Is AGenO safe? Should you trust it?
Straight answers · last updated July 2026
The honest short version: AGenO is a real, working product made by
one real person (me —
Givin Yang,
verified on
LinkedIn and
GitHub). It's free to try with no card, payments go through Stripe,
I don't sell your data or train AI on it — and if you want
zero data to ever leave your computer, you can run the whole thing locally.
I'm a solo student project, not a big company, so I tell you honestly below what I
can't offer yet, and what not to upload.
Who runs it
Just me — Givin Yang, a Computer Science student in Elk Grove, California, finishing my B.S. at CSU Sacramento. No company, no investors, no team.
You can check that I'm a real person: LinkedIn,
GitHub, and the full story on my About page. Every email to
[email protected] comes straight to me.
Your money
- The free tier needs no credit card at all — try everything first.
- All payments run through Stripe. I never see or store your card details.
- 14-day refund on your first payment, no drama — see the Refund Policy.
- Cancel anytime from Stripe's billing portal; you keep access until the period ends.
Your data — exactly what I collect, and for how long
- Email + hashed password (or just your email, if you use Google sign-in) — kept while your account exists; deleted when you delete your account.
- A hashed device fingerprint + your IP — used only to enforce free-tier limits and stop abuse. The fingerprint isn't tied to your real identity; IPs are not kept in long-term logs.
- Usage counts (how many generations) — to apply your quota.
- Signed-in chat history — saved to your account so it syncs across your devices. One button wipes all of it, and it's gone when you delete your account. Signed-out chats never leave your browser.
Full detail is in the Privacy Policy.
What I never do
I don't sell or share your personal data. I don't run targeted ads or ad trackers. I don't train AI models on your prompts or creations. Your images and videos are streamed to you and then deleted — I don't keep a library of them (the only things kept are what you choose to publish or save).
The strongest privacy option: run it on your own computer 🔒
Here's something most AI sites can't offer: AGenO can run entirely on your own hardware. Flip on local mode and your prompts and generations are processed on your machine — nothing leaves your device. If you're privacy-conscious, this is the safest way to use any AI tool, and it's built in and free.
Being honest about the limits
I'd rather tell you the truth than oversell. Because AGenO is a new, one-person project:
- My privacy promises are self-reported — I haven't paid for a third-party security audit yet, and I don't publish signed installer checksums today.
- AI generation runs on hardware I operate personally, so anything you send to the cloud version passes through infrastructure managed by one person. (Local mode avoids this entirely.)
- I can't guarantee 100% uptime — it's one person and shared GPUs, so there may be a queue or occasional downtime.
- There isn't a long public review history yet — I'm still earning that.
So my honest advice: use AGenO freely for everyday creative work and experimentation. Until I've earned more of your trust, please don't upload government IDs, medical or financial records, confidential work files, or intimate/private photos — and use a unique password. That's just smart with any young service, mine included.
Questions?
Anything at all — email me directly at
[email protected]. If you find a security issue, tell me and I'll act fast.
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