YaK bAK! Privacy Policy

Last updated: 10 August 2026

YaK bAK! has no account, no analytics, no advertising, no tracking, and no server of its own. It has no networking code of any kind — there is no URLSession, no Network framework, and no third-party SDK anywhere in it. There is no exception to detail, because there is nothing that sends anything anywhere.

What stays on your device

The app records a few seconds of sound through your microphone and plays it back through a deliberately degraded audio chain — that is the whole product.

To be straight about the mechanism: your recording is never written to disk. It is held in memory as raw microphone samples while the app is running, and it is replaced the moment you record again. There is one recording, not a library. Close the app and it is gone.

What leaves your device

Nothing. Not the recording, not a description of it, not a count of how often you pressed a button.

The microphone

iOS asks your permission the first time the app wants to record, and you can withdraw it at any time in Settings. Without it, the app still runs — you simply cannot make a new recording. The microphone is used only while you are holding a record button down.

What the app remembers between launches

Three small things, all in the app's own storage on your device, and none of them about you:

• which colour each unit is set to;
• which way round you last held a unit that can be turned;
• whether you have already been shown a first-run hint, so it is not shown twice.

What the app collects, in Apple's terms

Apple requires apps to declare, in a privacy manifest, any data they collect and any "required reason" APIs they use. YaK bAK!'s manifest declares no collected data at all, and no tracking. The only such API it uses is UserDefaults, declared under reason CA92.1 — reading and writing data solely for this app, in this app's own container. No app group, no shared suite.

Third parties

There are none. The app has no external dependencies, links no analytics or advertising libraries, and embeds no software development kits. Nobody else receives anything, because nothing is sent.

Children

The app is a toy and it may well be used by children. That does not change anything above: it collects nothing from anybody, of any age, and sends nothing anywhere.

Your choices

Refuse or revoke the microphone permission in Settings, and the app keeps working without it. Delete the app and everything it kept — the colour choices and the two flags above — goes with it. There is nothing held elsewhere to request or delete, because there is nowhere else.

Changes

If this policy changes, the date at the top changes with it. If the app ever gains a feature that sends anything off your device, that will be described here before it ships, plainly and in this same section.

Contact

Questions or corrections: open an issue on the project's GitHub repository.