Privacy Policy

Overview

VoiceScroll is a teleprompter app that listens as you read and scrolls your script to match. It has no accounts and no servers of its own, so there is nowhere for us to store your data. This policy describes what stays on your device and what Apple, Google, and our diagnostics provider receive.

iOS and Android Differences

The two apps behave the same way in most respects. The differences that affect your privacy are:

• Speech recognition: iOS always recognises on your device. Android uses the recognition service installed on your phone, which for some languages sends audio off the device.
• Analytics: both apps include Firebase Analytics. The Android app also collects the device's advertising ID; the iOS app uses a build of the SDK that cannot read it. The iOS app additionally reports anonymous install and purchase conversion values to Apple's SKAdNetwork for advertising measurement.
• Purchases: Apple's App Store on iOS, Google Play on Android.
• Backup: on Android, your scripts may be included in the system backup or a device-to-device transfer.

Data Collection

We have no server, so nothing is sent to us. Some data is handled by Apple, Google, and our diagnostics provider, as follows:

• Your scripts are stored on your device. We never receive them. On Android they may be included in Android's system cloud backup or a device-to-device transfer, so they can return when you reinstall or change device. A cloud backup is stored in your own Google account and encrypted in transit and at rest; on Android 9 or later, when backup is on and a screen lock is set, it is end-to-end encrypted with a key neither we nor Google can use.
• On iOS, recognition runs entirely on your device using Apple's Speech framework. On Android it uses the recognition service installed on your phone — usually Google's, though it may be another provider you have installed. Where your language has an on-device pack, recognition runs on your device. Where it does not, or if on-device recognition fails while you are reading, your audio is sent to that provider and handled under their privacy policy. VoiceScroll asks for on-device recognition wherever it is available, and the app's voice settings show which languages work offline.
• We never receive your audio. Videos you record include their sound and stay on your device; VoiceScroll does not retain a separate audio file after a recording is processed.
• Video recording is optional. Recordings are saved on your device, and to your photo gallery only if you choose. They are never transmitted to us.
• Both apps include Firebase Analytics, a Google service we use to measure app usage and our advertising campaigns. No audio and no script text is ever included. On Android it records completed purchases — price, product, and the Google Play order number — and, once per recording, coarse ranges describing that recording: how loud the microphone input was, how much the app reduced it and how often, which gain setting was in use, roughly how long it lasted, and whether the microphone was the built-in one, another one, or changed part-way.
• On iOS Firebase Analytics records, once per reading session, the language detected in your script together with coarse ranges and yes/no flags describing that session: whether you were only reading, recording in the app, or using the floating window, whether the script followed your voice or scrolled at a speed you set, the screen orientation, whether automatic scrolling for when the microphone is lost was switched on, whether another app took the microphone, whether the conditions for automatic scrolling were met, whether the script actually moved, how many times it started, roughly how long you read for, and — when the app has a reference pace for that script — a coarse range for how your reading pace compared with it. When the script scrolls on its own it also records what kind of interruption took the microphone, how far into the script you had got at that moment, the reading-speed setting and speed range in use, what that speed was based on, and a coarse range for the estimated words per minute. Each time you try to start reading one of your scripts, it records the script's language, its length as a number of characters and words and as a coarse range, whether the free length limit applied, and whether speech recognition has worked on your device before; the text itself is never included. It records whether speech recognition was ready and started when a session began, together with the script's language and, if it was not, a general reason such as a missing permission or an unsupported language. It also records the first time speech recognition moves one of your scripts on your device. When you record in the app, it records whether the camera started and how its starting orientation was chosen, each camera switch together with whether you were recording and the screen orientation, and, once per recording, the same kind of coarse ranges about the microphone input described for Android above. When you save a recording, it records whether it was saved as recorded or with captions or trimmed silences, how the caption timings were produced, the caption style, whether saving finished, and a coarse range for the video's length. When you buy Voice Scroll Pro in the app, it records which plan you chose — yearly, monthly, or lifetime. It also keeps your current plan (free, yearly, monthly, or lifetime) as a property of your installation, and Firebase may record the purchase itself automatically, including the product, its price, and the currency. Firebase also assigns each installation an identifier and records general information such as device model, OS version, and approximate region derived from your IP address. On Android it collects the device's advertising ID where one is available, while the iOS app uses a build of the SDK without advertising-ID support. This data is pseudonymous rather than anonymous. On iOS, Apple's SKAdNetwork separately receives anonymous conversion values for installs and purchases.
• No account creation is required.

Permissions

VoiceScroll requests the following permissions:

• Microphone: Required for real-time speech recognition to detect your voice and scroll the script accordingly.
• Speech Recognition: Required for converting your speech to text so it can be matched against your script. Where that conversion happens is described under Data Collection.
• Camera: Optional. Used only to record video while you read your script.
• Photos: Optional. Used only to save recorded videos to your photo gallery when you choose to.

These permissions are used solely for the app's own functionality. The Android app additionally declares the advertising-ID permission, used only for the campaign measurement described above.

In-App Purchases

VoiceScroll offers Voice Scroll Pro, which removes the script length limit. On iOS, from version 2.0, it is available as a yearly or monthly subscription that renews automatically, or as a one-time purchase; on Android it is a one-time purchase. Transactions are handled entirely by Apple's App Store on iOS and by Google Play on Android. We do not have access to your payment information. On both platforms purchases are also recorded in Firebase Analytics, as described above.

Third-Party Services

VoiceScroll uses Sentry (sentry.io) on both platforms to receive diagnostics — crashes, and a small number of handled errors such as a failed purchase. These reports include your device model, OS version, and an installation identifier; they do not include your scripts. Both apps also use Firebase Analytics. The Android app additionally uses Google Play Billing and relies on Google Play services for in-app updates and the review prompt; the iOS app checks Apple's App Store for new versions. Speech recognition is provided by your device's own recognition service, as described above. We do not display ads in the app and we do not sell your data. We do advertise VoiceScroll, and the measurement data above is used to see which campaigns work.

Changes to This Policy

We may update this privacy policy from time to time. Any changes will be posted on this page with an updated revision date.

Contact

If you have any questions about this privacy policy, please contact us at wer2774@gmail.com