SeeDis
SeeDis is built so your pictures stay yours. It has no accounts, shows no ads, and contains no tracking, analytics, or third-party SDKs. It collects no personal data of any kind, and everything it works out about your pictures is computed locally on your device.
Last updated: September 24, 2026
The short version
There is no server, no sign-in, and no analytics. SeeDis itself never uploads your photos or any information about them, and never shares them with us or anyone else on its own. The sections below spell that out — including what the system receives for Shortcuts, Siri and Visual Intelligence.
No personal information is gathered, stored off your device, or sold. SeeDis has no user accounts and asks for nothing about you.
No analytics, no crash reporting, no advertising identifiers, and no third-party SDKs. Nothing reports how you use the app back to us.
Previews, visual fingerprints, and face data are all computed and stored locally, in the app's own space on your device.
What SeeDis accesses
SeeDis is a sandboxed app for Mac and iPad. It can only see the folders you explicitly add and, if you grant permission, your Apple Photos library. It uses that access solely to display and organize your images. It never moves, copies, modifies, or deletes your files unless you ask it to (for example, moving a duplicate to the Trash — or, where a folder has no Trash, deleting it after you confirm — or renaming a selection you picked). A shortcut you run can change things too — for example, rate or tag pictures, add them to a Virtual Folder, or move them to the Trash where one is available — and on macOS 27 and iPadOS 27 so can some Siri requests. Moving pictures to the Trash this way always asks first, and never falls back to deleting a file permanently.
If you grant access to Photos, that permission is managed by the operating system and can be revoked at any time in Privacy & Security › Photos — under System Settings on Mac, or Settings on iPad. SeeDis remembers the folders you add using security-scoped bookmarks, stored locally so your browse tree returns the next time you launch the app.
What SeeDis creates
As you browse, SeeDis builds a local index to make searching fast: small thumbnail previews, a visual “fingerprint” of each image, the faces it detects, and any ratings or tags you add. Face detection and grouping run entirely on-device using a model bundled inside the app.
This index lives only in SeeDis's own storage on your device. It is never uploaded anywhere, and it is yours to remove at any time by deleting the app's data.
Shortcuts, Siri & Visual Intelligence
SeeDis offers its actions to the Shortcuts app and to Siri. When you run a shortcut or make a request, SeeDis hands the system only what that request needs — a picture's file, a small preview, or details such as its name, date, folder, rating, tags or location. Where it goes next is up to the shortcut you built or the request you made, and the system handles it under Apple's privacy policy. Pictures from your Apple Photos library are never handed out this way.
So that Siri can suggest things you do often, SeeDis tells the system about some of your own actions in the app — such as opening a picture or a Virtual Folder, running a search, or rating or hiding pictures — and which picture is on screen, so a request can refer to it. You can turn this learning off for SeeDis in the system's Siri settings. Where Visual Intelligence is available, the system passes SeeDis the part of the screen you highlighted; SeeDis compares it with your library on the device, hands the matching pictures back for the system to show, and keeps nothing of the query.
Network & third parties
SeeDis has no server, contains no third-party analytics or advertising services, and on its own sends nothing about you or your library anywhere. A few system services it relies on do reach Apple on their own: the maps in the Information panel and in the location search load their map tiles from Apple Maps (which tells Apple Maps which area to draw), and the system downloads pictures and videos kept in iCloud Photos when SeeDis needs them — to show or play them, or to build its previews and index. Clicking a link in the app, such as a project or license page, simply opens that page in your browser.