Your data stays on your device.

SOMOTE does not collect your personal information. It does not ask for your name, email address, phone number or any other identifying information, and it does not require an account. We operate no servers that receive your data. On Windows, SOMOTE's daily update check lets us count how many computers opened SOMOTE each day, as described below. Buying a subscription involves the store that takes the payment, which is covered further down.

Everything you create in SOMOTE is stored in the app's own folder on your computer, or in the app's private storage on your phone. This includes:

None of it is transmitted off your device. You can export your playlists to a text file that you keep. Uninstalling SOMOTE permanently removes everything it stored. On Windows, photos you added from your own folders stay where they are, because SOMOTE only used them there. The portable Windows version has no uninstaller, so to remove its data, delete the SOMOTE folders in %APPDATA% and %LOCALAPPDATA%.

Recording your own voice is the only feature that uses your microphone. It does so only while you are recording, and only after you press record. If you never record, SOMOTE never uses your microphone.

Recordings are saved as ordinary audio files on your own device. They are never uploaded, never processed on a server and never used to train anything. Deleting a recording in the Voice tab deletes the file.

The overlay only draws your words over the screen. It has no ability to read, capture or record what is beneath it. It does not capture the screen, log keystrokes or read other windows.

On Windows, SOMOTE sends your license key to Gumroad so your purchase can be confirmed. If you are offline, Plus keeps working for fourteen days from the last successful check.

Once a day while it is open, SOMOTE for Windows asks somote.app whether a newer version is available, and tells you when there is one. The request carries no license key, account, name or identifier, and nothing about your phrases, settings or what you do in SOMOTE. Our host counts these requests, which tells us how many computers used SOMOTE that day. The first time SOMOTE runs after a new install, it makes one similar request, which tells us how many people installed it. You can turn the daily check off in SOMOTE: click the button at the bottom right of the window (Manage, or See Plus on the free version) and choose Off under Check for updates daily.

If you drag a picture into SOMOTE for Windows from a web page, and your browser passes along only the picture's address, SOMOTE downloads the picture from the site it came from, the same way your browser would.

On Android, Google Play handles a subscription you start in the app. If you enter a license key from somote.app, or tap Restore for a pack you already bought, SOMOTE sends that key to Gumroad so your purchase can be confirmed.

SOMOTE may also download a short public list of withdrawn license keys once a day, and that download sends nothing about you. SOMOTE doesn't track how you use it, and it shows no ads. Downloading the app or a content pack from somote.app is an ordinary web request to our host, like visiting any page.

Payments are processed by Gumroad on the web and by Google Play on Android. They collect what they need to sell you a subscription and to email you your license key, under their own policies: Gumroad's privacy policy and Google's privacy policy. SOMOTE never sees or stores your card or billing details.

somote.app sets no cookies for tracking or advertising and loads no analytics scripts. One item is saved in your browser's local storage: whether you last read the site in light or dark mode.

Two third parties are involved in serving the pages. Typefaces are loaded from Google Fonts, and the buy buttons take you to Gumroad's SOMOTE Plus page. Both see the request your browser makes to them. Our host keeps ordinary server logs, including the page requested, the time and the requesting address, for security and reliability, and uses them to count how many times each page is visited.

SOMOTE collects no personal information from anyone, including children. If a child under 13 has sent us an email address, write to hello@somote.app and we will delete it.

Because your data lives only on your device, you always hold it yourself. You can delete individual phrases, playlists, photos or recordings inside the app, or uninstall SOMOTE to remove everything at once.

If you are in the EU, the UK or California, the law gives you rights of access, correction, deletion and portability over the personal data a company holds about you. We hold none, so there is nothing for us to send, correct or erase. Records of your purchase are held by the store that processed it, and requests about those should go to that store.

If this policy changes, we will update it here and revise the effective date above. Material changes will also be reflected in the app store listing.

Questions about privacy are welcome at hello@somote.app.