Your voice stays on your device.

Offline Dictation Keyboard has no account, no analytics, no ads and no tracking. Speech recognition runs on your iPhone or iPad. The developer does not run a server for it and receives none of your audio, text or usage.

Effective November 7, 2026. Covers the Offline Dictation Keyboard app for iPhone and iPad (shown on your Home Screen as Dictation), its keyboard, and this website. Developer: Alex Morris.

What stays on your device

• Audio: the app listens only while dictation is turned on. Only what you say between Record and Stop is turned into text, on your device, and that recording is deleted as soon as it has been transcribed. Audio between dictations is discarded without being saved. Audio is never uploaded.
• Transcripts: every dictation is saved on your device in Transcripts so you can find, copy or share it. They are not uploaded or synced. Delete them in the app at any time.
• What you type: the keyboard handles your typing on the device and never sends it anywhere. Its word suggestions and autocorrect use Apple's on-device dictionary and your iOS text replacements. When you tap a word in quotes on the suggestion bar to keep it, that word is added to the on-device spelling dictionary so it isn't corrected again.
• Full Access: the keyboard and the app share a small private folder on your device to pass dictation commands, status and the dictated text to insert. The keyboard makes no internet connections.
• Settings: your chosen model and preferences are stored on the device. A note of when your free trial's first dictation happened is kept in your Keychain (synced by iCloud Keychain if you use it), so reinstalling doesn't restart the trial.

What the app downloads

The app connects to the internet only for these:

• Speech models: when you tap Download, the model's files are downloaded from Hugging Face (huggingface.co), where their publishers host them. Apple Speech's files come from Apple. These requests contain no audio, text or personal content; like any web request, the host sees your IP address and ordinary request details under Hugging Face's privacy policy.
• The App Store: the free trial and the Unlock are App Store in-app purchases. Apple handles checkout and payment. The app reads Apple's verified purchase record on your device to know whether the trial or the Unlock is active; the developer never receives your payment details or Apple Account.

No tracking

The app contains no advertising, analytics or tracking code and does not track you across other companies' apps or websites. Apple may share crash reports with developers if you allow it in iOS Settings. This website is hosted by GitHub Pages; GitHub may process ordinary request information such as IP addresses. The site has no analytics, cookies or third-party fonts.

Your choices

Turn dictation off in the app or with the keyboard's power button, and the microphone is released. Delete transcripts in the app, and delete a downloaded model with its trash button. Turning off Allow Full Access stops dictation in the keyboard but keeps typing. Deleting the app removes its data from the device.

Questions and changes

Questions are welcome through support. Changes to this policy will be published on this page with a new effective date.