Privacy policy
Last updated October 7, 2026
Litria is a RAW photo editor, library and portfolio that does its work on your own computer. It is a Freedom! product, run by Freedom! Family Limited. This page says what Litria keeps, where it keeps it, and what leaves your device. It describes Litria as it works during Beta.
Your photos stay on your devices
Litria opens the folders you choose and reads your photos where they are. It never moves, renames or overwrites a photo, and it does not upload your photos on its own.
Your edits, ratings, flags, albums, presets and history are kept in your browser's storage on this device, or in the desktop app's own storage. Litria also writes a backup of that catalog into a .litria folder inside each folder you add, or into a backup folder you choose.
To stay fast, Litria keeps thumbnails and working copies of the photos it has developed in storage private to your browser, within a share of space you set in Settings. You can clear them there at any time. Litria never stores a copy of an original file there.
Exports are written only to the folder you pick. Camera details go along by default, and location goes along only if you choose it for that export.
What else stays on this device
Small preferences, such as the theme, the language and the editor's layout, are kept in your browser's local storage. They never hold a folder name, a file name or anything taken from a photo.
When something goes wrong, Litria records a short error log on this device, with names and paths removed as far as it can tell them apart. It is never sent anywhere. Export diagnostics in Settings saves it as a file, so you can read it before deciding whether to share it.
The web app keeps an offline copy of its own code in your browser, so it opens without a connection. That copy holds no photo and nothing taken from one.
No tracking
Litria uses no analytics, no advertising, no tracking cookies and no error-reporting service. Its pages load their code and fonts only from Litria's own site.
Signing in
You can use Litria without an account. Signing in is needed only to publish, and it may not be offered yet where you use Litria.
Litria signs you in with Google, which shares your basic profile: an identifier for your Google account, your email address, your name and your profile picture. Litria's server keeps the identifier, the email address and the name, along with your plan and how many photos and albums you have published.
Signing in sets one cookie, which holds a random session ID and nothing else. A session lasts up to 30 days. Signing out deletes the session on the server and the cookie in your browser, and leaves everything on your device as it was.
Signing in copies nothing from your device to the server: no photo, file name, folder, edit or rating.
Publishing
Nothing is published unless you publish it. When you publish an album, Litria renders a smaller JPEG copy of each photo on your computer, with your edits applied, and sends it through Litria's server to Litria's own storage. The copy carries camera details but no location, and its file name is not sent. A RAW or other original file is never uploaded.
Published photos are stored and served by Cloudflare, which holds each copy for Litria and delivers it to whoever is allowed to open it.
Litria's server keeps a record of what you published: the album's title, which photos in your catalog were published, who can see each one, the address of each copy, the album page's random link, and a fingerprint of each copy so the same copy isn't sent twice.
You choose who sees each photo. Private: only you, signed in to Litria. A private photo's copy can't be opened by its address alone: Litria shows it only to you, through links that stop working after about 10 minutes. Unlisted: anyone with the album's link. Public: anyone with the link, and search engines may list an album whose photos are all public. Making a photo private, or making a private photo unlisted or public, moves its copy to a new address and deletes the old one. Unpublishing a photo deletes its copy from Litria's storage. Anyone who has the address of an unlisted or public photo can keep seeing it for up to 5 minutes after it's made private or unpublished.
What Litria's server sees
Like any website, Litria's server sees your IP address with each request. Litria uses it, in memory, to limit how often sign-in can be tried, and does not store it with your account.
Opening this website or the web app sends nothing about your photos to the server.
The desktop app
The desktop app is the same Litria with the same rules. It has no account, no sign-in and no publishing, and its window can't reach the network. Once per launch it asks GitHub whether a newer version is out. That request carries the app's version and your IP address, and nothing about your photos.
Your choices
In Settings you can clear Litria's thumbnails and working copies. When you remove a folder from Litria, you choose whether its catalog records stay. Clearing your browser's data for this site removes everything Litria keeps in that browser. None of these touch your photo files.
To delete your account, open Settings, then Account, and choose Delete account. That removes the account and everything Litria's server keeps about it, and leaves the photos and edits on your device as they were. Unpublish your photos first, which deletes their copies from Litria's storage: Litria won't delete an account that still has published photos. Deleted data can remain in Litria's server backups until those backups are replaced. If you can't sign in to delete your account, email [email protected] from the address you sign in with. Signing out ends your session. You can also remove Litria's access in your Google Account's security settings, which stops it signing you in.
Changes to this page
When what Litria keeps or sends changes, this page is updated and the date at the top changes with it.