Privacy
Overlay is a photo editor that runs on your iPhone.
WHAT OVERLAY ASKS FOR
One permission: adding a finished picture to your camera roll. In iOS this is the add-only photo permission. Overlay asks the first time you save, and if you decline it cannot write to your camera roll.
Overlay does not request read access to your photo library. A fresh install shows no photo prompt at all.
HOW OVERLAY GETS YOUR PHOTOS
Through Apple's own photo picker, which runs outside the app. iOS gives Overlay copies of exactly the pictures you select. Overlay cannot see anything else in your library.
YOUR ORIGINALS
Overlay never modifies the photo you started from. It stores a record of the edits you made. Exporting creates a new picture.
ACCOUNTS
There are none. There is nothing to sign up for and no profile.
WHAT OVERLAY SENDS
Nothing that Overlay initiates. There is no Overlay account and no Overlay server, so there is nowhere for your pictures or your edits to go.
The build on the App Store contains no analytics, no crash reporting, no over-the-air update mechanism and no runtime font loading. All 44 typefaces are inside the app.
Two of the frameworks Apple's tooling links into an app like this one carry networking code — one of them is a remote image loader, included as a dependency of the component Overlay uses to show a photo already on your phone. No part of Overlay ever gives either of them an address to call.
Overlay does not relax Apple's App Transport Security for remote hosts.
WHAT YOUR IPHONE DOES ON ITS OWN
Your device talks to Apple for its own reasons — the App Store, a purchase receipt, or a crash report if you have chosen to share those with developers in your iOS settings. That is between you and Apple. Overlay cannot see it and does not receive it.
HOW THIS WAS CHECKED
By inspecting the build that ships, not the source it was written from. It is not a claim that anyone has watched the network. If that ever contradicts this page, the page changes.