Privacy
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Touchtone runs entirely on your device, and this page names everything that could leave it — which, checked against the shipped app, is nothing.
What we collect
Nothing. Not your name, not your email, not an account, not a device identifier, not your location, not a usage log, not a crash report, not an advertising ID. There's no server on the other end of Touchtone to collect any of it — the app never opens a network connection to anywhere, including to us.
That's a statement about the app as it ships today, not a promise about some future version. If it ever changes, this page changes with it, on the date at the top.
How we can say that
We don't ask you to take our word for it. Here's what an audit of the actual code found:
- Touchtone links nine system frameworks and nothing else — Foundation, SpriteKit, SwiftUI, UIKit, CoreGraphics, QuartzCore, MediaPlayer, CoreMotion, and AVFoundation. None of them reach the network on their own, and the app adds no networking code of its own: no URLSession, no sockets, nothing.
- It has no outside dependencies of any kind — no third-party packages, nothing pulled in through Swift Package Manager.
- It carries no entitlements file at all, which means no network access, no background data, no iCloud — nothing beyond what any offline app gets by default.
- Apple's own App Privacy label for Touchtone reads Data Not Collected, in every category — because that's what our own read of the source found too.
The microphone
The one permission Touchtone asks for is the microphone, and it's for exactly one thing: the vinyl brush. Pick it up, touch anywhere on the surface, and Touchtone records a short take of whatever it hears — your voice, a clap, the room — and turns it into a note you can place and play back like any other.
iOS asks before the first recording, in its own system dialog, and you can say no. Decline and the vinyl brush simply doesn't record; everything else in the app works exactly the same.
A take never leaves your device. It's written to the app's own private storage — a folder the Files app can't see and no other app can reach — and it stays there until you delete Touchtone itself, at which point iOS erases the whole thing along with everything else the app ever made. There's no upload step, no cloud backup we run, and no way for it to reach us even if we wanted it to.
Children
Touchtone is built for children — the youngest players are around three years old, and that's on purpose. Under COPPA, that makes this a child-directed app, and we're saying so plainly rather than writing around it.
What makes a child-directed app compliant here is unusually simple: Touchtone collects no personal information from anyone, child or adult, because it has no way to. There's no sign-up, no profile, no chat, no ads, and — as above — nothing that reaches a server at all. A child using Touchtone is exactly as private as an adult using it, which is to say: entirely.
No ads, no purchases, no accounts
Touchtone is free to install from TestFlight today, and there is nothing to buy inside it. There are no ads, no in-app purchases, and no account of any kind to create — nothing to sign up for, nothing to log into, nothing to lose access to.
What it will cost on the App Store hasn't been decided yet. When it is, this page says so on the date at the top.
Who else touches this
Touchtone is distributed through Apple's TestFlight today, and later the App Store. Installing it, updating it, and signing in with an Apple ID to do either of those things all happen inside Apple's own systems, which this policy doesn't cover — Apple's privacy policy does.
Changes to this policy
If anything here ever changes, the date at the top of this page changes with it. We'd rather you catch a change by reading that date than find out some other way.
Contact
Questions about this page, or about the app? Get in touch through the support page.
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