Privacy
Your words stay yours.
Talk Ink is designed so your voice data never touches our servers, is never sold, and is never used to train AI. That's not a policy — it's the architecture.
No Data Retention
Every API call includes store=false. Your audio is transcribed and immediately discarded. Transcription history stays on your Mac — never on our servers. Enable Privacy Mode to disable local history entirely.
Zero Tracking
No analytics. No crash reporting. No tracking pixels. No third-party SDKs. We don't even know how many users we have.
Local-First Option
Switch to on-device transcription and your voice never leaves your Mac. Zero cloud calls, zero data transmission.
How your data flows
Simple, transparent, and ephemeral.
Speak
Your voice is captured by your microphone and held only in memory.
Process
Audio is sent via encrypted connection to our transcription service. Text is returned.
Discard
Audio is immediately deleted from memory. Transcripts are kept locally on your Mac for your history — never sent to or stored on our servers.
What we know about you
The list of things we collect is short. The list of things we don't collect is long — intentionally.
What we collect
- Email address (for your account)
- Subscription status (for billing)
What we never collect
- Voice recordings
- Transcription text on our servers
- Usage analytics
- Browsing behavior
- Device fingerprints
- Crash reports
- Location data
- Contact lists
Frequently asked questions
Audio is captured temporarily in memory for transcription and then immediately discarded — it is never saved to disk or sent to our servers. Your transcription history is stored locally on your Mac for convenience, and you can enable Privacy Mode to disable local storage entirely.
Yes. Local-Only Mode uses Apple's on-device speech recognition — your voice never leaves your Mac. No internet connection required.
Just your email address for account login and your subscription status for billing. That's it. No usage analytics, no telemetry, no tracking of any kind.
No. We have zero analytics, zero tracking, and zero third-party data SDKs. There is literally no data to sell.
No. Every API call we make includes store=false, which explicitly opts out of data retention and model training. Your words are processed and discarded.
Our complete privacy policy is available at the bottom of this page. It's written in plain English — no legalese.