Privacy policy
Last updated 10 August 2026.
tondi turns long videos into short clips on your own Mac. Your video is never uploaded, so for the part of tondi that most people worry about, there is simply no data to collect.
The short version. Your video, its audio, the transcript and the finished clips stay on your Mac. tondi has no server to send them to. The app makes exactly one outbound connection, described below, and it does not include any of your content.
Who is responsible
tondi is made by Alex Gosselin, a sole proprietor based in Ontario, Canada. For any privacy question, or to exercise any of the rights described below, email [email protected].
What happens on your Mac
When you drop a video into tondi, everything happens locally:
- The audio is transcribed on your machine.
- Highlights are chosen by a scoring system running on your machine. It is not a language model and it does not call any service.
- Clips are rendered on your machine and written to the folder you chose.
- Your settings and clip History live in
~/Library/Application Support/tondi/.
None of this is transmitted anywhere. Uninstalling tondi and deleting that folder removes everything the app has stored.
The one connection the app makes
The first time you run tondi, it downloads an open-source speech-recognition model of about 460 MB from Hugging Face, which hosts it. This happens once. As with any download, Hugging Face can see your IP address and the fact that a file was requested. No information about you, your video or your use of tondi is sent.
After that download, tondi works with no internet connection at all.
Analytics
tondi contains no analytics, no telemetry and no crash reporting.
This was not true of earlier versions, and it matters enough to say directly. Versions up to and including 1.0.1 were built on a UI framework that reported anonymous usage information to its own vendor at every launch. That reporting covered the framework's own use, not your video or your clips, and it was never something tondi intended to send. It was removed in 1.0.2, released 10 August 2026. If you are running an older build, updating stops it.
This website
tondi.app is a set of static files hosted on Cloudflare Pages, and downloads are served from Cloudflare R2. There are no analytics, no tracking pixels and no advertising on this site.
Cloudflare acts as our host and delivery network, and in doing so processes standard request information such as your IP address, the time of the request and your browser's user-agent string, in order to serve the page and protect against abuse. Cloudflare's security features may set a cookie in your browser for that purpose. We do not set cookies of our own and we do not build any profile of visitors.
Who else is involved
| Who | Why | What they can see |
|---|---|---|
| Cloudflare | Hosts the website and the download | Request data: IP address, user-agent, what was requested |
| Hugging Face | Hosts the speech-recognition model the app downloads once | IP address at the moment of that download |
That is the complete list. There is no third party that receives your video, your audio, your transcripts or your clips, because they never leave your Mac.
Accounts and payments
tondi does not currently have accounts, sign-in or payments, so there is no customer data of any kind. When paid subscriptions are introduced, this page will be updated to describe exactly what is collected before that feature becomes available.
Children
tondi is not directed at children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect information from them.
Your rights
Depending on where you live, you may have the right to ask what personal information is held about you, to have it corrected, or to have it deleted — including under Canada's PIPEDA and, in the UK and EU, the GDPR.
In practice tondi holds almost nothing: the app stores your files only on your own Mac, and the website keeps no visitor records of its own. If you believe we hold something about you, email [email protected] and we will respond within 30 days. If you are in the EU or UK and are unhappy with the response, you may complain to your local data protection authority.
Changes to this policy
If this policy changes in a way that affects what data is collected, the date at the top will change and the change will be described here. Material changes will be made before, not after, the feature they describe ships.