Privacy Policy

Last updated: October 20, 2026

Quiz Aloud is an iPhone, iPad and Mac flash-card app that listens for spoken answers. It is built so that what you say stays on your device. This policy explains what the app handles and where it lives.

Questions? Email quizaloud@bladon.ca. It goes straight to a real person. Emailing us is separate from the app, which never sends anything on your behalf.

The short version

• Quiz Aloud has no accounts, no servers, no analytics, no tracking and no advertising.
• Spoken answers are turned into text on your device by Apple’s speech recognition, checked against the answer, and discarded. Audio is never saved or uploaded.
• Your scores and streaks are stored only on the device you play on.
• Purchases are handled by Apple, behind a grown-up gate.

What Quiz Aloud handles

• Microphone: used only while a quiz is on screen, to hear the answer. It is switched off when the quiz ends.
• Speech recognition: the microphone audio is transcribed on your device using Apple’s on-device speech recognition. The text is used to check the answer and show what was heard, then thrown away. Neither the audio nor the text is stored or sent anywhere.
• Quiz statistics: for each quiz, how many questions were answered or skipped, the best streak and the time spent. These are kept in the app on your device and are not synced or shared.
• Settings: your choices such as difficulty, read-aloud, sound and haptics, saved on your device.

When Speak question aloud is on, questions are read out by Apple’s built-in text-to-speech voice on your device.

What touches the network

Quiz Aloud does not send your content to us or to any third party. The only network activity is Apple’s own:

• The first time you play, your device may download Apple’s speech recognition model for your language. This is a download from Apple. Nothing about you or your answers is sent.
• App Store purchases and restoring purchases.

These are governed by Apple’s privacy practices.

Children

Quiz Aloud is made for children to use, with a grown-up nearby. It does not collect personal information from anyone, children included: there are no accounts, no names, no contact details, no voice recordings, no identifiers, no analytics and no ads. Nothing a child says or does in the app leaves the device.

Any purchase screen is reached only through an “Ask a Grown-Up” gate, which asks for a four-digit code written out in words and locks briefly after repeated wrong tries.

Your controls

• You can turn off microphone or speech recognition access at any time in your device’s Settings. Quiz Aloud can’t hear answers without them.
• Deleting the app deletes its statistics and settings from that device.

Purchases

Quiz Aloud offers one optional one-time purchase that unlocks every quiz beyond the free ones. Nothing renews. If Ask to Buy is turned on for a child’s Apple Account, the request goes to a parent, and the quizzes unlock once it’s approved. Purchases are handled entirely by Apple through the App Store. Apple manages the purchase and your payment details; Quiz Aloud never sees your payment information.

Changes

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