Privacy
Road Stories tells you stories about the road you are on. We built it so that we never need to know where you are.
Last updated 11 November 2026.
- Your location never leaves your phone. Not to us, not to anyone.
- No account, no login, no advertising ID, no analytics, no tracking.
- The stories you heard, your trips and your credits are kept on your phone.
- One tap deletes everything we keep. Uninstalling the app does the same.
Where you are stays with you
The app needs your location to know which story comes next. It works this out on your phone, in the moment. Your exact position is never written down and never sent anywhere.
Think of it like a friend in the passenger seat who knows the history of every town. The friend is in your car, not on a server somewhere.
What travels over the internet
The stories and their voices live on our content network (Cloudflare, at cdn.roadstorywala.app). Your phone downloads them by large map squares, about 25 km wide, and by whole routes when you save one. A download never says where in the square you are, and carries no name, account or ID.
Like any website, the network has to see your phone's internet address to deliver a file. We have not switched on any logging, and we keep no record of who downloaded what. Cloudflare runs that network under its own privacy policy.
When you start a route or pick a place, the app opens Google Maps with the destination, so you can navigate. Google Maps is a separate app with its own rules.
Payments
Credits are bought through Google Play. Google handles the payment. We are told that a pack was bought, never your card, UPI or bank details. Google's handling of your payment follows Google's privacy policy.
What is kept on your phone
| What | Why | How it is kept |
|---|---|---|
| Stories you heard | So you do not hear the same story twice | Place names and how often |
| Your trips | To show your rides and the stories on them | A rough path only. The first and last 1 km are never kept, so your home and work do not show |
| Credits and routes | What you bought, and when you drove a route | Amounts, route names and dates |
| Home (only if you set it) | To plan trips from home | One point, on your phone only, never backed up |
| Settings | Your choices: car or bike, topics, calm ride | Simple settings |
| Saved stories | So routes play with no signal | Audio files |
None of this is sent to us. The app keeps a small ride log on the phone (which line it spoke, and when) to help fix problems; it never contains your location.
Your choices
In the app, You → Delete everything removes your trips, the stories you heard, your settings and your home point at once. You can also delete only your trips, or turn off saving trips. Uninstalling the app removes everything on the phone.
Backup and a new phone
Your credits, routes, settings and the list of stories you have heard are backed up by Android's own backup, to your own Google account. It is encrypted with your screen lock, so even Google cannot read it, and we never receive it. If you have no screen lock, Android skips the backup. When you set up a new phone with the same Google account, or reinstall the app, everything comes back.
Moving to another phone, or to an iPhone. In the app you can make one secret code that holds your credits, routes and heard-stories list. It is encrypted with 6 words that only you see, and you send it to yourself. It never goes through our servers, and we never see the code or the words.
These are never backed up: your trips and rough paths, the app's ride log and your home point. Saved stories download again by themselves. The backup is on by default. You can turn it off in the app (You, then Your data, then Back up my credits and routes), but we do not recommend it, because a lost or new phone then cannot get your credits back. Android's own settings (Google, then Backup) also control it.
Children
Road Stories is made for families on the road. We do not collect information about anyone, children included.
If this ever changes
We may one day add short sponsored lines, or counts that help us improve stories (like "this story was skipped often"). If we do, they will never use your location, your route or any ID, sponsored lines will always be called out as sponsored, and we will update this page first and ask you in the app.
This website
If you join the early-access list, we keep your email and your answers (states, language, plan). We use the email only to invite you to try the app. We do not sell or share it. This site uses no cookies and no analytics. To be removed, write to us and we will delete it.
Questions
Write to hello@roadstorywala.app. A real person reads it. For a lost or new phone, see Help and Support.
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