Privacy

LocalFlow doesn't collect anything. This page says exactly what it touches.

Your voice

Recording starts only when you tap your dictation key and stops when you tap again, press Return, or press Escape. The audio is written to a temporary file on your Mac, transcribed on your Mac, and deleted after each dictation.

Your words

The transcript is cleaned up by a model running on your Mac and pasted into the app you're typing in. LocalFlow keeps no history of what you said. Its logs record start-up, permission status, errors and how long each step took, never the words.

The network

LocalFlow uses the internet to download its two models from Hugging Face on first run. Each file is checked against its published SHA-256 checksum. After that it works with Wi-Fi off. It never checks for updates on its own: Check for Updates in its menu asks GitHub for the latest version number only when you click it, and sends nothing about you. If you point it at a cloud model yourself in its settings, your words go to that service; that is off by default.

This website

This site has no analytics and sets no cookies. The download counter asks GitHub's public API for release download totals from your browser.

Permissions

• Microphone: to hear you while recording.
• Accessibility: to see your dictation key from any app, and to paste the text into your app.