Privacy

Updated November 8, 2026

On your Mac

Speech turns into text on your Mac, with Apple Speech or a model Speakey downloads (Parakeet, Qwen3-ASR, Whisper). Your recordings, learned commands, rules, vocabulary and About you stay in your Mac’s Application Support folder and are never uploaded by Speakey.

Your AI account

Rewrite and Agent use the AI you connect (Claude, ChatGPT or Gemini) through that company’s own app on your Mac, signed in as you. What you ask goes from your Mac to that company under its own terms. It never passes through Speakey’s servers.

Anonymous usage

Speakey can send anonymous usage so its developer can see where it’s slow or fails. Outside the EU, EEA, UK and Switzerland it’s on by default, and you see it before anything is sent: in the setup’s last step, or in a notice after an update. In those regions Speakey asks first and stays off unless you say yes. If you answered before, your answer stays.

It sends:

• Which features you used, how long they took, and whether they worked, including whether you’re on Free or Pro, reached a weekly limit, or opened Upgrade (never your license key)
• Your speech engine, model and languages, mic permission, whether macOS also uses the 🌐 key, and Mac chip and memory
• Speakey and macOS versions, and which AI you connected
• A random ID made only for this

It never sends what you say or type, rewrites and answers, About you, or the names of your apps, contacts, files and events.

Batches go about once a day to Speakey’s server, are stored privately on Vercel, and are deleted after 90 days. Only Speakey’s developer reads them. IP addresses are not stored with them.

Problem reports

Report a Problem sends what you write, and your email only if you leave one for a reply. The app’s recent activity (the last 120 log lines, which include what you said to Speakey) goes only if you leave that ticked, and you see those lines first. Reports are kept 90 days too.

Speakey Pro

Purchases go through Polar, the merchant of record, which handles your payment details and receipt under its own privacy policy. Speakey never sees your card. After you pay, Speakey’s site looks up the license key your checkout bought so it can show it to you. It doesn’t keep it.

When you turn on Pro, and every few days after, Speakey sends your license key and your Mac’s name to Polar to check the key and count your Macs. Your weekly word and Live Listen counts are kept only on your Mac.

This website

getspeakey.com counts visits with Vercel Web Analytics, which uses no cookies and keeps no personal profile: pages viewed, the country, the browser, and clicks on Download, Buy and links to other sites. Your browser keeps, for 30 days, the language you pick and where you first came from (a link’s campaign tag or the site that linked here, never who you are), which goes along to checkout so we know which post brought a sale. Buying from inside Speakey sets one small cookie so the thanks page can hand your key back to the app. No ads, no trackers, so there’s no cookie banner.

Your rights

Speakey is run by Raymond Chin in Indonesia, who decides what’s collected as described here. Delete shared data in Settings › General removes everything your Mac shared at once, and everything is deleted after 90 days anyway. What usage holds is listed above: names and numbers, never what you said. Your purchase, receipts and invoices are in the Polar portal, signed in with your purchase email, under Polar’s own policy. You can also complain to your local data protection authority.

Turn it off or delete it

Settings › General › Help improve Speakey turns sharing off; anything not yet sent is deleted on your Mac. Delete shared data, on the same page, removes everything your Mac sent, usage and reports, from Speakey’s server.

Questions or problems: Report a Problem in Speakey’s menu, or write to support@speakey.dev.