Privacy Policy

Last updated: July 2026

The short version: MoneyForge is a desktop app that generates content on your own computer. We don't run a cloud service that sees your prompts, your images, or your videos. There's no MoneyForge server in the loop unless you deliberately connect one — a license check, or an optional cloud feature you turned on yourself.

What happens on your machine

Image generation, video generation, movie assembly, music-video generation, and faceless-reel generation all run locally, using your own GPU. The prompts you write and the media you generate are never uploaded to us. They stay in your local output folder until you decide to do something with them.

What can leave your machine — and only if you turn it on

A few features are opt-in cloud connections. None of them are required to use MoneyForge, and none of them are enabled by default without your own account/API key:

Distribution. If you connect a YouTube, TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, Pinterest, or X account and choose to post, the finished video or image is sent to that platform through your own connected account — the same as uploading it yourself through their app.
Premium captions and voices. If you supply your own Gemini or ElevenLabs API key, the relevant text or audio is sent to that provider to generate captions or narration. Without a key, MoneyForge falls back to a fully local alternative (a local language model via Ollama, or local Chatterbox voice cloning) that never leaves your machine.
License activation. Verifying a purchase requires checking your license key. Depending on how you purchased, this is either a request to the payment provider's own license-check API, or (for Stripe purchases) verified entirely offline with no network call at all.

What we collect

We don't operate an account system for MoneyForge — there's no MoneyForge cloud database of your prompts, your generations, or your usage. The only information tied to a purchase is what your payment provider (Gumroad, LemonSqueezy, or Stripe) collects to process that purchase, governed by their own privacy policies.

Third-party services

If you choose to use them, Gemini, ElevenLabs, Ollama (local), and the distribution platforms listed above each operate under their own privacy policies and terms. MoneyForge only sends data to these services when you've explicitly configured and enabled them.

Changes to this policy

If this policy changes in a way that materially affects what data leaves your machine, we'll update this page and the date above.

Contact

Questions about this policy: privacy@moneyforgestudio.com