Earmuffs Privacy

Your phone isn't listening. Here's what it's actually doing. You talk about something and an ad for it shows up. Usually the microphone had nothing to do with it: companies collect what you do online, and what the people around you do, and sell it on. Earmuffs shows you that pipeline on your own iPhone, lets you cut it, and keeps a record you can check. WHAT IT DOES • Blocks known trackers. Advertising networks, data brokers, identity-graph companies, session-replay tools and the reports your phone's own maker collects. The filter runs entirely on your iPhone. Nothing is sent to us; there is no server to send it to. • Shows you who is taking your data. A tally of the companies your apps contact, by name, with how often and when. • Keeps the receipts. A tamper-evident evidence log that stays on your phone and never reaches us. Every entry says how we know. Export it any time as JSON or CSV, free. • Reads your App Privacy Report. Turn on Apple's App Privacy Report, save it, open the file in Earmuffs, and see which apps contacted which trackers, and how often that happened right after something used your microphone. • Checks your phone. A privacy checkup with a score and plain-language findings. • Sweeps for ultrasonic beacons. Listens for the inaudible tones advertisers use to link your phone to nearby TVs. It measures frequencies only, runs only while you are watching, and records nothing. • Apple Watch. A glance at the filter's state, a switch to control it, and the ultrasonic sweep on the watch's own microphone. Included with the iPhone app. WHAT IT CAN'T DO Earmuffs has a Help screen, and its list of limits is real. On iPhone, no app can stop another app from using the microphone. Apple doesn't allow it, and any app that claims otherwise is wrong. Earmuffs can't tell you the moment an app starts listening, can't see which apps you've installed, and only counts the trackers it knows about, so the real numbers can be higher, never lower. OUR PROMISES • It will never say it blocked something it didn't. • It will never say you're protected when you're not. If the filter stops, it tells you. • It will never say "nothing got through." YOUR iPHONE WILL CALL IT A VPN That is the name iOS gives this kind of on-device filter. Exactly one synthetic address is routed into it, so it sees DNS lookups and nothing else: no browsing, no payloads, nothing leaving your phone. Turn it off any time in Settings. PRIVACY No account, no analytics, no advertising identifier, no third-party SDKs. The app makes no network request that reports on you. The full policy is at earmuffs.vip/privacy and inside the app, under Help. PRICE Watching is free, forever, with your full records. Earmuffs VIP adds blocking: $2.99 a month or $19.99 a year, after a 7-day free trial. That is founder pricing for everyone who subscribes until October 31, 2027, and you keep it for as long as your subscription stays active. After that, VIP is $3.99 a month or $29.99 a year for new subscribers. Payment is charged to your Apple Account when the free trial ends, or at purchase if there is no trial; subscriptions renew automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the period, and you can manage or cancel them in your App Store account settings. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://earmuffs.vip/privacy