Last updated: 7 September 2026
This policy explains what Tating does with your information. It is written to be read, not to be survived. It applies the same way whether you installed Tating from the App Store or from Google Play.
The short version: Tating keeps your grooves on your phone. It has no accounts, no sign-in, no adverts and no analytics. It does not send your work anywhere. The one exception is buying things, which goes through the store you installed Tating from and a billing service called RevenueCat, and that is described in full below.
Tating is published by Robert Benjamin Crawford.
If you want to ask anything about this policy, or about the information Tating holds, write to tatingapp@gmail.com.
All of this is stored on your device and never leaves it unless you send it somewhere yourself:
Deleting the app removes all of it from the phone.
One thing to know, because it is your phone’s doing rather than Tating’s: if you have your phone’s own backup switched on, it may copy Tating’s data — grooves, settings, practice history — into your account’s backup along with every other app’s: Google Drive on Android, or iCloud on an iPhone or iPad. Tating does not put it there and cannot read it; it is your phone maker’s backup of your device, covered by their own terms, and you can turn it off in your phone’s settings. Nothing is sent to us.
Tating’s PocketCheck feature listens while you play on a real kit, so it can show you where your hits landed against the beat. Your phone asks for microphone permission the first time you use it.
While it is listening, the sound is analysed on your phone, moment by moment, to work out when a hit happened. No recording is made. The audio is not saved to a file, not kept after the screen is closed, and not sent anywhere.
What is kept is the result — for each take, the tempo, how many hits landed and how many were missed, and how early or late they were on average. No sound, and nothing about the room. That is stored on your phone so the screen can show you whether you are getting better, and it stays until you delete the app.
If you never open PocketCheck, the microphone is never used.
You can point any drum at an audio file of your own. Tating remembers where that file is on your phone so it can play it. It does not copy the file, upload it, or look at anything else on your device.
Everything that leaves Tating leaves because you chose to send it:
Tating offers a one-time in-app purchase and a separate one-time content pack. This is the only part of the app that communicates with anyone.
Purchases are handled by whichever store you installed Tating from — the App Store on an iPhone or iPad, Google Play on Android — and by RevenueCat, a service that keeps track of what has been bought so your purchase still works when you change phone or reinstall, on either platform.
Tating does not send RevenueCat your grooves, your settings, your crash reports or anything from the microphone.
Their policies:
Tating is a practice tool for drummers and is not directed at children under 13. It does not knowingly collect information from children.
Almost everything Tating holds is on your own phone, and you control it directly: delete a groove, clear the crash log from inside the app, or uninstall the app to remove all of it.
Practice history is the one thing with no button of its own yet. A take’s result outlives the groove it was played against — deliberately, so a groove you tidy away does not take your progress with it — and today the way to clear it is to uninstall. If you would rather it went sooner than that, write to the address below and say so.
The purchase records held by RevenueCat and by Apple or Google are the exception. If you want a copy of the purchase records connected to your installation, or want them deleted, write to tatingapp@gmail.com and it will be dealt with. Deleting purchase records may mean a past purchase can no longer be restored.
Wherever you live, you can ask what is held about you, ask for it to be corrected, and ask for it to be deleted. Since Tating keeps nothing on a server of its own, in practice that means the purchase records above, and the address to write to is the one above. If you are in the UK or the EU you also have the right to complain to your national data protection regulator.
If this policy changes, the new version will replace this page and the date at the top will change. Significant changes will also be mentioned in the app’s release notes on the App Store and on Google Play.
tatingapp@gmail.com