Privacy policy

Last updated 27 October 2026

Who we are

SpeedOfTalk is made and sold by SpeedOfTalk ("we", "us"). For anything about privacy, use the contact form and choose "Privacy request".

The SpeedOfTalk app

Your voice

When you hold your hotkey, SpeedOfTalk records from your microphone into memory. The audio is turned into text on your Mac, by a speech model running on your Mac, and is discarded once the text is ready. Audio is never saved to disk and never sent anywhere.

Your text

Cleanup and Command Mode use Apple's on-device language model (part of Apple Intelligence) on your Mac. The text is then pasted into the app you're using. We never receive it.

SpeedOfTalk keeps these files on your Mac, in ~/Library/Application Support/SpeedOfTalk:

• History: your recent dictations (up to 1,000), so you can search and copy them. You can turn history off or clear it in Settings → History.
• Dictionary and snippets: the words and text you add.

It also writes a diagnostic log on your Mac (~/Library/Logs/SpeedOfTalk.log) with timings and errors. The log includes the text of your dictations only if you turn on "Include dictated text in the log" in Settings, for troubleshooting.

Selected text (Command Mode)

When Command Mode is on and you hold your hotkey, SpeedOfTalk reads the text you've selected in the front app, through macOS Accessibility, so it can apply your spoken instruction to it. This happens on your Mac and the text isn't kept, except as part of your history if history is on.

Permissions

• Microphone: to hear you while you hold the hotkey. SpeedOfTalk doesn't listen at any other time.
• Accessibility: to notice your hotkey in other apps, to paste, and to read the selection for Command Mode.

When the app connects to the internet

SpeedOfTalk goes online only for the steps below. Nothing you say or type is ever sent.

• The speech model, on first launch, and an optional small model for speaker labels in file transcription. They download from our server (on Cloudflare), which keeps no record of who downloaded them beyond Cloudflare's standard request logs. If our server can't be reached, SpeedOfTalk downloads them from Hugging Face (huggingface.co), which publishes them; Hugging Face then receives your IP address and basic request details, and its privacy policy applies to that.
• Activating your license, once per Mac. SpeedOfTalk sends us your license key, an anonymous Mac id (a one-way code made from your Mac's hardware id, which can't be turned back into it), the Mac model (for example "Mac15,6") and the app version. We keep these to enforce the 3-Mac limit and to help if you move Macs, for as long as your license exists. Removing the license from a Mac tells our server to free that Mac's place. Our server runs on Cloudflare, which sees your IP address when you connect.

Checking for updates: by default once a week, and whenever you choose Check for Updates, SpeedOfTalk asks our server for the newest version number. Each check sends the app version, build number, macOS version and a random install ID (made once by the app, not taken from your Mac), used only to count active installs. No name, email or IP address is stored: our server keeps a keyed one-way code made from your IP address, which can't be turned back into it, so it can tell when a download and later update checks came from the same network. (Like any connection, your IP address reaches Cloudflare.) You can switch automatic checks off in Settings → General. Updates are never installed without you.

After activation, your license is checked on your Mac without going online. SpeedOfTalk contains no crash reporting, advertising or tracking code; the only counting is the update-check count above.

This website

We run basic web analytics. We don't use cookies, and we never store your IP address. The fonts and everything else are served from here, except Cloudflare Turnstile, a privacy-preserving check that a form is filled in by a person rather than a bot; it runs only on pages with a form, except Paddle's checkout script, which loads on every page so that Buy opens straight away. Paddle is our reseller and handles payment; its own privacy policy covers what it collects, including any cookies its checkout uses. The demo on the home page runs in your browser and records nothing. It remembers whether you turned its sound off, in your browser's local storage, and never sends that anywhere.

The site and our server run on Cloudflare, which keeps standard request logs (IP address, time, page requested, browser type) for a short period to keep them running and secure.

Invites and downloads

If you ask for an invite, we keep your email address, when you asked and confirmed, which page you asked from, and your country (Cloudflare tells us the country; we don't keep your IP address). We email you to confirm the address, and once more with your invite. Your invite's download link is personal, so we can see whether and when it was used, with the country. We don't use your address for anything else and don't share it. Every email has an unsubscribe link; we keep the record that you unsubscribed so we don't email you again. To have your record deleted completely, use the contact form.

Visits to this site and downloads from the public download link are counted with the time, the page, the site or link you came from, and your country and network. Each browser tab gets a random code, kept only in that tab and deleted when you close it, so a visit can be linked to a download or a purchase made from the same tab. We never store your IP address; downloads keep a keyed one-way code made from it, which can't be turned back into it, to spot repeat downloads and robots.

Update emails

Only if you ask for them (a box on the invite form, or the link in your license email), we email you when there's a new version. We keep your email address, how you signed up and when. Every update email has an unsubscribe link.

Buying SpeedOfTalk

Purchases are handled by Paddle, our reseller and merchant of record. Paddle collects what it needs to take payment and handle tax, such as your name, email address, country and payment details, under its own privacy policy. We never see your card details. Paddle sends us your name and email address so we can create your license key and email it to you; we keep them with your license so we can resend a lost key. We email you about your purchase and license only, not marketing.

Paddle shares with us your name, email address, country and order details. We use them to send your license key, to help you if you contact us, to issue refunds, and to keep the business records the law requires. We keep order records for as long as tax law requires, usually up to seven years.

Contacting us

If you use the contact form or reply to one of our emails, we use your message, name and address to reply, and keep the country Cloudflare reports. We keep support conversations for as long as they're useful for helping you, and delete them on request.

Who we share data with

We don't sell or rent personal information, and we don't share it for advertising. The only companies that handle it for us are Paddle (purchases), Resend (sending our emails), and Cloudflare (this site and our server).

Legal bases (EU, UK and similar laws)

We process purchase details to perform our contract with you (delivering your license), to meet legal obligations (tax and accounting), and for our legitimate interest in supporting customers and keeping our services secure.

Your rights

Depending on where you live, you can ask to see, correct, export or delete the personal information we hold about you, and object to how we use it. Use the contact form (choose "Privacy request"); we'll reply within 30 days. You can also complain to your local data protection authority. California residents: we don't sell or share personal information as those terms are defined in the CCPA.

Data stored by the app on your Mac is under your control; you can delete it at any time (see uninstalling).

Children

SpeedOfTalk isn't directed at children under 16, and we don't knowingly collect their personal information.

Changes

If this policy changes, we'll update the date above. If a change affects what the app does with your data, for example if a future version checks for updates online, we'll say so here and in the release notes before it ships.