Dolzhenko DevIn short: Snore Recorder records the night with your phone next to the bed and finds snoring and sleep talk right on the phone. Your recordings stay on your device — we have no server and never upload your audio. To run subscriptions and to measure our advertising, the app shares limited technical information with two service providers, RevenueCat and AppsFlyer, described below.
What the app does not do
It does not create an account and does not ask for your name, email or phone number — there is no sign-in at all. There are no ads inside the app, and no data is sold. The app never sends your recordings, the night log, sleep-talk text, sleep times or your factors to us or to anyone else; a clip leaves the phone only if you share it yourself.
Recording and the microphone
The microphone is on only while a recording is running — from the moment you start it until you stop it or auto-stop ends the night. If you set a start delay, the microphone is already on during the wait, but nothing is analysed or kept until the delay is over.
The sound is analysed right on the phone by Apple's built-in sound classifier, part of iOS, to find snoring and talking. Nothing is sent anywhere for this. The app does not keep the whole night as audio: it keeps short clips around the moments it found and a second-by-second log of what was heard and how loud. If you choose to see sleep talk as text, the phone itself turns those clips into text — see below.
A clip can also catch other voices and sounds in the room — for example, those of the person sleeping next to you. Please let the people who sleep in the room know that you record.
Without microphone permission the app cannot record. You can allow or revoke it at any time in the iOS Settings.
Sleep talk as text
When you ask to see sleep talk as text, the app uses Apple's speech recognition in on-device mode: the phone itself turns the clips into text, and the audio is not sent to Apple or to anyone else. iOS asks for permission for speech recognition the first time; you can revoke it in the iOS Settings. If the phone cannot recognise your language without the network, the app shows only the audio.
The text is stored with the night on your device and is deleted together with it.
Apple Health
Apple Health is off until you turn it on in the app's Settings. Then, for each night, the app saves two entries to Apple Health on your phone: time in bed (the whole recording) and time asleep (the estimate from the night's sounds), with your time zone. The app does not read anything from Apple Health, and snoring, scores, audio and text are not written there.
These entries are used only to show your sleep in Apple Health. They are not used for advertising or marketing, are not sent to RevenueCat, AppsFlyer or anyone else, and we do not store them in iCloud. You can stop the writing in the app or in the Health app (Sharing → Apps) and delete the entries in the Health app at any time.
Alarm and sleep sounds
The alarm is set on your phone: on iOS 26 and later through the system alarm service, which asks for permission the first time; on earlier versions the app rings itself while it records and also schedules a notification. Sleep sounds play from files inside the app. Nothing about the alarm or the sounds leaves the phone. While a sleep sound plays, the app does not analyse those seconds of the night.
What stays on your device
For each night: the short audio clips, the second-by-second log, the score and the timeline, and the factors you marked — such as alcohol, sleeping on your side, a nasal strip or your own — the sleep times estimated from the night's sounds and, if you turned it on, the sleep-talk text. Along with them: the clips you saved and your settings, including the alarm. All of it sits in the app's own storage on your device and is available only to the app.
We keep no copy of any of it. If you back up your iPhone to iCloud or to a computer, iOS may include this data in the backup; that backup is yours, and we have no access to it.
When a clip leaves the phone
A clip or a picture of the night leaves the phone only when you share it yourself through the iOS share sheet. It then goes where you send it — a chat, mail or notes — and is handled under the rules of that service. We do not see what you share.
Third-party services
The app uses RevenueCat to run subscriptions. RevenueCat receives an anonymous app user ID, your purchase and subscription details from the App Store, device identifiers and the IP address, technical information about the device and the app, and which ad, if any, the install came from. We use this to give you access to what you paid for, to restore purchases and to see which of our ads lead to subscriptions.
The app uses AppsFlyer to measure which ads bring installs and subscriptions. AppsFlyer receives the same anonymous app user ID and device identifiers: the identifier for vendor, which iOS gives to the apps of one developer, and — only if you allow tracking — the advertising identifier. It also receives the IP address, technical details of the device and the app, events in the app such as the subscription screen being shown, and purchases, which RevenueCat reports to it. AppsFlyer tells advertising partners, for example Google and Meta, that an install or a subscription came from their ad.
Payments are handled by Apple. If you came to the app from an ad in the App Store (Apple Search Ads), Apple tells RevenueCat which campaign it was; this needs no permission to track.
None of these services receives your recordings, the night log, sleep-talk text, sleep times, scores or your factors: sleep and snoring numbers are never sent for advertising. Each of them is required to protect what it receives at least as well as this policy describes.
Their own privacy policies: RevenueCat, AppsFlyer, Apple, Google and Meta.
If other services appear in the app, this section will be updated before they start working.
If you ask Apple for a refund, Apple may ask us about that purchase. RevenueCat then tells Apple on our behalf whether the purchase was delivered, whether a free trial was offered and whether we think the refund should be granted. Nothing you recorded or created in the app is sent. Apple makes the decision. By making a purchase, you agree to this. You can withdraw this consent at any time: write to support@dolzhenkodev.com, and we will stop sending Apple information about your purchases.
Permission to track
When you first open the app, it asks through the standard iOS prompt whether it may track your activity across other companies' apps and websites. If you allow it, AppsFlyer and RevenueCat also receive the advertising identifier, which links the install and the subscription to the ad that led to them. If you do not, the app works just the same, and the advertising identifier is not shared.
You can change your answer at any time in the iOS Settings, under Privacy & Security → Tracking.
Notifications
The app sends notifications only for what you turn on yourself: the alarm on iOS 17–25 (on iOS 26 and later the alarm goes through the system alarm service instead) and a reminder before the free trial ends, if you turn it on when you subscribe. Both are off by default, and permission is asked only then. They are created on the device and shown by iOS; nothing is sent to us for them.
Keeping and deleting your data
Audio clips stay on the device until you delete them. Under Keep audio in Settings you can choose to keep them for 7 or 30 days instead: older clips are then deleted on the device, while scores, timelines and saved clips stay.
You can delete a single night (Delete night) or every night with its clips (Delete all recordings) — saved clips stay in both cases. Delete all data in Settings removes everything the app keeps: nights, clips, saved clips, factors and settings. Deleting the app erases everything at once. Until then the data simply stays on the device: there is nothing on our side to expire, because we keep no copy.
What RevenueCat and AppsFlyer receive is kept by them under their own policies. Permission to track can be withdrawn at any time in the iOS Settings, under Privacy & Security → Tracking. If you would like us to ask RevenueCat and AppsFlyer to delete what came from your device, write to support@dolzhenkodev.com — we will do it and confirm.
When we have to disclose
What is described above can be disclosed in three cases: when the law requires it — a court order or a similar legal process; when disclosure is needed in good faith to protect someone's rights or safety, to look into fraud, or to answer a request from a government body; and to contractors working on our behalf, who make no independent use of what they receive and are required to follow this policy. There are no other cases.
Security
Your recordings sit in the app's own storage, which only the app can reach, and are protected by iOS itself. What goes to RevenueCat and AppsFlyer travels over an encrypted connection. Nobody can promise complete protection and we will not either: it is worth keeping a passcode on your phone.
Children
Snore Recorder is not directed at children under 13. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13 and do not market to them, and the recordings stay on the device. If it turns out that such information reached us anyway, we delete it at once. If you are a parent and believe this has happened, write to support@dolzhenkodev.com.
Changes to this policy
This policy may change — along with the app, or when the requirements change. The new text is published on this page, and the date at the top shows when it was last changed. If the app starts using data in a new way, the policy is updated before that happens. By continuing to use the app you accept the current version; if it does not suit you, you can delete the app at any time.
Contact
Send questions about privacy to support@dolzhenkodev.com.
Dolzhenko Dev, publisher of Snore Recorder.