Privacy Policy — Melody to Notes (מנגינה לתווים)

Last updated: 2026-11-01

Melody to Notes is made by Magmanet. The short version: your singing, recordings and melodies stay on your device. The app also sends anonymous usage statistics, which you can turn off.

What we collect

Only anonymous usage statistics (see below), which you can turn off. Melody to Notes has no sign-up, no accounts, no advertising and no tracking. We never sell or share your data. There is no server for transcription: every step of turning sound into notes happens on your phone.

The microphone

The app asks for microphone access only when you tap Record or start a practice turn, after explaining why. While you record, the sound is analysed on the phone to show the live note and, when you stop, to write the melody as notes. Audio is never sent anywhere.

Your recordings and melodies

• Melodies (notes, title, key, tempo and the pitch curve) are saved in the app's private storage on your phone.
• Original recordings are kept only if you allow it (the app asks the first time; you can change it in Settings → Keep original recordings). They are stored as audio files in the app's private storage, are used only for listening and A/B comparison, and are deleted when you delete the melody or uninstall the app.
• Opened and shared files: when you open a file with the system file picker, or share / "open with" an audio file, voice note, MIDI or MusicXML file to the app, the app copies it to its private cache and reads it on the phone. Only the first 3 minutes of audio are used, and a copy of audio is kept only under the same setting as above. Sheet-music files become melodies in your library.
• Full songs: when you choose "A song with music", the melody is extracted on the phone the same way; nothing is uploaded and the app never connects to YouTube, Spotify or any other streaming service.
• Built-in tunes are part of the app; opening one adds it to your melodies on the phone.
• Practice turns are analysed in memory and never stored.

Copy backup (Settings → Your data) copies your melodies and settings (not the recordings) as text to your clipboard; where you paste it is up to you, the app never uploads it. Export and share (MusicXML, MIDI, PDF, image, audio or note names) opens your phone's share sheet and goes only where you send it.

Internet use

Melody to Notes works entirely offline. The only internet requests are the anonymous usage statistics below and, on Android, the update check. On iPhone and iPad there is no update check: the App Store handles updates. The "More free sheet music" buttons open the IMSLP or Mutopia website in your browser only when you tap them; the app itself downloads nothing from them.

On Android, once a day the app checks for a newer version by asking the Magmanet server (EU, Contabo) — the request contains only the app name, its version number and how it was installed; the server stores no identifiers and no IP address. If the server is unavailable the app downloads the public version file from GitHub Pages instead (GitHub may see your IP address). You can turn this off in Settings.

Anonymous usage statistics

Melody to Notes sends anonymous usage statistics over HTTPS (a short ping once a day; usage events a few times a day at most, batched) to Magmanet's own server in the EU (Contabo), not to Google or any other third party. It sends the app name and version, your operating-system version (Android or iOS), your language, how the app was installed (on Android: from Google Play, the website or elsewhere; on iPhone and iPad: the App Store or TestFlight), a random install ID made by the app, anonymous usage events (which screens and features are used, for how long, how many notes a transcription found, which export formats are used) and counts of errors by type (a short code for the kind of error, never a message or any content). On Android it also sends your phone's manufacturer and model (never the name you gave the phone); on iPhone and iPad it does not send the device model. Never audio, never your notes or titles. On the server the ID is hashed and no IP address is stored; raw data is deleted after 400 days. It is used only to count active users and improve the app.

This is on by default. Turn it off in Settings ("Share anonymous usage statistics"); that stops sending immediately and deletes the random ID and any unsent events from your phone.

Permissions

• Microphone: to hear your singing or playing, asked only when you start recording or practising.
• Internet: for the anonymous usage statistics and, on Android, the update check. (iOS has no internet permission to grant.)

No location, camera, contacts or storage permissions. Files are opened through the system file picker (on iPhone and iPad, the Files app) or arrive when you share or "open" them with the app.

Children

Melody to Notes is a general-audience music tool. It is not directed at children under 13 and collects no personal information.

Changes and contact

If this policy changes, we'll update the date above. Questions? Open an issue at https://github.com/Shauls/magmanet-apps/issues