Privacy Policy

Introduction

Dittivo is a dictation app for macOS developed by MeltinBit (“we”, “us”). This policy explains what happens to your data when you use Dittivo.

In short: Dittivo has no account and no servers of its own, and your voice is transcribed on your Mac. To improve the app we collect anonymous usage statistics, which never include your audio or your text.

Anonymous usage statistics

Dittivo uses TelemetryDeck (TelemetryDeck GmbH, Germany) to collect anonymous, aggregated usage statistics. They help us understand whether setup works and how the trial and purchase screens perform. It is the only analytics service we use.

What is sent:

• Anonymous events, such as app launch, setup completed, the result of the model download, a dictation completed, the purchase screen shown and the outcome of a purchase.
• Counts and states, such as the number of dictations, the day of the trial, the length of a recording in seconds and whether the app is unlocked.
• Technical information, such as the app version, macOS version, Mac model, language and region.
• A random identifier, created on your Mac and hashed before sending, which TelemetryDeck uses to count unique users without knowing who you are.

What is never sent

Your audio, your transcriptions, your vocabularies, the names of the apps you dictate into and your Apple Account details never leave your Mac. We do not use the statistics for advertising or tracking and we do not combine them with other data.

TelemetryDeck is designed to comply with the GDPR and stores the data on servers in the European Union. See the TelemetryDeck privacy policy.

Audio

Dittivo uses the microphone only while you hold the recording shortcut, or during the optional microphone test in settings. A recording stops automatically after five minutes.

The audio is kept in memory, transcribed on your Mac by an open-source Whisper model running through whisper.cpp, and then discarded. It is never written to disk and never sent over the network.

Dictated text

Dittivo inserts the transcription into the app you are using by placing it briefly on the macOS clipboard and sending the Paste command (⌘V). The previous clipboard contents are restored if no other app has changed them in the meantime.

Dittivo does not keep a history of dictations. The latest transcription stays in memory only so that you can copy it if insertion fails, until your next dictation or until you quit the app.

Vocabularies and preferences

Vocabularies and settings are stored locally on your Mac in Dittivo’s private app folder. They are not synchronized or uploaded anywhere. You can delete vocabularies in the app at any time.

Version 1.0 could also save notes. Version 1.0.1 removed this feature: notes saved earlier stay in the same folder on your Mac, are no longer opened by the app and are removed when you delete Dittivo.

Permissions

Dittivo asks macOS for these permissions:

• Microphone: to hear you while you hold the shortcut.
• Input Monitoring: to detect the shortcut you chose while you use other apps. Dittivo does not record or store what you type.
• Accessibility: to send the Paste command to the active app.

Model download

During setup Dittivo downloads the speech recognition model from Hugging Face (huggingface.co). Apart from App Store services and the anonymous statistics described above, this is the only network connection Dittivo makes. As with any download, Hugging Face receives technical data such as your IP address; no audio, text or other data from the app is sent. See the Hugging Face privacy policy.

In-app purchases

The free trial and the permanent unlock are in-app purchases processed by Apple through the App Store. We do not receive payment information or your Apple Account details. Dittivo checks your purchase status locally through Apple’s StoreKit framework. Apple’s privacy policy applies to these transactions.

Children

Dittivo does not collect personal data from anyone, including children. The anonymous statistics described above do not identify anyone.

Your rights

Under laws such as the GDPR you have the right to access, correct and delete your personal data. Because we do not hold any personal data that identifies you, you exercise these rights directly by managing the data stored on your Mac. The anonymous statistics cannot be traced back to you, so we cannot single them out for a specific person.

Changes to this policy

If we update this policy, the new version will be published on this page with a new date.

Contact

For questions about this policy, please use our support form.