WhisprFree Privacy Policy
Effective date: 2026-07-29 · Applies to: the WhisprFree desktop app, the WhisprFree
Android preview, and whisprfree.com.
WhisprFree is built so that there is almost nothing to collect. This policy describes what
that means precisely, including the few places where data does leave your device.
The short version
- Your audio never leaves your device. Speech is turned into text on your own computer.
We never receive, store, or transmit your recordings — in any mode, on any setting.
- We have no accounts. No sign-up, no email, no password, no profile.
- We do not track you. No analytics, no telemetry, no crash reporting, no advertising
identifiers, no cookies for tracking on our website.
- We never sell or share your data, and we never use anything you dictate to train AI
models — ours or anyone else's.
- Optional AI cleanup is the only feature that sends anything off your device, and only
the text, never the audio. You choose whether to use it, and whose service handles it.
1. What stays on your device, always
- Audio recordings. Captured only while you hold the dictation key, processed locally by
the on-device speech engine, and discarded. Never written to disk by us, never uploaded.
- Your transcripts, once inserted into whatever app you were using.
- Your settings, including your Personal Dictionary and any API key you enter. API keys
are encrypted on your machine using Windows DPAPI and are never transmitted to us.
- The diagnostic log (
whisprfree.log). It records app events and, to help you
troubleshoot, the text of your dictations. It stays on your computer, rotates as it grows,
and is never sent anywhere. You can delete it at any time.
2. AI cleanup — the one thing that leaves your device
AI cleanup is optional and off by default. When it is on, the text of a dictation (never
the audio) is sent to a language model to fix punctuation, capitalization, and filler words.
What happens next depends entirely on which option you choose:
(a) Your own API key — nothing goes to us, ever
If you enter your own key (Claude, OpenAI, Groq, OpenRouter, or any compatible endpoint), your
text goes directly from your computer to that provider. It does not pass through our
servers. **We receive nothing at all — no text, no identifier, no word count, no record that a
dictation happened.** Your relationship is with that provider, under their privacy policy and
your account with them.
(b) On-device cleanup — nothing leaves at all
If you choose the local cleanup model, everything runs on your computer. Nothing is
transmitted anywhere.
(c) "Use WhisprFree's key" — the only case where we are involved
This is the no-setup default for people who don't want to manage a key. When you use it:
What is sent to us:
- The text of the dictation being cleaned (never audio).
- An install ID — a random identifier generated on your device the first time you run
WhisprFree. It is not derived from and not linked to your name, email, hardware, IP-based
identity, or any account. Its only purpose is to keep one installation's free usage separate
from another's.
- A word count for that dictation.
What we do with it:
- The text is relayed immediately to our AI provider, currently Groq (with OpenRouter
as a fallback if Groq is unavailable), which returns the cleaned text. Those providers
process it under their own terms.
- We do not log, store, or retain the text of your dictations. It passes through and is
gone. We cannot read your dictations, produce them later, or analyse them, because we never
keep them.
- We store only counters against your install ID: words used this month, requests made
today, and an estimate of what the service cost us. These exist solely to keep the free tier
fair and to protect the service from abuse. Counters expire automatically (daily counters
after about 2 days, monthly counters after about 40 days).
How to avoid this entirely: use your own API key, use on-device cleanup, or turn cleanup
off. Any of those means we receive nothing whatsoever.
3. Our website
whisprfree.com is a static page. It sets no tracking cookies and runs no analytics or
advertising scripts. It fetches the current version number from our download host, which — like
any web server — sees the standard request information (such as your IP address) needed to
serve a file. We do not use that information to build a profile and do not combine it with
anything else.
4. Children
WhisprFree is not directed at children. We do not knowingly collect personal information from
anyone under 13. Because we require no account and collect no identifying information, we have
no practical way to determine a user's age; if you believe a child has provided us personal
information, contact us and we will delete it.
5. Your rights
Depending on where you live (for example the EU/UK under GDPR, or California under CCPA/CPRA),
you may have rights to access, correct, delete, or port your personal data, and to object to
its processing.
In practice, we hold almost nothing to act on: no account, no name, no email, no dictation
content — only expiring counters tied to a random install ID. If you want those cleared, you
can delete WhisprFree's local settings (which discards the install ID and permanently severs
any link to prior counters), or contact us and we will delete any counters associated with an
install ID you provide. Everything else that matters is already on your own machine, under
your control.
We do not sell personal information, and we do not "share" it for cross-context behavioural
advertising as those terms are defined under California law.
6. Security
API keys you enter are encrypted at rest on your device (Windows DPAPI). Traffic to our
cleanup service and to AI providers uses HTTPS. No system is perfectly secure, but the
strongest protection here is architectural: the sensitive material — your voice — never leaves
your computer in the first place.
7. Changes
If this policy changes materially, we will update the effective date above and note it in the
app's release notes. Because we have no accounts, we cannot email you; the current version
always lives at whisprfree.com.
8. Contact
Questions or requests: privacy@whisprfree.com