Privacy

What Paravoice collects

Nothing. Zero. Zip.

No telemetry. No analytics. No crash reporting. No usage stats. No device fingerprinting. No cookies. No accounts. No login. We don't know you exist.

What happens to your voice

Your microphone audio is captured via AVAudioEngine at 16 kHz mono PCM and fed directly into WhisperKit, which runs locally on Apple's Neural Engine. The audio lives in memory during the recording, is written to a temporary WAV file while transcribing, and is deleted the moment transcription completes. It never touches the network.

You can verify this yourself with Little Snitch or any network inspector — you'll see zero outbound traffic from Paravoice during recording.

What's stored on your Mac

Paravoice stores data locally in ~/Library/Application Support/Paravoice/:

• Transcription history — every transcript + timestamp + word count, in a SwiftData store. You can search it, re-paste from it, delete entries individually, or wipe it entirely in Settings → Privacy.
• Whisper model weights — the Large v3 Turbo model (~809 MB) downloaded on first launch from HuggingFace.
• Preferences — hotkey choice, overlay style, text-processing toggles, custom vocabulary. Standard macOS UserDefaults.

All of it stays local. None is backed up to iCloud unless you enable Mac app backup in System Settings yourself.

Network activity

Paravoice makes exactly one type of outbound request:

• Model download, on first launch — fetches the Whisper model weights from huggingface.co. A one-time event. Once cached, no further downloads happen unless you switch models in Settings → Model.

That's it. No update pings. No "check for news." No background sync. Airplane mode works fine after the initial download.

Permissions we ask for

• Microphone — required. We need the audio to transcribe it.
• Accessibility — required. We use the Accessibility API to paste text at your cursor (the clean, non-clipboard way).
• Input monitoring — required. The global hotkey listener uses CGEventTap, which needs this entitlement to see modifier keys across all apps.

We don't ask for full-disk access, automation, screen recording, contacts, calendar, photos, location, or anything else. Revoke any permission at any time in System Settings → Privacy & Security — Paravoice will clearly tell you what's missing.

What we don't do

• We don't send your voice anywhere.
• We don't read what you paste.
• We don't store anything in the cloud.
• We don't sell data (we don't have any to sell).
• We don't use third-party SDKs for analytics, attribution, or ads.
• We don't show ads.
• We don't require an account.

Removing Paravoice

Drag Paravoice to the Trash. If you want to also delete local data, remove ~/Library/Application Support/Paravoice/ and ~/Library/Preferences/app.paravoice.*. That's it — there's nothing on any server to delete, because we never had it.

Questions

Email privacy@paravoice.ai. We'll reply.