Fact · Dictation software
Penman's privacy policy says recordings are stored on the user's device and in their iCloud, not on any server Penman operates.
Quote found word for word on the live source, last checked October 25, 2026
In the source's own words
“Notes, notebooks, Spaces, recordings, and attachments you create in Penman are stored on your device. ... not on any server we operate.”
Penman Privacy Policy, Penman, 2026, The Penman app, Your notes and files.
Open the original- What it measures
- The section describes where notes and recordings are kept and how sync works.
- What it does not show
- Speech recognition may send audio to Apple's servers, which Apple's policy governs. Those are not servers Penman operates.
In the data
A row of Dictation App Features Compared: Offline, Privacy, AI, as Penman, audio kept on servers: 0 1 = yes, 0 = no.
- App
- Penman
- Feature
- Keeps audio on the maker's servers
- Detail
- Stored on device and iCloud
- As of
- 2026-10
- Note
- 0 means the maker's page says it does not.