LocalVoice

Privacy Policy

Last updated 14 November 2026

Short version

Your recordings and transcripts never leave this Mac. LocalVoice only goes online to check your license, to look for updates if you allow it, and to download a speech model when you ask it to. We do not collect analytics, and we do not sell or share data.

What stays on your Mac

All files you open with LocalVoice, and all results it produces, are processed locally and never sent to us.

What leaves your Mac, and when

• License check. When you activate a license, and about once a week afterwards, LocalVoice sends your license key and your Mac's name to our payment provider, Lemon Squeezy, to confirm the license. No file contents are sent.
• Speech models (only when you ask). The Whisper engine needs a speech model. When you choose to download one, LocalVoice downloads it from Hugging Face (huggingface.co). This is a plain file download; none of your audio or text is sent. Apple's built-in speech engine may download language assets through macOS itself.
• Updates (only if you allow). LocalVoice asks before checking for updates automatically. An update check downloads a small file from https://tidyware.app/localvoice and sends your app version and macOS version, as any web request does.
• AI assistants (only if you connect them). If you connect LocalVoice to an AI app such as Claude or ChatGPT, that AI app decides what it sends to its own servers under its own privacy policy. LocalVoice itself does not upload anything.
• Bug reports (only if you send one). Logs are stored locally in ~/Library/Logs. They are only sent if you choose to email them to us.

Purchases

Payments are handled by Lemon Squeezy (merchant of record). We receive your name, email and order details to provide licenses and support. See the Lemon Squeezy privacy policy.

Contact

support@tidyware.app — we answer privacy questions and delete purchase data on request, unless the law requires us to keep it.