The Papervoice app collects nothing unless you choose to send it.
Last updated: 28 October 2026
Nothing on its own. There is no account, no analytics, no crash reporting, no advertising identifier, and no telemetry of any kind.
We do not know how many books you have, which voices you use, how long you listen, or that you have opened the app at all. The app keeps a count of how long you have listened on your phone, so it can wait until you have really used it before asking anything; that count never leaves the phone.
These are the only things the app ever sends about you, and only when you press Send.
All three go to a Google Sheet that only the developer can open, and are used only to improve Papervoice and to reply to you. None of them ever includes your documents, their titles, or anything read from them. They are never sold or shared. Ask and we will delete anything you sent.
The app may also show Google Play's own "rate this app" dialog once per version. That dialog belongs to Google Play: what you choose there goes to Google, and the app is not told what you chose.
The PDFs you import stay on your device. They are read on your phone, by software running on your phone, and are never uploaded anywhere. Neither is the text taken from them, nor the audio generated from that text.
This is not a promise about our intentions; it is a property of how the app is built. Papervoice is open source, and anyone may check: github.com/shashankappu21/papervoice
Once per voice you choose to download, and when you send the questionnaire or feedback.
Selecting a natural voice downloads its model from a public address named in the app's source code. That request contains no information about you or your documents beyond the fact that a file was requested. Sending the questionnaire or feedback sends what is described above. The app makes no other network requests, and works fully offline otherwise.
There is no microphone, camera, contacts, or location access.
Before Papervoice was on Google Play, the home page took email addresses from people who wanted a beta invite. That form is closed; nothing new is collected this way.
The addresses already given are kept only to send those invites, with the date of sign-up and, where the link carried them, the campaign tags that brought the person to the page. They are never sold, and never shared beyond the service that stores the list and Google Play, which needs an address to issue an invite. Ask at any time and yours is deleted — or use the unsubscribe link in any email.
The site sets no cookies and loads nothing from third parties: the fonts, images, video and voice samples are served from this domain. If your link carried campaign tags, your browser keeps them for the length of the visit; the site sends them nowhere, and they are cleared when you close the tab. The site is hosted on GitHub Pages, whose servers see the usual request information, including your IP address.
The app collects no data from anyone, including children, beyond what someone chooses to send as described above.
If this ever changes, it will change here first, and the app's release notes will say so plainly. Anything less would make the rest of this document worthless.