Musicly

What the app stores

Your library, likes, playlists, play counts, recently played songs, settings, your Jam name and your lyrics choices, in the app's storage.

If you connect Telegram: your bot's token and name, your chat with the bot, and the channels and songs it found.

Songs from Telegram are saved to the Music/Musicly folder so they play offline. You can turn this off.

A backup file, Download/Musicly/musicly-backup.json, holds your likes, playlists, play history and channel names, but not your bot token.

The songs and the backup file stay on your phone after you uninstall the app.

Telegram (optional)

If you set up a Telegram bot, Musicly uses your own bot through Telegram's Bot API to read the channels you add and download their songs. It also saves your backup as a pinned file in your private chat with the bot. Telegram handles this under its privacy policy.

Lyrics and radio

To find lyrics, the title and artist of each song you play are sent to LRCLIB (lrclib.net), along with anything you type into a lyrics search.

Radio searches go to Radio Browser (radio-browser.info), which also counts each station you play. "Near you" uses your phone's country setting, not your location.

When you play a station, its stream comes from the station's own server, which sees your IP address.

Jam on your Wi-Fi

When you host a Jam on Wi-Fi, your phone tells every device on the same network the Jam's name, your name and how many people have joined.

Guests on the network can see your songs and covers and add songs to the queue. Songs guests send you are kept only until the Jam ends.

This traffic isn't encrypted, so host Jams on networks you trust.

Online Jam (optional)

Online Jams only start when you host or join one. They use ntfy.sh, a free public message relay. It carries the Jam's name, everyone's display names, what's playing and queued, and who added or changed what. Anyone who knows the Jam code can read these messages, which ntfy.sh keeps for about 12 hours.

To let guests listen, the host uploads the audio of the current and next songs, their cover art, and the list of the host's song titles to temporary public file hosts: litterbox.catbox.moe, uguu.se and tmpfiles.org. Guests' added songs are uploaded the same way.

These hosts delete the files after 3 to 12 hours. Until then, anyone with a file's link can download it. Only share music you have the right to share.

Permissions

Music and audio: to find songs on your phone, only if you turn on the phone scan.

Notifications and running in the background: for playback with the lock screen and notification player.

Storage on older Android versions: to save songs and the backup file.

Wi-Fi multicast: to find Jams on your network.

Internet: for the services above.

Sharing

Musicly doesn't sell your data. Apart from the services and Jam features above, nothing leaves your phone.

Deleting your data

Disconnect Telegram in the app to remove your bot from it. Delete the pinned backup in your chat with the bot in Telegram.

Uninstalling the app removes its storage, but not the songs in Music/Musicly or the backup in Download/Musicly; delete those in your Files app.

Jam messages and uploaded files expire on their own within about 12 hours.

Children

Musicly isn't aimed at children.

Phone backups

If you've turned on backup to your Google account in Android's settings, Android may include Musicly's saved data in that backup. The backup belongs to your Google account and isn't sent to me.

Changes to this policy

If the app starts handling data differently, this page will be updated before that version is released, and the date above will change.

Contact

Musicly is made by Kidus Yohannes. Questions about this policy or your data: kidyoh789@gmail.com.