Privacy Policy

Last updated: August 17, 2026

Sonya records the sounds of your night so you can listen to them in the morning. The whole product is built on one rule: the sound never leaves your phone.

Who we are

Sonya is published by an individual developer. There is no account, no sign-in and no server that stores your nights.

Contact: vika.abr71@gmail.com

What we process and where it lives

Night recordings - on device only

Audio is recorded in short chunks and stored only in the app's own folder on your iPhone.
Recordings are never uploaded. We operate no server that could receive them, and we cannot listen to your nights.
Files are excluded from iCloud backup: a month of nights weighs gigabytes and has no business leaving the device.
Files are stored with iOS data protection (NSFileProtectionCompleteUntilFirstUserAuthentication), so they stay encrypted while the device is powered off.

Sound analysis - on the iPhone itself

Snoring, coughing, talking and other episodes are detected by the sound classifier built into iOS, running on your device.
No audio and no fragment of audio is sent anywhere for analysis.

Usage events - on device, not sent

The app writes a small local log of its own events (a night started, a screen opened, a purchase completed) into a file next to its database. It is not transmitted anywhere.
The log contains no audio, no text you wrote and no identifiers of you as a person.

Subscription

Payment is handled entirely by Apple. We never see your card, your Apple ID or your billing address.
From Apple we learn only whether the subscription is currently active, and that answer stays on the device.

What we do not do

We do not track you across apps or websites, and we ask for no tracking permission.
We use no advertising networks and no third-party analytics SDKs.
We do not sell or share personal data. There is nothing to sell: we hold nothing.

Your control over the data

Any night can be deleted inside the app: swipe it in History, or use Delete all recordings in Settings.
Old recordings are also removed automatically - after 60 days, past 30 nights, or above 4 GB, whichever comes first.
Deleting the app removes every recording, the database and the local event log with it.
Microphone access can be revoked at any time in iOS Settings.

Sonya is not a medical device. It records and describes sounds; it does not diagnose sleep apnea or any other condition.

Children

Sonya is not directed to children under 13 and we do not knowingly collect data from them.

Changes

If this policy changes, the date at the top changes with it. Material changes will also be described in the app's release notes.