Privacy Policy

Last updated: November 2026

1. Overview

VocaRead (“we”, “our”, “us”) respects your privacy. This Privacy Policy explains how we handle information when you use the VocaRead mobile application.

2. Data We Collect

We do not collect any personal data, and nothing we receive can identify you.

  • Your books, reading progress and settings stay on your device. Speech is generated entirely on-device.
  • To understand how VocaRead is used, the app sends anonymous usage counters to our content delivery network: app launches, installs and updates, voice engine downloads, and opening of the Premium screen. Each counter only includes the app version, iOS version, build type, interface language and the languages of installed voices.
  • These counters contain no identifier of any kind (no device, account, installation or advertising ID), so they cannot be linked to you or to each other. We do not store your IP address. We never record what you read, your purchases or your listening activity.
  • No tracking, no advertising, no third-party analytics, no cookies.

3. iCloud Sync

If you use iCloud, VocaRead can sync your reading progress, bookmarks, highlights, and custom pronunciations between your devices through your personal, private iCloud account (Apple CloudKit). This data is stored in your own iCloud space, protected by Apple, and is never accessible to us. You can disable iCloud for VocaRead at any time in iOS Settings.

4. Third-Party Services

VocaRead's voices run entirely on your device: the text of your books is never sent to a server to be read aloud. The app contacts a few outside services, for these purposes only. When you import an EPUB, it can send the book's ISBN, or its title and author, to public book catalogues to complete the title and author: Open Library, the Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF), the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek (DNB), and Google Books, for ISBNs only. When you download a book from Project Gutenberg, the file comes from gutenberg.org or one of its mirrors at pglaf.org, and the covers in that catalogue come from gutenberg.org. The optional translation runs on your device once its language pack is downloaded; the packs come from Google (ML Kit). VocaRead sends these services no account and no personal identifier, but like any internet request, they see your device's IP address. Each applies its own privacy policy.

5. Data Storage

All data (books, settings, progress) is stored locally on your iPhone or iPad. We have no access to your device data.

6. Children's Privacy

VocaRead does not collect personal data from anyone, including children under 13.

7. Changes

We may update this policy. Changes will be posted on this page with a new “Last updated” date.

8. Contact

Questions? Contact us at: contact@vocaread.com