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Babbly Privacy Policy

Effective date: 10 November 2026

In short: Babbly works entirely on your phone. It listens to the videos in your photo library on the phone itself to find your child's voice, keeps its results on your phone, and sends nothing to me or anyone else. There is no account, no ads and no analytics, and the app collects no data.

1. Who this policy applies to

This policy covers the Babbly app (“Babbly: Baby Voice Album” on the App Store) for iPhone and Android (bundle ID and package com.shiponfriday.voiceyears), made by Onkar Sarvade (“I”, “me”) under the name Ship on Friday.

2. What the app can see

Babbly asks for access to the videos in your photo library, because its job is to listen to them. On Android it asks only for videos, not photos or audio files.

  • It reads each video’s sound to find moments where a child talks, babbles, sings, laughs or (if you turn it on) cries, and the video’s date, to put moments in order.
  • It shows thumbnails of those videos and plays them back inside the app.
  • On iPhone, if you turn on Include iCloud videos, it asks Photos to download videos kept only in iCloud so it can listen to them. That download goes between your phone and Apple’s iCloud, not to me.

The listening is done by a small sound model (YAMNet, by Google, run with TensorFlow Lite) that is part of the app and runs on your phone. It recognises kinds of sound, not who is speaking, and it does not look at faces.

3. What the app stores on your phone

  • Moments: for each video, where in the video the child’s voice is, what kind of sound it is (talking, laughing, crying) and the date. Not copies of your videos.
  • The name and birthday you enter, if you enter them, and your settings.
  • Hidden and loved marks, and whether you own Pro.
  • Films you make, until you save or share them; then only where you put them.

All of this stays on your phone and is removed when you uninstall the app.

4. What leaves your phone

Nothing, unless you choose to send it:

  • Save puts a film you made into your photo library.
  • Share opens your phone’s share menu; the film goes only where you send it.
  • The app has no server, no account, no ads, no analytics and no tracking. I don’t receive your videos, moments, your child’s name or birthday, or anything else.

5. Purchases

Babbly Pro is a one-time in-app purchase handled by the App Store on iPhone, under Apple’s privacy policy, and by Google Play on Android, under Google’s own privacy policy. The app asks the store whether you own Pro and remembers the answer on your phone. I receive only what the store shares with developers about an order.

6. Sharing and selling

I don’t collect your data, so I don’t sell or share it.

7. Children

Babbly is used by parents and is not directed at children. It finds children’s voices in the parent’s own videos, on the parent’s phone. I don’t collect information from anyone, including children: the moments, names and birthdays stay on the phone.

8. Changes and contact

If this policy changes, I’ll update it here and change the effective date above.

Questions about privacy: message me on Instagram, @shiponfriday.