VIDAW
Privacy policy
VIDAW is a video DAW for the Mac: it puts a song and its picture on one clock. It collects no personal data. Last updated 10 November 2026.
What VIDAW collects
Nothing. VIDAW has no account and no sign-in, shows no ads, and sends no analytics or usage data. It makes no network requests of its own, except one you ask for: downloading a speech model (below).
Your projects and media
Your projects, songs, footage and exports stay on your Mac. VIDAW opens only the files and folders you choose, and remembers them with macOS bookmarks so a project can reopen its media. Recent projects, autosaves and recovery files are kept in VIDAW's own folder on your Mac. Nothing is uploaded.
Words and captions
VIDAW can find the words said or sung in your clips, so you can edit them and make captions. By default it uses Apple's speech recognition, set to run on your Mac only: the sound never leaves it. macOS asks your permission the first time. If you choose whisper instead, VIDAW downloads a speech model once, when you ask, from Hugging Face (huggingface.co): the Hebrew model by ivrit.ai or an English one. That download sends nothing about you or your projects; Hugging Face sees the request as any website does. whisper then runs on your Mac too. The words are kept in your project file. Turning a sung or played clip into notes runs on your Mac with a model that ships inside VIDAW (basic-pitch, by Spotify); nothing is sent.
Camera and microphone
VIDAW records from the camera and the microphone or audio interface you choose, such as an iPhone through Continuity Camera. macOS asks your permission the first time, and you can change it in System Settings, Privacy and Security. Recordings are written as files for your project on your Mac. To keep the moment you just played, VIDAW holds the last 25 seconds of what comes in while a track is armed, in memory only, until you keep it. Nothing is uploaded or sent anywhere.
AI agents on your Mac
VIDAW can take commands from an AI agent running on your own Mac, such as Claude Code. This is off until you turn on "Let AI agents control VIDAW" in Settings. VIDAW then listens only on your Mac's own address, which other computers cannot reach, and answers only requests that carry the token it shows you. VIDAW itself still sends nothing anywhere. What an agent reads from your project is then handled by that agent, under its own privacy policy.
What Apple handles
Buying VIDAW, refunds, and any crash reports or TestFlight feedback you choose to share go through Apple, under Apple's privacy policy. They reach the developer only in the form Apple provides.
Who is responsible
Bar Moshe, Bar Builds. Questions about this policy: 1barmoshe1@gmail.com.