Privacy

Listening Canvas collects nothing about you. There is no account, no advertising, no analytics and no tracking, and nothing is sent to the developer.

Your Roon Server

Listening Canvas talks to the Roon Server on your home network to show what is playing, and gets the artwork from it. That conversation stays on your network. The authorization Roon grants is kept in the device's Keychain so the display reconnects on its own.

The microphone

Only the Visualizer style uses the microphone, and only while it is on screen and the app is open. The sound is turned into the picture as it plays, in the device's memory, and is never recorded, saved or sent anywhere. On Apple TV the microphone can be an iPhone, iPad or AirPods you connect; Apple's system carries that sound to the Apple TV.

Artist context, if you turn it on

Artist context is off until you turn it on in Settings. When it is on, Listening Canvas sends the artist name Roon shows to Wikidata (wikidata.org) and Wikipedia (en.wikipedia.org) to find a short summary and a few facts. Those requests carry an app identifier and a link to the support page, and no name, email address or account of yours; like any website, Wikimedia sees the network address they come from, under the Wikimedia privacy policy. Answers are kept in a cache on the device, for up to 30 days, and never leave it.

Testing through TestFlight

If you test Listening Canvas through TestFlight, Apple shares the feedback and crash reports you choose to send, under Apple's TestFlight terms. The developer uses them only to fix and improve the app.

Questions about this policy can be sent through TestFlight feedback during testing. This page was last updated on 12 November 2026.