Privacy
Tape Deck collects nothing about you. This page says what it does keep, and where.
What is collected
Nothing. Tape Deck has no account, no sign-in of its own, no adverts, no analytics and no tracking. No information about you or how you use the app is sent to the developer or to anyone else.
What stays on your devices
- Your music, books and settings are kept on the device: the albums you copy in or download, your place in each tape, and how you've set the deck up.
- Your favourites go between your own devices through your iCloud account, in iCloud's own storage for the app. The developer can't see them.
- Music in iCloud Drive, in the Tape Deck folder, is your own iCloud Drive, read by the app on each of your devices.
- The Apple Watch app talks only to your iPhone, to show what's in its deck.
Servers you choose
Tape Deck connects to nothing until you give it an address. If you enter a music server or an Audiobookshelf server, the app talks to that server alone, to list and play what's on it and, for books and podcasts, to keep your place there. Those servers are yours, or run by someone you choose, and their own policies apply. The address, the Audiobookshelf key and the server's sign-in are kept on the device; a server's password is passed to it once and not kept.
Permissions
The app asks for none: not your location, contacts, photos, camera or microphone.
Children
As nothing is collected from anyone, nothing is collected from children.
Changes and questions
If this ever changes, this page will say so first, with the date. Questions: [email protected].
Last updated 16 October 2026.