Privacy Policy

Last updated — August 2026

The short version

Dictro is on-device, period. Audio capture, speech recognition, and text refinement all run locally on your Mac's Apple Silicon — your voice, your audio, and your transcripts are never sent to us or to anyone else. Current versions of the app have no cloud processing mode of any kind. To improve the app, Dictro also sends anonymous, non-personal usage statistics — never your voice or your text — described under Anonymous usage analytics below.

On-device processing

• Audio — captured only while you dictate, processed in memory on your Mac, never written to disk, never transmitted.
• Transcripts — typed into the app you're using, then discarded. If you turn on the optional transcript history (off by default), your most recent dictations are saved only on your Mac, are never uploaded, and can be deleted with one click.
• Models — the speech and language models are downloaded once and run entirely offline.

Cloud processing: none

Current versions of Dictro have no cloud transcription or formatting mode. Earlier versions offered an optional, off-by-default Fast Mode that could send dictated content to cloud providers; it has been disabled, and every dictation is now processed entirely on your Mac. If a cloud-backed feature is ever reintroduced, it will be opt-in and this policy will be updated first.

What we collect

• Account details — if you create an account: your email address, sign-in timestamps, and your plan.
• Usage counts — an aggregate word count per week, used solely to enforce plan limits. Counts are numbers only; never the words themselves.
• Billing details — if you buy a paid plan, payment is handled by our payment processor. We receive your plan, purchase status, and billing country — never your full card number.

Anonymous usage analytics

So we can understand how many people use Dictro and how much, the app sends a small, anonymous heartbeat. It carries no personal information and none of your dictated content.

• What it includes — a random identifier generated on your Mac (not tied to you, your account, or your hardware), the app and macOS version, which mode you're in, whether you're signed in, and an aggregate count of words dictated. Counts are numbers only.
• What it never includes — your audio, your transcripts, any text you dictate, your name, email, or any hardware identifier.
• Why — product analytics only: counting active installs, version adoption, and overall usage. It is never sold or shared with advertisers.

What we never do

• We never receive your audio or dictated content.
• We never store a history of what you dictate on our servers. The optional history feature is off by default and keeps transcripts only on your own Mac.
• We never train models on your data.
• We never sell or share personal data with advertisers.

Service providers

We use a small number of infrastructure providers to run Dictro: authentication and usage accounting, and payment processing. Each receives only the data needed to perform its function, under agreements that restrict any other use. None of them receives your audio or dictated text.

Data retention and your rights

Account data is kept while your account is active. You can request a copy or deletion of your account data at any time by emailing help@dictro.com. Deleting your account removes all data we hold about you.

Changes

If we change this policy in a way that affects how dictated content is handled, we will announce it in the app before the change takes effect.

Contact

Questions about this policy: help@dictro.com.