SynthMaker · Privacy

Applies to SynthMaker for iPhone, iPad and Mac, published by ViDesk Ltd (the data controller). Last updated 23 October 2026.

Your sounds, songs and settings stay on your device. Only the community, if you join it, keeps data on our server.

No tracking

SynthMaker has no advertising, no analytics and no tracking. We don't sell or share your data for advertising, and we don't follow you across other apps or websites.

What stays on your device

• Your sounds, songs, clips, visuals and the videos you make. They live in the app's folder on your device (and in Files, if you open them there).
• Your settings, tutorial progress and choices such as which AI model to use.

None of this is sent to us. Videos you save go to your Photos library only when you choose to save them; the app asks for permission first. Like other app data, these files may be included in your own iCloud or computer backups, which Apple handles under its own privacy policy.

The AI features

When you describe a change ("make it darker"), your request and the sound's settings go to the AI model you choose in Settings:

• Apple on-device: nothing leaves your device.
• Apple Private Cloud Compute: processed by Apple under its Private Cloud Compute privacy guarantees; not stored and not available to us.
• Your own server (for example LM Studio on your Mac): sent only to the address you enter, under that server's terms.

We never receive your AI requests.

The community (only if you join)

Anyone can read the in-app community (Ask the developer and the chat) without an account. To post, you sign in with Apple, choose a name and accept the community rules. Then we keep:

• Your account: an account ID, and the email address Sign in with Apple shares with us. You can choose Apple's "Hide My Email", which gives us a private relay address instead of your real one. We use it only to run your account; we don't send newsletters.
• Your profile: the name you choose, which is shown publicly next to what you post.
• What you post: your questions, replies and chat messages, with the time they were posted. These are public: anyone using SynthMaker can read them.
• Safety records: reports you make (with a copy of the reported post), the accounts you block (visible only to you), and a log of when you post, used for rate limits.

We use this data only to run the community and keep it safe: to show posts, enforce the rules, review reports and prevent abuse. When someone posts a question or makes a report, a notification with that text and the author's name is sent to a private channel the developer uses for moderation (on Discord).

The legal bases are our contract with you (running the community you joined) and our legitimate interest in keeping it safe (moderation and abuse prevention).

Where it is stored

Community data is stored with our hosting provider, Supabase, on servers in the European Union (Ireland). Sign-in uses Apple's Sign in with Apple. Like any server, ours records technical information such as IP addresses in short-lived logs for security and to keep the service running.

Deleting your account

In SynthMaker, open Community › your account › Delete account. After you confirm it's you, we delete your account, your profile and everything you posted. Your sounds and songs on your device are not affected. To also stop using Sign in with Apple with SynthMaker, open Settings on your device, tap your name, find Sign in with Apple, choose SynthMaker and tap Stop Using; the app shows you how.

A few safety records are kept, only as long as they are needed for moderation:

• reports you made about other people's posts, with your name removed;
• reports others made about your posts, with the copy of the reported post they include;
• if your account was banned for breaking the rules, a one-way fingerprint of your sign-in, so the ban still applies if you return.

Your rights

You can ask for a copy of your community data, ask us to correct it, or object to how we use it, by writing to us. You can delete your account yourself at any time in the app. If you are in the UK or the EU, you can also complain to your data protection authority (in the UK, the Information Commissioner's Office).

Children

The community is not meant for children under 13, and we don't knowingly collect data from them. If you believe a child has joined, write to us and we'll delete the account.

Changes

If this policy changes, we'll update this page and the date above, and tell you in the app if the change is important.

Support and contact

Questions, bugs or ideas? Ask in the app (Community › Ask the developer), join us on Discord, watch the tutorials on YouTube, or write to ViDesk Ltd at support@synthmaker.com.