Privacy Policy
Last updated: September 9, 2026
The short version. TOTALLY is a calculator. Your calculations and history stay on your device, we run no servers, and we have no account system, analytics, ads, or trackers. The one thing that leaves your device is your speech — and only while you are actively using voice input, and only to your device's own speech-recognition service.
Who we are
TOTALLY — Voice Calculator is published by CoreTech Studios. It is available as a web app at totallyit.app and as an Android app on Google Play. This policy covers both; where the Android app differs, it is called out.
Microphone and voice input
TOTALLY's main feature is speaking a calculation instead of typing it. This requires access to your microphone, and it works like this:
- The microphone is only activated when you tap the microphone button. It is never listening in the background, and there is no wake word.
- Recording stops as soon as you finish a phrase or tap again to stop.
- Your speech is passed to the speech-recognition service built into your browser or device — on Android
and in Chrome this is Google Speech Services; on iOS and Safari it is Apple's
SFSpeechRecognizer. Your audio is transmitted to that provider in order to be converted into text. This is how the Web Speech API works on every platform, and it happens under that provider's privacy policy, not ours. - We do not receive, record, store, or transmit your audio ourselves. We never have a copy of it. TOTALLY only ever sees the text that comes back.
- The recognized text is used to compute a result and is added to your on-device history. It is not sent anywhere else.
The first time you tap the microphone, TOTALLY explains this and asks you to confirm before requesting microphone permission. You can decline and keep using the keypad — every calculation TOTALLY can do by voice can also be typed.
What is stored on your device
| Data | Why | Where it lives |
|---|---|---|
| Calculation history | So you can scroll back to a previous result | Browser local storage on your device |
| Preferences (theme, language, spoken answers, mic sticker, bezel) | So the app looks the way you left it | Browser local storage on your device |
| Microphone disclosure acknowledgement | So the explanation is shown once, not every time | Browser local storage on your device |
None of this is synced, backed up to us, or transmitted off your device. Clearing your history in the app, clearing site data, or uninstalling the app removes it permanently. We cannot delete it for you because we never have it.
What we do not collect
- No audio recordings.
- No accounts, names, email addresses, or phone numbers.
- No location data.
- No contacts, photos, files, or device identifiers.
- No analytics, crash reporting, advertising IDs, or third-party SDKs of any kind.
Third parties
Speech recognition
As described above, speech-to-text is performed by the service built into your device or browser. On Android this is Google. See Google's Privacy Policy or Apple's Privacy Policy for how they handle voice data.
Hosting
The web app is served as static files by GitHub Pages. GitHub processes standard web-server request data (such as IP address) to deliver the page, as described in the GitHub Privacy Statement. We do not receive or retain those logs.
Google Play
If you install the Android app from Google Play, Google collects installation and usage data under its own policies. TOTALLY does not add anything to that.
Offline use
TOTALLY installs a service worker so the app keeps working without a network connection. All arithmetic, unit conversion, and emoji math run entirely on your device. Only voice input needs a connection, because the speech-recognition service is online.
Children
TOTALLY is a general-audience calculator. It does not collect personal information from anyone, including children, and contains no ads, purchases, or social features. Parents should be aware that using voice input sends speech to the device's speech-recognition provider, as described above; the keypad works without it.
Your choices
- Decline the microphone. The full calculator works from the keypad.
- Revoke microphone access at any time in your browser's site settings or, on Android, in Settings → Apps → TOTALLY → Permissions.
- Clear your history with the Clear button in the history panel.
- Remove everything by uninstalling the app or clearing site data.
Changes to this policy
If our data practices change, we will update this page and the "last updated" date above. Material changes will also be noted in the app's release notes.
Contact
Questions about this policy: privacy@totallyit.app
CoreTech Studios