Fact · Dictation software
Yes
JustScribe's privacy policy says dictated text goes to a hosted provider only when the user chooses one and adds an API key.
Quote found word for word on the live source, last checked October 23, 2026
In the source's own words
“then, and only then, the text of each dictation is sent to that provider for clean-up under its own privacy terms.”
JustScribe Privacy Policy, Quassum, 2026, Privacy policy, How the App works section.
Open the original- What it measures
- The providers are Groq, Anthropic, OpenAI, Google Gemini, Mistral and OpenRouter, or a Claude Code or Codex CLI the user has installed.
- What it does not show
- Audio is never sent to the provider. Only the text of each dictation is, and only if the user adds a key.
In the data
A row of Dictation App Features Compared: Offline, Privacy, AI, as JustScribe: text to third-party AI: 1 1 = yes, 0 = no.
- App
- JustScribe
- Feature
- Sends text to a third-party AI
- Detail
- Only with your own API key
- As of
- 2026-10
- Note
- 1 means the maker's page says the app does this.