Privacy Policy

The Short Version

Good Take doesn't collect your data. We don't run servers. We don't have analytics. Your recordings, analysis results, and everything else stay on your device (and optionally in your personal iCloud account). That's it. The rest of this page is the details.

Microphone

Good Take needs microphone access to record audio. Recordings are saved locally on your device and are never sent anywhere. You can delete them at any time.

Speech Recognition

Transcription uses Apple's Speech Recognition framework and supports 60+ languages. For some languages, Apple can process transcription on-device depending on your device and iOS version. For others, Apple sends the audio to their servers for processing.

To be clear: Good Take doesn't send your audio anywhere itself. But when Apple's speech framework handles transcription server-side, your audio does leave your device and is processed by Apple under their Siri & Dictation privacy policy. Apple doesn't store the audio unless you've opted into "Improve Siri & Dictation" in your device settings.

On-Device Analysis

Key detection and BPM detection run locally on your device. No audio is uploaded, no external service is contacted. The algorithms process your recording right on your phone and the results stay there.

AI Features (Optional)

The AI copilot is completely optional. If you use it, you provide your own API key for Claude (Anthropic) or ChatGPT (OpenAI). Here's exactly what happens:

• Your API key is stored in iOS Keychain — the same encrypted storage that holds your passwords
• Requests go directly from your device to the AI provider. Good Take doesn't sit in the middle
• What gets sent: your recording's analysis (key, BPM, transcription text). What doesn't: the actual audio
• Good Take never logs, proxies, or stores any AI requests or responses

If you previously used the TestFlight beta, your keys are automatically migrated from local storage into Keychain.

For how the AI providers handle their side, see Anthropic's privacy policy and OpenAI's privacy policy.

iCloud Sync

iCloud sync is optional and on by default. When enabled, your recordings, analysis data, MIDI exports, and project organization sync across your devices through Apple's infrastructure. Good Take doesn't operate any sync servers — Apple handles all of it under their own privacy policy. You can turn off iCloud sync in the app's Settings, or through your device's system settings.

App preferences like your theme, audio quality, and export format stay local to each device and don't sync.

Imported Audio

Good Take can import audio files (WAV, MP3, M4A, AIFF, FLAC, OGG) from other apps or the Files app. Imported files are copied into Good Take's local storage using iOS security-scoped access. The original file isn't modified or moved.

Exporting & Sharing

Nothing leaves your device unless you explicitly export or share it. There are no background uploads, no silent sync to external servers, no "phone home" behavior. When you do export, you choose where it goes — AirDrop, Files, Mail, whatever. Good Take hands off the file and gets out of the way.

Crash Recovery

If the app closes unexpectedly while you're recording, Good Take saves a temporary reference (just the filename and start time) so it can recover your recording on next launch. This is stored locally and cleared as soon as recovery completes or the next normal recording finishes.

Live Activities, Widgets & Shortcuts

While recording, Good Take shows a Live Activity on your lock screen and Dynamic Island with the recording duration and audio level. No transcription, analysis, or recording content is exposed through Live Activities.

Home screen and lock screen widgets are just quick-launch buttons — they don't display or transmit any data. Same for Siri Shortcuts and URL schemes like goodtake://record — they trigger actions in the app, nothing more.

Analytics & Tracking

There are none. No analytics frameworks, no tracking pixels, no advertising SDKs, no third-party data collection of any kind. Good Take doesn't know how you use it.

Data Storage

All app data — recordings, analysis, projects, tags, practice history — lives on your device using Apple's SwiftData framework. If iCloud sync is enabled, it also lives in your personal iCloud account. That's the only two places your data exists.

Deleting Your Data

When you delete an idea, it moves to trash where you can recover it for 30 days. Permanent deletion removes the audio file from disk and the record from the database. Because Good Take doesn't have servers, there's no remote data to worry about — delete it locally and it's gone everywhere.

Children's Privacy

Good Take doesn't collect data from anyone — children included. There are no accounts, no tracking, and no data transmitted to us.

Changes to This Policy

If this policy changes, the updated version will be posted here with a new date at the top.

Contact

Questions about any of this? Reach out at [email protected].