Privacy Policy for Read Aloud

Last updated: May 13, 2026

Read Aloud is a text-to-speech app. It reads text, web pages, shared links, selected text, and optional clipboard content that you choose to use with the app. Read Aloud does not require an account, and the app does not operate its own server for storing your reading content.

Who We Are

This privacy policy applies to the Android app Read Aloud, package name com.ttshelper.app. For privacy questions, deletion requests, or other inquiries, contact the developer using the developer contact email shown on the Read Aloud Google Play listing. Please include "Read Aloud privacy request" in the subject line.

Information Read Aloud Handles

Reading content you provide

Read Aloud can access text or URLs when you share them to the app, open a link with the app, select text in another app and choose the "Speak Selection" action, type or paste content into the app, or choose to read content from the clipboard.

This content is used to display the text, build a playlist, remember playback position, and speak the content aloud. Read Aloud does not intentionally send the full text you provide to the developer or to a developer-operated server.

Web pages and links

When you ask Read Aloud to read a URL, the app loads that page in an Android WebView and extracts readable article text. The website you open may receive normal web request information, such as your IP address, device/browser information supplied by WebView, cookies or site storage already available to WebView, and the URL requested. Web pages may also load their own images, scripts, ads, analytics, or other third-party resources.

Read Aloud may store extracted article text, page titles, domains, thumbnail URLs, resolved URLs, and reading progress in local app storage so bookmarks, the recent list, playlists, and resume features work. The app may also request favicon images from Google's favicon service for display in the bookmarks list.

Local preferences and app state

Read Aloud stores settings such as theme, voice/language choice, pitch, reader font size, clipboard setting, recent-history setting, playlist behavior, Pro unlock status, bookmarks, folders, recent items, playlist items, cached reader output, and resume position on your device using app-private storage.

Usage and diagnostics

Read Aloud uses Firebase Analytics to understand app usage and improve the app. Analytics events may include screens viewed, feature actions, playback actions, queue actions, setting changes, whether content was text or a URL, approximate counts such as word count or text length, whether a URL was present, and the domain of a shared or opened URL. These analytics events are not intended to include the full text of what you read.

Advertising and purchases

Read Aloud contains ads served through Google AdMob unless Pro is unlocked. AdMob and Google Mobile Ads SDK may collect and process information such as device identifiers, advertising identifiers where available, IP address, coarse location inferred from network information, app interactions, ad interactions, diagnostics, and related data for ad delivery, measurement, fraud prevention, and compliance.

Read Aloud offers a one-time Pro unlock through Google Play Billing. Google processes the purchase and payment details. Read Aloud receives purchase status and related billing data needed to unlock Pro and confirm entitlement, but it does not receive your full payment card details.

How Information Is Used

Read Aloud uses information for these purposes:

to read selected, shared, pasted, clipboard, bookmarked, or web-page content aloud;
to load web pages and extract readable text;
to save bookmarks, recent items, playlists, settings, and playback position;
to show playback controls and notifications;
to provide ads and support the optional Pro unlock;
to measure app usage, diagnose issues, and improve the app;
to comply with legal, security, and platform requirements.

Third Parties and Sharing

Read Aloud may share or make data available to the following parties:

Google Firebase Analytics, for app analytics and diagnostics.
Google AdMob and Google Mobile Ads SDK, for advertising, ad measurement, fraud prevention, and compliance.
Google Play Billing, for purchase processing and entitlement checks.
Websites you choose to open, because loading a URL requires connecting to that website and any resources it loads.
Your Android text-to-speech engine. Read Aloud uses Android's TextToSpeech system. Speech may be generated by the TTS engine installed on your device. If you choose a network-based voice or engine, the text being spoken may be processed by that provider under its own privacy practices.
Legal or safety recipients, if disclosure is necessary to comply with law, enforce rights, protect users, or respond to valid legal process.

Read Aloud does not sell personal and sensitive user data.

Permissions

Read Aloud requests the following Android permissions:

Internet and network state: to load web pages, ads, analytics, purchases, and related online services.
Notifications: to show playback controls while audio is playing, when you grant notification permission.
Foreground service and media playback service: to continue text-to-speech playback with media controls.
Wake lock: to help playback continue reliably while the device screen is off.

Retention and Deletion

Bookmarks, recent items, playlists, reader cache, resume information, and preferences are stored locally on your device. You can remove recent items and bookmarks in the app where those controls are available. You can also delete local app data by clearing Read Aloud's storage in Android settings or uninstalling the app.

Reader cache and recent history may remain on the device until cleared, overwritten, pruned by the app, or removed by Android. Firebase Analytics, AdMob, and Google Play Billing data are retained by Google according to Google's policies and the relevant service settings.

Security

Read Aloud stores app data in Android app-private storage. Network connections use modern transport security where supported by the destination service. If you ask the app to open an unencrypted HTTP URL, that page request may not be encrypted. No method of storage or transmission is perfectly secure, but Read Aloud is designed to limit reading content to the device unless a feature you choose requires another party, such as a website, ad provider, analytics provider, purchase processor, or text-to-speech engine.

Your Choices

You can avoid sharing text or links with Read Aloud if you do not want the app to process them.
You can disable clipboard reading in Read Aloud settings.
You can disable recent-history recording in Read Aloud settings.
You can remove bookmarks and recent items in the app where those controls are available.
You can reset the Android Advertising ID or manage ad personalization in Android or Google settings where available.
You can choose a local text-to-speech engine or voice if available on your device.
You can clear app storage or uninstall the app to remove locally stored Read Aloud data from your device.

Children

Read Aloud is not directed to children under 13 and is not intended for use as a child-directed service. If you believe a child has provided personal information through the app, contact the developer using the Google Play listing contact information.

Changes to This Policy

This policy may be updated from time to time. When it changes, the "Last updated" date above will be revised. Continued use of Read Aloud after an update means the updated policy applies to your use of the app.