Privacy Policy
Last updated: September 2026
The short version
Ariata is an instrument, not a service. It has no account, no sign-in, and no server of ours behind it. What you play stays on your device unless you deliberately share it. The one thing the app sends anywhere is what selling Ariata Pro needs, described below.
Data the app does not collect
Your performances, presets, and recordings are created and stored locally on your iPhone. We have no access to them. The app never opens the microphone: recordings and BGM exports capture the instrument’s own audio directly.
Motion data
If you use AirPods that support motion, Ariata reads head-motion data (via Apple’s CoreMotion framework) to shape the instrument’s register and resonance while you play. This data is processed on the device in real time and is never stored or transmitted. Head tracking is optional; the instrument plays fully without it.
Apple Intelligence
The mood feature turns a short text you type into an instrument preset using Apple’s on-device Foundation Models (Apple Intelligence). Your text is processed by Apple’s system on the device; we do not receive it. The feature is optional and the app is fully usable without Apple Intelligence.
Shared links
When you share a sound or a phrase, everything shared is encoded in the link itself — six preset values, a name, and optionally the notes of a phrase of up to sixteen bars. Nothing is uploaded or stored on a server; whoever receives the link receives all of it. This website renders a preview of such links from the link contents alone and stores nothing.
Ariata Pro
Pro is sold by Apple as an in-app purchase, under your Apple Account; we never see your payment details. To know whether Pro is active, the app uses RevenueCat, a purchase-management service. It receives two things from the app: the App Store purchase receipt, and an anonymous identifier the app makes up for the installation — no name, no email, no Apple Account, and nothing you play. RevenueCat keeps that purchase history to answer one question, whether Pro is active, and for nothing else. It is not linked to you as a person and is not used for tracking or advertising. RevenueCat’s own policy is at revenuecat.com/privacy.
This website
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Contact
Questions about this policy: support@ariata.app.