A free-to-start AI photo editor that auto-deletes uploaded images after an hour and results after a week. Read the FAQ closely and a second category, prompts, generation records and result URLs, isn’t covered by that automatic cleanup at all.
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Most AI image tools answer the “what happens to my photo” question with a single reassuring sentence. Retouchia’s FAQ answers it in enough detail to reveal a real distinction most users would miss entirely. Uploaded reference images expire after one hour, and generated results after seven days, removed by a scheduled Cloudflare cleanup process. That’s the part of the policy that reads like good news, and it’s accurate as far as it goes.
The part the headline leaves out
What doesn’t get swept up in that automatic cleanup is everything about the image rather than the image file itself. Prompts, generation records, stored result URLs, support attachments and avatar images are not automatically deleted, and instead follow a separate deletion-request process. In practice, that means the actual photo disappears from Retouchia’s servers within a week, but the record that a specific account ran a specific prompt against a specific image can persist indefinitely unless someone actively asks for it to be removed. That’s a meaningfully more honest answer than “we don’t keep your data,” and it only shows up because the FAQ goes one layer deeper than a typical privacy summary bothers to.
Consent for training is opt-in, not assumed
On the more reassuring side of the same policy, Retouchia states plainly that it does not use uploaded inputs to train models unless the user gives separate, explicit consent. That’s the opt-in structure privacy advocates actually want from AI tools, consent as a deliberate additional action rather than a checkbox buried in terms of service that’s already ticked by default.
A credit restore is not a refund, and the FAQ says so
Retouchia draws another precise line around what happens when something goes wrong: if a generation fails, gets canceled, or is blocked by content-safety review, the spent credits are restored to the account’s balance. The FAQ is explicit that this is a credit restore, not a money refund for purchased packs. That distinction matters to anyone who paid for a credit pack expecting cash back on a failure; what they actually get is the ability to try again, not a return of money, and the site states that difference outright rather than letting a disappointed user discover it from a support ticket.
Built around a specific workflow, not just filters
Beyond the standard enhance, upscale and background-removal tools, Retouchia includes an identity-preserving editor aimed at a specific use case: changing a setting, outfit or hairstyle while keeping the person in the photo recognizably real, rather than regenerating a face from scratch the way many AI image tools still do. Processing a single edit takes about six seconds by the site’s own comparison, measured against traditional editors’ manual workflow and other free AI tools’ unpredictable queue times.
Uploads are capped at 24 MB per file across JPG, PNG and WebP, and the number of reference images a single run accepts depends on which underlying model handles the job, a detail the generator surfaces live rather than leaving someone to discover through trial and error. Resolution works the same way: some models top out at 1K, others reach 4K, and the site is upfront that a small or heavily compressed source photo won’t come back genuinely sharp no matter which option is picked, because missing detail isn’t something even a capable model can reliably invent from nothing.
Author:
Jan Bielik
CEO & Founder of Webiano Digital & Marketing Agency
Sources
- Retouchia: AI Image Editor – Free Online Photo Editing – auto-deletion timelines, record-retention distinction, training-consent policy, credit-restore wording, speed comparison, identity-preserving editing
- Privacy Policy — Retouchia – full data-handling and deletion-request process
- Pricing — Retouchia – credit structure referenced in the refund/restore policy
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