MonkeyChords · effective 13 August 2026
MonkeyChords has no account, no sign-up and no server of its own. Your songs, setlists and settings never leave your device — except to your own Google Drive, if you switch that on. Nothing you do in the app is sent to its developer, because there is nowhere for it to be sent.
Nothing. No name, no email, no account, no device identifier, no location, no contacts, and none of your songs, setlists, settings or search history. There is no server operated by the developer for any of it to be sent to.
No analytics, crash-reporting, advertising or attribution service has been added to the app.
To be precise rather than sweeping: the app uses Google's own libraries for in-app purchases and for Google Drive backup, and those libraries carry Google's diagnostic components. What Google does with those is governed by Google's privacy policy, not by this one. The developer receives nothing from them and has no access to them.
The two things that leave your device on purpose do so because you asked, and neither goes to the developer: a backup you send to your own Google Drive, and a purchase you make through Google Play. Both are described below.
Uninstalling the app deletes all of it.
Searching for a chord sheet loads the chosen website directly from your device, the same way any browser would. Those websites see an ordinary web request from you, and may set their own cookies and apply their own privacy policies — this policy does not cover them.
Some sites require you to sign in. You do that in the site's own page inside the app. MonkeyChords never reads, stores or transmits your username or password; the resulting session cookie is kept in the app's private storage on your device and is excluded from Android's cloud backup.
If you connect a backup folder, the app writes a copy of your songs and setlists to the folder you picked — on the device, or on an SD card. The app has no folder of its own and sends nothing anywhere else.
MonkeyChords is free for 30 days and then asks you to buy it. The date your trial started is kept on your device, and nowhere else — no check is made against any server, and nothing about your device is transmitted to run it.
Google Drive backup is optional and off until you switch it on. When it is on, the app uploads the same snapshot of your songs and setlists to your own Google Drive, into a folder called “MonkeyChords Backup” that you can open, download and delete like any other file of yours.
It goes to your Google account, not to the developer. MonkeyChords operates no server of its own, and the developer never receives, sees or stores a copy. Once the file is in your Drive it is covered by your agreement with Google, and Google's privacy policy applies to it.
The app asks Google for one permission, drive.file, which grants access
only to files this app itself created. It cannot see, read or list anything else in your
Drive — not your documents, not your photos, not files another app put there. Connecting shows
Google's own account chooser; the app is given a temporary access token for Drive, and never your
password. Disconnecting stops the uploads and leaves the files already in your Drive untouched,
because they are yours.
The one-time Pro unlock is sold and processed by Google Play. Payment details are handled entirely by Google — the developer never sees your card, your billing address, or your name. The app asks Google Play whether this device's account owns the unlock, and stores nothing but a yes-or-no answer on the device.
Exporting a PDF writes it to your Downloads folder or hands it to whichever app you choose to share it with. Sharing a setlist sends it to whoever you send it to. In both cases the content goes where you direct it and nowhere else.
Android may copy app data to your personal Google account as part of system backup or device-to-device transfer. That copy is under your Google account, not the developer's. The app excludes its browser cookies and caches from it. You can turn system backup off in Settings → Google → Backup on your device.
INTERNET and ACCESS_NETWORK_STATE — to load chord-sheet websites you ask for.WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE — only on Android 9 and older, and only to save an exported PDF
to Downloads. Android 10 and newer do not need it and the app does not request it there.The app does not request the microphone, camera, location, contacts, or access to your files at large.
MonkeyChords is a tool for musicians and is not directed at children under 13. It collects no personal information from anyone, including children.
If this policy changes, the revised version will be published here with a new effective date. The app bundles a copy of the version it shipped with, readable offline under Settings → About.
Questions about this policy: aaron.gunasingh@gmail.com