Privacy policy: Forkbeat (working name): Tuner & Metronome

Status: this app is in development and has not been released yet. This policy describes what the app is designed to do, as written in its specification; it will be reviewed again before release.

In short

The app is an instrument tuner and a metronome. It works on your phone only. It has no account, no advertising, no analytics and no crash reporter, and it contains no network code. No audio is ever recorded or stored.

What is stored on your phone

In a local database inside the app:

• Your settings, for example reference pitch, note names, language and theme.
• Custom tunings you create, favourites, metronome presets and setlists.
• A practice log: when the metronome ran, for how long and at what tempo. Tuner time is not logged.

Permissions

• Microphone (iPhone: microphone access; Android: the RECORD_AUDIO permission). The tuner listens to your instrument to show its pitch. Sound is analysed on the phone and never recorded or sent anywhere. The microphone runs only while the Tuner tab is visible and the app is in the foreground.
• Audio in the background (iPhone: background audio mode; Android: a foreground service of the media playback type, plus wake lock) so that the metronome keeps playing with the screen off.
• Android also uses the vibrate permission for the vibrating beat option. The release builds have no internet permission and Android backup of app data is switched off.

Backup and export

You can export your custom tunings, favourites, presets, setlists, practice log and settings as one JSON file through the share sheet, and import it again. You decide where the file goes.

What the app does not do

No advertising, no analytics, no crash reporting, no accounts, no tracking. The privacy manifest on iPhone declares no tracking and no data collected.

Contact

Questions about privacy: plainapps@tuta.com.