The short version: Mix Tape lets you make 80s-style mix tapes from Apple Music. Your tapes are stored on your iPhone. Mix Tape's developer, Dave Pickles, does not run any servers, does not collect your personal information, and cannot see your tapes or what you listen to.
What Mix Tape keeps on your iPhone
Mix Tape saves the following on your device only:
- Your tapes: each tape's name, dedication, pen and ink style, cassette colour and tape length, and the songs you recorded on each side. For each song, Mix Tape keeps its Apple Music ID, title, artist, length and a link to its album artwork.
- Your Apple Music playlists: if you save a tape to Apple Music, Mix Tape remembers the name and ID of that playlist so saving again updates it.
- Your settings: whether key sounds and the tape intro are switched on, and which library view you last used.
Like other app data, this is included in your iPhone's own backups. It is not sent to the developer.
- Your Apple Account password or payment details
- Your listening history
- Your location, contacts or photos
Apple Music
Mix Tape uses Apple's MusicKit to work with Apple Music. When you tap Connect Apple Music, iPhone asks whether to allow access. With your permission, Mix Tape can:
- search the Apple Music catalogue for songs to record onto a tape;
- play songs from your tapes (playing full songs needs an Apple Music subscription);
- create a playlist in your Apple Music library, or update the one it created before, but only when you choose Save to Apple Music or Update Apple Music playlist; and
- read the names of your library's playlists while saving, so it can find the tape's playlist and avoid creating duplicate names.
These requests go directly from your iPhone to Apple, and album artwork is loaded from Apple's servers. Apple handles them under Apple's Privacy Policy. You can turn off Mix Tape's access at any time in the iPhone Settings app under Apps › Mix Tape.
Photos and sharing
- Saving a J-card to Photos: when you choose Save Image, iPhone asks for permission to add photos. Mix Tape can only add the J-card image; it cannot see or read your photo library.
- Sharing a J-card: the image and a short message go only where you send them, using iPhone's share sheet.
What Mix Tape does not do
- No accounts or sign-up
- No analytics, usage tracking or crash reporting services
- No advertising, and no tracking across other apps or websites
- No third-party software libraries that collect data
- No selling, renting or sharing of your information
- No servers run by the developer, so there is nowhere for your data to go
Removing your information
- Throw away a tape: in the Playlists list, touch and hold a tape and choose Throw away. This deletes it from your iPhone.
- Delete the app: deleting Mix Tape removes all of your tapes and settings from your iPhone.
- Apple Music playlists: playlists you saved stay in your Apple Music library until you delete them in the Music app.
- Apple Music access: turn it off in Settings › Apps › Mix Tape.
Children
Mix Tape is not directed at children under 13. It does not collect information from anyone, including children.
Changes to this policy
If this policy changes, the updated version will be posted on this page with a new effective date.
Contact
Mix Tape is developed by Dave Pickles. Questions about privacy in Mix Tape? Email jimmy@askjimmy.ca.