Noteling app privacy

Last updated: 3 November 2026

This page is about Noteling, the free music-reading app for iPhone and iPad made by RaiseSteady. It is written for anyone who uses the app, and for anyone who checks an app before someone else uses it.

1. Who we are

1.1 The app is made and published by Nexodyne Limited, a company registered in England and Wales (company number 16539459), whose registered office is at 71–75 Shelton Street, Covent Garden, London WC2H 9JQ, United Kingdom ("we", "us"). We run RaiseSteady (raisesteady.com).

1.2 For anything about the app and privacy, email info@raisesteady.com.

2. What the app collects

2.1 Nothing. The app does not ask for a name, an email address, an age, a photo or a location. It has no account and no log-in. It does not read your contacts, your photos or your calendar, and it does not use the camera. It does not collect device identifiers.

2.2 The app sends nothing to us or to anyone else. It blocks every internet connection from inside the app, so it works in aeroplane mode. There are no adverts, no analytics and no tracking of any kind, and the app contains no third-party advertising or analytics code.

2.3 The app is free. There is nothing to buy inside it: no in-app purchases and no subscriptions.

2.4 Because the app collects nothing, there is nothing for us to store, share, sell or delete. This is why its App Store privacy label says "Data Not Collected".

3. What stays on your device

3.1 So that you can continue where you stopped, the app keeps a few things inside itself, on your iPhone or iPad only:

• your answers at the welcome: your instrument, how well you read, your daily goal and which note names you use;
• your progress: lessons done, stars, review dates, levels and badges, best scores and daily minutes;
• the tunes you save in Listen & Write, as notes (never as sound);
• your settings: language, note names, daily goal, sounds, tuning and microphone sensitivity.

3.2 This information never leaves your device on its own. Nobody at RaiseSteady can see it. It is not linked to any account, because the app has none.

3.3 Two things can leave the device, and only when you choose. "Save a copy" in Settings makes a file of your progress, and a saved tune can be shared as a MusicXML or MIDI file. Each opens the iOS share sheet, and you pick where the file goes: Files, AirDrop, Mail or another app. We never receive it. "Load a copy" in Settings reads such a file back into the app.

3.4 To delete everything the app saved, delete the app: touch and hold the app icon, tap Remove App, then Delete App. There is also "Delete everything" in Settings. There is nothing to delete on our side, because we never received anything.

3.5 If you back up your iPhone or iPad to iCloud or to a computer, the app's saved progress may be in that backup, like any other app's data. That backup is yours, under your Apple account. We have no access to it.

4. The microphone

4.1 The app listens so that it can hear which note you play or sing and write it on the staff, and so that playing games can check your answer. iOS asks for your permission once, the first time a listening screen or a playing game opens. You can change it at any time in the Settings app, under Noteling (on iOS 18 and later: Settings > Apps > Noteling). Without the microphone, lessons can still be answered on the screen.

4.2 The microphone is on only while a listening screen or a playing game is open. It is off everywhere else in the app.

4.3 The sound is analysed on your device as it arrives, to find the pitch of one note at a time. No audio is ever recorded, saved or sent anywhere. Only the notes the app hears are kept, on your device, as notes.

4.4 Speech and room sounds are not kept in any form. The app looks for musical pitch and nothing else.

5. What the app uses on your device

5.1 The app uses a few features of your iPhone or iPad. All of them work on the device, and none of them sends anything to us.

• Sounds. Notes and feedback sounds made by the app. You can turn them off in Settings.
• The microphone. See section 4.
• The share sheet. Opens only when you tap "Save a copy" or save a tune as a file. See 3.3.
• Language. The app starts in your device's language, if it is English, Russian or Georgian, and has its own language menu. Your choice stays in the app.

6. No internet

6.1 Nothing in the app opens a website, an email or a store. There are no social-media buttons and no links to other apps. The app blocks every web connection from inside itself, so it works in aeroplane mode. "About" under Settings shows these promises inside the app.

7. Children

7.1 The app is for anyone learning to read music. It is not aimed at children, and it asks nobody for an age. We do not collect personal information from children, or from anyone, through the app: not a name, not an age, not a device identifier, and not the sound of anyone's voice or instrument, which is never recorded.

7.2 Laws such as the UK General Data Protection Regulation (UK GDPR) and the US Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) set duties for companies that collect personal information from children. The app collects nothing, so there is nothing to share and no permission to ask for.

7.3 If you think the app has done something this page does not describe, please tell us at info@raisesteady.com. We will look into it and reply.

8. What this page does not cover

8.1 This page covers only the Noteling app for iPhone and iPad. The RaiseSteady website (raisesteady.com) and the web version of Noteling at raisesteady.com/noteling/ have their own Privacy Policy at raisesteady.com/nexodyne-privacy-policy, which describes what the website collects and your rights.

8.2 Apple handles the download and any updates through the App Store, under Apple's own privacy policy. Apple shows us overall numbers, such as how many times the app was downloaded, and crash reports only from people who chose to share them with app developers in their device's settings. None of this tells us who you are.

9. Changes to this page

9.1 We may update this page if the app changes. The date at the top shows when it last changed. If a future version of the app ever collected any data, this page and its App Store privacy label would say so first.

10. Contact