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WaveOne's privacy policy says the developer never receives your dictated text, and that the dictation history stays on the user's device, where the user can clear it. It gives no number of days.

Checked against its source on October 26, 2026

In the source's own words

“The developer of WaveOne never receives your audio, your dictated text ... This data stays on your device. You can clear the history”

WaveOne Privacy Policy, Lunadence, 2026, Data stored on your device.

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What it measures
The policy says WaveOne keeps your settings, shortcuts, vocabulary and dictation history locally on your Mac, inside the app's sandbox container. The history holds the text of each dictation.
What it does not show
The policy gives no period for keeping the history. The user decides when to clear it.

In the data

A row of How Long Voice Assistants Keep Your Recordings, as WaveOne: dictation history on device: This data stays on your device. You can clear the history days.

Service
WaveOne
What is kept
Transcripts
When
Other
Reviewed by people
No
As of
2026-10

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