No analytics. No accounts. No telemetry. No third-party SDKs. No advertising identifiers. No crash reporters. Tone has no server, so there is nowhere for your information to be sent even in principle.
What Tone talks to
Tone talks to the Sonos speakers on your own network. It finds them the way any Sonos controller does, by looking for them on your local network, and it sends them the same commands your Sonos app would: set the volume, pause, skip, start a favorite.
There is no sign-in, no Sonos account, and no cloud service in between. Your speakers are on your network and so is your Apple TV, and controlling your music stays between them. The only things that reach beyond your network are pictures: the covers for your Sonos Favorites, and the logo shown for a radio station. Both are described below.
Why Tone asks for local network access
The first time you open Tone, tvOS asks whether it may find and connect to devices on your local network. Tone needs this permission to discover your speakers at all. Without it there is nothing for the app to control. The permission is used for that and nothing else.
What is stored, and where
Tone remembers which speaker you used last, so it opens where you left off. That preference is stored on your Apple TV. It is not transmitted anywhere, and deleting the app removes it.
What's playing, the artwork, the track name, how far in you are: all of it is read from your speakers as you use the app, and none of it is recorded.
Album artwork
Artwork for a song that is playing comes from the speaker itself, over your own network, like everything else on the screen.
Two things work differently, and both are fetched from the music service rather than from your speaker: the covers for your Sonos Favorites, and the logo shown for a radio station. A live station has no artwork for the song, so Tone shows the station's logo instead, and Sonos supplies both of these as web addresses at the service's own servers, such as Apple Music or TuneIn. Your Apple TV fetches them directly from that service.
These are ordinary requests for a public image: no account details, no identifiers, and no cookies, since Tone uses a session that stores nothing between launches. The service can see that a request came from your home internet connection, the same as loading any image on the web. Tone keeps no copy of any of these once you close the app.
Favorite covers are loaded when you open a speaker, ahead of time, so your favorites appear instantly. A station's logo is loaded when that station starts playing.
What Tone does not do
- It does not collect or transmit personal information.
- It does not track you, in the app or anywhere else.
- It does not build a profile or a listening history.
- It does not contain advertising or share data with advertisers.
- It does not sell data, because it does not have any.
Children
Tone collects no information from anyone, of any age.
Changes
If this ever changes, the change will be described on this page and the date below will be updated. If a future version of Tone were to collect anything at all, it would say so plainly and ask first.
Contact
Questions about any of this are welcome at [email protected].
Last updated 2 September 2026.