Privacy policy

Last updated: 29 September 2026

Whisperly is a dictation app for Mac and iPhone, made by BlazedLabz. You speak, and it types what you said, cleaned up, where your cursor is. This page says what happens to your voice and your words.

The short version

• Your voice is turned into text on your device. Your audio is never sent to us or to anyone else.
• On an iPhone with iOS 27 or later, Whisperly tidies the text with Apple's Private Cloud Compute by default. Your text goes to Apple's servers for that; your audio never does. Everywhere else the tidying happens on your device.
• No account. No ads. No analytics. No tracking. We run no server, so we never receive your dictations.
• iCloud sync is off until you turn it on. Then your text goes to your own iCloud account, and nowhere else.

What Whisperly hears

Whisperly listens only while you dictate: while you hold the key on the Mac, or between your two taps on the iPhone. The speech is turned into text by speech recognition that runs on your device.

• On the iPhone: if a recording is kept so a dictation can be tried again, it is deleted after 24 hours. You can change that time in Whisperly's settings.
• On the Mac: recordings are not kept, unless you turn on the setting that keeps the recording of a dictation you fixed, for training a personal model later. It is off until you turn it on, the recordings stay on your Mac, and you can delete them at any time.

How the text is tidied

After the speech becomes text, Whisperly takes out the ums, the repeats and the false starts, and fixes the punctuation.

• iPhone, iOS 27 or later: by default this runs on Apple's Private Cloud Compute, Apple's own servers. Whisperly sends your dictated text and the dictionary words it needs. Your audio is never sent. Apple states that your text is not stored there and that Apple cannot see it. You can choose the model on your iPhone instead, in Whisperly's settings.
• When Apple's servers cannot be reached, and on older systems: the model on your device does the tidying.
• Whisperly for Mac from this site: the tidying runs on your Mac.

What stays on your device

• History: the text of each dictation (what was heard, the tidied version, what was typed), the app it was typed into, the time, the word count and timing numbers. You can search it, export it and erase it.
• Dictionary and snippets: the words, names and phrases you add.
• Learned corrections: when you fix a word, Whisperly can remember the fix so it gets that word right next time. You can see each one, and one switch turns this learning off.

All of this stays on your device unless you turn on iCloud sync.

iCloud sync

Sync is off until you turn it on. When it is on, your dictionary, snippets, learned corrections and history text are copied into the private database of your own iCloud account, so your Mac and your iPhone match. The text is encrypted. Only your account can open it; we cannot. Audio never syncs. Apple's iCloud terms apply. Turn sync off in Whisperly's settings and the copying stops.

The iPhone keyboard and Full Access

Whisperly's keyboard asks for Full Access. It needs it so the keyboard and the Whisperly app can pass your dictation between them on your iPhone: the app listens and turns speech into text, and the keyboard types the result where your cursor is. The keyboard itself never uses the microphone, never sends anything over the internet, and does not keep the other keys you type. It shows your own word counts, which it reads from the Whisperly app on your iPhone.

Permissions, and why

• Microphone: to hear you while you dictate.
• Speech recognition: to turn your voice into text on your device.
• Input Monitoring (Mac): to notice the one key you hold to dictate. Whisperly does not read, keep or log anything else you type.
• Accessibility and Automation (Mac): to put the finished text into the app you are using, and to read the text you selected when you ask Whisperly to rewrite it.

Downloads

Apple's speech and language models are managed by macOS and iOS. If you choose the open speech model on the Mac, Whisperly downloads its files once from Hugging Face. That request asks only for the model files; no dictation goes with it.

Whisperly Pro

Whisperly Pro is not for sale yet. When it is, you buy it through Apple. Apple handles the payment; we never see your name or your payment details, only whether Pro is active on your device.

What we do not do

• No account and no sign-in.
• No advertising, no analytics, no tracking, and no crash reports sent to us.
• No selling or sharing of your data. We never receive it.

Support on Discord

BlazedLabz runs a public Discord server for its apps, and Whisperly's help is there. Discord is a separate company with its own terms and privacy policy. You must be at least 13, or older where your country says so. What you post in the public rooms, every member can read. Bots on the server, such as moderation and ticket bots, are separate services with their own privacy policies.

• In Discord: your posts stay until you or BlazedLabz delete them.
• On the developer's Mac: a small program copies bug reports and wishes posted on the server (the title, the text, the tags, the number of thumbs-up, your display name and a link) into private notes. For questions in the help rooms it keeps only the link and the date, and only until the question is answered. It rewrites the notes every hour from what is in Discord at that moment, so a post you delete is gone from the notes after the next run. The note app keeps earlier versions of a note for up to 7 days. Nothing from other rooms, and no email, id or picture, is copied.
• Claude and Anthropic: BlazedLabz uses Claude, an AI assistant made by Anthropic, to help fix bugs. When it does, Claude reads these notes, and what Claude reads is sent to Anthropic. The setting that lets Anthropic train its models on these chats is off, so Anthropic keeps what Claude reads for 30 days, or up to 2 years if Anthropic's safety systems flag a chat.

Children

Whisperly is not made for children under 13. It collects no data from anyone.

Changes to this policy

When this policy changes, the date at the top changes, and the app's release notes say so. If a change means your words could go somewhere new, the app tells you before it happens.

Questions

Ask on the support page.