Privacy policy

Updated 7 November 2026. Publisher: EqualInformation, LLC.

Your songs and practice stay on your device

Fretnook has no accounts and runs no server that receives your songbook, chord choices, practice log or settings. They are kept in the app's private storage on your iPhone or iPad. Deleting the app deletes them, and we cannot see or recover them. Fretnook includes no copyrighted lyrics: the songs you write are yours alone.

Microphone

The optional Listen check asks for microphone access only when you open it. Sound is analysed on the device while the sheet is open to show which chord tones ring. It is never recorded, stored or sent anywhere, and nothing is listened to when the sheet is closed.

Advertising

The free app shows ads from Google AdMob. On first launch Fretnook asks for App Tracking Transparency permission and then, where the law requires, shows Google's privacy-choices form. If you decline tracking, ads are not personalised. AdMob may collect device identifiers, ad interactions and approximate location for advertising and measurement; this is described in Google's own policy. You can change your ad choices later in More, Ad privacy choices, where shown.

Subscription

The optional ad-free monthly subscription is handled by Apple. We receive no payment details. Manage or cancel it in Settings, then your Apple ID, then Subscriptions.

Children

Fretnook is not directed at children under 13 and does not knowingly collect their data.

Contact

Questions: bpupadhyaya@equalinformation.com, or see the support page.