Last updated 15 September 2026
Short, because Smriti does very little that needs explaining. It runs on your computer, on your files, and everything it sends anywhere fits in one table you can check yourself.
The agreement between you and the person who makes Smriti.
Smriti is made and licensed by Harshvardhan Singh Jadon, in India. Payment is handled by Dodo Payments as merchant of record — they are the seller on your receipt, they charge your card, and they collect any tax due where you live. Their terms cover the payment; everything about the software is covered here.
₹499 once buys a perpetual licence key, usable on one computer at a time, for any purpose — personal or commercial. It does not expire and no renewal will ever be charged.
One at a time does not mean one forever. To move machines, release the key in Preferences → Licence and enter it on the new one. No limit on how often, and you never need to ask us.
Before you pay, everything is unlocked for seven days from first launch — no card, no sign-up. The clock lives in your own library file.
Timeline, albums, videos, favourites, Cleanup, the Locked section, export, Google Takeout repair, receiving photos from your phone and browsing the library from any device at home are free for as long as you like. The paid half is the six things that work out something about your photographs: search (by what a photo shows, and by the words written in it), people, places, moments, the photobook, and the desktop frame.
The trial ending never takes anything away. Faces already grouped stay grouped, places already named stay named, every photo stays browsable and exportable. What stops is the finding of new ones — and it starts again the moment a key is entered.
Smriti reads the files you point it at and writes an index beside them. It never moves or modifies an original, never uploads one, and requires no account. Nothing here gives us — or anyone — any right to your photographs. The table below lists every network call it can make.
Updates arrive when there are updates, at no extra cost, on no promised schedule. Support is by email and GitHub issues, answered as well and as fast as one person can. There is no guaranteed response time, and buying a licence does not buy one.
Stop whenever you like — deleting the app is enough, and the library it built is plain files and a SQLite database you keep. We may end your licence only if you breach section 4, and even then you keep everything already indexed, because it is on your disk and not ours.
Smriti is provided “as is”, without warranty of any kind, express or implied, including merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose and non-infringement. To the extent the law allows, our total liability for any claim is limited to what you actually paid. Nothing here limits liability that cannot lawfully be limited, or affects the statutory consumer rights you have where you live.
Keep a backup of anything you cannot afford to lose. That is true of all software.
Smriti ships and downloads components under their own licences, which these terms do
not override — including FFmpeg under the GPL v3, which carries a written offer of
source, and reverse_geocoder under the LGPL. All listed in
THIRD_PARTY_LICENSES.md inside the app.
Smriti was free software under the AGPL v3 through version 2.6.0. That grant is perpetual and is not revoked: it remains free software, and everything the AGPL entitles you to, you are still entitled to. The repository that held it is no longer public, so this stands in its place — a written offer of source: if you received 2.6.0 or earlier, ask and we will send you the complete corresponding source for that version, free, for as long as the AGPL requires it. No explanation needed. Everyone who contributed to those versions consented in writing before the licence changed.
We may change these terms for future purchases. A change never narrows a licence you have already bought — the terms you agreed to when you paid govern your copy. Governed by the laws of India; the courts of India have jurisdiction.
What leaves your computer, in full, with nothing left out.
Your photographs, the faces found in them, the places worked out, your searches and the whole index are written to your own disk and never sent anywhere. No account, no sync, no telemetry, no crash reporting, no analytics. We hold nothing of yours because we run no server.
| Contacts | When | What is sent |
|---|---|---|
huggingface.co |
Once, the first time you turn on faces, search or text in photos | Nothing about you — a plain download of the model files. |
dodopayments.com |
When you activate a key, and to revalidate it | Your licence key, and a device label so you can tell your computers apart.
That label is your computer's name and operating system —
for example Harsh's MacBook · Darwin. |
github.com |
When it checks for a new version | Nothing about you — it fetches a small file naming the current version. |
Each is a request your computer makes directly. None passes through anything of ours, and none carries a photograph, a filename, a face, a location or a search.
Never bought, never turned on faces, search or text in photos? Then the update check is the only request Smriti ever makes. Block it at your firewall and the app works exactly as before — which is rather the point of it.
Everything Smriti knows sits in one folder on your machine: a SQLite database, thumbnails, and the downloaded models. Your originals stay where they were and are never modified. Deleting that folder deletes everything Smriti has ever worked out about you, immediately and completely, without anyone's permission — including ours.
You buy from Dodo, and they collect what a payment requires: name, email, payment details, and country for tax. They control that data and their privacy policy governs it. We never see or store your card details. What reaches us is an order record — an email address and the fact a licence was issued — used to send your key and to answer you if you write in.
Static, hosted on Vercel, who keep ordinary server logs including visitor IP addresses. No analytics, no tracking scripts, no cookies set by us. The download counter in the footer is your own browser asking GitHub's public API how many times the installers have been downloaded — that request goes to GitHub, not to us.
For anything on your own machine you do not need us: it is your file and deleting it is final. For the order record, ask and we will tell you what we hold, correct it, or delete it. If your country gives you rights under the GDPR, the DPDP Act or similar, those rights apply and this is how you use them. Payment records tax law requires Dodo to keep are theirs to keep.
Smriti is not directed at children and we knowingly collect nothing from them — there is nothing to collect. If this policy changes, the date at the top changes with it. If a change ever meant the app sending something it does not send today, it would be announced in that version's release notes, not quietly edited in here.
Seven days free first, so you should never need this.
Fourteen days, no questions asked. If Smriti is not what you wanted, write within fourteen days of buying and we refund in full. You do not have to justify it, and nobody will make you sit through a sales pitch first.
Shows you the message to send, ready to copy. Send it from the address you bought with, or include your order number from the Dodo receipt.
Dodo processes it back to your original payment method; banks usually take five to ten business days to show it. Your key is released at the same time and the paid half locks — but as everywhere else, nothing already indexed is taken away, and the free half carries on forever.
We may decline where the same person has bought and refunded repeatedly, which is the only pattern this policy is not designed to be generous about. Statutory refund rights in your country apply on top of this and are not affected by it.
One person reads these. Please be patient, and be specific.
Each shows a short template to copy into your email — filling it in saves us both a round trip asking what version you are on.
Writing from somewhere else? The address is jadonharsh109@gmail.com. Bugs and feature requests are best as GitHub issues, where other people can find the answer too. A postal address for legal notice is available on request.