Samee

Privacy

Samee (the website and the Android app) listens to Quran recitation to identify it, follow it and point out mistakes. This page says what it keeps and why. Updated 6 October 2026.

Without an account

The first time the app or this site is used, it registers anonymously and gets a random key. Nothing about you is asked. With that key the server keeps:

• the device's name and type (for example "Pixel 8", Android) and the app version, so you can tell your devices apart;
• when it was last used and from which network address, to stop abuse;
• your listening sessions: their names, the places recited, the mistakes found and your notes;
• a few seconds of audio around each mistake, so you can play it back;
• the whole recording only when you turn on "Keep the full recording" or check a recording you uploaded (from an audio or video file: only its audio is kept, and the uploaded file is deleted once it has been read);
• bookmarks, practice attempts and khatm progress;
• voice profiles, only if you name an imam's voice: numbers that describe the voice, not a recording.

Audio sent to identify a recitation is analysed and then discarded.

With an account

An account adds a username and a password, stored only as a secure hash, so your progress follows you to other devices. The recovery code is also stored only as a hash.

What Samee doesn't do

• No advertising and no tracking, and nothing is sold or shared.
• Samee runs no analytics of its own. The one exception is Google's code scanner, below.
• Your sessions are visible only to your own devices.
• Recitation audio for playback comes from this server or from EveryAyah.com, which receives an ordinary request for the file.

Google's code scanner (Android app)

To add a phone to your account you can scan a QR code. The Android app uses Google's code scanner (ML Kit, part of Google Play services) for that. Only when you scan, Google receives basic information about the device and the app, a random identifier and performance data, which it uses for diagnostics and usage analytics; Samee receives only the code. Typing the code instead of scanning it avoids this. See Google's ML Kit data disclosure.

Removing your data

Data stays on the server until you remove it, and removing it deletes it from the server at once:

• one session: open its report and delete it;
• everything (sessions, recordings, voices, bookmarks, practice and progress): "Erase my data" on the Progress page of the website, or in the Android app Progress → Clear, or Settings → "Erase my data from the server";
• your account and all its data: "Delete account" on the account page, or in the Android app Settings → Account → Delete account.

Contact

Questions: support@abdohoo.app