Fact · Dictation software
Dictately's privacy policy says the transcribed text is sent to a third-party language-model provider to clean it up.
Checked against its source on October 26, 2026
In the source's own words
“After transcription, the resulting text is sent to a third-party language-model provider to clean it up”
Dictately Privacy Policy, Dictately, Dictately, 2026, Section 1.1, 'In the cloud'.
Open the original- What it measures
- The policy says this happens even when the audio stayed on the Mac, and the text is processed and discarded.
- What it does not show
- The home page FAQ says transcribed text stays on the device, which conflicts with the privacy policy.
In the data
A row of Dictation App Features Compared: Offline, Privacy, AI, as Dictately: text to third-party AI: 1 1 = yes, 0 = no.
- App
- Dictately
- Feature
- Sends text to a third-party AI
- Detail
- Cleanup text goes to a language-model provider
- As of
- 2026-10
- Note
- 1 means the maker's page says the app does this