- What Dictiq collects
- Nothing. There is no backend server, no user database, no account and no login.
- Where processing happens
- On your machine by default. If you switch on your own endpoint, the stage you point at it runs wherever that endpoint is. Dictiq never captures, reads or transmits screen content. It may check only which window has focus, by process name or title, to change its own behaviour for that app, and that check happens on your machine.
- What leaves your machine
- Nothing you dictate, unless you switch on your own endpoint. That is off by default and part of the one-time unlock: you supply the address and the key, and Dictiq then sends your text there and nowhere else, and keeps no copy of it. The only other network use is downloading the language models you choose, Microsoft Store licence validation on Windows, and on the Mac, once, when you enter a licence key, to check that key with the store you bought it from. On Windows, the settings window is drawn with the Edge WebView2 component built into Windows. That component talks to services of its own, including diagnostics it sends Microsoft under your Windows Diagnostics & feedback setting, and it cannot be told not to. It is Windows', not ours: it never sees your dictation, and nothing from it reaches us.
- The Android app
- Dictiq turns your speech into text on this phone. What you say and what you dictate are never sent anywhere, and there is no account, no analytics and no server of ours. Dictiq itself uses the internet for one thing: downloading the speech model you choose, from Hugging Face. Hugging Face sees your phone's internet address while it downloads, as any website would. The unlock is bought through Google Play. Google's billing component, which Play requires, sends Google its own logs about purchase calls and connection problems, and it cannot be told not to. It is Google's, not ours: it never sees your dictation, and nothing from it reaches us. If you rate Dictiq in Play's own rating window, your rating goes to Google Play, as any Play rating does; Dictiq never sees it. The microphone is used only while you are dictating.
- The iPhone and iPad app
- Dictiq turns your speech into text on this device. What you say and what you dictate are never sent anywhere, and there is no account, no analytics and no server of ours. Dictiq itself uses the internet for one thing: downloading the speech model you choose, from Hugging Face. Hugging Face sees your device's internet address while it downloads, as any website would. The microphone is used only during a session you start, and iOS shows its indicator for as long as it is on. The Dictiq keyboard asks for Full Access because that is how iOS lets a keyboard pass your request to the Dictiq app and bring the text back. The keyboard itself never uses the internet and never reads the text already in the field. If you start the free trial or buy the unlock, Apple handles it through the App Store, under Apple's own privacy policy. Dictiq learns only whether you own the trial or the unlock. If you rate Dictiq in the App Store's own rating window, your rating goes to Apple, as any App Store rating does; Dictiq never sees it.
- Effective date
- 2026-07-10(provisional while the product is in development; confirmed at its Store release)