Dictation App Privacy Labels: What Voice Apps Collect

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• 7 data typesIn the privacy labels of dictation, transcription and voice apps on the App Store (tracked monthly) dataset, the 73 published figures for “Data used to track you” have a median of 7 data types, ranging from 1 to 17.Calculated from other facts
• 7 data typesIn the privacy labels of dictation, transcription and voice apps on the App Store (tracked monthly) dataset, the 160 published figures for “Data linked to you” have a median of 7 data types, ranging from 1 to 33.Calculated from other facts
• 3 data typesIn the privacy labels of dictation, transcription and voice apps on the App Store (tracked monthly) dataset, the 58 published figures for “Data not linked to you” have a median of 3 data types, ranging from 1 to 12.Calculated from other facts
• 0 data typesIn the privacy labels of dictation, transcription and voice apps on the App Store (tracked monthly) dataset, the 136 published figures for “Data not collected” have a median of 0 data types, ranging from 0 to 0.Calculated from other facts
• 1 appsIn the privacy labels of dictation, transcription and voice apps on the App Store (tracked monthly) dataset, the audio data is “Used to track you” for 1 of the 428 apps.Calculated from other facts
• 106 appsIn the privacy labels of dictation, transcription and voice apps on the App Store (tracked monthly) dataset, the audio data is “Linked to you” for 106 of the 428 apps.Calculated from other facts
• 57 appsIn the privacy labels of dictation, transcription and voice apps on the App Store (tracked monthly) dataset, the audio data is “Not linked to you” for 57 of the 428 apps.Calculated from other facts
• 264 appsIn the privacy labels of dictation, transcription and voice apps on the App Store (tracked monthly) dataset, the audio data is “Not declared” for 264 of the 428 apps.Calculated from other facts
• 73 appsIn the privacy labels of dictation, transcription and voice apps on the App Store (tracked monthly) dataset, the privacy label is “Data used to track you” for 73 of the 428 apps.Calculated from other facts
• 160 appsIn the privacy labels of dictation, transcription and voice apps on the App Store (tracked monthly) dataset, the privacy label is “Data linked to you” for 160 of the 428 apps.Calculated from other facts
• 58 appsIn the privacy labels of dictation, transcription and voice apps on the App Store (tracked monthly) dataset, the privacy label is “Data not linked to you” for 58 of the 428 apps.Calculated from other facts
• 136 appsIn the privacy labels of dictation, transcription and voice apps on the App Store (tracked monthly) dataset, the privacy label is “Data not collected” for 136 of the 428 apps.Calculated from other facts
• 1 appsIn the privacy labels of dictation, transcription and voice apps on the App Store (tracked monthly) dataset, the privacy label is “No details provided” for 1 of the 428 apps.Calculated from other facts
• 428 data pointsThe privacy labels of dictation, transcription and voice apps on the App Store (tracked monthly) dataset holds 428 data points, each a published figure traced to its source.Calculated from other facts

How this dataset is built

What counts as a row

Every app in our market registry (dictation apps, voice keyboards, voice notes, transcription and meeting-note apps, medical and professional dictation, voice assistants) that has an App Store or Mac App Store listing whose page shows a privacy label. One row per app: its iPhone and iPad listing, or its Mac listing when it has no iPhone one.

What does not

Apps sold only outside Apple's stores, web services and APIs (they have no App Store label), apps whose page shows no privacy section, and our own app.

How rows are found and checked

Read once a month from each app's public App Store page (https://apps.apple.com/us/app/id<id>; another storefront when the app is not sold in the US). We take the App Privacy section from the data the page is built from: the data types the developer declares under Data Used to Track You, Data Linked to You and Data Not Linked to You, or Data Not Collected. A row's figure is the number of distinct data types declared in any section, and its label is the most far-reaching section shown. Every label read is kept in the record with its sections and purposes.

What the data cannot tell you

A privacy label is the developer's own declaration: Apple shows it without checking it, and studies have found labels that contradict what apps actually send. Apple counts data as collected only when it leaves the device and is kept longer than it takes to serve the request, so a cloud app that transcribes your voice on its servers and does not keep the audio need not declare audio data. A label says nothing about how well data is protected, and it covers the app, not the developer's website or its other products.

The whole method, from search to calculation, is on the research data page.

Cite and reuse

You may copy, share and adapt this dataset for any purpose, including commercially, if you credit it with a link. Quoted passages remain their authors' words: cite the original source for those.

Yap (2026). Privacy labels of dictation, transcription and voice apps on the App Store (tracked monthly) [Data set]. https://yapapp.cc/data/app-privacy-labels

License: CC BY 4.0.

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