Your library stays yours.

Audiobook Player & Notes has no account, no analytics, no ads and no tracking. The developer does not run a server for it and receives none of your files, notes or listening history.

Effective November 7, 2026. Covers the Audiobook Player & Notes app for iPhone and iPad (with its widgets and Apple Watch app) and this website. Developer: Alex Morris.

What stays on your devices and in your iCloud

• Your files: books, audio, video and documents you add are kept in the Audiobook Player folder of your own iCloud Drive and on your device. Apple's iCloud syncs them under Apple's privacy policy; the developer can't see them.
• Your place and progress: listening and reading positions, finished items and pins are stored on your device and synced through your iCloud account so your other devices can resume.
• Notes: notes are saved as small files next to the book they belong to, in your iCloud Drive. Exports are created only when you ask.
• Transcripts: speech-to-text runs on your device. Audio and transcripts are not sent to any server. The first time, the app may download a speech model: on recent iOS versions iOS fetches it from Apple; on older versions the app downloads an open-source Whisper model from Hugging Face. Those downloads contain no audio or personal content.
• Read aloud: EPUB and PDF are read with your device's own voices.
• Diagnostics: the app keeps short technical logs on the device to help it recover from errors. The App Store app never uploads them. Apple may share crash reports with developers if you allow it in iOS Settings.

Purchases

The free trial and Full Library are App Store in-app purchases. Apple handles checkout and payment. The app reads Apple's verified purchase record on your device to know whether the trial or Full Library is active; the developer never receives your payment details or Apple Account.

Web content you open

If a document in your library embeds a video or post from another site (for example YouTube, Vimeo or X), that content loads from that site when you open the document, under that site's own privacy policy. Links you tap open in your browser.

No tracking

The app contains no advertising, analytics or tracking code and does not track you across other companies' apps or websites. This website is hosted by GitHub Pages; GitHub may process ordinary request information such as IP addresses. The site has no analytics, cookies or third-party fonts.

Your choices

Delete a book or note in the app, or in the Files app, and it's gone from your library (books first go to Recently Deleted for 30 days). Deleting the app removes its data on that device; your files in iCloud Drive stay until you delete them. You can turn off iCloud for the app in iOS Settings.

Questions and changes

Questions are welcome through support. Changes to this policy will be published on this page with a new effective date.