Firebase Analytics
Usage statistics
A randomly generated app instance identifier, the screens you open, session counts, your device model, OS version, language and country (from your IP address), and the app version.
Srchtune
Privacy policy
Srchtune plays the music already on your phone. Your songs, your playlists and what you listen to stay on your device — and where the app does use outside services, this page names every one of them.
Last updated 2 October 2026
Who we are
Srchtune is a music player for Android, published by Srchout Software. There is no account, no sign-in and no profile — nothing to register and nothing for us to hold about you by name. For anything on this page, write to support@srchtune.com.
What stays on your device
The short version
Your music is never uploaded, copied or sent anywhere. It is read from your phone, played on your phone, and that is the end of it.
- Your audio files, in full. The app reads the music already stored on your phone.
- Your playlists, queue, play history and favourites.
- Your settings — theme, accent colour, language and the rest.
- The audio analysed for the beat-reactive lights, which never leaves the device. See permissions.
None of this is uploaded. Uninstalling the app removes all of it from your phone. To find artwork and identify songs, the app does send a song's title, artist and album name — never the file itself — as described in what the app sends.
What the app sends
Srchtune uses the outside services below. Each is named here with what it receives, because the data goes to those companies and is handled under their terms.
Their privacy policy
Firebase Crashlytics
Crash reporting
When the app crashes: a stack trace, the state of the device at the time, the app version and a pseudonymous installation identifier.
Microsoft Clarity
Product analytics
How the app is used — which features are reached and where people get stuck — together with device and app details.
Google AdMob
Advertising
Your device's advertising identifier, your interactions with ads, and device and network information, which may be used to personalise advertising.
Song details, for artwork and the catalogue
Srchtune catalogue
Identifying songs and artwork
The title, artist and album name written in a song's file, to look it up in our catalogue. When a song cannot be identified, those names and its length are kept, with a random identifier for your install, so it can be added to the catalogue. Nothing that names you is sent.
MusicBrainz, Apple, Deezer and Wikimedia
Public music catalogues
The same title, artist and album names, sent to MusicBrainz, the Apple iTunes Search API, Deezer, Wikimedia Commons and the Cover Art Archive to find cover art and artist photos the catalogue does not have yet. Turning off “Download missing artwork” in Settings stops the cover and photo lookups.
Error reports
Fixing problems
When something fails — an advertisement that will not load, a song that will not play — a short report goes to our servers: what failed and why, your device model and Android version, whether the app is a test build, the random install identifier and, for a song that will not play, its title.
About the advertising
Srchtune is free and paid for by ads. Where the law requires it — the EEA, the UK and several US states — the app shows Google's consent form on first launch and requests no advertisement until you have answered it. You can change your answer at any time from Settings → Privacy choices.
Artwork and the catalogue
The app and this website fetch artist and album artwork, and catalogue information, from our servers. Those requests carry your IP address, as every web request does. We use it to serve the response and for ordinary security logging, and we build no profile from it.
Permissions, and the reason for each
Refuse any of them and the feature that needs it stops working; the rest of the app carries on.
Your choices
- Advertising. Reset or delete your advertising identifier in your phone's settings — Android: Settings → Privacy → Ads; iOS: Settings → Privacy & Security → Tracking. In the EEA, the UK and several US states you can change your consent choices from inside the app at any time.
- Permissions. Every permission above can be revoked in your phone's settings.
- Everything at once. Uninstalling the app ends all collection and removes everything stored on your device.
Your rights
Depending on where you live you may have the right to ask what data is held about you, to have it corrected or deleted, or to object to its processing. Because there is no account, we cannot identify you from our side — the identifiers above are pseudonymous and held by the services named. Write to support@srchtune.com and we will help as far as those identifiers allow.
Children
Srchtune is not directed at children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect data from them. If you believe a child has provided information through the app, write to us and we will have it removed.
Changes and contact
If this policy changes, the date at the top changes with it, and material changes will be announced in the app or on this site.
Srchout Software — support@srchtune.com