Privacy

Used only while you are actively capturing a song, to identify the music around you.

Tunne does not record audio. ShazamKit converts what the microphone hears into an anonymous acoustic fingerprint — a compact mathematical summary from which the original audio cannot be reconstructed — and matches that against Apple's catalogue. No recording is written to disk, kept in memory after the match, or transmitted.

That match is handled by Apple, under Apple's privacy policy.

Used to place a captured song on your map. Tunne requests when in use authorisation and nothing more. It cannot and does not read your location while it is closed or in the background.

Coordinates are stored on your device with the capture and are never transmitted anywhere. The place name next to a song comes from Apple's geocoder, which turns a coordinate into a street or district name — that lookup is handled by Apple, and Tunne attaches no identifier to it.

Declining location is fully supported. Songs still save; they simply carry no place and do not appear on the map.

Three at most, all to Apple, none of them carrying anything about you:

• A ShazamKit match — an anonymous audio fingerprint, only while you are capturing.
• An itunes.apple.com catalogue lookup — a public, keyless endpoint queried by track ID, to fetch album artwork and a 30-second preview. No identifier, no cookie, no account.
• iCloud sync, and only if you have switched it on — your captures travelling to your own iCloud account.

There is still no Tunne server.

Everything sits in a local database inside the app's own sandbox:

• Song title, artist, genre and Apple Music identifier
• Album artwork, cached once so the app works offline
• Coordinate, place name, city and country
• The time you caught it
• Your rating, your note, your favourites
• A photo, if you attached one — shrunk on your device before it is saved

Deleting a capture removes it — and, with sync on, removes it from every device you have synced. Deleting the app removes it from that phone. With sync off nothing is recoverable afterwards beyond your own device backup; with sync on, your collection comes back when you reinstall and sign in.

Off until you turn it on, in You → iCloud sync.

With it on, your captures are copied to your own iCloud account, into what Apple calls a private database. It is your storage rather than ours: it counts against your iCloud space, and we have no way to read what is in it. There is still no Tunne server and still no account to create — it uses the Apple Account already on your phone.

It exists for one thing: a new phone, a lost phone, or simply a second device. Your map, your ratings, your notes and your photos arrive with you.

Turning it off stops the copying and leaves everything on the device. While it is on, deleting a capture deletes it everywhere — that is the point of sync, but it does mean a deletion is final.

Apple's handling of what sits in iCloud is covered by Apple's privacy policy.

• No account, sign-up, or email address
• No analytics, telemetry, crash reporting or attribution SDK
• No advertising, and no advertising identifier
• No third-party SDKs of any kind
• No tracking across apps or websites
• No sale or sharing of data — there is none to sell

Tunne is rated 12+ because music recognition can return explicit song titles. It collects nothing from anyone, of any age.

Under the GDPR you have rights of access, rectification, erasure and portability over your personal data. In Tunne's case you exercise these directly on the device: the data is yours, on your phone, and you can read, edit or delete any of it at any time without asking anyone. If you have switched on iCloud sync, that copy sits in your own iCloud account, which is likewise yours to manage or delete. There is no copy held by us to request.

iCloud sync shipped in 1.2, off by default, and this page and the App Store privacy labels were updated before it did. Any future feature that transmits data will be treated the same way: announced in the release notes, off unless you turn it on, and described here first.

GÜNES CONSULTING OÜ, Tallinn, Estonia

support@mobileappsupport.eu