Privacy

Wavelet is built so that the private thing, your voice, stays yours.

Your audio

Wavelet transcribes with on-device models by default. When you dictate with an on-device model, your audio never leaves your Mac. There is no Wavelet server; we could not listen if we wanted to.

If you choose to connect your own Cohere API key in Settings, audio for those dictations goes to Cohere under your own account and your own key, and nowhere else. That path exists only if you set it up.

Your transcripts

Transcript history is stored on your Mac. You choose during setup whether to keep history at all, you can set how long recordings are retained, and you can clear everything at any time. We never collect it.

Your identity

No account. No sign-up. No email address.

Usage statistics

Wavelet includes minimal, anonymous usage statistics that are on by default in beta and trial builds and help us find bugs and see which features get used. We collect only content-free counts, tied to a random install ID: that the app was installed and opened, a daily tally of how many dictations succeeded, were cancelled, or errored (the error category only, never its contents), how the on-device vocabulary-suggestion runs went (engine, outcome, duration, and counts, never the suggestions themselves), in beta builds the per-model word error rates from your calibration readings (percentages only, never the passages or your audio), which speech engine and model tier you use, and, if you buy, that a license was activated. We never collect audio, transcripts, clipboard contents, window or app titles, your location, your IP address, or anything that identifies you. Data goes to PostHog in the EU. You can see the exact payloads at wavelet.littoralai.com/privacy/what-we-send and turn statistics off anytime in Settings → Usage statistics. Activating a paid license turns usage statistics off for good and retires your install ID. After you buy Wavelet, statistics are opt-in only.

The full page, with the literal event payloads: What Wavelet sends.

Last updated August 2026, during the Wavelet beta.