Privacy Policy — Voice
Last updated: 7 September 2026
Voice is a dictation app for macOS. You hold a key, speak, and the text is inserted where your cursor is. 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 usage counts, not your IP address.
What leaves your Mac, and where it goes
Your speech. 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.
Soniox is the only third party that receives anything, and it receives it under your own Soniox account, using the API key you enter when you set the app up. Soniox is therefore an independent controller of that audio, and its handling of it is governed by its own terms and privacy policy:
Read them: this is the one place where your voice is processed by a company other than Apple, and your relationship there is directly with Soniox, not through the developer.
Nothing else leaves your Mac.
What stays on your Mac
| Data | Where it is kept |
|---|---|
| Your Soniox API key | The macOS Keychain, on your Mac |
| Dictation history (transcripts, timestamps, durations) | The app's own sandbox container on your Mac |
| Preferences, hotkeys, dictionary entries | The app's own preferences on your Mac |
| Count of free dictations used | The macOS Keychain, on your Mac |
None of it is uploaded anywhere. Deleting the app deletes it, as does clearing history in the app. Time Machine and iCloud backups of your Mac may contain it, as they may contain anything else on the machine.
The two permissions the app asks for, and why
Microphone. To hear you while you hold the dictation key. 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 for exactly two things: to notice that you are holding the dictation key, and to insert the finished text at your cursor. It does not read the contents of your screen, of your documents, or of other applications, and it does not record what you type.
Payments
The one-time unlock is sold by Apple through the App Store. Apple handles the payment; Voice receives no card details, billing address or any other payment data. What Voice sees is Apple's answer to one question: whether this Apple ID owns the unlock.
Speech recognition is billed separately by Soniox to your own Soniox account. The developer neither charges for it nor receives any part of it.
Children
Voice is a productivity tool and is not directed at children. It 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 the audio Soniox has processed, contact Soniox directly — that data sits in your own Soniox account, 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.