No Ads, No Account — as a Premise | Sleeve
Frequently asked questions
- Does Sleeve have ads?
- No third-party advertising or tracking SDKs — not one line. That is not a setting you turn off; it is a premise of the product.
- Do I need an account?
- No. There is no sign-up and no user table, so the app does not know who you are. Play counts, playlists and playback positions stay on your device.
- What does Sleeve Pro unlock?
- Unlimited sources — the free version connects one — and unlimited smart playlists — the free version allows two. Available yearly or as a one-time Universal Purchase across iPhone and iPad.
- Is the free version actually usable?
- Playback, lossless, gapless, ReplayGain, the equalizer, lyrics, artwork and tag editing are in the free version and always will be.
The short answer
No ads and no account are usually a toggle in a settings screen, which means they are a policy that can change. In Sleeve they are stated as something else:
No third-party advertising or tracking SDKs. Not one line. That is not a setting you turn off; it is a premise of the product.
Why there is no account
There is no sign-up and no user table, so the app does not know who you are.
That is the mechanism behind the privacy claim rather than a policy statement about it. There is no row anywhere containing your identity, because there is nowhere to put one.
Play counts, playlists and playback positions stay on your device.
What Pro actually costs you
Worth stating plainly, because "Pro" usually implies the basics moved behind it:
Pro covers unlimited sources — the free version connects one — and unlimited smart playlists — the free version allows two. Yearly, or once and never again as a Universal Purchase across iPhone and iPad.
Playback, lossless, gapless, ReplayGain, the equalizer, lyrics, artwork and tag editing are in the free version and always will be.
That last sentence is the one worth holding an ad-supported competitor to.
Lyrics and artwork, both optional
Lyrics matched automatically from LRCLIB, cover art from MusicBrainz and Apple — both optional, both one switch.