Privacy Policy

Readobook for Android (ru.readobook). Last updated 8 September 2026.

Readobook is a free reading app with built-in text-to-speech, made by one person. You can reach me at xmel01dev@yandex.com.

What ends up inside the app

All of this lives in your device's storage and never leaves it:

• the books you opened, with titles, authors and covers pulled out of them;
• where you stopped, your bookmarks, categories and recently opened items;
• settings: voice, speed, theme, typeface, your own stress corrections;
• audio files you exported yourself.

Uninstall the app and all of it goes with it. If you use Android system backup, it works under your Google or device maker account rules and has nothing to do with Readobook.

Permissions

• Notifications — the playback card in the shade and on the lock screen.
• Foreground playback service — so reading does not stop when the screen goes off.
• Files are not requested by permission at all: you pick them in the system dialog and the app sees only what you pointed it to. Broad storage read and write permissions are stripped from the build.
• RuStore visibility — needed by the single "Rate the app" button to open the store listing.

Internet, location, microphone, camera, contacts, phone and calendar are never requested. The app holds no network permissions at all, not even reading the connection state.

About speech synthesis

The voice is computed on the phone by models bundled with the app: Silero for Russian, Piper for English. The text of your books goes neither to my servers (there are none) nor to anyone else's. No cloud synthesis is involved.

Third-party services

There are no ad networks, no analytics, no crash reporters and no trackers in the app. No account is needed and no sign-up exists.

About the stores: RuStore and Google Play count installs themselves and show me an anonymised summary — how many downloads, which Android versions. The store does that under its own policy; I see nothing about individual people.

Children

The app collects no data from anyone, children under 13 included.

If this changes

A new version will appear on this page, with a new date at the top.

Contact

Questions, bugs and requests: xmel01dev@yandex.com.