Privacy Policy

Earshot Privacy · Published by Crowner Technology Inc. · Last updated 5 August 2026

The short version

Earshot Privacy does not collect anything about you.

There is no account, no sign-up, and no server. Everything the app records stays in its own private storage on your phone. We cannot see it, we do not receive it, and there is nothing for us to sell, share, or lose in a breach — because we never have it.

You can verify most of this yourself without trusting us. Open Settings → Apps → Earshot Privacy → Permissions: there is no microphone permission and no camera permission, because the app never asks for either. The app is also excluded from Google's cloud backup, so its history is not copied off the device.

What is stored on your phone

Earshot Privacy keeps a record of when your microphone and camera were used. Each entry contains:

Stored	Example
When it started and ended	3:04 a.m., lasted 6 seconds
Which sensor	Microphone or camera
The kind of audio source Android reported	`MIC`, `VOICE_CALL`
Whether the screen was on, and whether the phone was locked	screen off, locked
Whether it carried on after you put the phone down	yes / no
Whether it was your own face unlock	yes / no
The time zone your phone was in at the time	`America/Vancouver`

This never leaves your device.

What is deliberately not stored

No audio and no images. The app never opens your microphone or camera, so there is nothing to record. It only observes that a sensor was in use, the same way the green dot in your status bar does.
No app names. Android does not tell any app which other app used a sensor. We cannot know, so we do not claim to, and there is nothing of that kind in the database.
No location. The app holds no location permission.
No scan results. Wi-Fi and Bluetooth sweeps show what they find on screen and then forget it. Nothing about the devices around you is written to storage.
No identifiers. No advertising ID, no device ID, no installation ID, no analytics.

What the app sends over the internet

Nothing to us, and nothing to anyone else.

The app declares internet and Wi-Fi permissions for one purpose: the Wi-Fi camera sweep, which you start by pressing a button. That sweep talks only to devices on the local network you are already connected to — the router and the things plugged into it — to ask what they are. It contacts no server of ours, because we do not run one.

Because the app can technically reach the network, we cannot claim it is incapable of phoning home. We can tell you plainly that it does not, and that there is no analytics library, no crash reporting service, no advertising SDK, and no remote configuration anywhere in it. The app's entire dependency list is Google's own AndroidX and Jetpack Compose libraries and the Room database.

The permissions, and why each one exists

Permission	Why
Query all packages	To list which installed apps hold microphone, camera or location access. The list is read on your device and shown to you; it is never transmitted.
Foreground service (special use)	To keep watching while your phone is idle. This is why the app shows a permanent notification — Android requires it, and an app that watches quietly from behind a hidden notification is exactly what this app exists to catch.
Post notifications	To alert you when something starts recording while you are not using the phone.
Run at startup	To resume watching after a reboot, so your history has no gaps.
Nearby devices (Bluetooth scan)	For the Bluetooth sweep. Marked `neverForLocation`, which tells Android we are not permitted to use it to work out where you are — and we do not. The app listens for broadcasts; it never connects to any device.
Internet, network state, Wi-Fi state, multicast	For the local Wi-Fi sweep described above.

Not requested, ever: microphone, camera, precise location, approximate location, contacts, storage, phone, SMS.

Deleting your data

On the History screen, choose Delete all history. It is immediate and permanent.

Uninstalling the app also destroys all of it. Because the app is excluded from cloud backup, there is no copy anywhere else to clean up. We cannot delete your data for you, because we never receive it.

Children

Earshot Privacy is not directed at children and does not knowingly collect anything from anyone, of any age.

Changes to this policy

If this policy changes in a way that affects what the app does with your information, the updated version will be published here with a new date, and the change will be described in the app's release notes rather than made quietly.