sent anywhere.

The Mac App Store edition

To buy Folio Refresh, or to check whether you have, the App Store edition asks macOS's App Store service, which talks to Apple. Apple, not us, handles the payment. It contacts no other server, ours or anyone else's.

The download edition

The edition downloaded from this website makes two kinds of connection, and no others:

• Your licence key, once. When you paste the key from your receipt, the app sends it to Lemon Squeezy, the shop that sold it to you, with your Mac's name, so the activation shows which Mac it is on and you can move it later. Removing the licence in Settings tells Lemon Squeezy to free that activation. Lemon Squeezy is the seller of record and handles the payment, your name and your email under its own privacy policy; we see the order, not your card.
• Updates. About once a day the app fetches a short list of versions from downloads.refreshyourmac.com, our download site on Cloudflare, to see whether a newer one exists. That request carries the app's version and your macOS version, and nothing about you or your photos; like any web request it reveals your internet address to the server. It never downloads or installs an update without asking, and you can turn the check off in Settings.

Folders

Folio Refresh can only read the folders you choose. It measures the pictures in them on your Mac to find copies and similar shots, and keeps those measurements on your Mac so the next scan is quicker. Pictures you approve go to the Trash, and a record of each clean-up is kept on your Mac so you can put them back. Remove a folder and it stops looking there.

Your Photos library

If you choose the Photos library, macOS asks your permission first. Folio Refresh reads the library on your Mac only. Duplicates you approve are added to an album called “Folio Refresh Review”, and nothing is deleted. If you compress videos or keep just the photo of Live Photos, the new versions are added to your library and the originals are deleted only after you confirm in macOS's own prompt; they then stay in Recently Deleted. Folio Refresh never asks Photos to download anything from iCloud unless you choose to.

Lightroom Classic and Capture One catalogs

A catalog you choose is read on your Mac. It is changed in one way only: duplicates you approve are marked Rejected (Lightroom Classic) or given the Red colour tag (Capture One). That happens only while the catalog's app is closed, after a copy of the catalog is saved in a “Folio Refresh Backups” folder beside it, and it can be undone from Folio Refresh. No photo file is moved or deleted.

The quality score

The quality score shown on similar photos comes from Apple's photo-quality model in macOS, run on your Mac. No photo is sent anywhere to work it out. How the score is derived.

Crash reports

If you have turned on Share with app developers in System Settings → Privacy & Security → Analytics & Improvements, Apple may pass us crash reports for this app. They come from Apple, not from the app, and do not identify you. Turn the setting off and nothing is shared.

Email and this website

If you write to support@caddora.ie or use the support form, we use your message, email address and any screenshot only to reply, and delete them once the conversation is finished with. The form's messages are stored with Supabase, the database host behind these forms. This website sets no cookies and runs no analytics. One thing on the Folio Refresh page loads from elsewhere: the LaunchBuck badge in its footer is fetched from launchbuck.com when you scroll to it, which shows LaunchBuck your internet address and browser, though not which page you are on. Every other image and badge is served from this site.

The launch list

Until Folio Refresh reached the Mac App Store on 10 November 2026, its page had a form for being told when it did; the form is gone now. For those who used it, we keep your email address, the date and which page you signed up on — stored with Supabase — together with a scrambled, irreversible code made from your internet address, used only to stop the form being flooded. We use the address for one thing: a single email saying the app is on the Mac App Store, after which the list is deleted. It is never shared, sold or used for anything else. To be taken off sooner, write to support@caddora.ie.

Changes

On 27 October 2026, before launch, this page added the one-time purchase and the free clean-up count above; until then Folio Refresh was free and made no App Store request at all. Later that day it added the download edition, sold by Lemon Squeezy, with its licence check and update check. If the app ever needs to collect anything else, this page will say so first, and so will the App Store listing.