Striae Privacy Policy

Last updated: October 17, 2026

The short version: Striae collects nothing. There are no accounts with us, no analytics, no ads, and no tracking. Your music, your credentials, and your listening history stay on your device and on servers you control.

Who we are

Striae is a music player app for iOS, iPadOS, Apple Watch, and Android that plays music from media servers you own or control — Plex, Jellyfin, and Subsonic-compatible servers — and, on Android, music stored on your device. It is developed independently and operates no backend services of its own.

What we collect

Nothing. Striae does not collect, transmit, sell, or share any personal data with the developer or with third parties. The app contains no analytics frameworks, no advertising SDKs, no crash-reporting services, and no tracking of any kind.

Where your data lives

Everything Striae knows about you stays under your control:

Server credentials — your Jellyfin or Subsonic username and password are stored on your device, encrypted by the operating system (the Keychain on iOS; encrypted storage backed by the Android Keystore on Android). Your Plex sign-in token is stored on your device the same way. Credentials are sent only to the server you configured, over the connection that server provides.
Music on your device (Android) — if you choose "Local Device," Striae reads the audio files in the folder you pick (or Android's media library) to build your library. The resulting index of titles, artists, albums, and cover art is stored only in the app's private storage on your device. Your files are never uploaded or modified.
Listening history and statistics — your play history, activity rings, and recaps are computed and stored entirely on your device. They are never uploaded anywhere by Striae.
Playback progress and play counts — if you enable "Sync plays," Striae reports playback progress to your own media server so your library reflects what you've listened to. This goes only to the server you signed into.
Downloads and artwork — music you download for offline listening and cached album artwork are stored locally on your device.
Apple Watch — the watch app receives playback state and library data directly from your paired iPhone using Apple's device-to-device communication. Nothing passes through third-party servers.

Services the app talks to

Striae communicates only with services you choose and configure:

Your media server (Plex, Jellyfin, or a Subsonic-compatible server such as Navidrome) — for browsing, streaming, lyrics, artwork, favorites, and playlists. These servers are operated by you, and their handling of your data is under your control.
plex.tv — if you sign in with Plex, the app contacts Plex's authentication service to complete sign-in and discover your servers. That interaction is governed by Plex's privacy policy. Striae itself stores only the resulting access token, on your device.
Your Ollama server (optional) — if you connect the experimental AI features to a self-hosted Ollama server, your playlist prompts and a summary of your library catalog (on iOS), or the title and artist of the song you're playing (on Android), are sent to that server. You operate it; nothing is shared with the developer or any AI provider.
Apple system services — features like Siri playback requests and on-device lyric translation are provided by Apple's frameworks on your device. Translation may download language models from Apple. These are governed by Apple's privacy policy.

Children

Striae is not directed at children and collects no data from anyone, including children.

Your rights

Privacy regulations such as the GDPR and CCPA give you rights over data that companies hold about you. Striae's developer holds no data about you, so there is nothing to access, correct, export, or delete on our side. To remove everything Striae stores locally, delete the app; to remove play history synced to your media server, use your server's own tools.

Changes to this policy

If a future version of Striae ever changes what data is handled — for example, adding optional crash reporting — this policy will be updated before that version ships, and the "Last updated" date above will change.

Contact

Questions about privacy? Email rookie_skid.1s@icloud.com.