Privacy Policy — Voice
Last updated: 15 September 2026
Voice is a dictation and screen capture app for macOS. You hold a key, speak, and the text is inserted where your cursor is; you select part of the screen and capture, annotate or record it. This page describes exactly what happens to your data. It is short because the app does little with it.
Who is responsible
Mariusz Szyma, the developer of Voice. Contact: mariusz@szyma.co
The developer runs no servers and receives nothing
There is no Voice account, no sign-in, no analytics, no crash reporting, no telemetry and no advertising. The developer operates no backend of any kind and therefore receives no data about you or your use of the app — not your audio, not your transcripts, not your screenshots or recordings, not your usage, not your IP address.
What leaves your Mac, and where it goes
Your speech — to Soniox. While you hold the dictation key, audio is captured from your microphone and streamed over an encrypted connection (TLS) to Soniox, Inc., the speech recognition service, which returns the text. Audio is captured only while the key is held and is not written to disk by Voice. Your dictionary terms and language hints are sent with it, to improve recognition. Voice also asks Soniox for this month's usage figure, so it can show you what you have spent.
Text you choose to clean up or translate — to the provider you connect. AI cleanup and Translate are optional and do nothing until you store an API key for them. When they are on, Voice sends over TLS to that provider:
- for AI cleanup, the finished transcript of each dictation and the name of the app you are dictating into (so the tone can match it — a chat app versus a document);
- for Translate, the text recognised in the part of the screen you selected.
The provider is DeepSeek by default, or any other OpenAI-compatible service whose address you enter yourself. Audio and images are never sent to it. Turn AI cleanup off, or delete its key, and nothing is sent.
Both services receive your data under your own account, using the API keys you enter, and each is an independent controller of what it receives, governed by its own terms and privacy policy:
- Soniox: Soniox Privacy Policy · Soniox Terms of Service
- DeepSeek: DeepSeek Privacy Policy
Nothing else leaves your Mac. Screenshots, Scrollshots and screen recordings are processed entirely on your Mac — text recognition and QR code reading use macOS's own on-device frameworks — and go only where you put them: a folder, the clipboard, or the app you paste them into.
What stays on your Mac
| Data | Where it is kept |
|---|---|
| Your Soniox and text-service API keys | The macOS Keychain, on your Mac |
| Dictation history (transcripts, timestamps, durations) | The app's own sandbox container on your Mac |
| Screenshots and recordings you save | The folder you choose (Desktop or Downloads) |
| Captures copied to the clipboard, and thumbnails | The app's own sandbox container on your Mac |
| Preferences, hotkeys, dictionary entries | The app's own preferences on your Mac |
None of it is uploaded anywhere. Deleting the app deletes what is in its container, as does clearing history in the app; files you saved to a folder are yours and stay there. Time Machine and iCloud backups of your Mac may contain any of it, as they may contain anything else on the machine.
The permissions the app asks for, and why
Microphone. To hear you while you hold the dictation key, and to add your voice to a screen recording when you turn Microphone on. Voice does not listen at any other time.
Accessibility. macOS grants this so an app can observe keystrokes and act on your behalf. Voice uses it to notice that you are holding the dictation key and the capture shortcuts, and to insert the finished text at your cursor. It does not read the contents of your documents or of other applications, and it does not record what you type.
Screen Recording. Only for the capture tools: to take the screenshot, Scrollshot or recording you start. Voice does not look at your screen at any other time.
Camera. Only when you turn on the camera bubble for a screen recording. The picture goes into that recording on your Mac and nowhere else.
Payments
Voice is sold once, by Apple, through the App Store. Apple handles the payment; Voice receives no card details, billing address or any other payment data. There are no in-app purchases.
Speech recognition is billed separately by Soniox, and the optional text service by its provider, to your own accounts. The developer neither charges for them nor receives any part of it.
Children
Voice is a productivity tool and is not directed at children. The developer collects nothing, so it collects nothing about children either.
Your rights
Because the developer holds no data about you, there is nothing to request, correct or erase from the developer. For what Soniox or your text-service provider has processed, contact them directly — that data sits in your own accounts, which you control. Data on your Mac is yours to delete at any time.
Changes
If this policy changes, the date at the top changes with it, and the current version is always the one published at this address.