Privacy Policy

Last updated: September 1, 2026

The short version

Your voice and your words never leave your Mac. FreeFlow records, transcribes, and stores everything locally. The app has no telemetry, no analytics, no account, and no tracking of any kind.

This website is a separate matter, and we would rather say so than let you find out. It counts page views — see This website below.

What stays on your Mac

Audio recordings, transcripts, dictation history, modes, dictionary entries, and settings all live in ~/Library/Application Support/FreeFlow/ as plain files you can read, back up, or delete at any time. Deleting a dictation in the app moves it to the Trash. A retention setting can trim history automatically — also to the Trash.

Turning on Incognito in Settings goes further: for as long as it is on, dictation still types into your app, but no audio and no transcript is written to disk, and the text is not left on your clipboard afterwards.

Every network call the app makes

FreeFlow connects to the network in exactly three situations:

• Model downloads — speech models are fetched from Hugging Face (huggingface.co) when you install one. No personal data is sent; it is a file download.
• License activation — when you enter a license key, it is sent to Lemon Squeezy (our merchant of record) to activate this Mac, and revalidated at most every 14 days. Payment details are handled entirely by Lemon Squeezy; FreeFlow never sees them.
• Update check — the app fetches a small version file from freeflow.audio about once a day (and when you choose “Check for Updates”). Nothing about you is sent with it, and the daily check can be turned off in Settings.

That list is a policy, not a snapshot: if a future version adds a network call, this page changes in the same release.

This website

freeflow.audio serves static pages from Cloudflare. Two things count visits, and neither one is in the app.

• Cloudflare Web Analytics — always on, and cookieless. It records page views and a country derived from your IP address. It sets no cookies, writes nothing to your browser, and cannot follow you to another site.
• Google Analytics (measurement ID G-5B0SX1VVX7) — only if you agree to it. Until you press Allow on the banner, the tag is loaded with storage denied: no cookies are set and no identifier is created. If you accept, it sets two cookies, _ga and _ga_5B0SX1VVX7, both expiring after two years, holding a random identifier and session state. Google Analytics does not log or store IP addresses; addresses are used in passing to derive coarse location and then discarded, and EU traffic is handled on EU servers first. If you press No thanks, nothing is stored and the banner does not come back.

You can change your mind by clearing this site’s data in your browser, which brings the banner back.

Purchases happen on Lemon Squeezy’s checkout, under their privacy policy.

Questions

Write to support@freeflow.audio.