Privacy Policy

Local audio and transcripts

Verba processes and stores audio recordings, transcripts, and Dictionary rules locally on your Mac. Your audio and transcripts are never sent to Verba or a transcription service.

What stays on your Mac

Verba stores the following app data locally:

• Audio recordings
• Transcripts and recording history
• Dictionary entries and replacement rules
• App preferences

Internet access and license checks

An internet connection is needed for initial downloads, updates, and license activation and periodic validation. Once set up, speech recognition and text cleanup run locally without an internet connection.

License checks send license information and a device identifier or activation ID to Polar, our payment and licensing provider. License status is cached locally for offline use.

Your audio and transcripts are never included in these requests.

No analytics or telemetry

Verba does not track app usage or create behavioural profiles. It contains no analytics or telemetry code.

macOS permissions

Verba requests these permissions for its core features:

• Microphone — Records your voice for local transcription.
• Accessibility — Pastes transcribed text into other apps. If you enable correction learning, Verba briefly observes edits to text it just pasted into a supported field so it can suggest a Dictionary rule. You approve each rule; support varies by app and field.

You can turn correction learning off at any time.

Deleting local data

You can delete recordings from within Verba and remove locally stored app data from your Mac. Removing app files does not necessarily remove license information stored in macOS Keychain or license records held by Polar.

Contact

Questions about privacy? Email us at hello@verbaspeech.app.