Earful

Privacy Policy

Last updated: 5 August 2026

Earful is an audiobook player for iPhone. It has no accounts, no ads, and no tracking. Your library is yours and it stays on your device. This page explains the few exceptions, in plain terms.

What stays on your device

Your books, their audio files, cover art, metadata, bookmarks and playback positions are stored on your device. None of it is uploaded to us. There is no Earful account, no sign-up, and no server holding your library, because no such server exists.

If you connect a WebDAV server, its credentials are stored in the iOS Keychain on your device. Earful uses them to talk to the server you named. That connection is between your device and your server. We are not in the middle of it and we never see those files or those credentials.

What leaves your device

Metadata lookups. When you use “Look Up Metadata” on a book, Earful sends the title and author you are searching for to the Earful metadata service, which forwards the query to Audible and Audnexus and returns matches. The request carries no account identifier, because there is no account. If you never use the feature, nothing is ever sent.

Crash and diagnostic reports. Earful uses Sentry to report crashes and performance problems. Our Sentry is self-hosted: reports go to a server run by the developer, not to a third-party analytics company, and they are not sold, shared or used for advertising.

A report can include:

  • The crash itself: the stack trace and the state of the app when it failed.
  • Your device model, iOS version, and the Earful version and build.
  • Performance traces from a sample of sessions, so slow screens can be found.
  • Your IP address, which Sentry records with each event.

What Earful never collects

  • Your name, email address, or contacts.
  • Your location.
  • Advertising or tracking identifiers.
  • The contents of your books, or which books you own.
  • Analytics of what you tap, listen to, or search for.

There are no advertising SDKs, no analytics SDKs, and no attribution SDKs in the app.

How long it is kept

Crash and diagnostic reports are kept for 90 days and then deleted automatically. Nothing else is retained, because nothing else is collected.

Children

Earful is not directed at children under 13 and does not knowingly collect personal information from them.

Changes to this policy

If what Earful collects changes, this page changes with it, and the date at the top changes too. Material changes will also be noted in the app’s release notes.

Contact

Questions about privacy, or a request to delete diagnostic data associated with your device: support@earful.media.