Delete your account

Last updated: August 27, 2026

You can delete your own.audio account at any time, and you don't need to ask us to do it. This page explains how, what gets removed, and who to contact if your family runs its own server.

First: which server are you on?

own.audio can be used two ways, and it changes who holds your data.

• Our hosted service — you signed in against own.audio's own server. We hold your account, and the steps below apply to us.
• A server your family runs — someone in your household installed own.audio on their own machine. Your account lives ontheir server, not ours. We have no access to it and cannot delete it for you. Deleting from inside the app still works; if you need help beyond that, ask whoever runs the server.

If you're not sure which you're on, open the app and look at the server address shown on the sign-in screen.

Deleting from inside the app

This is the quickest route and it works on every server, hosted or not. Open Settings, choose Delete account, and confirm by typing DELETE. The account and its contents are removed immediately. There's no waiting period and no undo.

Asking us instead

If you can't reach the app — you've lost the device, or you never finished setting it up — email [email protected] from the address you signed up with, and ask us to delete your account. We'll confirm once it's done. This only covers accounts on our hosted service; we can't act on a server we don't run.

If you only ever joined the pre-launch waitlist and never created an account, the same address works — say so and we'll remove your waitlist entry.

What gets deleted

• Your account, sign-in details, and any linked Google or Apple sign-in.
• Your display name, photo, and family membership.
• Audio you added, along with its listening progress and bookmarks.
• Your devices and their sessions.

What may remain, and why

Two things can outlive the deletion, and neither identifies you afterwards:

• Content you shared with your family stays with the family library if others are still using it — deleting your account doesn't delete a shared audiobook out from under everyone else.
• Records we're required to keep, such as payment records where tax law obliges us to retain them. These are kept only for as long as the law requires.

Backups are the usual exception to "immediately": deleted data can persist in encrypted backups for a short period before those rotate out.

Questions

[email protected]. See also our Privacy Policy.