Privacy

Hive Pocket Media Player · last updated 22 October 2026

This app collects nothing and sends nothing on its own. There is no account and no analytics. After the page has loaded, it makes no network request, with one exception you choose: pressing Send to HIVE in Report a problem (see below).

Your music

Music you choose stays on your device. It is not uploaded, copied to any service, or transmitted anywhere. The app reads a folder you pick, and reads each file only when you play it.

Track names are stored in your own browser's storage so the list can come back when you reopen the app without asking for the folder again. Names only — never a file path, never the audio. They never leave the device, and Forget the folder in Settings deletes them.

The microphone

If you turn the microphone on, its audio is used to draw the visuals and for nothing else. It is not recorded, not stored, and not transmitted. It is connected to an analyser and to nothing downstream of that analyser, which is also why it never reaches your speakers. Turning the microphone off stops the capture and releases the device.

What is stored on your device

• Your settings — colours, effects, performance mode and the rest.
• Track names from the folder you chose, as described above.
• Any direct audio links you saved.
• A handle to the music folder you picked, so the app can offer to reopen it. A browser will never let a page reopen it silently; you are asked every time.

All of it lives in your browser's own storage for this site. Clearing site data, or uninstalling the app, removes all of it. None of it is readable by anyone else.

Problem reports

If you use Report a problem, the app fills in what it can see about itself, and you can read every line first. Then you choose how it goes:

• Send to HIVE sends it at once to HIVE Feedback, the list where reports from every HIVE app are read. It carries the report (the first 1,000 characters), that it came from Hive Pocket, and your browser's user-agent string. Your internet address is not stored; a coded version of it is kept to limit spam and deleted after 30 days.
• Send by email hands the text to your own mail app. The app does not send it — you do, by pressing send there.
• Copy instead puts it on your clipboard and sends nothing.

A report contains your settings, counters such as how many tracks are queued, your screen size, and your browser's user-agent string. It does not contain the names of your music, your saved link addresses, or what is playing.

Children

The app is not directed at children and collects no personal information from anyone, including children.

Changes

If this policy ever changes, the date at the top changes with it. The app's whole history is public, so any change to what it does is visible in the source.

Contact

Open an issue on the repository, or use Report a problem in the app.