Remini

Is Remini safe?

Remini is one of the more careful AI photo apps, though it is still an ad-funded one. Its privacy policy, updated in September 2026, sets a deletion clock for every kind of data: enhanced photos go after one day, uploads for AI portraits after 7 or 20 days of inactivity, and AI training happens only if you opt in. Bending Spoons, the Milan company behind it, says it never uses Remini's face analysis to identify people.

The trade-offs are ad tracking, face data that leaves Bending Spoons for outside AI providers, and a subscription that bills by the week. We score it 59/100, ahead of Picsart (55) and Meitu (50) and behind FaceApp (62), which keeps photos for only 48 hours and shows no tracking on its Apple label.

What happens to your face

Remini works on your photos in the cloud, so faces leave your phone. The policy is frank about it. Remini measures "the location and shape of facial features", which it calls face data and which some laws treat as biometric. It also extracts gender, age and skin tone from uploads. The legal basis for face data is your consent, and if you upload a picture of a minor you consent on the child's behalf as a parent.

Face data used to sharpen a photo is deleted right after the edit. For AI portraits, uploads and face data stay for up to 20 days after your last use of the generator if you pay, or 7 days if you do not, and never more than two years. When you start an AI portrait, the app may scan your gallery on the phone and pre-select other photos of the same person; those stay on your device unless you upload them.

The part many users will miss is the list of processors. Remini says outside AI services currently process images and face data for its AI features: Black Forest Labs, Google and OpenAI. They act on Bending Spoons' behalf, but your face still passes through their systems.

AI training and ownership

Remini does not claim ownership of your photos. Its terms give Bending Spoons a licence to use your content to run and improve the service and to build new technology, but say it uses your content to improve machine learning models only with your prior consent. The privacy policy repeats this: training on your images and face data is opt-in, offered "in some jurisdictions", can be switched off in the app's privacy settings, and the data is deleted after a year. Face data of US users is never used for training.

That is stricter than Picsart, whose AI terms take an irrevocable licence to your inputs, or Meitu, whose licence covers improving its AI by default.

Tracking and ads

Apple's label lists identifiers as used to track you across other companies' apps, and the Android listing says the app contains ads. The policy says third-party trackers serve personalised ads if you consent, and that identifiers, app usage, diagnostics and inferences about you may count as "sales" or "sharing" under US state privacy laws. Remini also builds a profile from your usage, purchases and approximate location to tailor promotional offers and the app itself.

The labels differ slightly. Apple's lists photos as collected but not linked to you; the Android form lists photos and other user content as collected, and user IDs and crash logs as shared for analytics.

Weekly billing and age limits

In the US App Store, Remini Pro costs $9.99 a week and a lighter plan $4.99 to $7.99 a week, with a monthly option at $9.99. A weekly plan left running for a year costs about $520. Subscriptions renew until you cancel in the store, uninstalling does not stop them, and the terms rule out refunds for the rest of a paid period. US users agree to individual arbitration unless they opt out.

The age rules do not match. The App Store rates Remini 4+, but both the terms and the privacy policy say the service is not for anyone under 16.

How to use Remini more safely

1. Deny the tracking prompt on an iPhone; on Android, turn off ad personalisation in Google settings.
2. Leave the AI training toggle off in the app's privacy settings, and check it after updates.
3. Grant access to selected photos only, so the gallery scan for AI portraits has less to look at.
4. Do not upload other people's faces, or your children's, to the AI generator.
5. To delete your data, long-press with four fingers on any screen, tap "Send a Privacy Request" and follow the steps.
6. Pick the monthly plan over the weekly one, and cancel in the store, not by deleting the app.

How we scored it

Regulatory record (86) is Remini's strongest factor: no fines or orders, though no regulator has examined the app closely. Scams and harmful content (68) loses points for realistic AI images of real people and a 4+ rating on a 16+ app. Security (55) rests on a clean breach record without published audits or a bug bounty, and privacy (50) is held back by ad tracking and face data that reaches outside AI providers.