Voice Recorder – Privacy Policy

1. Your Recordings

Everything you record is saved in Voice Recorder’s private storage on your phone, which other apps cannot read. There is no account, no sign-in and no RiekApps cloud storage, so no copy of your audio is ever sent to us. Trimming, fades, removing silence and exporting are all done on the device. Recordings are excluded from Android’s app backup and from iCloud backup, so they are not copied to Google or Apple either; move a recording to another device by sharing or exporting it.

2. On-Device Transcription

Transcribe turns a recording into searchable text using the speech recognition built into your phone, running in offline mode:

• Android — Android’s on-device speech recognition. The first time you transcribe in a language, Android may offer to download that language’s speech model from Google. That download tells Google a model was requested, like any other system download; your audio is not part of it.
• iPhone — Apple’s on-device speech recognition. iOS may download a language model the same way.

In both cases the recording is processed on the phone and the transcript is stored locally next to it. Transcript search runs on the device as well.

3. Clean Voice

Clean voice reduces background noise with a noise-suppression model that is part of the app itself and runs on the phone. It writes a new, cleaned copy of the recording and leaves the original unchanged. No network connection is used.

4. AI Summaries And Questions

Summaries and questions are the only features that send anything about a recording to a server, and they happen only when a subscriber taps Summarise, or asks a question in “Ask this recording”, on a recording that has a transcript. The app asks for your agreement the first time. When you do, the app sends:

• the transcript’s text and the recording’s title and length — never the audio;
• for a question, the question and up to the last four questions and answers about the same recording, with the transcript’s timestamps so the answer can point to a moment;
• your app language, so the answer is written in the right language;
• the proof of your subscription issued by Google Play or the App Store, so the server can check it with the store;
• a random identifier created when the app was installed, not linked to your name or any account.

The server at api.riekapps.com passes the text to an AI model through OpenRouter, a service that routes requests to model providers. Every request is marked so that it may only go to providers that do not store or train on it. The summary or answer is sent back to your phone. Summaries are saved on the phone; questions and answers are kept only while the app is open.

What the server keeps. Neither the transcript, the question nor the answer is stored or logged. To apply the monthly allowance, the server keeps a one-way (hashed) form of your subscription reference and how much of the month’s AI time has been used. It also keeps daily totals of requests and cost that are not linked to anyone. Like any web server, it records IP addresses and request times in routine technical logs that are rotated automatically.

If you never tap Summarise or ask a question, nothing from your recordings or transcripts leaves your phone.

5. Messages You Send Us

When you use Contact us or Request a feature in Settings, or tell us what went wrong after giving the app 1 to 3 stars, we receive what you type, the topics you tick, the number of stars (for rating feedback) and, if you attach one, the screenshot you choose. To help us fix problems, the message also carries the app version, your device model and operating system version, your language and country setting, whether you have Pro, and a random identifier for this app on your device, so we can tell that several messages came from the same person. It is not your advertising ID and it is not linked to your name. If you give us an email address, we use it only to reply to you. Messages never include your recordings or transcripts.

Messages are sent over an encrypted connection to our own server and stored in our support system, which only RiekApps staff can access. We do not sell or share them, and we do not use them for advertising. They are kept for up to 24 months, then deleted; you can ask us to delete yours earlier at riekapps@gmail.com. After you have written to us, the app checks our server for replies when you open it. If you never write to us, the app never contacts our support server.

If you give the app 4 or 5 stars, we open the store’s own rating sheet, which is covered by Google’s or Apple’s privacy policy.

6. Subscriptions And Purchases

Voice Recorder Pro is an auto-renewing subscription billed by Google Play on Android and by the App Store on iPhone. The store handles payment; RiekApps never sees your card, billing address or store account. The app asks the store whether this device has an active subscription and stores only the answer locally. The AI server checks the same thing directly with the store, as described in section 4.

7. What Is Never Collected

• No audio, ever — not for transcription, Clean voice, summaries or anything else.
• No name, phone number, contacts or account. An email address only if you choose to give one in a message to us.
• No location.
• No analytics, crash-reporting or advertising SDK.
• No transcript text, except the summary and question requests described in section 4, which you start yourself.

8. What Is Stored On Your Device

• Your recordings, cleaned copies, transcripts and summaries.
• Your settings: recording quality, theme and similar choices.
• How many free Pro tries have been used, and whether Pro is active.
• The random install identifiers used for AI requests and support messages.

Deleting a recording moves it to Recently Deleted for 30 days. After that, or when you delete it from there, the audio is removed together with its transcript and summary. Uninstalling the app removes all of it. Files you have exported or shared elsewhere are outside the app and are not removed.

9. Sharing And Importing

When you share or export a recording, your phone’s share sheet hands it to the app you pick; what happens after that is governed by that app’s policy. When you import an audio file, or share one into Voice Recorder from another app (for example a voice note), the system gives Voice Recorder only that file, which is copied into the app’s private storage.

10. Permissions

• Microphone — to record. Used only while you are recording.
• Speech recognition (iPhone) — for on-device transcription.
• Notifications (Android) — to show the recording and playback controls while the app is in the background.
• Background recording and playback — so a recording or playback keeps going when the screen is off.
• Internet — for store billing, AI summaries and questions, and messages you send us. Recording, transcription and Clean voice work with the network off.

11. Your Choices And Rights

• Don’t use summaries or questions, and nothing from your recordings leaves the phone.
• Delete any recording (and remove it from Recently Deleted), transcript or summary in the app, or uninstall it to remove everything.

If you have rights of access, correction or deletion — for example under the GDPR or India’s Digital Personal Data Protection Act — write to riekapps@gmail.com. Because the server holds only a hashed subscription reference and usage counts, with no name or email, send the order ID from your store receipt so we can find and delete your usage record.

12. Children

Voice Recorder is a general-purpose tool and is not directed at children under 13. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children.

13. Changes

If this policy changes, the new version is published on this page with a new effective date. A change that broadens what Voice Recorder collects will be announced in the app before it takes effect.

14. Contact

RiekApps — riekapps@gmail.com. See also the Terms of Use and the Support page.