Privacy

Here's a plain, specific answer to "what happens to my data" — no vague reassurances, just what actually happens. The paid plans change the answer, so this page is organized around that.

The short version

On the free plan, Tiune does everything — listening, recognizing your speech, and cleaning up the text — entirely on your own computer, Mac or PC. Nothing about your voice or your words is sent anywhere; there is no network path in the dictation pipeline at all.

Plus and Pro add two things that can't run locally — an AI cleanup pass, and cloud transcription — so on those plans some of your words, and on Pro your audio, do leave your machine. What follows says exactly what leaves, where it goes, and what happens to it.

What leaves your machine, by plan

• Free — nothing. No audio, no text.
• Plus — the transcribed text, at the end of a dictation. Your own machine has already turned your speech into text; that text is sent to be rewritten and the result comes straight back. Your audio never leaves your machine on Plus — transcription is still local.
• Pro — audio, but only when you've turned cloud transcription on. The live preview you see while speaking is always produced locally, either way.

Audio is held only for the length of the request. Nothing is written to disk and no transcript is logged.

What always stays on your machine

• Your voice, from the moment you speak to the moment it becomes text. Audio is processed in memory and is never saved as a sound file, anywhere, at any point.

• Speech recognition itself, on all three of Tiune's local engines. On Pro you can opt into cloud transcription; that's the one exception, and it's yours to turn on.

• Basic cleanup — punctuation, formatting, removing filler words.

• Vocabulary learning — noticing and remembering your corrections.

• Everything you see in the app — your past captures, vocabulary, transformations, and settings are stored in one file on your own machine. Nothing is backed up to any cloud service automatically.

  You can also keep no history at all. Turn off Save transcripts on this device in Settings → Privacy and nothing is written down — not a blanked row, not a redacted one, nothing. Today stays empty as a result, which is the honest consequence of the setting rather than a bug. Delete what's saved erases everything already stored, leaving your vocabulary and settings intact.

• Insights — the observations Tiune shares about how you speak are generated purely from rows already saved on your machine.

Downloading a speech engine, and Tiune's background check for app updates, also involve normal internet requests — no personal data is included in either.

Where your words are going

The AI cleanup pass writes differently depending on the destination — an email and a Slack reply want different sentences out of the same speech. Tiune works this out on your own machine, from the shape of the fields around your cursor.

Only a single one-word category ever leaves your machine — never the window title, never the app name, never anything you can read.

Your account

Signing in with Google or Apple identifies your account so your vocabulary and corrections can follow you across devices. It opens your system browser to Google or Apple directly — Tiune never sees your password. Only your account's email and a session token come back, and the session token is stored in the operating system's own credential store — Keychain on macOS, Credential Manager on Windows — never on disk in the clear.

No dictation content, audio, or transcript is ever part of this — account sign-in and speech processing are entirely separate systems.

If you used an earlier build that asked you to paste in your own ElevenLabs or DeepSeek API keys, those keys are deleted from your Keychain or Credential Manager the first time 0.2.0 starts. They were live provider credentials that nothing would ever read again. If you use those keys elsewhere they still work — this only removes Tiune's copy.

Three things that never happen

These aren't settings, because they were never choices. They hold on every plan, Plus and Pro included:

• Tiune never stores your audio. Your voice is processed as it streams and never written down — not to a file, not to a database, not to a log. Online transcription is sent with zero retention set on every request.
• Your words never train an AI model. We keep nothing to train on, and the AI cleanup runs on a provider contractually barred from training on what it receives.
• No one at Tiune reads your words. No human review, no quality sampling, no support access to your transcripts. There is nothing stored for anyone to read.

What "Accessibility access" actually means for your privacy

On macOS, Accessibility sounds like a broad permission, so it's worth being precise: Tiune uses it for exactly two things — typing your dictated text into whatever app you're using, and briefly checking the text field you just typed into, only to notice if you corrected a word (see Vocabulary Learning). It does not read your screen generally, and it doesn't see anything in apps you're not actively dictating into. The equivalent access on Windows is used the same way and for the same two things.