Last updated: 4 October 2026
Songward is a songwriting, demo-recording and live-performance app for musicians, published by Baeloo. This policy explains what data the app handles and what stays entirely on your device.
Your audio stays on your device unless you send it. Songs, lyrics, chords, audio recordings, demos, setlists and backups are stored locally on your phone or computer. If you sign in, you can optionally back up your writing (text only — never audio) to a private cloud space tied to your account. Sending a song or a gig to your band makes a file that you share yourself. Sharing with a nearby member sends that file straight to their device over your own Wi-Fi or hotspot — only while they have band mode on and Songward open, and only after they accept. It never passes through a server, and Songward never sends it anywhere else. Songward has no ads, no analytics and no tracking SDKs. Purchases go through Google Play — we never see your card — and the Purchases section below names the one processor involved. The personal data we hold is your account email, basic usage info, a short list of the devices signed in to your account and a note of which account owns each purchase, all described below.
Audio is never uploaded to Songward or its cloud backup. It leaves the device only when you send it yourself: a recording or demo you share, a backup file, or a practice track inside a song you send a bandmate. Your writing also stays on the device unless you choose the optional cloud backup below. Deleting the app (or using its backup tools) is entirely in your control.
Your own notes on the lyrics, typed or drawn, stay on the device you wrote them on. They are in your backup file, never in the cloud backup, and never sent to your band: no band file, nearby share, band room or band stage carries them. The technical log a bug report attaches never holds them.
While band mode is on and Songward is in front, other devices on the same network can see the name you gave the app, whether this is a phone, tablet or computer, whether it is already receiving something, and a random code that changes each time band mode is turned on — in a band room, what the room shows instead (below); nothing else, and nothing while band mode is off or Songward is in the background. Band mode is off each time Songward starts, and turns itself off when Songward comes back after half an hour in the background with no band room open. None of what the nearby share sends is encrypted. The offer (your name, the song's or gig's title, how many songs and tracks it holds, and its size), the answer, and — once a bandmate accepts — the file itself, with its words and any practice track you chose to include, cross your Wi-Fi or hotspot as they are, and another device on the same network could read them on the way. Any device on the network can use any name — check with your bandmate before you send. If you block a device on an incoming offer, Songward keeps the address it sent from, the name it gave, its kind of device and when you blocked it — and, for a bandmate of a band you keep, which band and its random code in the band — in the app's own storage on this device only, never in Songward's cloud backup or its backup file, and turns down its offers without asking you; a block lasts until you unblock it in Settings.
A band room opens from band mode. While one is open and Songward is in front, each device in it can be seen by any Songward on the same Wi-Fi or hotspot — the name you gave the app, the kind of device, whether it is already receiving something and a random code, new for each room; the device that hosts the room can also be seen hosting a room, and whether anyone on the network may join it. Over your own Wi-Fi or hotspot and nowhere else, the devices in the room exchange the names the members gave the app and their kind of device; the songs' titles, tempos, time signatures and lengths; where in a song to start, how fast and which part to repeat; the scroll speed the host picked for the words; when to start and stop; whether each device has the song and its practice track; the timing signals that keep the devices' clocks together; and random codes that tell the room, its members and its songs apart. No sound travels over the room's connection; a song goes to a bandmate only if you send it and they accept. The room's messages are not encrypted: another device on the same network could read them on the way, though it cannot slip a message of its own into the room — except into the connection of a device that typed the room's code, or of one that joined an open room (below). On stage, the devices in a room also exchange the gig's running order as song titles, the song on the host's stage, its key and tempo, how far the host's sheet has scrolled and how fast, which songs are played, and whether each device has every song; no words and no gig details travel. A room is open to anyone on the same Wi-Fi or hotspot unless its host turns that off; the host's device remembers the choice for its next room. An open room lets a device in with one tap — no code, no camera — and nothing proves, either way, who is on the other end: any device on that network could join it, or answer in its place, and could slip messages of its own into the connection of a device that joined that way. With it off, a new device needs the room's code or its camera code. A bandmate who keeps the band still joins without one, and a device already in the room can still come back after a drop — for one that joined the open way, so can any device that heard it join.
After your first rehearsal in a band room, you can keep your band on your device: the band's name, the names your bandmates gave the app and their kind of device, when you last played together, random codes that tell the band and its members apart, and a secret only your band's devices share, so band mode finds them next time without a code. When you keep it, and each time a bandmate who keeps it comes into a room of the band, the band's name and everyone in it — bandmates who are not there too — with their kind of device and their random codes cross the room's connection like its other messages; the secret crosses only in a form another device listening on the network cannot open. It stays in the app's own storage on your device, which Songward keeps out of Android's backups — never in Songward's cloud backup or its backup file — and "Forget this band" removes it. A computer never keeps a band. While band mode is on, a device that keeps a band also says, in a form only your bandmates' devices can check, that it belongs to your band: from that, another device can tell only that it keeps a band — never which one — and cannot link it from one day to the next. A device that reads a band room's messages on the network can tell which band meets there and who is in it, and knows a bandmate's device again at the band's next rehearsal by its code.
Creating a Songward account uses Firebase Authentication (a Google service). We store:
Firebase processes standard security signals (such as IP address) when you sign in, as described in Google's Firebase privacy documentation. We do not use your email for marketing and we do not share it with anyone.
Songward Pro is bought through the store, not from us. Google Play is the merchant of record: the payment happens inside Google's own checkout, and neither the app nor its developer ever sees your card, bank or billing details. Refunds and cancellations are handled by Google Play under its own terms.
To know which plan you own, the app uses RevenueCat, a purchase-and-entitlement service. It receives an account identifier for your Songward account and your purchase history for this app (what was bought, when, and whether it is still active), and answers one question: is Pro unlocked. That answer is what writes the plan record described above, and what carries your plan to the Windows app. It is used for nothing else — no ads, no profiling, no selling it on.
We also keep a short note of which Songward account each purchase unlocks — the purchase itself only in scrambled form, never any payment details — so that one purchase unlocks one account, not every account it is restored into. It is removed when you delete your account.
Signed-in users can back up their writing — songs, lyrics, chords, setlists, gigs and demo structure, as text only — to a private space in our database (Google Firestore) linked to their account. Audio recordings are never uploaded. Backups are encrypted in transit, visible to no other user, replaced each time you back up, and permanently deleted when you delete your account.
If you use the in-app feedback form, we receive the message you typed, your platform and app version, and — when signed in — your email so we can reply. Bug reports also attach a short technical log (what the app was doing when things went wrong — never your lyrics or audio, and file locations are anonymised). If you tap "I'm interested" on an upcoming AI feature, we store that interest with your email (or anonymously if you have no account). All of it is used for nothing else.
When you search for song lyrics, your search text is sent to LRCLIB, a community lyrics database. The query contains only what you type — no account or device identity is attached.
Songward uses the microphone only when you actively record (snippets, demo tracks, practice takes) or use the tuner. In Rehearse, Record the rehearsal records each song you play there while you have it on; it is off each time Songward starts and whenever you leave Rehearse. Audio is processed and stored on your device, and leaves it only when you send it yourself. With a band, each device records only its own microphone, and no recording is sent to the others.
Dictation in the lyrics editor works differently: it uses your phone's own speech service (on a computer, Windows' own speech recognition), and Songward does not ask that service to work offline, so depending on your phone and its settings, your speech may be processed off the device. Songward itself never sends your speech anywhere and keeps only the words, in your lyrics.
Songward uses the camera only to read a band room's code, on the device. No picture is kept or sent.
You can delete your account at any time inside the app: Settings → Account → Delete account. This permanently removes your account, its plan record, its device list, its purchase note and any cloud backups from our systems. Your songs and recordings remain on your device.
One thing outlives it: the record of a purchase. Google Play keeps its own receipt of what you bought, and so does RevenueCat — a shop cannot unsell you something. Neither record holds payment details, and neither is used for anything but proving the purchase.
You can also request deletion by email at songwardapp@gmail.com from the address of the account you wish to delete. Requests are handled within 30 days.
Songward is not directed at children under 13 and does not knowingly collect data from them.
If this policy changes, the updated version will be published at this address with a new date.
Questions? Email songwardapp@gmail.com.