Wordmate's privacy policy says the app connects to the internet to download its speech and language models during setup, and to check for software updates when the user asks.

Checked against its source on October 26, 2026

In the source's own words

“Wordmate connects to the internet to download its speech and language models during setup and when you ask it to check for software updates.”

Privacy | Wordmate, Wordmate, 2026, When the app goes online.

What it measures: The policy says the app's speech recognition and optional text cleanup run locally, and that the transcript is copied to the Mac clipboard and pasted into the app.
What it does not show: The page does not use the words 'works offline'. The result is read from the statement that dictation runs locally and the internet is used for setup and updates.

A row of Dictation App Features Compared: Offline, Privacy, AI, as Wordmate, works offline: 1 1 = yes, 0 = no.