Lovegroove

Privacy Policy

Effective 7 October 2026

Lovegroove keeps a diary of the records, CDs and tapes you play. It has no server of its own and no accounts: your listening history stays on your iPhone. Data only leaves your phone to recognise a song, to look up music information, or to reach a music service you have chosen to connect. Lovegroove does not track you, show ads, use analytics, or sell or share your data.

Who we are

Lovegroove is made by Pablo Zamorano, an independent developer. Questions about this policy or your data: hello@lovegroove.app.

Microphone and song recognition

Lovegroove uses the microphone only while you have asked it to listen: after you tap the record, the Listen button on the lock screen or in Control Center, or ask Siri. During a listening session it may listen again briefly to follow the record, for example after you flip a side. Your iPhone shows its microphone indicator whenever the microphone is on.

To identify a song, Lovegroove sends Apple's ShazamKit service a signature of the sound (a fingerprint, not a recording). Lovegroove never records, stores or shares your audio. Apple's handling of this is covered by Apple's privacy policy.

What stays on your iPhone

• Your listening history: song, artist, album, format, genre and style, when you played it, and a link to the cover art. Insights are calculated from it on the phone.
• Your settings and the records you've told Lovegroove to use for a song (“Wrong record?”).
• Sign-in tokens for the services you connect, kept in the iPhone's secure Keychain.

You can delete entries from History at any time, or export your history as a spreadsheet. Deleting the app removes all of this data from your phone. Lovegroove has no copy anywhere else.

Services you choose to connect

All of these are optional. Lovegroove only talks to them on your behalf once you connect them, and you can disconnect each one in Lovegroove's settings at any time. Disconnecting removes its sign-in tokens and settings from your phone. You can also revoke Lovegroove's access from the service's own website.

• Last.fm: the songs you play are sent to your Last.fm profile as scrobbles and “now playing” updates, and Lovegroove can love songs for you. Last.fm privacy policy.
• Discogs: Lovegroove reads your collection to find the record you're playing, and can add records to your wantlist. Discogs privacy policy.
• TIDAL: Lovegroove looks up the songs you play, can add them to your favourites, save albums, and add played songs to a playlist of your choosing. TIDAL privacy notice.
• Apple Music: Lovegroove can add songs and albums to your library and played songs to a playlist. Apple's privacy policy.
• Spotify (Labs): you connect through a Spotify developer app you create yourself, and its Client ID is kept on your phone. Lovegroove looks up the songs you play, and can add them to your Liked Songs, save albums, and add played songs to a playlist. It never reads your Spotify listening history. Spotify privacy policy.

Looking up music information

To show covers, album details, song lengths and links, Lovegroove sends song, artist and album names to Discogs, Apple's iTunes Search and Last.fm. These requests carry no personal information beyond what any internet connection involves, such as your IP address.

Sharing

Nothing is shared unless you tap Share. A shared link opens lovegroove.app and contains only the song, artist, album, format, and the song's Apple Music and TIDAL catalogue numbers, never your name or accounts. The website is hosted on GitHub Pages and looks up the song with Apple's iTunes Search. GitHub's handling of visits is covered by GitHub's privacy statement.

Photos

If you save a share card, Lovegroove asks for permission to add images to your photo library. It cannot see or read your photos.

Siri, lock screen and Control Center

Siri commands, the lock-screen panel and the Control Center button run on your phone and only control Lovegroove.

Your rights

Because Lovegroove keeps no data about you outside your phone, you control it directly: delete history entries, disconnect services, or delete the app. For data held by Last.fm, Discogs, TIDAL or Apple, use their own privacy tools. If you have a question or concern, email the address above. If you're in the UK or EU, you can also complain to your data protection authority (in the UK, the ICO).

Children

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

Changes

If this policy changes, the new version will be posted on this page with a new effective date.

This application uses Discogs’ API but is not affiliated with, sponsored or endorsed by Discogs. ‘Discogs’ is a trademark of Zink Media, LLC.