Official documentation
Privacy Policy | Cleft
Cleft, 2026
Read the originalRead on October 19, 2026
- What it is
- Cleft's privacy policy. It says where transcription runs, which third parties receive note text, and that user data is not used to train AI models.
- How much weight it carries
- The maker's own legal text, which governs what it does with data. It is not internally consistent on one point: the introduction says audio is never sent to a server, while the retention section says audio recordings are kept until the user deletes them. No row is recorded for that point.
Facts taken from this source
- Cleft's privacy policy says it never trains AI models on user data.
“Never train AI models on your data. Whisper runs entirely on your device, with no cloud AI training.” (Section on on-device processing)
- Cleft's privacy policy says only note text, never audio, goes to OpenAI or Groq for summaries.
“Only note text (never audio) is sent to OpenAI or Groq for summarisation features, under strict DPAs that prohibit training on your data.” (Introduction, AI processing paragraph)
- Cleft's privacy policy says transcription happens entirely on the iPhone, iPad or Mac, using Whisper AI.
“Transcription happens entirely on your iPhone, iPad, or Mac using Whisper AI.” (Introduction, data summary)