Verify it yourself

You should be able to check this yourself. These free tools show where MediaShoot sends data, on your phone and on your PC.

What you should see: your phone talks only to your own PC, and your PC talks only to your phone (and, if you turn on remote access, to your home router). Nothing goes to us, because we run no servers for your photos. See the privacy policy.

1. On your phone (Android)

  1. Install PCAPdroid from Google Play. It needs no root; it watches traffic through a local VPN on your phone and does not send it anywhere.
  2. Open PCAPdroid, choose MediaShoot as the target app, and tap start. Accept the VPN prompt.
  3. Open MediaShoot and sync some photos.
  4. Back in PCAPdroid, open Connections. Every row for MediaShoot should point to your PC's address on port 8443 (for example 192.168.1.20). That is the only place photos go.

Expected extra traffic, only while you pair: scanning the QR code uses the code scanner from Google Play services (ML Kit). It runs inside Google's component, not MediaShoot, and it may send limited diagnostics to Google. This is disclosed in the privacy policy. You can filter PCAPdroid to MediaShoot alone to see that the app itself makes no other connections.

2. On your PC (Windows)

The Windows app's process is PhotosUploader.exe.

Resource Monitor (built in)

  1. Press Win+R, type resmon, press Enter.
  2. Open the Network tab and tick PhotosUploader.exe.
  3. Look at TCP Connections and Listening Ports. You should see it listening on port 8443 and connected only to your phone's address.

TCPView or PowerShell

The strongest proof: block it from the internet

Run this in PowerShell as administrator. It blocks the app from reaching any internet address; your home network is not affected.

New-NetFirewallRule -DisplayName "MediaShoot no internet" -Direction Outbound -Program "C:\Program Files\PhotosUploader\PhotosUploader.exe" -RemoteAddress Internet -Action Block

Adjust the path if you installed elsewhere. If you installed from the Microsoft Store, the app lives in a protected folder (usually C:\Program Files\WindowsApps\SignalsOps.MediaShoot_<version>_x64__rqy2c0e1rf06a\PhotosUploader.exe); the easiest way to get the exact path is Task Manager, right-click MediaShoot, Open file location. Now sync photos over your home Wi-Fi: it still works, because it never needed the internet. Remove the rule afterwards with Remove-NetFirewallRule -DisplayName "MediaShoot no internet". (Remote access, below, is separate: it needs the PC reachable from outside.)

On your home network the PC also announces itself with local discovery (mDNS, UDP port 5353) so your phone can find it after your PC's address changes. That traffic never leaves your network.

3. Remote access (away from home)

If you turn on remote access, the Windows app asks your router (UPnP) to forward a port to your PC. That request goes only to your router, on your own network. Your phone then connects straight to your home's public IP address, which is your router, and the router passes it to your PC. There is no relay or server of ours in between.

To confirm the address is yours:

  1. At home, open your router's status page and note its WAN (internet) IP address, or search "what is my IP" from a device on your home Wi-Fi. They match.
  2. Run PCAPdroid on your phone while away from home. MediaShoot's connections should go to that address on the port the app shows, and nowhere else.
  3. On the PC, the same Resource Monitor view shows the connection coming from your phone's mobile address.

Remote access is off unless you turn it on. You can turn it off at any time by clearing the remote access checkbox in the Windows app's Settings (open MediaShoot from the tray icon, then Settings), and the port is removed from your router.

4. Why it holds

Independent tools and sources

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