Last updated 15 October 2026
Homeoke is a small project run by one person. It has no advertising and nothing is sold to anyone. Your music and your recordings never leave your phone. The app counts how people use it, never what they use it on, and there is a switch in Settings to stop that. The website counts visits and asks you for nothing. This page explains exactly what data exists and where it sits.
Homeoke comes in two versions, and they work quite differently. Read the section for the one you use.
Your music stays on your phone. There is no account, no sign-in and no Homeoke server. Nothing you sing or import is uploaded anywhere, ever. Two kinds of thing do leave the phone and both are set out below: a lyrics lookup, and a count of what you did in the app.
These live in the app's own folder on the phone. Deleting the app deletes all of it, because there is no copy anywhere else, so please export anything you want to keep first.
The app asks for microphone access so it can record you singing. It records only while you have started a recording, and the audio is written to your phone and mixed on your phone. Your voice is never transmitted to us or to anyone.
The separation that strips the vocals out of a backing track runs entirely on your phone, using a model built into the app. Your music is not uploaded to be processed.
To find lyrics for a song, the app sends the song's title, artist, album name and length to lrclib.net, a free public lyrics catalogue run independently of Homeoke. This happens when a song is first added, and again if you search for lyrics by hand.
That request contains no account, no device identifier, no name and no audio, only the song's text details. Once a song's lyrics are found they are saved on your phone and the request is not repeated. Like any website, lrclib.net may keep its own server logs, which are outside our control; see their site for their terms.
Homeoke counts how you use it, so we can see where it is confusing and what nobody uses. It never records what you used it on. The difference matters, so here it is exactly.
What is sent. Which walkthrough screen you reached and its number. That a song was brought in, and whether it came from Files or the share sheet. That the vocals were separated, whether it worked, and how many seconds it took before you heard anything. That you played a song, switched songs, turned the vocals on or off, moved the key and by how many semitones, made a mark, tapped a mark. That a recording was started, saved, discarded, played, shared or sung again, and whether the camera was on for it. Which mixer control you moved. That you searched for lyrics, whether anything came back, that you picked a result, moved the lyrics against the music and by how many milliseconds, or took them off again. When you share a song, whether it went out untouched or with the key and vocals as you had set them. And if you buy, which of the two options and what it cost.
For practice: which tab you opened. Which warm-up program or exercise you opened, started, skipped a step of, finished or left, how long it ran and how many keys you sang, and that you played a sound's demo. The range you saved, as its lowest and highest note. The grade a recording got and how many phrases it had, that you picked a phrase and whether it landed, and which of yours or the original you played. That you opened your practice days, a to-do or your week, that a to-do was done for the day, your practice days a week and whether reminders are on and at what hour. During the welcome, which answers you tapped and whether you chose a demo song or your own. When Homeoke suggests adding a song of your own, that it did and whether you tapped Add a song, Later or the x. And that the app asked Apple to show the rating prompt, at which kind of moment; Apple never tells us whether it appeared or what you chose.
What is never sent. Song titles. Artists. Lyrics. What your marks say. File names. Any audio or video, ever. Your name, your email address, your Apple Account, an advertising identifier, or anything that identifies your phone. Not what you typed when searching for lyrics, which is a song title: only that a search happened and which of the two ways you started it. The recordings themselves never leave your phone at all, which is the part of this that has not changed and will not.
So we can see that someone moved the key by three semitones, and never which song they moved. We can see that a recording was shared, and never hear it.
Alongside each of those, the analytics tool attaches the same technical details it attaches to everything: your phone model, your iOS version, the Homeoke version, your screen size, your language, your timezone and whether you are on wifi or mobile data. None of that identifies you or your phone.
To turn it off, open Homeoke, go to Settings and switch off Share anonymous usage. Nothing further is sent, and anything still waiting to be sent is thrown away.
The counting is done by PostHog, a product analytics company, acting only for us. Their servers are in Frankfurt, Germany. They do not combine it with anyone else's data and it is never sold or shared further.
Your songs and recordings also appear under Homeoke in the iPhone Files app, so you can copy your own recordings out whenever you like.
The browser version at homeoke.com works differently from the iPhone app: it has sign-in, and it keeps your library in the cloud so it is there on your next visit. If you use it, the following applies.
Only to give you your own library back when you sign in. It is not analysed, not profiled, not used for advertising and not sold or shared with anyone. Nobody else can read your library, because access is restricted to your own signed-in account.
While Homeoke was in testing, this site asked for an email address before sending you to the beta. It no longer asks for anything: the app is on the App Store and every button here goes straight there.
Addresses given at the time are still held in Google Firestore, along with which button they came from and which page they were on. They were never passed to anyone, never sold and never used for advertising, and there is no mailing list company involved. To have yours removed, email ni184775761@gmail.com and it will be deleted.
The pages on homeoke.com count visits using Google Analytics, through Firebase. This applies to anyone who lands on the site, whether or not they sign in. It records which page you are on, roughly where you are from your IP address, and what browser and device you use, and it sets a cookie so that a second visit from you is not counted as a new person. It also records when an App Store link is tapped, and which one. All it is for is knowing whether anyone is finding the site. It is not tied to your account, not used for advertising, and not sold or shared with anyone. Blocking it with a tracker blocker, or turning off cookies, leaves the site working normally.
Hosting, sign-in, file storage, the database and the visitor counting described above are provided by Google Firebase (Google LLC), acting on our behalf. The lyrics lookup described in the iPhone section works the same way on the web.
You can delete individual songs and recordings from inside the app, which removes both the stored file and its details. To delete your account altogether, along with everything in it, or to have an email address left over from the beta removed, email ni184775761@gmail.com from your account's email address and it will be done.
You can ask what data is held about you, ask for a copy of it, or ask for it to be deleted, at any time, by emailing ni184775761@gmail.com. For the iPhone app the honest answer is that we hold nothing at all. It is all on your phone.
Homeoke is not directed at children under 13 and we do not knowingly collect anything from them.
If this policy changes, the date at the top of the page changes with it, and the previous version is replaced here.
Questions about any of this: ni184775761@gmail.com.