Fact · Dictation software
Dictato's home page says nothing is uploaded, even for the cleanup step.
Quote found word for word on the live source, last checked October 19, 2026
In the source's own words
“The model ships with the app and runs on the Neural Engine. ... Nothing uploaded, even for the cleanup step”
Dictato: Offline Dictation for Mac, Speech to Text, Dictato, 2026, What you get: Proofread.
Open the original- What it measures
- The Proofread section lists punctuation, capitals, paragraph breaks and filler words as handled before the text reaches the cursor.
- What it does not show
- The page does not describe any cloud AI option, so no third-party AI is named in either direction.
In the data
A row of Dictation App Features Compared: Offline, Privacy, AI, as Dictato: text to third-party AI: 0 1 = yes, 0 = no.
- App
- Dictato
- Feature
- Sends text to a third-party AI
- Detail
- Cleanup runs on the Mac, nothing uploaded
- As of
- 2026-10
- Note
- 0 means the maker's page says it does not