Raza Photos and Raza Songs are designed to work entirely within your home network, with no internet connection required. Your photos, your music, your metadata, your browsing habits, and your device information are never seen by us — because they are never sent anywhere.

  • Does not connect to any server of ours. Songs talks only to your own devices. In Photos, the only outside requests go to Apple Maps, for map tiles and place-name lookups
  • Does not send your photos or music to any server
  • Does not collect analytics or usage data
  • Does not send crash reports to us or any third party
  • Does not track what you view or listen to, or how often
  • Does not contain any third-party advertising or tracking SDKs
  • Does not require an account, email address, or any personal information
  • Does not store any data outside of your own devices
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    What the apps access and why

    Raza Photos and Raza Songs need access to certain things on your device to function. Here is exactly what, and why:

    You explicitly choose which folders to import. The app reads your files and indexes their metadata. It does not copy, move, or modify your files unless you explicitly trigger a metadata save. The Mac uses Bonjour to advertise the library on your local network. iOS and iPadOS devices use Bonjour to discover it. At home, all traffic stays within your home Wi-Fi — nothing is routed through any external server. If you turn on optional remote access, your devices connect to each other directly over your own Tailscale network instead. The Photos map view and place-name lookups use Apple Maps (MapKit). The map tiles for the area you are looking at are fetched from Apple, and so are the lookups that turn GPS coordinates into city and country names, so those coordinates go to Apple, under Apple's own privacy policy. Your photos and the rest of their metadata are not sent. Face detection in Raza Photos runs entirely on the device. No photo or audio file is sent to an external service.

    Last updated: October 2026