Privacy Policy

Short version

Pink Trope is a chanting trainer for Torah and Haftarah reading. You pick a portion, chant it out loud, and the app scores your words and your melody. All of that happens on your phone. There are no accounts, no sign-up, no server we operate, no analytics of our own, and no tracking. The app has no internet permission at all, so it never connects to the internet, and your recordings never leave the phone. Purchases and the rating prompt go through Google Play.

What we collect

Nothing. No name, no email, no password, no device identifiers, no usage data, no diagnostics, no crash reporting, no advertising identifiers. The app has no sign-up screen because there is no account to sign up for. Pink Trope adds no SDK for analytics, advertising, attribution or crash reporting, and it does not use ML Kit.

Microphone and speech recognition

Scoring needs to hear you, so Pink Trope asks for the microphone the first time you tap Start chanting, and only then, never on launch. The app records only while you chant.

Both checks run on your phone. Melody accuracy uses a small pitch model bundled inside the app, which listens to the pitch you sing and compares it with the motif expected for each cantillation mark. Word accuracy uses your phone's own on-device speech recognizer for Hebrew, and no other: the app never uses a recognizer that works over the network. Neither step sends your audio, your words or your scores to us or to anyone else.

The recording made during an attempt is a temporary file in the app's private storage. It is deleted as soon as it has been scored, or as soon as you cancel. Saving an attempt keeps only its scores, never the audio.

Word checking in Hebrew works on Android 13 or newer with Hebrew speech recognition installed on the phone. If your phone cannot do that, the app says so and scores your melody only. If the phone has the recognizer but not the Hebrew speech pack yet, the app asks Android to install it, and Android's own speech service does the download. Pink Trope sends no audio and no words for that.

What stays on your phone

Your practice attempts: the passage you chanted, the tradition, the date, how long it took, the word and melody scores, and for each word whether it was read, unclear or missed, with the word the recognizer heard. They live in a private database in the app's storage on your phone. No audio is kept.

The date the app was first launched (it times the three-day window), the days you opened the app (so the rating question comes at a good moment) and your choice about tips sit in the app's own preferences. If you allow notifications, the time of day you usually open the app, so a few tips and reminders arrive at a good moment in your first week. They are scheduled on your phone and nothing is sent to us.

None of this is uploaded to us or to anyone else. Pink Trope does not back your attempts up to the cloud: Android's automatic app backup and the transfer to a new phone are switched off for the app, so removing the app removes its attempts, and a new install, or a new phone, starts with an empty history. The Home Screen widget is a small tile that opens the app; it shows none of your attempts.

Networking

Pink Trope has no internet permission, so the app itself never connects to the internet. The Hebrew text, the cantillation marks, the motif tables and the pitch model all ship inside the app, and practice works with the phone in airplane mode. The one thing that may use the network is your phone: when the Hebrew speech pack is missing, Android's own speech service downloads it. That is Android's download, not the app's. Links to our pages and to other Pink apps open in your phone's browser or in the Google Play app, which have their own policies.

Purchases

The Pro subscription and the lifetime unlock are processed by Google Play. We never see your card number, billing address, or any payment detail. Pink Trope reads your purchase status from Google Play to unlock Pro inside the app, and Google's privacy policy applies to purchases made through Google Play. You manage and cancel subscriptions in Google Play.

When Pink Trope asks for a rating, Google Play shows its own rating sheet. What you enter there is handled by Google Play, not by us.

Children

Students preparing for a Bar or Bat Mitzvah are usually children, and the app was written with that in mind. It collects no personal data from anyone, children included, so there is nothing for us to disclose, sell, or share with a third party. No profile is built, no identifier is assigned, and no message can reach a student through the app.

Deleting your data

Swipe an attempt away in the archive to delete that one attempt. Remove the app, or clear its storage in Android settings under Apps > Pink Trope > Storage, to delete every attempt and every setting. Because none of it was ever copied off the phone, nothing survives anywhere else, and there is nothing to request from us. The microphone permission can be withdrawn at any time in Android settings under Apps > Pink Trope > Permissions.

Changes

If this policy changes, the date above changes with it.

Contact

Questions: support@danielius.studio.