Privacy Policy
Updated 19 October 2026. The same words are in the app, under Help.
The short version
Your voice never leaves your computer. Yappr turns speech into text on your Mac or PC, then tidies the text. No ads, no selling your data, no tracking you across apps or sites.
Stays on your computer
Your audio, your History of dictations, and Yappr's log. On a Mac, speech recognition runs on the Mac with Apple's speech model or Parakeet; everything Yappr keeps lives in ~/Library/Application Support/Yappr, and Reset in Profile deletes it. On Windows, speech recognition runs on the PC with Parakeet; your History, settings and log live in %APPDATA%\Yappr, and deleting that folder removes them.
Sent to Alpie Seed, to tidy your words
With Clean up set to Alpie Seed (the default), the text of each dictation goes to Alpie Seed, a cloud model run by 169Pi, along with what helps it fit the app you're in: the app's name, the window title, names shown near where you type, and what you set in Yappr (your words, sign-off, style notes and profile). If you turn on Send text before my cursor, up to 300 characters before your cursor go too. When you teach a style or Yappr learns from your edits, those samples go to Alpie Seed to be read; Yappr keeps only the notes it writes. Set Clean up to Basic and nothing goes to Alpie at all. On Windows, the text of each dictation goes with the name of the app you're in and what you set in Yappr (your words, and from version 0.1.1 your name, sign-off, tone, links and house rules); the window title is only used on your PC to pick a style and is never sent. Turn off Tidy with Alpie in Settings and nothing goes to Alpie.
Your account, if you make one
An account is optional, and only the Mac app has one for now; the Windows app has no sign-in. It keeps your email address, your name if Google or GitHub shares it, how you signed in (Google, GitHub or an email code), which days you signed in or synced (to count how many accounts are in use), and the things that sync between your Macs: your words and learned fixes, style notes, app rules, settings and profile. It never holds your audio or History. Accounts are stored with Supabase. Yappr's team can see each account's email, name (from Google or GitHub, or the one in your Profile) and when it signed in, to support you and understand who uses Yappr; never your synced words or settings beyond that name. Delete account in Profile removes it and everything synced; your Macs keep their own copies.
Anonymous diagnostics, if you say yes
Yappr asks once. If you say yes, it sends daily counts and timings (dictations, words, cancels, how much of each dictation you edited, what learning decided, whether pasting worked in well-known apps such as Slack or Mail, how long tidying took, which setup steps you reached), the app and macOS version, your Mac model, what kind of mic you use and which features are on, plus Yappr's crash reports and macOS's hang and launch reports for Yappr, with your user name and machine ids removed. Setup steps reached before you answer are kept on your Mac and only sent if you say yes. They're tied to a random id for this Mac, never your account. Never sent: audio, anything you said or typed, History, your words, the names of other apps you use, or window titles. Switch it off in Settings → Diagnostics. The Windows app asks too, from version 0.1.2. If you say yes, it sends the same kind of daily counts and timings, the app and Windows version, the kind of processor and which features are on, plus Yappr's own crash reports with anything in quotes and your user name removed, tied to a random id for that PC. Switch it off in Settings, where Delete what's been sent removes it.
Dictations you choose to share
Mac only, and off unless you turn it on. With Share edited dictations on (Settings → Diagnostics), each dictation you edit is sent 10 minutes after your last change: what Yappr heard, what it typed and your version, with the style, the app if it's a well-known one (otherwise "other"), and how it was tidied. Emails, links and numbers of five digits or more are taken out first. Settings shows what's waiting, and you can stop any of it from going; deleting it from History stops it too. The same switch shares fixes between everyday dictionary words, like "clock" → "cloud", counted by day, so common mishearings can be fixed for everyone; names are never in it. Report in History sends one dictation, after you've seen and edited exactly what goes. Shared dictations are used to test and improve Yappr's recognition and tidying, including training Yappr's own models. They're tied to the same random id for this Mac, never your account, and Delete what I've shared in Settings removes everything sent with it, diagnostics included.
Other things that reach the internet
Tailor to you in Profile looks up your industry on Wikipedia and reads the homepage of any website you type as a company name. Updates check getyappr.vercel.app for a new version. Speech models download once from Apple and, for Parakeet, from Hugging Face. On Windows, the speech models download once from GitHub, and from version 0.1.1 the app checks getyappr.vercel.app for updates and downloads them from there. Feedback in Help opens Yappr's board on UserJot, which has its own privacy policy. Each of these sees your internet address, as any website does.
Yappr's website
getyappr.vercel.app counts visits, downloads and a few clicks (the waitlist, the feedback board, FAQ questions) to see what's working: the kind of device you're on, where on the page you clicked, and for a visit, the site that linked to it or the campaign named in the link. No cookies, no id for you, and your address isn't kept with them. If you join the waitlist, it keeps your email address to tell you when Yappr reaches your device. The site is hosted by Vercel, which sees your internet address, as any website's host does.
Your choices
Use Yappr without an account. Pick Basic cleanup on a Mac, or turn off Tidy with Alpie on Windows, to keep everything on your computer. Turn diagnostics and sharing off, and delete what you've shared. Delete your account, or Reset Yappr to wipe a Mac's data. On Windows, delete %APPDATA%\Yappr.
Changes
If what Yappr sends changes, this policy changes with it, and the release notes say so.
Questions
Ask on Yappr's feedback board.