Privacy Policy
1. Summary
Speak Notify reads your notifications out loud so you can hear them without looking at your phone. To do that, Android must grant it notification access.
Notification content never leaves your phone. It is turned into speech on the device, spoken, and discarded. It is not uploaded, not stored, not logged, and not shown to us. We have no server that could receive it.
We do not have an account system and we do not sell personal data.
2. Data we do not collect or share
Speak Notify does not collect, upload, log, or share:
- The content of your notifications, in whole or in part
- Which apps send you notifications, or how often
- The names of people who message you
- Amounts, account numbers, or any other detail contained in a notification
- Your contacts, messages, call logs, photos, or files
- Your name, email address, phone number, or precise location
There is no backend server behind this app. Notification content is never written to a file, never placed in a log, and never included in any network request.
3. Notification access — exactly what happens
This is the sensitive permission, so here is the full sequence in plain terms.
- You grant notification access in Android's own system settings. The app cannot grant it to itself, and it does nothing until you do.
- You pick which apps you want read aloud. Until you pick at least one app, nothing is read at all.
- When a notification arrives from an app you picked, Android hands its text to the app in memory.
- The text is filtered by the rules you set (stop words, removed words, your own replacement sentence), still in memory.
- The result is passed to Android's built-in text-to-speech engine and spoken.
- The text is discarded. Nothing is kept once it has been spoken.
Notifications from apps you did not pick are ignored entirely.
The only thing retained between one notification and the next is a short-lived in-memory note of what was just spoken, used solely to avoid reading the same message twice within about ten seconds. It disappears when the app process ends.
Text-to-speech is Android's own engine on your device. On most phones this is Google Speech Services, which is part of the operating system, not something we bundle. Some Android text-to-speech engines can use network synthesis for certain voices — which engine you use and how it behaves is controlled by your phone's system settings, not by Speak Notify.
4. Data processed on your device only
| What | Why it exists |
|---|---|
| The list of apps you chose to have read aloud | So the app knows which notifications to speak |
| Your rule profiles (trigger words, stop words, removed words, replacement sentence) | So the app trims what you don't want to hear |
| Your voice settings (speed, chime, pause after app name, headphones-only, quiet hours) | So it sounds the way you set it up |
| Any sample text you paste into the "Try it out" box | Shown back to you immediately, then gone when you leave the screen — never saved |
| Whether your app time is still valid, and whether you bought the lifetime unlock | So the app knows whether to show the "add time" bar |
All of it is stored in Android's private app storage, which no other app can read. Uninstalling the app deletes every bit of it.
5. Data shared with third parties
Google AdMob (advertising). Speak Notify is free and offers a rewarded ad that grants 7 days of app time.
The advertising system stays completely dormant until you tap "Watch ad" yourself. If you never tap it — or if you bought the lifetime unlock — no ad request is ever made and no advertising identifier is ever read.
Once you do tap it, Google may process your advertising ID, your IP address (which gives an approximate location such as your city or country, never a precise position), general device information, and your interaction with the ad, in order to serve and measure the ad. This is governed by Google's privacy policy, not ours. We never receive this data ourselves.
No notification content is ever included in an ad request. The advertising system has no access to notification data of any kind.
Google Play Billing (payments). If you buy the one-time lifetime unlock, Google Play handles the entire payment. We never see or receive your card number, billing address, or any payment detail. Google tells our app one thing only: whether this Google account owns the product. We store that answer as a single true/false value on your device.
6. Permissions we request
| Permission | What it is for |
|---|---|
Notification access (BIND_NOTIFICATION_LISTENER_SERVICE) |
The core function of the app. Android provides no other way to receive notification text so it can be spoken. Only the apps you pick are read. |
| See the list of installed apps that have a launcher icon | So the app-picker can show you app names and icons to choose from. We deliberately do not request QUERY_ALL_PACKAGES; we ask only for apps that appear in your launcher. |
| Show notifications | Only to warn you when your app time is nearly up. Reading notifications aloud does not use this. |
| Internet / network state | Only to load a rewarded ad when you tap to watch one, and to complete a purchase through Google Play |
Speak Notify does not request access to your location, camera, microphone, contacts, SMS, call log, or storage.
7. Third-party services
- Google AdMob — policies.google.com/privacy
- Google Play Billing — policies.google.com/privacy
- Android text-to-speech engine — provided by your device; on most phones this is Google Speech Services, governed by policies.google.com/privacy
We do not use Firebase Analytics, crash reporting, attribution SDKs, or any other analytics service.
8. Data retention
Notification content is retained for as long as it takes to speak it, and no longer. Nothing is written to storage.
Your settings live on your phone and are removed when you uninstall the app. Your purchase record is held by Google Play, not by us.
9. Children
Speak Notify is not directed to children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect any information from children.
10. Your rights
You can revoke notification access at any time in Android's system settings, and the app will immediately stop receiving any notification data.
You can delete everything the app holds by uninstalling it, or by using Android's "Clear storage" option in the system app settings.
Since we hold no personal data on any server, there is nothing for us to export, correct, or erase on your behalf.
11. International users
The app itself processes everything locally, wherever you are. Data handled by Google (ads, payments, and the system text-to-speech engine) may be processed on Google's servers in other countries under Google's own privacy terms.
12. Security
Notification content exists only in the app's memory and is never written to disk, so there is no stored copy to protect or to leak. Your settings are kept in Android's private per-app storage, which the operating system isolates from other apps. Because we operate no server, there is no central database that could be breached.
13. Changes to this policy
If we change how the app handles data, we will update this page and change the "Last updated" date above. Meaningful changes will also be noted in the app's release notes on Google Play.
14. Contact
Questions about this policy or about the app:
Email: support@prime-techapp.com
Website: www.prime-techapp.com