EarMatch Privacy Policy

Last updated: November 12, 2026

In short: EarMatch has no ads and no tracking. Your liked songs, playlists and preferences stay on your phone. If you choose to use Friends, we store a small profile so the friends you accept, and the people in parties you join, can see it. We never sell your personal data.

What stays on your device

EarMatch saves the following only on your iPhone, so the app can remember them between sessions:

• The songs you like and the playlists you make
• The artists you pick and the music taste the app learns from your likes and dislikes
• Your app language and other settings
• What EarMatch's home screen and lock screen widgets show: today's song, your streak and counts, and how many game invites are waiting

Unless you use Friends (below), this information is never sent to us. It is deleted when you delete the app.

Friends (optional)

Friends is optional, and the rest of EarMatch works without it. If you sign in to Friends (with Apple, Google, or an email and password), EarMatch stores the following on Google Firebase, which runs our servers:

• An account ID and the email address of your Apple, Google or email account. With Apple's "Hide My Email", we get a private relay address instead of your real one. Your password is handled by Firebase and never seen by us.
• The username you pick, the name you set in EarMatch, and, if you choose one, a Memoji or Genmoji sticker as your profile picture (profiles can't have photos)
• A record that your username belongs to your account, so no one else can take it while it's yours. Changing your username or deleting your account frees the old one
• How many trophies you've unlocked, which sets your level
• Your profile: how many songs you've liked and swiped, your streaks, the trophies you've unlocked, your top artists and genres, your favorite songs and your 100 most recently liked songs
• Your friends, the friend requests you send and receive, and the people you block
• Your "It's a match!" games: who played, both players' names, the songs in the game, which ones each player liked or skipped, and when each player finished, for games of 20 to 100 songs
• Party mode: the parties you start, join or are invited to. For each party we store the host's name, its 6-character party code, the kind of music, the songs in it, who was invited and who joined, and when it started. For each person in the party we store their name, username and Memoji, which songs they liked or skipped, and when they joined and were last active
• If you allow notifications: a notification ID for your phone and your app language, so we can tell you about friend requests, game invites and results, and party invites, in your language

Anyone signed in to Friends can find your username, name and level by searching. Only people you've accepted as friends can see the rest of your profile. You can remove or block anyone at any time.

Only the two players can see an "It's a match!" game, including which songs each of you liked. Either player can delete a game at any time. The songs you both liked go into a playlist with that friend, which is saved only on your phone.

Anyone in a party can see who else is in it, with their names, usernames and Memoji, and which songs each person liked. Any song at least two people like goes into the party playlist, where anyone in the party can tap “Who liked this” on a song to see the names, usernames and Memoji of everyone who liked it. The playlist is saved on each person's phone. You can invite friends, and anyone signed in who has the party code (or scans its QR code) can join while the party is open, so people in a party may not be your friends. Share a code only with people you want there. A party closes for new people after a day, and someone the host has blocked can't join. The host can end and delete a party for everyone, and anyone else can leave it at any time, which deletes their swipes.

Notifications are delivered through Firebase Cloud Messaging and Apple's push notification service. You can turn them off anytime in your iPhone's Settings.

If someone reports a profile, EarMatch opens the reporter's email app with a message to us containing the reported username, name and account ID, the reason and any note. We review reports and can remove a name or an account that breaks the rules.

To delete all of this, open Friends, tap the gear icon and choose Delete account. Your profile, friends, games, parties and notification ID are removed from our servers right away: parties you host are deleted with everyone's swipes, and you leave every other party, taking your swipes with you, and if you signed in with Apple or Google, EarMatch's access to that account is revoked. Google's handling of this data is covered by the Firebase privacy information.

Music from Apple

To show you songs, EarMatch asks Apple's music services (the iTunes Search API and the Apple Music API) for charts, song previews, album artwork and artist details. These requests include your country, so you get local charts, and any artist or song names you search for. Short song previews are stored temporarily on your phone while they play and are deleted later. Apple's handling of this information is covered by Apple's Privacy Policy.

If you allow EarMatch to access Apple Music, the app uses it to show artist photos and names, find artists similar to the ones you like, and add songs you choose to your Apple Music library. If you turn on automatic adding in Settings, every song you like is added to your "EarMatch Playlist" in Apple Music; songs waiting to be added are kept only on your phone, and nothing is ever removed from your Apple Music. You can turn this off in EarMatch's Settings, and change Apple Music access anytime in your iPhone's Settings.

Moving songs to other apps

When you choose to open a song in Spotify, YouTube Music or Apple Music, EarMatch opens that app or website, and its own privacy policy applies. If you use the TuneMyMusic website to move a list of songs, the list you paste is handled by TuneMyMusic under its privacy policy. If you connect EarMatch to Spotify or YouTube to create a playlist, you sign in on their own pages, and the access they give EarMatch is used only to create that playlist and is not saved by us.

Reporting a song

If you report a song, EarMatch opens your email app with a message to us containing the song's name, artist and Apple ID, the reason you chose, and any note you add. You see the email and decide whether to send it. We use reports only to review and remove songs, and the message comes from your own email address. Songs you hide or report are remembered only on your phone.

What we don't do

• We don't use analytics or advertising tools.
• We don't track you across other apps or websites.
• We don't sell personal information, or share it with anyone other than the friends you accept and the people in parties you join.

Children

Most of EarMatch needs no account, and when you are signed out nothing personal is collected at all. Creating an account for Friends requires you to be at least 13 years old. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13; if we learn that an account belongs to someone under 13 we delete the account and everything stored with it. A parent or guardian who believes we hold such information can write to AEI@earmatchapp.com and we will remove it.

Changes to this policy

If this policy changes, the new version will be posted on this page with a new "Last updated" date.

Contact

Questions about privacy? Email AEI@earmatchapp.com.