Local by default
Core recording, saving, browsing, mapping, and playback are built around files and metadata stored in EchoAtlas’s iOS app container.
Private by design
Your sound map stays yours.
EchoAtlas is a local-first iPhone app. Your Echoes, recordings, photos, routes, and notes stay in the app’s storage unless you explicitly choose to export or share them.
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At a glance
A private place for the sounds that matter.
You initiate access
The app asks for microphone or location permission only when the related feature needs it. Photos are limited to images you explicitly choose with Apple’s picker.
No profile of you
There is no EchoAtlas account, advertising identifier, analytics profile, cross-app tracking, or third-party SDK.
Privacy Policy
Clear answers, without the legal fog.
This policy describes how EchoAtlas handles information when you use the iOS app and this privacy website. In short: the developer does not collect your app data, EchoAtlas does not track you, and your content is not sent to an EchoAtlas server.
App Store privacy summaryNo data collected · No tracking
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Information & storage
What the app handles
EchoAtlas handles the information below to provide the feature you request. It is stored locally and is not collected by the developer. Files are protected using iOS data protection after your iPhone has first been unlocked following a restart.
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Echo recordings
Audio you record or import, recording duration, format, channel mode, and locally generated waveform data. These files remain inside EchoAtlas’s app storage until you delete them or explicitly share them.
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Places & Journey routes
Coordinates you choose to attach to an Echo, place names returned by Apple, and timestamped route points from a Journey you explicitly start. Ordinary location requests are one-time; continuous tracking is limited to an active Journey.
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Details you add
Titles, notes, tags, favorites, Journey names and descriptions, selected photos, dates, and the relationship between an Echo and a Journey. This information is stored locally in the app’s database.
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App preferences
Settings such as recording format, mono, stereo or Spatial Audio preference, recommended recording length, and whether the introduction has been shown. EchoAtlas uses these only to remember how you configured the app.
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Permissions
Access is tied to a feature
iOS controls every sensitive permission. You can decline access or change it later in Settings. EchoAtlas does not attempt to work around your choice.
Journey background location
Continuous location updates run only while a Journey you explicitly started is active. They may continue while the app is in the background when you grant the required access, and stop immediately when you end the Journey. Force-quitting the app prevents continued tracking until you reopen it.
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Apple services & sharing
When information may leave the app
Maps and place names
Apple Maps and Apple’s reverse-geocoding services may use the network to display map content and turn coordinates into readable place names. Apple processes those requests under Apple’s own privacy policy; EchoAtlas does not receive an advertising or analytics profile from Apple.
Exports and the share sheet
When you tap Share, EchoAtlas prepares the selected audio and metadata locally and hands them to Apple’s system share sheet. Only the destination you choose receives those items, subject to that destination’s privacy practices.
Device backups
iOS may include app information in an encrypted device or iCloud backup according to your Apple settings. EchoAtlas does not operate those backups or have access to them.
No third-party SDKs
EchoAtlas does not embed advertising, analytics, social, attribution, or third-party data-broker SDKs. It does not sell or rent information.
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Retention & deletion
You decide how long memories remain
Echoes and their private audio, photo, and waveform files remain on the device until you delete them or remove the app. Temporary drafts and share exports are managed inside the app’s storage. Apple-managed backups may retain earlier copies according to your backup and retention settings.
- Delete an EchoRemoves its locally managed recording, photo, waveform, and metadata.
- Delete a JourneyRemoves the Journey while its Echoes remain available as standalone memories.
- Delete the appRemoves its on-device container from that iPhone, subject to Apple-managed backups.
Your controls
Your iPhone, your choices.
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Change microphone or location access in iOS Settings.
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End an active Journey at any time to stop its continuous route tracking.
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Edit locations and photos, delete Echoes or Journeys, or uninstall EchoAtlas.
- 4
Share only the Echo and metadata you select, with the destination you choose.
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This website
A static policy, without trackers
This privacy website does not provide accounts, forms, advertising, analytics, behavioral tracking, or non-essential cookies. The hosting infrastructure may process standard network information needed to securely deliver the page, such as an IP address and request metadata, under the provider’s own terms.
Children and changes to this policy
EchoAtlas does not knowingly collect personal information from children or anyone else because the developer does not collect app content. If the app’s privacy practices materially change, this page will be updated and its effective date will change.
Contact
Questions about privacy?
Email the EchoAtlas developer directly. Please do not include recordings, exact locations, or other sensitive app content in an initial support request.
[email protected]