Privacy policy
Effective 7 October 2026
APPxygen is a one-person studio run by Seree Woradechjamroen in Thailand. This policy covers the Foldman app, the AP-7 app once it is released, and this website. Each has its own section, because each works a little differently.
Foldman
Foldman collects no personal data. Your music, labels and folders never leave your phone. From version 1.0.1 it sends anonymous usage counts, which you can switch off.
This section covers the Foldman app for Android, including the version on Google Play when it arrives.
What the app collects
Only anonymous usage counts, from version 1.0.1 (version 1.0 sends nothing). They tell us which parts of Foldman get used, so we know what to improve:
- What you do: folding and unfolding the phone, loading a tape, pressing play, flip, eject, rewind or fast-forward, changing a setting (and the value you picked), editing a label, the maintenance bench, adding a music folder, adding the home-screen widget.
- How long and how often: session length, number of sessions and days used.
- About the device: phone model, Android version, Foldman version, screen size, language, region and time zone, and accessibility settings such as font size.
- A random ID made when Foldman is installed, so a second session on the same phone isn't counted as a new person. It isn't linked to your name, Google account or phone number, and it's gone when you uninstall Foldman or clear its data.
Foldman never sends your music, song titles, artists, album names, labels, folder names or anything you type. It has no accounts, no ads and no crash reporting.
The counts are sent to TelemetryDeck, a German analytics company with servers in Germany and the Netherlands, which processes them for us. TelemetryDeck doesn't store IP addresses, and it hashes the random ID on your phone and again on its server, so nobody can trace it back. We look only at totals, such as how many tapes were loaded this week.
To switch it off: open the service hatch and set USAGE STATS to OFF. Foldman stops sending right away.
What stays on your phone
- Your music. With your permission, Foldman reads the audio files on your phone, or only the folders you choose, along with their tags and cover art. It plays them on the device and never copies them anywhere.
- Your tapes. The labels you write, where each tape stopped, tape wear and your settings are saved in the app's private storage.
If Android backup is turned on for your Google account, Android may include these settings in your device backup. That backup is run by Google under your account's settings, not by Foldman, and you can turn it off in Android's settings.
Permissions
- Music and audio (READ_MEDIA_AUDIO, or storage on Android 12 and older): to find your albums and play them.
- Notifications: to show the playing tape and its controls on the lock screen and in the notification shade.
- Foreground service for media playback: so music keeps playing when you close the phone or switch apps.
- Vibration: for the small bump you feel when you press a key.
- Internet (from version 1.0.1): only to send the anonymous usage counts above.
Children
Foldman is not directed at children and collects no personal data from anyone, including children.
AP-7
AP-7 is not released yet. This section describes how it handles data and applies from the day it is released. If anything changes before then, this section will be updated first.
What APPxygen collects
Nothing. AP-7 has no accounts, no ads, no analytics and no crash reporting. APPxygen never receives your recordings, transcripts or keys.
Your recordings
- Recordings are WAV files saved on your phone, in AP-7's own folder.
- Export copies a tape to the shared Recordings/AP-7 folder, where your file manager, other apps and a computer over USB can reach it. Share sends a tape to the app you choose.
- A transcript is saved next to its tape on your phone and is deleted with it.
Cloud transcription (off by default)
Cloud transcription stays off until you pick a service in settings: Google Gemini, ElevenLabs, OpenAI, or your own server. Even then, a tape is uploaded only when you tap transcribe on that tape. It is converted to a smaller audio file and sent straight from your phone to the service you picked, using your own API key.
That service receives the audio and returns the text. It handles your data under its own terms and privacy policy, which you should read before you turn it on. APPxygen is not part of that exchange. Cloud services are always reached over an encrypted (https) connection. If you use your own server, you choose its address and how it is reached.
Brain AI
When you ask brain AI to summarize, explain or rewrite a transcript, the transcript text and the instruction for that action are sent to the AI server you set up in settings (for example your own Ollama or LM Studio, or a proxy). The result is saved with the transcript on your phone. Nothing is sent until you set up a server and tap an action.
Your keys
API keys and server addresses stay on your phone, in AP-7's private storage. They are left out of Android's cloud backup and out of device-to-device transfer, so they never leave the phone you typed them into.
Android backup
If Android backup is on, Android may include AP-7's settings (not your keys) in your Google backup. Recordings are left out of the cloud backup, but they can move to a new phone with Android's device transfer.
Permissions
- Microphone (RECORD_AUDIO): to record.
- Internet and network state: only for cloud transcription and brain AI, when you turn them on. Network state lets a job you started wait for a connection.
- Run user-initiated jobs: so a transcription or brain AI job you started keeps going when you leave AP-7.
- Foreground service for the microphone and media playback: so recording and playback keep running with the screen off.
- Notifications: to show that AP-7 is recording or playing, show a job's progress, and tell you when a transcript or result is ready.
Children
AP-7 is not directed at children, and APPxygen collects no data from anyone, including children.
This website
No ads and no accounts. Visits are counted with Google Analytics.
Google Analytics
This site uses Google Analytics to learn how many people visit, which pages they read, roughly where they come from, and what device and browser they use. To do this, Google Analytics sets cookies in your browser and sends details of your visit, including your IP address, to Google. APPxygen sees only totals and trends, never who you are, and doesn't use the data for ads. Google handles it under Google's privacy policy; how Google uses data from sites that use its services explains more.
To stop it, block or clear this site's cookies in your browser, use a content blocker, or install the Google Analytics opt-out add-on. The site works the same either way. The apps themselves have no analytics.
Fonts from Google
The typefaces on this site are loaded from Google Fonts. To get them, your browser contacts Google's servers, so Google receives the request, including your IP address and browser details, under Google's privacy policy.
What your browser remembers
The site keeps a few small notes in your own browser's local storage: whether sounds are on or off, which language you picked, and whether you closed the "read in Thai?" tip. They stay in your browser, are never sent anywhere, and disappear when you clear this site's data.
Hosting
This site is hosted on Vercel. Like any website, the server that delivers these pages receives the usual technical details of each request, such as your IP address and the page you asked for, and may keep them briefly in logs to run the site and keep it secure. APPxygen doesn't use these logs to track you.
The contact form
The contact form doesn't send anything to a server. It opens your own email app with your message filled in, and nothing is sent until you press send there.
When you email me
If you write, I receive your email address and whatever you include. I use it only to read and answer your message. I don't add you to any list, and I don't share or sell it. Ask, and I'll delete our conversation.
Your rights
Under Thailand's Personal Data Protection Act and similar laws elsewhere, you can ask to see, correct or delete personal data held about you, to object to its use, or to withdraw consent.
Because the apps collect nothing, APPxygen normally holds no data about you to hand over. What the apps keep is on your phone, and you can delete it yourself by deleting tapes or uninstalling the app. For emails you've sent, write to me and I'll do what you ask.
If you think your data has been mishandled, you can also complain to Thailand's Personal Data Protection Committee, or to the data protection authority where you live.
Changes
If this policy changes, the new version will be posted on this page with a new effective date.
Contact
Questions about privacy: hello@appxygen.com, or use the contact page. The rules for using the apps are in the terms of use.
nothing to see here. that's the point. Seree Woradechjamroen, APPxygen