Talk and Type — Privacy Policy

Last updated: 17 July 2026

The short version

Talk and Type is built so your words stay yours. Everything the apps do — listening, transcribing, and storing your dictations, meetings and notes — happens entirely on your device. We don’t run servers for your content, we don’t have accounts, and we never receive, see, or transmit your audio, transcripts, or notes. The only time anything leaves your device is when you choose to export and share it.

Who this policy covers

This policy explains how Talk and Type (“Talk and Type”, “the apps”, “we”, “us”) handles information. It applies to:

Talk and Type for macOS — the dictation app for the Mac;
Talk and Type for iOS — the meetings and capture app for iPhone (in preview); and
this website, talkandtype.com.

What the apps store on your device

To do their job, the apps create and store — locally, only:

On the Mac: your dictation history (the text of what you dictated), your custom dictionary and snippets, and your settings. Dictation audio is processed in the moment and is not kept.
On the iPhone: audio recordings of the meetings you record, the transcripts generated from them, and the details you add — titles, meeting type, a confidentiality label, and notes.

This information is held in each app’s private storage, protected by macOS or iOS and your device passcode, Face ID or Touch ID. It stays on your device until you delete it (see “Deleting your data”).

What we collect — nothing

We want to be unambiguous about this:

No analytics in the apps.The Mac and iPhone apps contain no analytics or usage-tracking software. The website keeps only privacy-respecting, cookieless aggregate counts (see “This website” below) — no cookies, no identifiers, nothing tied to a person.
No telemetry or crash reporting that sends data off your device.
No accounts and no sign-up. You don’t create an account, and we don’t hold any profile about you. Downloading the Mac app requires nothing from you — not even an email address.
No content servers. Talk and Type has no backend for your content. Your recordings and transcripts have nowhere to be sent, because there is nothing on the other end to receive them.
No advertising, and no selling of data. We can’t sell what we never receive.

Because your content never reaches us, we are not able to access, recover, or disclose your dictations, recordings or transcripts — to anyone.

Permissions the apps ask for

Microphone(Mac and iPhone) — used only to hear your dictation or record a meeting, and only while you’re dictating or have a recording in progress. Audio never leaves the device.
Accessibility (Mac) — macOS calls apps that type on your behalf an Accessibility permission. Talk and Type uses it for exactly that: placing your transcribed text at your cursor. It is not used to observe anything.
Speech Recognition (iPhone) — used to transcribe your recordings. In Talk and Type this runs on your device; your audio is not sent away to be transcribed.

You can review or revoke any permission at any time in System Settings (Mac) or the Settings app (iPhone).

On-device transcription

Transcription is performed on your device. On the Mac, the first run downloads an on-device speech model once (a standard software download — it contains no information about you); after that, transcription needs no internet connection at all. On the iPhone, iOS may likewise download Apple’s on-device language model. In both cases, no audio or transcript is uploaded — to Apple, to us, or to anyone.

How information leaves your device — only when you choose

The one way your content leaves your device is when you export it — for example, exporting a dictation or meeting as a markdown or text file and sharing it to Files, Mail, Messages, AirDrop, or another app you choose. When you do this, you decide what to export and where it goes. Once you send a file to another app or service, that content is handled under thatservice’s terms and privacy policy, not this one. We have no visibility into, or control over, what happens to a file after you share it.

This website

talkandtype.com sets no cookies and shows no advertising. It keeps a small set of aggregate measurements, none of which involve cookies, identifiers, or anything tied to an individual:

Visitor counts via a cookieless analytics service — page views and referrers in aggregate, with no cross-site tracking and no personal profile.
A download tally — a plain running number of how many times the app has been downloaded. No record of who downloaded it.
Update checks, counted in aggregate. The Mac app checks this site for updates (that’s how auto-update works); we count those checks as a daily number to gauge roughly how many copies are in use. No identifiers are sent or stored, and the app sends no other information.

Like any website, our hosting provider processes standard technical request data (such as IP addresses) transiently to serve pages and downloads; we do not use it to identify or profile you. If you choose to join our email list, we store the address you give us, use it only to send the updates you asked for, and remove it when you unsubscribe.

Your responsibility when recording others

Recording conversations is regulated differently across countries and, in Australia, across individual states and territories. Depending on where you are and who is present, you may be legally required to inform participants and/or obtain their consent before recording. You are responsible for complying with the laws that apply to you and for obtaining any consent you need from the people you record. Talk and Type for iOS offers a consent-confirmation step as a helpful prompt, but it is not legal advice and does not remove your responsibility.

Deleting your data

You can delete any dictation, meeting, recording or transcript from within the apps.
Deleting an app from your device removes all of its data from that device.
Because we hold none of your content, there is nothing for you to ask us to delete on our side.

Children

Talk and Type is a tool for professional and personal productivity and is not directed at children. We do not knowingly collect information from children — and, as set out above, we do not collect user content at all.

Security

Your data is stored in each app’s protected storage on your device and benefits from macOS and iOS built-in security, including device encryption when you have a passcode set. Keeping your device updated and passcode-protected is the best way to protect your words.

Changes to this policy

If we change how the apps or this website handle information, we will update this policy and revise the “Last updated” date above. Material changes will be reflected in an app update.

Contact

If you have any questions about this policy or about how Talk and Type handles your information, contact us at privacy@talkandtype.com.