Is my audio recorded or stored?

Your recording is sent to our servers to identify the verse or transcribe the speech, then deleted once that finishes. We keep no copy of it, and none of it is used for advertising or sold to anyone. The processing providers we route through may retain request content for a short period, up to 30 days in some cases, purely for security and abuse monitoring. Nothing is kept as a permanent recording, by us or by them. Our Privacy Policy sets out the full retention picture.

How each feature handles audio:

1. Detect: the clip (up to 15 seconds) is uploaded, saved only as a temporary file while it's matched against the Quran and checked for the reciter's voice, and then deleted. This happens whether a match is found or not.
2. Live: speech is sent in short chunks over an encrypted connection to the RecitID server, which passes them on for transcription. Each chunk is deleted as soon as it has been transcribed.
3. Reciter identification: the clip is deleted on every outcome, including errors.

What is kept: the results, not the audio. On your phone RecitID keeps your detection history (which verse and reciter were found) and your Live transcripts as text. Detection history is also saved to your account when you're signed in. Live transcripts stay only on the phone where you recorded them and are never synced.

You're in control:

1. Delete a detection from "Recently Identified" or Detection History.
2. Delete a Live session by swiping it under Recent Sessions, or with "Delete" on its review screen.
3. Signing out removes your account's data from the phone, and deleting your account removes it from our servers.

On the Live tab, the "Privacy" link opens "Live & your privacy" ("Privacy in Live" on Android), which explains what is sent and where transcripts are stored.