The short versionAnyBeat collects anonymous usage and performance analytics to understand which features get used and to find bugs. It does not show ads, does not track you across other apps or websites, and has no account or sign-in. Your custom sound recordings, your saved-set names, and the actual musical content of your patterns never leave your device. You can turn analytics off completely in Settings.

Who this covers

This policy applies to the AnyBeat mobile application and the anybeat.app website, both published by AnyBeat. Questions go to hello@anybeat.app.

Analytics we collect

To decide what to build and fix, the app records anonymous, aggregated usage and performance data through three analytics providers: Mixpanel, PostHog and Microsoft Clarity. What is collected falls into four categories, and Apple lists these same categories on the app’s App Store privacy label:

Product interaction.Which screens you open and which features you use, as named events such as “playback started”, “preset applied” or “setting changed”, together with non-identifying details like a pattern’s beat count or the chosen tempo.
A device identifier. A random identifier generated by the analytics tools so repeat sessions from the same install can be counted as one device. It is not your name, email or Apple ID, and the advertising identifier (IDFA) is never used.
Approximate location. A coarse, country or region level location that the analytics services derive from your IP address on their servers. The app does not request or use GPS, and never collects precise location.
Performance and diagnostic data. Timing and error information used to find crashes and slow paths, such as an operation name and an error type.

Event details are truncated before they are sent, and some very high-frequency events are dropped rather than recorded. This data is processed by Mixpanel, PostHog and Microsoft Clarity as our service providers, each under its own privacy policy. Mixpanel data is sent to a European endpoint; PostHog and Clarity are hosted in the United States.

What we do not do

No advertising. The app shows no ads and contains no advertising SDK.
No cross-app tracking.Nothing you do is linked to your activity in other companies’ apps or websites, so the app does not show the App Tracking Transparency prompt and collects no data for tracking as Apple defines it.
No selling of data. We do not sell or rent your information, and we never will.
No accounts. There is no sign-in, so we never collect a name, email or password.

What never leaves your device

Some things are intentionally kept out of analytics entirely, and stay only in the app’s private storage on your device:

Your custom sound recordings. The audio you record is saved on the device and is never uploaded. Analytics may record only that a recording took place, not the sound itself.
Your saved-set names. Names you type are never sent. Saved-set events carry only counts, such as how many sets you have and how many beats a pattern has.
The content of your patterns and settings. These live on your device; analytics sees summary numbers, not the patterns themselves.

Your control, and turning analytics off

Analytics is on by default and you can switch it off at any time. Open Settings in the app and turn off Share Usage Analytics. When you do, all three providers are instructed to stop collecting, and no further usage or performance data is sent. Turning it off does not disable any feature of the app.

Microphone access

AnyBeat asks for microphone permission for one purpose: recording your own click sounds when you create a custom sound profile. Recording happens only while you are on the recording screen and have pressed record.

Recordings are written to the app’s private storage on your device.
The recorded audio is never uploaded, transmitted or shared automatically.
There is no background or passive listening at any time.
You can decline microphone access and use every other feature normally.
You can delete a recorded profile at any time from within the app.

What is stored on your device

The app saves the following locally, in its own private storage area, so it works the way you left it:

Your beat patterns, tempos, phrase groupings and saved sets.
Preferences such as volume, grid zoom, haptics, screen-awake and display options.
Any custom sound profiles you record, stored as audio files.
Your analytics on/off choice.

Deleting the app removes all of it. We have no copy of this on-device data and cannot recover it for you.

If you use the export feature, the app renders one pass of your current pattern to an audio file and hands it to the iOS share sheet. What happens next is governed by whichever app or service you choose to send it to. We are not involved in that transfer and receive nothing from it.

Purchases

AnyBeatis sold through the Apple App Store as a single purchase. Apple handles the transaction, payment details and receipt. We never see your payment information, billing address or Apple ID, and Apple provides us only with aggregate, anonymised sales figures. Apple’s handling of your data is covered by Apple’s own privacy policy.

This website

The anybeat.app website is a set of static pages. It sets no cookies and runs no analytics or advertising scripts, and the interactive metronome on it runs entirely in your browser and sends nothing anywhere. Our hosting provider may keep standard server logs, including IP addresses, for a short period for security and operational purposes. Note that the anonymous analytics described above apply to the app, not to this website.

Children

AnyBeat is suitable for all ages. It has no accounts and collects no name, email or other information that identifies a person, child or adult. The anonymous usage analytics described above are not directed at children and are not used to build a personal profile.

Your rights

Privacy laws including the GDPR and the CCPA give you rights over personal data. Because the app uses no account and no directly identifying information, the analytics data is not reasonably linkable to you by name. You can still stop all collection at any time using the Settings toggle described above. If you believe we hold information about you and want to ask about access or deletion, write to hello@anybeat.app and we will help, including passing requests to our analytics providers where relevant. We do not sell or share personal information.

Changes to this policy

If the app’s data practices change, this policy will be updated before the change ships, and the effective date above will change. Material changes will also be noted in the app’s release notes.

Contact

Questions about privacy go to hello@anybeat.app. A real person reads it.