Nothing collected.

The short version

Silo Systems LLC does not collect, sell, share, or transmit personal data through Ohms Sample.

The app has no account, analytics SDK, advertising SDK, telemetry endpoint, or cloud audio processor. Audio files, recordings, PCM-derived waveforms, slice markers, plugin manifests, and Sample Brain indexes remain on the device.

Optional permissions

• Files and folders you choose. Used to open samples and index a sample-library folder. The app cannot browse folders you did not select.
• Microphone. Used only after you choose Arm Mic in Take and confirm that you want to start. Stopping stages the recording beside the current sample; it does not replace anything until you choose Use Recording.
• Screen & System Audio Recording on macOS. Used when you start Sample Anything from Take and confirm. In version 1.6.2, Option-Shift-S can also start a capture from any app while Ohms Sample is running, without opening Take or asking for confirmation; macOS still requires this permission first. ScreenCaptureKit requires a display filter to begin, but Ohms Sample registers only the audio output and never receives or stores screen frames.

Denying any optional permission does not prevent file-based sampling.

Sample Anything

When you start Sample Anything on Mac, captured system audio is resampled into a fixed 60-second in-memory ring. Freezing creates a temporary local candidate beside the loaded sample. You then choose Use Recording or Keep Current. Starting another accepted capture replaces only the prior app-created working capture, stale temporary captures are removed on the next launch, and nothing is uploaded.

Sample Brain

Sample Brain indexes only a folder you choose. Its SQLite FTS5 database contains local paths, filenames, folders, file format, size, modification time, and measured duration/audio format when decoding succeeds. Queries are tokenized locally and never transmitted. Search does not write usage or popularity rankings.

AUv3 sharing

When you explicitly choose Sync AUv3, the standalone app copies the current sample and its 16 slice markers into an Apple App Group container shared only with the Ohms Sample extension. The extension has no microphone, file-picker, screen-capture, or network entitlement.

Network access

Ohms Sample makes no network requests of its own, and audio work never needs a connection. Apple may deliver App Store updates, refresh a missing Mac purchase receipt, show its rating prompt, and send opt-in crash diagnostics under your Apple settings. A rating or review you choose to leave is handled by Apple; Silo Systems sees only what Apple shows app developers.

Retention and deletion

Imported source files remain where you placed them. Sample Canvas cut, keep, reverse, and time stretch create local working edits while retaining the loaded source for Restore Source; stale app-created edit files are removed on the next launch. Re-indexing reconciles the local Sample Brain index without deleting source audio. You can replace plugin-shared data by syncing another sample and remove app-container data by deleting the app.

Contact

Questions: admin@ohmslaw.net

Support: ohmslaw.net/apps/ohms-sample/support