Terms of Use
Last updated: 23 September 2026
By installing or using CallVault, you agree to these terms. If you don't agree, don't use the app. CallVault is published by Ahsan Mahmood (aoneahsan@gmail.com).
What CallVault is
A personal tool to record your own phone calls and optionally back them up to CallVault's private cloud storage. It is provided for personal use.
Plans, payment and households
CallVault has a free plan and paid plans. Paying happens off-site, at https://aoneahsan.com/payment. Nothing is sold inside the Android app. After a payment, a CallVault administrator applies the plan to your account and records the date it ends.
A plan sets how much private cloud backup your account gets. Recording, import, playback, search, notes, favorites and export are free on every plan, and they stay free.
A renewal extends a plan. It never shortens one: if a new grant carries an end date earlier than the one already on your account, the later date stands. Nothing renews on its own: a plan runs to its end date and stops unless you pay for another period. Payments already made are not refunded.
When a plan ends, new backups pause at the lower limit. Nothing already stored is deleted. Your recordings stay there to play, search, export and delete, and new backups start once your account is back inside the limit, whether a plan was applied again or you freed space.
The Family plan is held by a household. One person owns it and invites up to 4 others by email, so a household holds up to 5 members, the owner included. A Family plan is always bought with at least 3 seats, and an administrator cannot set a household below 3. Seats are what you pay for, so a seat you have not filled is still a seat you bought; buy Family only once you know who is joining, because payments already made are not refunded. If members leave, the plan you already have runs to its end date.
The owner holds the seats. The owner can remove a member, or close the household, which ends every membership in it and leaves every member's recordings untouched. A member can leave at any time. The owner cannot leave their own household.
Each plan carries fair-use limits: the size of a single recording, and how many uploads an account can start in an hour. Those limits belong to the plan and a CallVault administrator can change them, and the limits that apply to an upload are always the ones on your account at the moment that upload runs. The current value of each limit, for each plan, is listed at https://callvault-docs.aoneahsan.com/user-guide/plans-and-family.
A recording larger than the per-recording limit stays on the phone. It is not uploaded, and it appears under Needs attention in Backup & sync health.
Free accounts help pay for themselves. We may use content from free accounts to improve and train the features we build. Content in a paid plan is not used this way without your explicit consent. You can object by email to aoneahsan@gmail.com.
Your responsibilities — recording laws
Recording laws vary; you are responsible for getting any consent required where you are. This is general information, not legal advice.
In some places you must tell everyone on the call, or get their consent, especially before you share a recording with anyone else. Using CallVault lawfully where you are is solely your responsibility. That includes telling other people when the law there requires it, whether or not the app says anything.
CallVault shows a live banner in the app and a persistent notification the whole time it is recording. It does not announce the recording to the other person, so telling them stays your responsibility.
If you are not sure what applies to you, check the law where you are, or ask a lawyer, before you record.
Acceptable use
Use CallVault only for lawful purposes and only to record calls you are a party to. Do not use it to record others unlawfully, to harass anyone, or to violate anyone's rights or privacy.
"As is"
Call recording depends on your device and Android version; on many phones the other party's voice is only captured on speakerphone, and some calls may not record at all. CallVault is provided "as is", without warranties, and we do not guarantee uninterrupted recording or backup.
Limitation of liability
To the maximum extent permitted by law, we are not liable for any loss arising from your use of the app, including missed or lost recordings, or any consequences of recording or sharing a call.
Your data
How your data is handled is described in the Privacy Policy.
Changes
We may update these terms; continued use of the app means you accept the updated terms.
Contact
Ahsan Mahmood · aoneahsan@gmail.com