Privacy

Last updated: 30 October 2026

The app

Reelquill AI runs on your Windows PC. Your recordings, edits, transcripts, captions and voiceovers are made and kept on your computer. The AI features run on your PC too: speech-to-text, the AI voices, your own voice, Studio sound, reading the screen for step-by-step guides, and the presenter.

The app does not upload your files and sends none of them to us. The only exceptions are the ones you choose: a share link and AI-written guides with your own key (both below).

Model downloads. Every AI model comes inside the installer, so the app downloads nothing while you work. Only if a model file is found damaged does the app download that file again from Hugging Face; like any download, the host then sees your IP address. Your files are not sent.

Microsoft DirectML. To use your graphics chip, Reelquill AI includes Microsoft DirectML. Like other Windows components, it may write technical diagnostic events that Windows sends to Microsoft according to your Windows diagnostic-data setting. Your recordings, voice and presenter videos are never included.

License activation and checks. When you activate the app on a PC, it sends our license server (run for us on Cloudflare) your license key, the app’s version and three one-way codes (hashes) made from the PC’s Windows installation ID, its system drive’s serial number and its firmware ID: never those IDs themselves, and nothing about your recordings, voices, photos or other files. About every two weeks the app repeats this check with the same data; each successful check renews the PC’s activation for 90 days. When you deactivate a PC, the app sends the same data. The server keeps when each PC was deactivated and how many times a key’s PCs were changed, so that a key isn’t shared by taking turns. The server keeps, with your key, the codes of the PCs you activated and when they last checked in, so that a key isn’t used on more PCs than it covers. Like any connection, the server sees your IP address; it doesn’t keep it with your license.

AI assistants (MCP). Off by default. When you switch them on, the assistant app you connected (for example Claude Desktop, Claude Code, Cursor or VS Code) can read, through Reelquill AI, file names, transcripts and captions in your recordings folder, and that text goes to the assistant’s provider under its own privacy terms — as anything you type to it does. Reelquill AI never sends it your videos; an assistant app that can open files on your PC by itself (like Claude Code) could open one if you allow it. The link between the assistant app and Reelquill AI is local only: a named pipe protected by a key, with no network port. An assistant can start a recording only after you press Allow in the app, and its actions never upload or download anything.

Your own voice. The app clones only your own voice. The recording you make for it, the voice made from it and your confirmation that it is your own voice are stored only on your PC, in %APPDATA%\Reelquill AI\voices. Deleting the voice deletes all three.

Presenter videos. The short video of a person you add for the presenter is stored only on your PC, with the consent note you gave when you added it. You can remove it at any time. The ready-made presenters are AI-generated people who don’t exist.

Updates. The app checks for 1.x updates and downloads them from our public release page on GitHub (github.com/NextGenOmni/reelquill-updates-v1). Like any download, GitHub sees your IP address; nothing about you or your files is sent. With Automatic updates switched off in More settings, the app still looks for updates but downloads one only when you click Update.

Share links. Off until you set them up with your own free Cloudflare account and a token you create there. When you share a video, the app encrypts it on your PC (AES-256-GCM) and uploads it to your Cloudflare account, not to us. The key is in the part of the link after “#”, which browsers never send, so neither Cloudflare nor we can watch the video. We run no server for it. Your Cloudflare token and the keys are kept on your PC, sealed with Windows’ data protection. When someone watches, your share space counts views, how far they got, which parts were played and whether it was a phone, tablet or computer. It stores no IP address and sets no cookies. Cloudflare handles that traffic under its own privacy policy. You can stop a link at any time, and it stops working at once.

AI-written guides. Off by default. If you add your own Claude (Anthropic) or Gemini (Google) key, the app sends that company the guide’s text (the steps, what was clicked and typed and, if you choose, what was said) so it can write the guide’s words, under that company’s terms. Emails, long numbers, keys and passwords are masked first, and “See what’s sent” shows the exact text before anything goes. Pictures are sent only if you choose “Words + small pictures”: then small pictures of the steps the app couldn’t name go too, with text like emails blacked out. Your key is stored on your PC, sealed with Windows’ data protection, and sent only to that AI. On Gemini’s free tier, Google may use what is sent to improve its products.

AI-generated marking. A video made with the presenter, an AI voice or your own voice carries an “AI-generated” mark in the file’s metadata, and you can add a visible “AI-generated” label. The mark says that AI was used; it is written on your PC and nothing is sent anywhere.

License mark in exported files. Each video, GIF or MP3 the app exports carries a short code made one-way from your license key: never the key itself, your name, your email address or anything about your PC. It is written on your PC and nothing is sent anywhere. Only we can match it to a license, using our license records, and we do so only to look into a license key that has been shared or leaked.

Log file. The app keeps a small log of errors and warnings on your PC, in %APPDATA%\Reelquill AI\logs, to help with support. It may include file names and paths. It is never sent anywhere; you can share it with us yourself if you ask for help.

Buying Reelquill AI

Payment. Stripe sells Reelquill AI for us as merchant of record (Stripe Managed Payments): it takes the payment, works out and collects any sales tax or VAT, and processes refunds. You pay on Stripe’s checkout page, under Stripe’s own terms and privacy policy, and we never receive your card details. Stripe tells us what we need to give you your license: your name, email address, country, the edition you bought, and whether the payment went through or was refunded.

Your license. Our license server keeps your license key with your email address, the edition and the number of people it covers, Stripe’s references for the purchase, and the PCs activated with it (see above). We use this to send you your key, to let the app activate and check its license, to switch a key off after a refund, and to help you when you write to us. We keep it for as long as the license exists. Email us if you want it deleted; after that the key can no longer activate a PC.

Email. Your key is sent by our email service provider, which handles your email address only to deliver it.

This website

This website is a set of plain pages. It sets no cookies and contains no analytics, advertising or tracking code. The only thing it keeps in your browser is the setting of the “Ink background” buttons, in your browser’s local storage; the page clears it again on your next visit, and it is never sent anywhere. The “Early access” and “Talk to us” buttons only open your own email program; nothing is sent until you send the email yourself. The Buy buttons on the pricing page take you to Stripe’s checkout. After you pay, the page that shows your license key asks our license server for it.

Like any website, it has to be delivered to you by a web server. Our hosting provider receives the technical information every browser sends with a request (such as your IP address and browser type) so it can deliver the pages.

Fonts

The website loads its fonts (Inter and Sora) from Google Fonts. When your browser downloads them, Google receives your IP address and basic browser information. You can read how Google handles this in the Google Fonts privacy FAQ.

Children

Reelquill AI and this website are for adults (18 or older) and are not meant for children. We don’t knowingly collect personal information from children. If you believe a child has given us personal information, contact us and we will delete it.

Contact

Questions about privacy? Contact us at support@nextgenomni.com, or write to NextGenOmni LLC, 540 Cambridge Ct 1A, Munster, IN 46321, United States.