Privacy

Last updated 20 September 2026

Xoundly is built to keep as little as possible. There are no accounts, no ads and no tracking.

Your voice

When you ride, your voice travels through a real-time voice service (LiveKit) to your partner's phone. It passes through and is gone. Xoundly never records it, stores it or listens to it.

Noise suppression cleans your voice on your own phone, before it is sent. To switch it on, the app asks LiveKit whether this ride may use it and downloads the filter from them. Your voice is not sent anywhere for cleaning.

Your ride

• A ride is a 6 character code. It identifies a temporary room for two phones and disappears when you both leave.
• The name you type, your talk mode and your sound settings are saved only on your own phone.
• The ride log is created on your phone and only leaves it if you choose to share it.

Music

When you paste a playlist link, Xoundly looks up which songs are in it from YouTube's public feed for that playlist. That lookup carries the playlist's id and nothing about you.

Music plays through YouTube's own player inside Xoundly. By using it you also agree to the YouTube Terms of Service, and Google's Privacy Policy applies to what YouTube collects. Xoundly never downloads, copies or alters YouTube content.

This website

• If you join the test group we store your email address and which phone you use, only to send you your test build.
• If the link you followed carried a tag, such as the name of the Facebook group where we posted it, that tag is stored with your sign-up or message. It tells us which post worked. It says nothing about you.
• If you send feedback we store your message, and your email only if you gave one.
• To remove either, send a message through the form on the home page and we will delete it.
• We count how many rides are started, as one number. The count carries no ride code, no name and no location.
• The site is delivered by Cloudflare, which sees the technical details every website visit involves, such as your IP address. Fonts are served from this site. We do not use cookies.

Children

Xoundly is made for licensed riders and their passengers. It is not directed at children.