CinemaCC privacy and trust
Does CinemaCC Record the Movie? Privacy, Offline Use and Cinema Rules
CinemaCC is a personal subtitle display, not a cinema recorder. It does not continuously listen to, record or upload the movie, and prepared native screenings can keep playing without theater internet.
The short answer
CinemaCC does not continuously record, store or upload a movie’s audio. Find My Place starts only after you tap it on a supported iPhone or Android 13+ device, processes a short microphone sample on the device and discards the audio after the attempt. Prepared screenings remain on an installed native app for offline playback; the Web player keeps files and playback state only in the current tab.
What happens when I use Find My Place?
You start every attempt
CinemaCC requests microphone access only after you choose Find My Place. It does not run a background microphone or listen throughout the film.
Microphone audio stays on the device
The platform’s on-device speech recognizer turns the short sample into words that CinemaCC can compare with an English-dialogue SRT. The microphone audio is never uploaded and is discarded after the match attempt.
Optional diagnostics are separate
Recognized words, matched subtitle snippets and match-analysis data stay on-device by default. If you explicitly enable Improve Find My Place, CinemaCC may send those text diagnostics to PostHog; the setting can be turned off, and microphone audio is never included.
Which platforms support automatic recovery?
Supported iPhones
Find My Place is available on supported iPhones running iOS 16.4–18 and iOS 26+. Manual timing remains available on every supported iPhone.
Android
Android 13+ supports Find My Place through on-device speech recognition. Android 12 remains manual-sync only.
Web
The Web player has no microphone or Find My Place flow. It uses manual timing controls and keeps files and playback state only in the current tab.
Where are subtitle files stored?
Imported and downloaded subtitle contents remain on the user’s device or in the active Web tab. Native subtitle bytes download directly from the third-party provider to the device; CinemaCC and Supabase do not proxy, host or store those subtitle bytes. A native user can keep prepared screenings in local history and delete them from the app.
What does offline playback mean?
- A prepared screening in the installed iPhone or Android app can play without a theater internet connection.
- Finding or downloading new subtitles, update checks and optional diagnostics still require a network connection.
- A loaded Web tab may continue with files already in memory, but reloading or reopening it offline is not supported.
Does using CinemaCC mean the cinema permits a phone?
No. Product support is not venue permission. Check the cinema’s policy, finish setup before the lights dim, use the lowest readable brightness, keep the display below nearby sightlines and put the device away if staff ask. Do not photograph, film or record the movie.
Does CinemaCC provide subtitles for every film?
No. CinemaCC does not promise a fixed catalog or a matching subtitle for every cinema release. Users choose or import subtitles they are entitled to use, and a file from another cut can start in sync and drift later. Match the release and runtime, test the opening dialogue and keep a backup when possible.
Sources and further reading
Product behavior and privacy disclosures were checked against the current public CinemaCC pages and store listings on 19 August 2026.