Privacy Policy
AudioToText for iPhone
The short version
Everything you say or type in AudioToText stays on your iPhone. Transcription and AI summarization both run entirely on-device. There are no accounts, no servers of ours, and no analytics — AudioToText has nothing to upload, because nothing it does leaves your phone.
The only network request the app ever makes on your behalf is downloading the files of an optional transcription model you chose to use — a one-way download of model weights, not your data. See Model downloads below.
How transcription and summarization work
AudioToText transcribes speech using either Apple's built-in, on-device Speech framework, or an optional NVIDIA Parakeet model running locally through Apple's CoreML — whichever you choose in the Model screen. Both run entirely on your device; neither sends audio or text anywhere.
Meeting notes and summaries are generated entirely on-device using Apple's Foundation Models framework. No transcript, recording, or summary is ever sent to an external service, including Apple's own servers.
Why the keyboard needs Full Access
iOS keyboard extensions cannot use the microphone directly. AudioToText's keyboard works around that by having the main app claim the microphone and hand transcribed text to the keyboard through a small piece of storage shared between them (an "App Group") — and iOS only allows a keyboard extension to read that shared storage once you grant Full Access.
Full Access is used solely for that local, on-device handoff: letting the keyboard know a dictation session is running, and reading back the words it produced. AudioToText does not use Full Access for network requests, analytics, or any purpose beyond this.
Model downloads
Apple's built-in Speech model ships with iOS and needs no download. If you choose to use an optional Parakeet model instead, the app downloads that model's weight files from Hugging Face's servers over the network. This is a one-way download of a file — no audio, transcript, or personal information is uploaded as part of it, and it only happens when you explicitly choose to download a model.
What AudioToText stores
The app saves what it needs to do its job, and nothing else:
- audio recordings you make, and their transcripts and summaries
- downloaded transcription model files, if you chose to use one
- your settings, such as which transcription model is selected
All of it is written to a private container on your iPhone. It is not synced to iCloud, not backed up to any server of ours, and never transmitted. Nobody — including the developer — can see it.
You can delete any recording from within the app. Deleting the app removes everything at once. There is no copy anywhere else to request the deletion of.
What we don't do
- No user accounts or sign-in.
- No analytics, tracking, or advertising SDKs.
- No third-party data sharing — there's no data collected to share.
- No cloud storage of recordings, transcripts, or summaries.
Children
AudioToText is a general-audience app and is not directed at children under 13. Because the app collects no data from any user, it does not knowingly collect data from children either.
Your rights
Under UK and EU data protection law you have rights of access, correction, erasure and objection over personal data held about you. For AudioToText, those rights are satisfied directly on your device: everything the app stores is visible in the app, can be edited or deleted there, and is destroyed when you delete the app. The developer holds no copy and so has nothing to disclose or erase.
Changes to this policy
If this policy changes it will be updated on this page and the date below will change with it. If a change ever materially affects how your information is handled, it will be described here rather than quietly amended.
Contact
Questions about privacy, or anything else: daniel.li.work+support@gmail.com