Overview
Macdio for Apple Watch is designed with your privacy in mind. I do not collect, store, or share any personal data.
Data collection
Macdio does not collect any personal information. Your stations, lists and saved songs move only between your Apple Watch and your iPhone, over Apple's own connection between the two.
I do not use any analytics, advertising, or tracking SDKs.
Usage data (Privacy Nutrition Label)
Macdio collects Other Usage Data for App Functionality. This refers to your listening history, which stations you played, for how long, and on which device.
This data is:
- Not linked to your identity
- Not used for tracking
- Kept on your watch and passed to Macdio on your iPhone, which stores it in your private iCloud container
- Used solely to display your personal listening statistics across devices
watchOS specifics
Macdio on Apple Watch does not support recording or disk space monitoring. The app streams audio and displays station information.
Third-party services
Macdio connects to the following services for core functionality:
- Radio Browser API to browse stations. No personal data is sent.
- dir.macdio.app, Macdio's own copy of the station directory, used only when Radio Browser does not answer. It keeps only daily totals. No personal data is sent.
- iTunes Search API to fetch artwork. No personal data is sent.
- Logo.dev supplies the logos of radio stations that do not provide one themselves. Only the station's web domain is sent, no personal data.
- Podcast Index for podcast search, charts and categories. Only the search term or category is sent. Episodes and feeds download directly from each show's own server.
- Apple ShazamKit for Song ID. A short audio signature of the stream, not a recording, goes to Apple's Shazam service. The microphone is never used.
Sync with your iPhone
The watch does not use iCloud itself. Your favorites, lists, saved songs and listening history move between the watch and Macdio on your iPhone over Apple's own connection between the two, and the iPhone keeps them in your private iCloud container, managed by Apple.
Refer to Apple's Privacy Policy.
Contact
Questions? Contact me at support@devdio.pro.