Privacy Policy for SameSame
Effective date: 2 November 2026
The short version
SameSame does not collect your data. It has no account, no analytics, no advertising and no tracking, and it does not send your photos or anything else to us or to anyone else. Everything the app does happens on your device. We never see your photos, because they never reach us.
What SameSame does with your photos
SameSame helps you recreate an old photo: you pick a photo you already have, the app shows it as a faint overlay on your camera so you can line up the same shot today, and it then composes the two into a single "Then & Now" image.
To do that, the app uses:
- The photo you choose. Read from your photo library when you select it, and only the photo you select.
- Your camera, to take the new photo and to show the live view you line up against.
- Information stored inside the photo you choose. Photos carry metadata, and SameSame reads three things from it: the date the photo was taken, so it can label your Then & Now with the years; the lens or focal length, so it can suggest how to match the original framing; and the location, if the photo has one, to help you find the spot again.
A note on location, because it is easy to misread: SameSame never asks for your location and never uses your device's location services. It only reads a location that is already saved inside a photo you chose. If your photo has no location saved in it, the app simply has none.
What leaves your device
Nothing, unless you decide to share it.
The app makes no network requests at all. It has no servers. When you tap Share, iOS hands your image to whichever app or person you pick, and from that point it is governed by that service's own privacy policy, not this one. When you save to your photo library, the image stays on your device.
What is stored, and where
Your SameSames — the photos, the composed images and details such as dates and titles — are stored on your device, inside the app's own private storage. The app also stores a single setting recording whether you have seen the introduction.
None of this is synced to us or to any cloud service we operate. Note that if you have device backups turned on, iOS may include the app's data in your own iCloud or computer backup, in the same way it does for other apps. That backup belongs to you and is covered by Apple's privacy policy.
Deleting the app removes its stored data from your device. Photos you saved to your photo library or shared elsewhere stay where you put them.
Permissions
SameSame asks only for what it needs, when it needs it:
- Photos, to let you choose the photo you want to recreate.
- Camera, to take the new photo.
- Adding to your photo library, so you can save a finished Then & Now.
You can decline any of these, and change your mind later in iOS Settings. Declining limits the features that depend on that permission; it does not stop the rest of the app working.
Children
SameSame does not collect personal information from anyone, children included. There is no account to create and no way to send information to us through the app.
Changes to this policy
If the app ever changes in a way that affects this policy, we will update this page and the effective date above. If a future version adds anything that sends data off your device — optional cloud sync, for example — it will be described here before it ships, and it will be something you turn on rather than something assumed.
Contact
Questions about this policy or about privacy in SameSame:
Databloom Technologies LLP