Privacy Policy

Last updated: July 28, 2026

Overview

Dictami is designed with privacy as a core principle. All audio processing happens entirely on your device — your voice recordings are never sent to any server, stored in any database, or shared with any third party.

Data We Collect

The app collects no personal data. Specifically:

• Audio recordings are processed locally on your Mac and are never uploaded anywhere
• With History switched off, recordings are deleted immediately after transcription and no text is kept
• With History switched on, your dictations — and, unless you turn that part off, their audio — are saved on your own Mac so you can search and reuse them. Nothing leaves the machine, and clearing the history deletes both
• No analytics, telemetry, or crash reporting is transmitted
• No account or email is required to use the app

License Activation

Activating a license key contacts our licence server once. That request contains your key and a device identifier for the Mac you are activating, which is what lets us enforce the device limit and revoke a key after a refund. It contains no personal information and no content from your dictation.

The server replies with a signed token that is stored in your macOS Keychain. Every launch after that verifies the token offline, so Dictami keeps working with no network at all.

Licences bought by card are the one exception. Those keys belong to Gumroad, our payment processor, so about once a week the app asks Gumroad whether the licence is still active — which is how a cancelled or refunded subscription stops working. That request sends the licence key and nothing else: no dictation, no text, no personal information. If your Mac is offline the check is skipped and nothing changes.

Automatic Updates

Dictami uses Sparkle for updates. When checking for updates, Sparkle sends a request to dictami.com/appcast.xml that includes your macOS version and Dictami version number. No personally identifiable information is sent.

Email You Give Us on the Website

Downloading Dictami never requires an email address. If you choose to type one into the optional field on dictami.com, this is what happens to it:

• We store your address, the date, and whether you ticked the news box. Nothing else — no IP address, no tracking identifier.
• We send you the download link once.
• If you did not tick the news box, the record is deleted automatically within 24 hours. There is no list of people who merely downloaded Dictami.
• We send news about Dictami only if you ticked that separate box and then confirmed by clicking the button in the email we send you. The box is never ticked for you, and an unconfirmed request expires on its own after seven days.
• Every news email carries a one-click unsubscribe link. Using it stops all marketing email immediately.
• We never sell, rent, or share your address, and we do not add customers who bought Dictami to this list — a purchase is not consent to marketing.

The address is held on Cloudflare Workers KV and sent through Resend, our email provider. To be removed entirely rather than just unsubscribed, email [email protected] and we will delete the record.

Cookies and the Website Itself

dictami.com sets no cookies and stores nothing in your browser. There are no analytics, no advertising, no tracking pixels, and no social media buttons. That is why you were never shown a cookie banner — there is nothing to ask your consent for.

The site is served by Cloudflare, which keeps short-lived technical logs to deliver pages and block attacks. Payments are handled on Gumroad's own site, under Gumroad's privacy policy; we never see your card details.

Contact

Questions about privacy? Email [email protected]