Security
Your recordings are irreplaceable creative work. Meret protects them by keeping everything on your device, never connecting to the internet, and never touching your originals without your say-so.
No network, nothing to leak
Meret declares no internet permission. It cannot open a network connection, so there is no server to breach, no data in transit to intercept, and nothing to leak. This is the strongest protection of all: your recordings cannot be taken from a place they never go.
On your device, in private storage
Your audio, the details you add, and the waveform previews live in the app's private storage area on your phone, reachable by Meret and not by other apps. Their security is anchored to your device's own protections, so keeping a screen lock and device encryption on protects your vault too.
Your originals are never overwritten
Meret is non-destructive by design. It treats every source recording as a primary creative asset and never silently trims, transcodes, normalizes, or deletes one. Editing and exporting create new derived files and leave the original untouched, so a mistake in review can never cost you the take.
Nothing is deleted to reclaim space
Meret will never quietly remove a recording to free up storage. If the device runs low on space, that is surfaced to you clearly. What gets deleted is your decision, made explicitly.
You control what leaves
Your data leaves the device only when you choose to share or export something, or when you move it directly to a new phone you set up yourself. From the moment a file is handed to another app, it follows that app's terms, so protect exports wherever you send them. Recordings and their details are also excluded from Android cloud backup.
Least privilege
Meret asks only for what a feature needs: the microphone while you record, a foreground service and its notification to keep a recording reliable, and permission to post that notification. It does not request location, contacts, camera, phone, or internet access. There are no advertising, analytics, or tracking libraries in the app.
Reporting a vulnerability
Found a security issue? Please email support@meret.app with the details. Because Meret has no servers and no network access, its attack surface is small, but every report is taken seriously.