Privacy Policy

Short version

Pink Tone is a voice-to-art app. You speak for up to thirty seconds, iOS 26's on-device SpeechAnalyzer transcribes what you said, and Image Playground paints a painterly image from that transcript. The audio, the transcribed text, and the generated image all stay on your device. Pink Tone uses on-device speech recognition only and never sends your audio to Apple's Speech cloud or to any server we operate. The only network calls the app makes are to Apple's StoreKit when you choose to subscribe or unlock the Lifetime tier.

Who we are

Pink Tone is published by Danielius Studio LLC, a Wyoming limited liability company at 30 N Gould St, Suite #5280, Sheridan, WY 82801, USA (“we”, “us”).

Data we do NOT collect

• No account, no email, no password — the app has no signup.
• No analytics, no telemetry, no event tracking.
• No advertising identifiers (no IDFA, no fingerprinting).
• No usage data sent off the device.
• No cloud transcription. Pink Tone never sends your audio to Apple's Speech servers or any third-party transcription service. On-device mode is required.
• No camera, no photos library read, no contacts, no calendar.
• No location, no HealthKit, no Health data.

Permissions the app requests

• Microphone (NSMicrophoneUsageDescription) — required to record the up-to-thirty-second voice clip that becomes the prompt for your painted image.
• Speech Recognition (NSSpeechRecognitionUsageDescription) — required for on-device transcription. Pink Tone configures the recognizer with on-device mode enforced; if on-device recognition is not available on your device, the feature is disabled rather than falling back to cloud transcription.

What stays on your device

• Voice art entries (the transcribed text, the generated image stored as external SwiftData data, an optional saved audio clip filename, the duration in seconds, and the creation date). Stored in on-device SwiftData.
• Audio is held in memory during transcription. After the transcript is produced, you can either keep the audio as a clip attached to the entry or discard it. Audio you discard is not recoverable.
• The date the app was first launched (used to time the three-day no-strings free window). Stored in UserDefaults.
• Whether the day-three gift screen has been acknowledged.

All of the above lives on your device and never leaves it. Uninstalling the app deletes it.

On-device speech recognition

Pink Tone uses Apple's on-device speech recognition exclusively. On iOS 26, this is the new SpeechAnalyzer pipeline; where SpeechAnalyzer is unavailable, the app falls back to SFSpeechRecognizer with requiresOnDeviceRecognition set to true. In either case the audio buffer is processed by the Neural Engine on your iPhone and is never transmitted to Apple Speech cloud servers or to any server we operate.

If on-device speech recognition is not available on your device or for your selected language, recording is disabled rather than degraded to a cloud path.

On-device image generation (Apple Intelligence)

The painting step uses Apple's Image Playground via the public ImagePlaygroundViewController API on iOS 26. Image generation runs on-device on Apple Intelligence-capable hardware. Your transcript is passed to Image Playground in-process as the prompt; the generated image returns to the app and is saved to your on-device SwiftData store.

Voice-to-art is available only on Apple Intelligence-capable devices (iPhone 15 Pro, iPhone 16, or newer) running iOS 26. On older devices, the recording UI is disabled.

In-app purchases

Pink Tone is free to use for your first three painted images. If you choose to subscribe (Monthly, Annual) or buy the Lifetime unlock for unlimited images, the year wall PDF export, and the Lock Screen widget, that transaction is handled by Apple's StoreKit. Apple processes the payment and shares only the receipt with the app so we can verify your entitlement. We never see your card number, billing address, or any personal information beyond Apple's opaque transaction identifier.

Subscription receipts are stored on-device by iOS and used to validate your entitlement when you re-open the app. They are not sent to any server we operate.

Family Sharing

Pink Tone Pro purchases (Monthly, Annual, Lifetime) are Family-Shareable through Apple's standard Family Sharing mechanism. Apple handles eligibility checks; we do not see who is in your family group.

Children

Pink Tone is rated 4+ in the App Store. Because the app collects no data at all, it complies with COPPA and similar children's-privacy regulations by design.

Your rights

Because Pink Tone does not collect data, there is nothing for us to export, correct, or delete on your behalf. To revoke all access and remove all on-device state, including saved transcripts, generated images, and any retained audio clips, simply delete the app.

For questions, write to dchalikovasss@gmail.com.

Changes

If we ever introduce a feature that involves any data leaving the device (for example, cloud sync or shared galleries), this page will be updated and the “Last updated” date at the top will change. For v1.0, no such feature exists.