Privacy Policy

Last updated: March 25, 2026

ThinkScribe processes all data locally on your device. We do not collect, store, transmit, or have access to your audio, transcripts, or any personal data. Period.

1. Overview

ThinkScribe ("the App") is a native application for Mac (Apple Silicon), iPhone, iPad, and Apple Watch. The App provides speech-to-text transcription, AI-powered summarization, and meeting intelligence features — all of which run entirely on your device using Apple's Neural Engine and local machine learning models (such as WhisperKit, Parakeet TDT, ThinkScribe AI (powered by Qwen), and Apple Foundation Models).

This Privacy Policy describes what data the App accesses, how it is used, and your rights regarding that data.

2. Data We Do NOT Collect

ThinkScribe does not collect, transmit, or store any of the following:

Audio recordings or microphone input
Transcription text or AI-generated summaries
Personal identification information (names, emails, phone numbers)
Usage analytics or telemetry
Device identifiers or IP addresses
Location data
Crash reports (unless you opt in via system preferences)

3. Data Stored on Your Device

The following data is created and stored locally on your device, within the App's sandboxed container or your chosen export locations:

Transcripts: Text generated from your audio, stored via SwiftData in the App's local database.
Audio files: Recordings captured during sessions, stored in the App's documents directory.
AI model caches: Whisper and LLM model weights downloaded for on-device inference.
User preferences: Settings and configuration stored in UserDefaults.
Search indexes: Local indexes built for fast transcript search.

You have full control over this data. You can delete individual transcripts from within the App, or remove all data by deleting the App.

4. Permissions

ThinkScribe requests the following permissions:

Microphone: To capture audio for transcription. Audio is processed locally and never transmitted.
System Audio Recording (Mac only): To capture system audio from applications (e.g., Zoom, Teams) via CoreAudio process taps. No screen content is involved — only audio streams.
Accessibility (Mac only): To enable global keyboard shortcuts for quick recording access.

5. Third-Party Services

ThinkScribe does not use any third-party analytics, advertising, tracking, or AI services. The App does not contain any SDKs that transmit user data to external servers. No audio, text, transcripts, or personal data is ever sent to OpenAI, Google, Hugging Face, or any other third-party service.

The only outbound network activity the App performs is downloading open-source machine-learning model weights (such as Whisper, Parakeet, and Qwen) from public model repositories on Hugging Face during initial setup, with Apple Background Assets as an additional content-delivery mechanism on supported OS versions. These are one-way downloads of static model files — no audio, text, transcripts, or any user content is uploaded to these services as part of this process. Hugging Face acts as a static file host (functionally equivalent to a public release asset on GitHub), not as an AI service. After models are cached locally, the App functions entirely offline.

6. In-App Purchases

ThinkScribe uses Apple's StoreKit 2 framework for in-app purchases. Purchase transactions are handled entirely by Apple and are subject to Apple's Privacy Policy. We do not have access to your payment information.

7. Children's Privacy

ThinkScribe is not directed at children under 13. We do not knowingly collect any data from children, as we do not collect data from any users.

8. Changes to This Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. Changes will be reflected on this page with an updated "Last updated" date. As ThinkScribe does not collect user data, we have no way to notify you directly of changes — please check this page periodically.

9. Contact

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us at support@thinkscribe.ai