RadioPod Privacy Policy
Effective 30 September 2026 ยท Togaware Pty Ltd
RadioPod does not collect your data. There is no account to create, no analytics, no crash reporting, no advertising and no tracking of any kind. Nothing about what you listen to is sent to us or to anyone else.
What RadioPod stores
RadioPod keeps a list of the radio stations and podcasts you have saved, the playlists you have organised them into, and, for each podcast, which episodes you have heard or switched off and how far into each you got. That is the whole of the app's data. It is stored in one of two places, and you choose which.
- Local-only mode. Tap Continue on the login screen and everything stays on your device. Nothing is sent anywhere. This is a fully supported way to use RadioPod, not a limited one.
- Your Solid Pod. If you log in, your stations and playlists are encrypted before they leave your device and written to your own Pod on a Solid server. The server holding them, and its administrators, cannot read them. A server will collect the usual meta-data logs, depending on which Solid server is hosting your Pod.
Your security key and your WebID never leave your device. The key is used on the device to decrypt your data.
The unencrypted copy on your device
Android Auto starts the app by itself, before any login can happen, and will not wait for one. So RadioPod keeps a copy of your station names and stream addresses, unencrypted, in the app's private storage, so the car has something to show.
It holds no more than an ordinary playlist file would, plus your place in each podcast episode, so the car can resume one. It never contains your security key or your WebID, and it never leaves the device. Settings has a button to clear it.
The two directories
The only third parties RadioPod contacts beyond a Solid server (if
you are logged in) are two directories, and only when you search in
Subscribe: the community-run
Radio-Browser database of
stations, and the open Podcast
Index, asked only when you search for a podcast. Podcast Index is
sent your search text and the app's name, and nothing else; that code
is
lib/services/podcast_index.dart.
For Radio-Browser:
-
It is sent your search text and the app's name and version, for
example
RadioPod 1.1.21, which their terms of use require. - It is not sent your WebID, your Pod address or your station library.
- Radio-Browser offers an endpoint that apps call to report which station a listener picked, feeding its popularity ranking. RadioPod does not call it. Nothing about what you listen to leaves your device.
All of this is one short source file,
lib/services/radio_browser.dart,
and you are welcome to read it.
Playing a station or a podcast
Playing a station connects directly to that station's stream, so the broadcaster sees a connection from your network, exactly as it would from any other radio player or a web browser. A podcast is the same: its list of episodes, and each episode, are fetched straight from its publisher, as any podcast app fetches them. RadioPod adds nothing to those requests and never reports which episodes you have heard. What a broadcaster or publisher does with the connection is covered by their privacy policy, not ours.
A station's or podcast's logo lives on its own server too. RadioPod fetches it once, when the station is in your library, and keeps a small copy on your device. Showing your list, or playing a station, never asks that server for it again, and the car is handed the copy rather than the logo's address. Search results load their logos as you browse them.
Children
RadioPod is suitable for all ages and collects no personal information from anyone, including children. Station streams are provided by third-party broadcasters and their content is not filtered or controlled by RadioPod.
Changes to this policy
If this policy changes, the revised version will be published at this address with a new effective date. RadioPod is free software and its full history is public, so any change to what the app does is visible in the repository.
Contact
Questions, or a correction to this page, are welcome at the RadioPod issue tracker, or by email to privacy@togaware.com.