Privacy Policy

What Uttra processes

While you dictate, Uttra processes microphone audio in memory on your Mac. The bundled speech model transcribes that audio locally, cleans the result, and inserts the text at your cursor. Audio is cleared after the dictation ends or is cancelled.

A transcript and any confidence-review candidate are held in memory only for the active workflow. If you enable contextual cleanup, Uttra may temporarily read a limited amount of surrounding text. That context is processed locally and is not saved or transmitted.

Data stored on your Mac

Uttra stores app preferences and any vocabulary corrections you choose to save. Dictation history and local diagnostics are off by default and are stored only if you enable them. Diagnostics contain event names and technical metadata, not audio or transcript content.

Stored data remains inside Uttra’s macOS app container. You can inspect, export, or delete it from Uttra’s Privacy settings. “Delete All Data” removes vocabulary, history, diagnostics, and resets preferences.

What we do not collect

• No audio recordings or transcripts
• No account or identity information
• No analytics, advertising identifiers, or tracking data
• No surrounding text or saved vocabulary
• No telemetry or crash uploads

Uttra does not sell personal information and does not share data with third parties because the app does not collect data from you.

Permissions

Uttra requests microphone access to capture speech, Input Monitoring to recognize the optional hold-to-talk shortcut, and Text Insertion permission to place dictated text at your cursor. These permissions are used only for their stated on-device functions.

Network access and third-party software

The baseline speech model is included with the app. Normal onboarding, dictation, transcription, cleanup, and insertion do not require a network connection. Uttra contains no analytics, advertising, cloud-inference, or telemetry SDK.

The app includes third-party on-device speech-processing components. They run locally and do not receive your audio or text. If a future release adds an optional, user-initiated model or update download, this policy will be updated before that feature is released.

Children’s privacy

Uttra does not knowingly collect information from children—or from anyone else. The app has no account system or cloud data service.

Changes and contact

Material changes will be posted on this page with a revised effective date. For privacy questions or support, email Uttra support.