Privacy Policy

1. Your voice stays on your computer

• Speech recognition runs entirely on your computer. Your voice is never sent to us or to anyone else.
• English, on macOS 26 or later, uses the speech recognition built into macOS. It also runs on your Mac, and Apple does not receive your voice.
• The microphone turns on when you hold the dictation key, and during the microphone test in setup. It turns off about 8 seconds after you let go. It is not listening the rest of the time.
• Audio is kept in memory only while it is turned into text. It is never saved to disk.

2. Your text

• The text is typed into the app you are using. We never receive it.
• To type it, LomiSpeak briefly puts the text on your clipboard and pastes it, then puts back what you had copied about half a second later. Clipboard managers, and Universal Clipboard on your other Apple devices, may see it. On Windows, clipboard history and clipboard sync across your devices, if you have turned them on, may keep it. If you had copied an image or a file, it is replaced by the text.
• LomiSpeak keeps a history of the last 500 things you said on your computer so you can copy them again: the text, when you said it, how long you spoke, the language, and a word count. It also keeps a running count of words per day. None of it is uploaded.
• To delete the history on a Mac, quit LomiSpeak, choose Go › Go to Folder in Finder, enter ~/Library/Application Support/lomispeak-desktop, and delete that folder. On Windows, quit LomiSpeak and delete the folder %APPDATA%\lomispeak-desktop. Either way, this also resets the app's settings.

3. The keys you press

On a Mac, LomiSpeak only watches modifier keys such as fn, Control and Option, to notice when you hold the dictation key. It never sees the letters you type, and records and sends nothing about your typing.

On Windows, LomiSpeak notices its keys through a keyboard hook, the way other hold-to-talk apps do, so Windows passes it every key you press. It acts only on Ctrl, the Windows key and Alt, and on a letter, arrow or other key pressed while you hold them, which cancels the recording. It keeps and sends nothing about your typing. If we ask you to turn on the log to fix a problem, it notes the code of a key that cancelled a recording.

4. What the app sends over the internet

A small amount of information is needed to run the app. None of it includes your voice or your text.

• App settings. The app downloads its settings, for example which languages are available. The request carries a random ID, used only so a setting can be turned on for some computers before others.
• An anonymous ID. The first time it runs, the app creates an anonymous account with Google Firebase and registers a random install ID with our server. Neither carries your name, email or anything else about you; they let us count how many computers use the app.
• Speech models and updates. The app downloads the speech models and checks for new versions of the app.
• English. If you press Download next to English in Settings, macOS downloads Apple's English speech model from Apple. Many Macs already have it, and then nothing is downloaded.

5. What we don't collect

No recordings, no transcripts, no keystrokes, no screen contents, no contacts, no location. The app contains no advertising.

6. Permissions

• Microphone: to hear you while you hold the dictation key.
• Accessibility: to notice the dictation key and to type the text into the app you are using.

You can turn either off at any time in System Settings › Privacy & Security.

On Windows, LomiSpeak needs only the microphone. You can turn it off in Settings › Privacy & security › Microphone.

7. Purchases

LomiSpeak for Mac and Windows is free, and the app collects no payment details. If you bought it before it became free, your purchase was handled by our online reseller, Lemon Squeezy, under its own privacy policy, and we keep the order details we received, such as your name, email, country and order number, so we can help with support and refunds.

8. Your log file

The app does not keep a log unless we ask you to turn one on to help fix a problem. That log stays on your computer unless you email it to us. It does not contain your transcripts, but it does include your microphone’s name and your time zone.

9. Children

LomiSpeak is not directed at children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect their data.

10. Changes

We may update this policy. The date at the top shows the latest version.

11. Contact

Questions or requests about your data? Email support@lomisolutions.com.