About Rude Dog
A small independent software studio in the United Kingdom. We make AI tools for macOS that run entirely on your own machine, and we sell them outright rather than renting them to you.
Everything runs on your Mac
There is no server. Your files are read from disk, processed by a model running locally on your machine, and written back to disk. Nothing is uploaded, because there is nowhere to upload it to.
That is not a privacy policy you have to trust — it is an architecture you can check. Turn on Airplane Mode and use any of our tools. They work exactly the same. Most software described as private cannot pass that test.
It matters because of what people actually process: client calls, medical notes, research interviews, legal depositions, product shots under embargo, unreleased footage. For a lot of that work, uploading it to a third party is not a preference — it is simply not allowed.
You buy it, you own it
Every tool is a one-time purchase with a perpetual licence. The version you buy keeps working permanently. Each purchase includes two years of updates; when that window closes, nothing stops, nothing degrades, and nothing nags you. You simply stop receiving new versions unless you choose to renew.
Renewal is optional and always will be. We will not take away software you have paid for, and we have deliberately built the licensing so that we cannot — the app validates a signed licence offline, fails open on connectivity problems, and only ever closes on an explicit refund.
This is becoming unusual. Several tools in the categories we work in have retired their perpetual licences and moved to subscriptions over the past year. We think owning your tools is worth defending.
How to check we are telling the truth
Claims about privacy and quality are easy to make. These are the ones you can verify yourself, which is the only kind worth publishing:
- Airplane Mode. If it still works offline, the processing is genuinely local.
- We name our models. Transcribe runs Whisper large‑v3‑turbo — the full-size model, not a cut-down variant. Upscale runs Real‑ESRGAN using the official xinntao weights, not a community retrain. Interpolate runs RIFE. You can look all of them up.
- We name our licences. Every bundled third-party component is listed with its full licence text inside each app, and all of them are permissively licensed for commercial use.
- Signed and notarised by Apple. Every build is signed with a Developer ID and notarised, so macOS can verify it has not been tampered with.
- No telemetry. The apps contain no analytics and no tracking, and this website sets no analytics cookies.
Things we will not do
- Watermark your output. Free tiers are limited on size, length or throughput — never on the quality of what you get out, and never with a stamp on it.
- Require an account to process a file. Sign-in unlocks what you have bought. It is not a gate in front of the software doing its job.
- Meter you. No credits, no per-minute charges, no monthly caps.
- Pretend free alternatives do not exist. Several categories we work in have genuinely good free and open-source tools, and our guides say so plainly — including where you should use those instead of paying us.
What we make
| Tool | What it does | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Interpolate | Silky-smooth video | £39 once |
| Transcribe | Audio to text | £39 once |
| Cutout | Background removal | £29 once |
| Upscale | Bigger, sharper images | £29 once |
All four are covered by a single Suite licence, and every one ships a free tier inside the hub — a free download that manages installs and updates for the whole set. You can try all four before spending anything.
Who makes it
Rude Dog is one person, writing under the name r00die. Every app, the website and the support replies are the same person — which is the reason a bug report tends to reach whoever can fix it on the same day.
The trading entity behind it is registered in the United Kingdom and its full details are available on request, and on the terms page where they belong.
Support
Email support@rudedog.dev. It goes to the person who wrote the code, not a ticket queue. Being one person means slower than a large company at some things and considerably faster at others.
The terms governing purchases are on the terms page. What we collect and why is on the privacy page, and it is a short read, because the answer is mostly "nothing".