FLOWPHONIC Field Recorder

Privacy Policy

Last updated October 15, 2026

This policy covers Flowphonic, an Android app developed by Sleeping Giant Marketing Services Private Limited (“we”). It explains what the app does with your recordings, your voice, and any other data, in plain terms.

The short version: Flowphonic keeps no copy of your recordings anywhere but your phone. There's no account, no sign-in, and no cloud backup. The only thing the app sends to us is a short purchase check each time it opens — see “The purchase and security check” below. Everything you record stays on your own device until you choose to share or export it. Your library (titles, markers, transcripts) is encrypted. The audio files are ordinary WAV or M4A files in the app's private storage, protected by Android rather than by encryption of ours. The one exception is live speech-to-text: if the on-device setting is off, your phone is older than Android 13, or there's no on-device model for your language, your phone's speech service may send that audio to a server, usually Google's, not ours — see “Speech-to-text” below.

What Flowphonic stores

Recordings, markers, transcripts, and session details (titles, scene/take numbers, timestamps) are saved in the app's private storage on your device. Markers, transcripts, and session details are kept in an encrypted database. Recordings are saved as ordinary WAV or M4A files, protected by Android's app sandbox rather than extra encryption. A Lossless WAV also carries its scene, take, start time, and project name (if you picked one) in the file's own metadata, and that travels with the file when you export it. We never receive, see, or store this data ourselves: it stays on your phone. From version 1.0.1, Android's automatic app backup is turned off for Flowphonic, so your recordings are not copied into a Google backup of your phone. Uninstalling the app deletes everything it keeps on your phone. Anything you've shared or exported out of the app stays wherever you sent it.

Microphone access

Flowphonic only saves audio from a take you record. Between takes, while the Record screen is open, the microphone is also on so the level meters, Auto Record and pre-roll can work (it stays on if you switch to another tab). None of it goes into your library, apart from Lossless pre-roll (below). Depending on your settings it is held in memory, or written to a temporary file in the app's private cache, which Flowphonic deletes when a take starts, when you turn the mic off, or the next time the app opens. Lossless pre-roll holds the last five seconds in memory and writes them into a take only when a take starts, whether you press record or Auto Record starts it. The mic button on the Record screen turns the listening off.

Background recording is a setting, on by default. With it on, a persistent notification and a microphone foreground service keep a take recording while the app is in the background or the screen is off. For compressed qualities on Android 13 and newer, that also needs notification permission. With the setting off (or without that permission), recording only continues while Flowphonic stays open, so it keeps the screen on during the take. Background recording itself doesn't send anything anywhere.

Do Not Disturb

Flowphonic can turn on Do Not Disturb (Priority only) while a take is rolling, so an ordinary notification chime is unlikely to end up in a recording. This is optional and off until you turn it on in Settings. It uses Android's “Do Not Disturb access” permission, which you grant once in system Settings. Anything your phone lets through in Priority only mode, such as alarms or calls from contacts you've allowed, can still sound. Flowphonic never loosens a stricter mode you already have on, and it restores your previous setting when you stop. It does not read, store, or send your notifications or anything in them.

Speech-to-text

Flowphonic transcribes using Android's built-in speech recognition. Recognition stays entirely on your phone when you're on Android 13 or newer, your phone has an on-device speech service with a model for your language, and the “On-device speech engine” setting is on (it is by default). Transcribing a saved recording always works this way, whatever the setting: it needs the on-device model and never uses the network.

Live transcription during a take is the one exception. It can use your phone's network speech recognizer, usually Google's, if the setting is off, if your phone is older than Android 13 (there, Android can only be asked to prefer offline recognition), or if there's no on-device model for your language. The audio for that request then goes to that service under its own privacy policy, which for Google is Google's privacy policy. Flowphonic doesn't operate, receive, or store a copy of that data itself.

The purchase and security check

Flowphonic is a paid app. Each time it opens, it asks Google Play to confirm, with a quick security check, that the Google account on your phone still owns the app, for example that the purchase wasn't refunded. Google Play gives the app a sealed token; Flowphonic sends that token, plus a random one-time code, to a small service we run on Supabase, which opens it and replies “licensed” or “not licensed”.

What this tells us: that the request came from Flowphonic, whether it came from an official Google Play install of a genuine copy, and whether the account owns the app. It does not include your name, email, Google account ID, advertising ID, recordings, transcripts, or anything you've made in the app.

What is kept: our service logs only a one-word result (such as “licensed”). Like any internet service, the hosting provider's request logs also record your IP address, your approximate location (the city, region and country that the IP maps to), your device's browser-style user agent and the time. These logs are currently kept for one day. The hosting provider (Supabase) and Google Play act as service providers for this check.

If the check can't finish — you're offline, the service is down, or Google Play isn't available — the app simply opens as usual. Only a clear “not licensed” answer from Google Play, for example after a refund, locks the app, and that lock is remembered on your phone until Google Play says the account is licensed again. Your recordings are never deleted or changed by it.

Sharing and exporting

Exporting a recording, transcript, or marker file hands it to Android's own share sheet — the same one every app uses. You choose the destination (email, a messaging app, cloud storage) each time. Flowphonic never sends your files anywhere on its own.

What the app doesn't collect

Permissions Flowphonic declares

Android grants most of these at install. Flowphonic only prompts you for the microphone, for notifications on Android 13 and newer, and (by sending you to system Settings) for Do Not Disturb access.

Permissions declared by libraries

The libraries and standard app template Flowphonic is built on declare these as well. Apart from the purchase check described above, Flowphonic's own code makes no network requests; it also takes no wake lock, never asks for storage access and never uses your fingerprint or face.

Your recordings, your control

You can delete any session or marker from within the app at any time. Deleting a session also deletes its recording and transcript from your phone. Export anything you want to keep first: copies you've already shared stay wherever you sent them.

Children's privacy

Flowphonic isn't directed at children under 13. The app doesn't send your recordings or personal information to any server we run. The only thing it sends is the purchase check described above, which contains no personal details, so we don't knowingly collect data from children.

Changes to this policy

If this policy changes, we'll update the date at the top of this page.

Contact

Questions about this policy: hello@sleepingiantmarketing.com. If you write to us, we receive your email address and what you send.