Your voice stays
on your Mac.
Dictation hears everything you say, so here is exactly where it goes: what stays on your Mac, the one thing you can choose to send, and the little we keep about you.
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Last updated September 13, 2026
Stays on your Mac
Audio, transcripts, cleanup, notes and the key.
Everything that touches what you said is processed and stored on your own machine. It keeps working in Airplane Mode.
- WhisperKit
- Local cleanup model
- vault.enc
- macOS Keychain
Only if you choose
Your own cloud key
On Pro you can send text, never audio, to a provider you pick. Off by default.
What we keep
Your email and plan
Enough to send your invite and run your subscription. Payments are handled by Dodo Payments.
How it’s built
How it stays private.
Audio is transcribed on your Mac
WhisperKit runs on Apple Silicon. Audio is never uploaded. The temporary recording is deleted after transcription, and history keeps the text, not the audio.
Cleanup runs locally too
The model that fixes punctuation and filler words runs on a loopback-only server inside the app. Those requests are never routed to an external service.
Your vault is encrypted
Notes and search indexes live in one SQLCipher database. Its 256-bit key is generated on your Mac and kept in your Keychain. We can’t read it or recover it.
Secrets are stripped first
Key and token shapes, JWTs and private keys are redacted before a capture is written or indexed. It is best-effort, so don’t dictate passwords.
Meetings without a room recorder
Meeting detection reads window titles like Zoom or Meet through Accessibility, and it is opt-in. Tyne only captures what you push to talk.
Every data type
Accounted for, line by line.
If it isn’t in these two tables, Tyne doesn’t collect it.
| In the app | Where it lives | Leaves your Mac? | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| Microphone audio | Your Mac, briefly | Never | Deleted once transcribed |
| Transcripts and history | Your Mac | Never | Text only, no audio |
| Vault notes and search index | vault.enc on your Mac | Never | SQLCipher-encrypted |
| Vault encryption key | Your macOS Keychain | Never | Generated on your Mac |
| Screen contents | Not captured | Never | No Screen Recording permission |
| Text sent with your own cloud key | The provider you chose | Only if you opt in | Pro, off by default, text only |
| On our side | Stored with | Access | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| Beta request | Our database | Held by us | Name, email and optional use case |
| Account and plan | Our database | Held by us | Email and subscription status |
| Payment details | Dodo Payments | Held by us | We never see your card |
| Support emails | Our inbox | Held by us | Only what you send us |
macOS permissions
What Tyne asks for, and what it doesn’t.
Microphone
To hear you while you dictate.
Accessibility
To paste text into the app you are using.
Calendar and Reminders
Only if you use those actions.
Screen Recording
Never requested.
Full Disk Access
Never requested.
Check for yourself
Don’t take our word for it.
Run a network monitor such as Little Snitch or LuLu while you dictate. With no cloud key added, you won’t see audio or notes going anywhere.
# where your data lives
~/Library/Application Support/in.tyne.desktop/vault.enc
~/Library/Application Support/Tyne/Models/
Keychain · in.tyne.desktop
Delete the app, those folders and the Keychain item, and every trace of Tyne on your Mac is gone. Deleting the key makes the vault unreadable for good.
Questions about your data?
Ask us to see or delete what we hold at support@tyne.io. Report a vulnerability to security@tyne.io.