Privacy policy

One Note at a Time is a local-only music and audio workbench. The short version of this policy is the honest one: the app collects nothing. The rest of this page spells that out.

Your sound stays on your device

Everything you record, write or set in the app (takes, markers, progressions, your working key, your settings) is stored only on your device, in storage managed by the app. It is not uploaded to us or to anyone else. The app makes no network requests except the feedback you choose to send and the iCloud switch, both described below. We have no servers holding your recordings, which means we cannot listen to, sell, analyse or lose them.

If you share a take through the system share sheet, the file goes where you send it (Files, AirDrop, a message) under that destination's terms, not ours. Apple's standard device backups may include the app's data as part of backing up your phone; those are governed by your Apple account settings and Apple's privacy policy.

The microphone

The app asks for microphone access the first time you tap the mic. Audio from the microphone is analysed live on the device for the tuner, the scope and the recorder, and kept only when you choose to record a take. The microphone is never on unless you turned it on, and its audio never leaves the device.

iCloud, if you turn it on. Setup has a switch, off by default, that keeps your takes in your own iCloud so another phone, or the app in a browser signed in with the same Apple ID, has the same library. The takes go to Apple's CloudKit in your private database and count against your iCloud storage; we never see them. Turn the switch off and nothing more is sent.

Words: transcription on the phone

Words turns a voice note into text using Apple's speech recognition in its on-device mode only. The audio is never sent to Apple's servers or ours: a language your phone cannot transcribe by itself is declined rather than sent away. The first use asks for speech recognition permission, as iOS requires.

Feedback, when you send it

The one thing the app ever sends anywhere is feedback you write on the Setup page and send yourself. It carries your words, the kind you chose (bug, idea, other), an email address only if you typed one, a picture of the page only if you attached one, the app's version and build, the iOS version and the kind of device, the page you were on, and a random install id made on the first run, so that notes from one install can be grouped and repeats limited; it names no device and no person. No recordings, nothing you did not type or attach. If the phone is offline it waits and sends on the next launch. Write to the support address to have it removed.

No account, no analytics

There is nothing to sign in to and no email address to hand over. The app contains no analytics, no trackers, no advertising SDKs and no third-party code that phones home. If that ever changes, this policy will be updated first, the choice will be presented clearly in the app, and declining will change nothing about how the app works.

App Store and Apple

The app is distributed through Apple's App Store. Apple may collect standard install, crash and diagnostics data as described in Apple's own privacy terms and your device's analytics settings; we receive at most aggregate, anonymised versions of these from Apple. The purchase is processed by Apple; we never see your payment details.

Children

The app is not directed at children under 13, and since it collects no personal data, it has no mechanism that would knowingly collect data from anyone, children included.

Changes to this policy

If this policy changes, the date at the top of this page changes with it, and any change that affects what the app does with your data will be explained in plain language here before it ships.

Contact

Questions about privacy go through the support page.