How VoiceApp handles your messages and data — in plain language.
Privacy policies are precise but hard to read. This page explains in plain language how VoiceApp actually handles your data. It's a summary, not a replacement: the legally binding version is the privacy policy.
VoiceApp is developed in Germany, and its servers sit in Frankfurt am Main: that's where the cluster runs and where the database lives. Your account, your messages and the media files you send in chats are therefore processed in Germany. The strict European data protection rules (GDPR) apply — not as a marketing claim, but as the legal baseline the service operates under.
Two things, stated openly: the audio and cover image of a VooMe you publish publicly are stored in Google Firebase Storage in a data centre in the USA. And message delivery technically runs through Google's push service (Firebase Cloud Messaging) — that's how a message reaches you even when the app is closed. Your chats are not stored there; your account, messages and chat media are kept and processed in Frankfurt. The full list of providers is in the privacy policy.
All communication between the app and the server is SSL encrypted. Whether you send a text, a voice message or a VooMe: on the way between your device and the server, the connection is encrypted. That protects your messages from anyone listening in on the network — on public Wi-Fi, in a shared office, or anywhere in between.
VoiceApp's server works as a relay, not as an archive. If the recipient is online, the message goes straight to them. If they are offline, it is held until their device picks it up — and deleted afterwards. There is no server-side history of your conversations.
Concretely: once delivery is confirmed, the message is marked for deletion; a daily cleanup removes it from the server for good no later than seven days after delivery, along with any attached media files. Messages that could never be delivered disappear after 90 days. Delete your account and every message still held for you is removed immediately.
This is a deliberate design decision, not a technical limitation. Many messengers keep a permanent copy of your conversations in the cloud — on VoiceApp a message only exists on the server for as long as delivery requires. Your history lives on your device, where it belongs.
Public VooMes are different by design: they are meant to be discovered, so they are stored on the server while they are published. The control stays with you — you can delete any of your VooMes at any time in the app, and deletion removes the data from the server. Cached copies on this website expire automatically.
None of that applies to anything else: VooMes you don't publish stay local on your device in the “My” tab and are never uploaded to the server. Send one into a chat and it is treated like any other message — delivered through the server and deleted there afterwards. The only VooMes on the server are the ones you deliberately published.
The voiceapp.me website uses a cookie consent dialog, and analytics only runs with anonymized IP addresses and your consent. The Discover section on the homepage shows public content through a short-lived cache. What the website does not have: access to your chats, contacts or messages — those never touch the website at all.
If the app runs into an error, an error report can be transmitted through Google Crashlytics and stored for analysis — with technical details like device model, operating system and stack trace, not with chat content. These reports exist for exactly one purpose — fixing the bug — and they are deleted once the bug is fixed. There is no permanent diagnostic profile that follows you around.
VoiceApp is funded through advertising and optional subscriptions: ads in the app are served via Google AdMob, ads on this website via Google AdSense. Whether you see personalised or non-personalised ads is your choice — through the consent prompt in the app and the cookie settings on the website. With a subscription you use the app ad-free.
What does not happen: your messages, voice messages and contacts never feed into advertising. No ad profiles are built from chat content, and personal data is not sold. The ads are a Google integration like on millions of other sites and apps — not a way of mining what you write or say inside VoiceApp. The details are in the privacy policy.
VoiceApp does not knowingly collect personal data from children. If you believe a child has provided personal data, contact privacy@voiceapp.me and it will be deleted promptly.
For anything privacy-related, write to privacy@voiceapp.me. The complete, legally binding documentation is in the privacy policy — including the details for the website and the app separately.
Write to me at hello@voiceapp.me — feedback and questions go straight to the developer.