Privacy Policy
Aloud for iPhone · Last updated 21 August 2026
Aloud collects nothing. No personal data, no usage data, no diagnostics, no identifiers. There is no account to create and nothing to opt out of.
What happens when you read
While you read, the audio is turned into text on the device. The text is compared with the passage on screen, the result is shown to you, and the audio is discarded — it is never written to a file and never sent anywhere.
What the app does keep, on the device: the words that came out differently, so it can show them to you later, and a short history of your scores so it can tell you whether you are improving. Both live in the app's own storage and are deleted when you delete the app.
The one time the app uses the internet
To listen in a language, iOS needs that language's speech model on the device. Your iPhone already has the model for its own language; anything else is downloaded from Apple the first time you choose it.
That download, and buying the unlock, are the only network activity in the app. The download is a request to Apple for a language model — it contains no audio, no text and nothing about you. Once a language is on the device, everything works with the internet completely off, and you can check that yourself by turning on Airplane Mode.
The microphone
Aloud asks for microphone access so that it can hear you read. It listens only while you are recording and stops when you stop. It never records in the background.
The camera
If you choose to read from a page of a book, the app asks for the camera to take that one photo. The text is recognised on the device, the words are put on screen, and the photo is not saved or sent anywhere.
The purchase
If you buy the unlock, the payment is handled entirely by Apple. We never see your name, your email or your payment details — the app only learns from Apple that a purchase exists.
Children
The app is safe for any age and collects nothing from anyone, so there is nothing to say about children specifically beyond that.
Changes
If this policy ever changes, the date at the top changes with it. Since the app collects nothing, no change can make your data less private than it is today.