Is It Safe to Upload Your Photo to a Try-On Site? Four Things to Check

A privacy badge tells you nothing. What matters is where the file goes after the preview and who can open it later. Four of those questions you can answer yourself in a few minutes, with a browser and no technical knowledge.

Four questions you can answer yourself

The first row is the one almost nobody checks. Open a result image in a new tab, copy the address, then paste it into a private window. If it loads without you being signed in, that photo is public — regardless of what the marketing page says.

What this site actually does with your photo

• Re-encoded on arrival. The image is converted to JPEG and resized to a 1600 px long edge, which strips EXIF including GPS coordinates and camera details.
• Stored privately. Files sit in a private object store; the browser never talks to it directly, and there is no public URL for an uploaded photo.
• Served through your session. Images come back from `/api/tryon/jobs/<id>/image/...`, which checks who is asking. A guest is identified by a device key, an account by its session cookie.
• Deletable per result. Deleting a result removes the stored images with it, not just the row in the list.
• 12 MB upload ceiling. Large enough for a phone photo, small enough that the re-encode is reliable.
• No camera, no contacts, no social login. Uploading a file is the only input; you can preview as a guest without an account.

The daily allowance is one free preview per day per visitor, keyed by IP address rather than by account — that is a rate limit, not a profile. What the service is allowed to do with the images beyond generating your preview is set out in the privacy policy, which is the binding document; the list above is only the mechanics.

Guest previews and accounts

You can generate without an account, which is the friendlier default and also the more honest one: you can judge the output before handing over an email address. An account only changes two things — your results are kept in a history you can return to, and after the free daily preview is spent you can pay for more from a credit balance instead of waiting for midnight.

Five things to check before you upload anything

1. 1Does the preview work without an account? If not, the photo is the price of entry.
2. 2Does the result URL work in a private window? It should not.
3. 3Is there a delete control per result, and does it remove the image?
4. 4Is the site on HTTPS, with no mixed-content warnings in the address bar?
5. 5Does the tool ask for the camera, your contacts, or a social login to try on clothes? None of that is necessary.

One more, for the photo itself: a mirror selfie often shows more of your room than you intended. Use a photo where the background is a wall — the preview works better and you leak less. The photo guide covers framing and lighting together.