Privacy Policy

Effective: 2 October 2026. Applies to the Dashtone iOS app and its widgets, published by Stackframe Studios Private Limited ("we").

The short version

Everything you create in the app stays on your iPhone. We collect anonymous usage events to improve the app, never your name, email, photos or audio. We don't track you across apps or websites, and we don't sell anything about you.

What stays on your device

• Your sounds and settings: which sound plays for each moment, your sound preferences, and the time a sound last played (used for the in-app self-test and the Sound Status widget).
• Photos you add to widgets: you choose them with the system photo picker. We save a small resized copy in the app's storage on your iPhone so the widget can show it. We never upload them.
• Audio you import or create: clips you trim from your files and AI voice greetings. Greetings are generated on your iPhone with Apple's built-in voices; the text you type isn't sent anywhere.
• Diagnostics: if the app crashes, Apple's MetricKit may hand the app an anonymous crash report, which is stored on your iPhone. We only see it if you choose to send it to us, for example in a support email.

Anonymous usage analytics

We use PostHog (EU servers) to understand which features people use and where setup gets stuck, for example "onboarding completed" or "lyrics started from Listen mode". Each event carries only app details such as a sound or widget template id, plus a random id created on install that isn't linked to you. We don't create a profile of you, don't record your screen, and don't share this data for advertising.

Lyrics and Listen mode

• Apple Music mode reads the song that's playing in the Music app on your iPhone (with your permission) to show its lyrics.
• Listen mode uses the microphone, only while it's on, to recognise the song with Apple's ShazamKit. Audio isn't recorded or saved; ShazamKit sends Apple a short audio fingerprint, under Apple's privacy policy. If the iPhone locks while Apple Music mode is running and you've allowed the microphone, Listen mode takes over until you open the app again.
• To fetch lyrics, the song's title, artist and duration are sent to our lyrics provider. Nothing about you is sent.

Purchases

Subscriptions and purchases are handled by Apple. We receive confirmation that a purchase is active so we can unlock Pro features. We don't receive your name, email or payment details.

Advertising attribution

If you install the app from an ad, Apple's AdAttributionKit may tell the advertiser, in aggregate and without identifying you, how far installs from that ad got (for example "started a trial"). This uses Apple's privacy-preserving system. It doesn't identify you and requires no tracking permission.

Permissions

• Notifications: only if you start a free trial, so we can remind you before it ends.
• Photos and files: only the items you pick, through Apple's pickers.
• Microphone: only for Listen mode, as described above.
• Apple Music: only to read the song that's playing, for lyrics.

Children

The app isn't directed at children under 13 and doesn't knowingly collect data from them.

Changes

If we change what we collect, we'll update this policy and the App Store privacy label before that version ships.

Contact

Stackframe Studios Private Limited · contact@stackframes.dev