What Echoe stores, and where.

The short version: your dictation text lives on your Mac and nowhere else. We have no way to read what you've dictated — not even for our own beta testers.

This policy applies to the Echoe Mac application and echoeapp.com.

Audio

Audio is briefly stored on our servers for up to one hour to enable retries and quality monitoring, then automatically deleted by an hourly cleanup process. We never read its contents — it exists only to be processed by Sarvam AI, our speech-to-text provider. Per Sarvam's policy, the audio they receive is processed in real-time and not retained.

Your dictations

The transcript and polished output are returned to your Mac in the HTTP response and written to a local database at:

Only your macOS user account can read this file. There is no sync to our servers, no cloud backup, and no way for us to access your dictation history remotely.

What our server logs

Each dictation writes one metadata row to our database:

• Timestamp
• Audio duration
• Language detected
• Processing time (ms)
• Success or failure, with an error code if applicable

The transcript and polished text are never written to our database. If you delete the Echoe app, your local history goes with it. Our server log remains, but it contains nothing about what you said.

Third-party services

Your rights

You can delete your local dictation history at any time from Settings → Privacy & data. This permanently removes all records from your device. To request deletion of server metadata — which contains no dictation content — email us and we'll handle it manually. We will delete what is technically possible to delete. Some records may be retained where required by law (e.g., billing records for tax purposes) for the minimum legally-required period.

Changes to this policy

Material changes to this policy will be communicated to active users via email at least seven days before taking effect.

Questions

Email us at developer@echoeapp.com.

Effective: May 2026 · Last updated: May 2026