Privacy policy

Effective 1 November 2026

Sayzen is a macOS app for dictation and voice commands, made by Gökay Ege Süren at Edgetr (“we”). This policy explains what Sayzen does with your voice, your text and the rest of your data.

Sayzen runs on your Mac. We run no servers that receive your audio, history or settings. The one exception is a choice you make: with the optional account, a note you share goes to the sharing server, and a meeting’s transcript only if you include it. Nothing else you say or type reaches us.

What stays on your Mac

• Audio. Sayzen records only while you hold a shortcut or use hands-free mode, talk with the Assistant, record a meeting you chose to record, or annotate the screen. With Hey Sayzen turned on, short speech is transcribed on your Mac only to look for the name, then dropped. Speech is transcribed on your Mac with Parakeet or Whisper. Audio is not sent to us or to any AI provider.
• History. Your dictations, Commands conversations and the recordings kept with them are stored encrypted on your Mac. You can search, play back and delete them in the app. Recordings you cancel are deleted.
• Notes. Your notes, meeting notes and their transcripts are stored encrypted on your Mac. A note’s conversation with Sayzen is kept with the note.
• Meeting audio. A meeting’s audio is deleted once it has been transcribed. If you turn on Keep the audio, it is kept encrypted with the meeting’s note until you delete the note.
• Annotations. The frames and audio of an annotation stay in memory and are dropped when you close or discard it. If you save it as a note, its frames are kept encrypted with the note.
• Your settings. Dictionary, snippets, formatting rules, Insights and preferences are stored on your Mac.
• API keys. The keys you add for Anthropic, OpenAI or OpenRouter are stored on your Mac, encrypted with a key kept in the macOS Keychain, and sent only to that provider.
• Clipboard. So Commands can find something you copied today, Sayzen keeps a short list of recent clipboard items in memory while it runs. It is not written to disk.

What goes to the AI provider you choose

On a Mac with Apple Intelligence, dictation is cleaned up on the Mac by Apple’s on-device model, and nothing is sent. Commands, the Assistant, asking about a note, and cleanup when you choose it use the provider you set up: Anthropic, OpenAI or OpenRouter, with your own API key.

• When your provider cleans up a dictation, the transcript of that dictation and your formatting instructions are sent from your Mac to that provider.
• When you use Commands or the Assistant, your question, the earlier turns of that conversation and the results of tools it uses are sent to that provider. Notes Sayzen reads to answer go with that answer only.
• With Screen Recording allowed and “Commands can see your screen” on, each spoken question sends one picture of your screen with it. Turn it off in Settings › Privacy & data.
• To write a meeting’s notes, its transcript (and, if Sayzen may read your calendar, the event’s title, invitees and length) goes to your provider when a key is saved, otherwise to Apple Intelligence on your Mac.
• An annotation’s summary is written from its words only. Its frames go to a coding agent only when you choose Send on the card that shows them.
• A copied image is sent only after you approve it in the card Sayzen shows first.
• The provider handles these requests under its own terms and privacy policy, and the data settings of your account with it. Sayzen sends nothing to a provider you haven’t set up.

Sharing notes (optional)

You can share a note with other people and write in it together. Sharing needs a Sayzen account; everything else works without one, and signing out never deletes your notes.

• What the account keeps. Your email address and name from your sign-in. For each note you share: its title and text, the people you share it with and their role, invitations by email address, and who has it open right now. Notes others share with you are kept the same way.
• Meetings. Sharing a meeting’s notes shares the notes and when and how long the meeting was. Its transcript is shared only if you turn on Include the transcript. Recordings are never shared.
• What it never sees. Your other notes, History, recordings, Dictionary and settings, and your API keys. The sharing server doesn’t run AI.
• Who runs it. Sign-in is provided by Clerk; shared notes are stored by Convex, in the EU (Ireland). Each processes this data to provide the service, under its own terms. They are test services for now, and accounts made on them may not carry over.
• Invitations. Sayzen doesn’t email the people you invite. An invitation waits until they sign in with that address.
• On your Mac. Your sign-in is kept encrypted with your API keys and sent only to Clerk and to the sharing server. Each shared note also keeps an encrypted copy on your Mac.

Web tools

When a Command searches the web, reads a page, researches a question or summarizes a video, Sayzen contacts those services directly from your Mac: the search engine (currently DuckDuckGo), the sites it reads and YouTube for video captions. They receive the request and your IP address, as with any visit from a browser.

Claude Code and Codex

Tasks you hand to a coding agent run in Claude Code or Codex on your Mac, signed in with your own account. Those tools send your task and the files they work on to Anthropic or OpenAI under your account’s terms. Sayzen doesn’t read or store your sign-in for them.

Coding agents can search and read your notes only if you turn on Settings › Agents › Let coding agents read your notes. It is off by default, and they can’t change your notes.

MCP servers you connect

If you add your own tools through MCP servers, Sayzen sends them the requests a Command makes. What each server does with that data depends on the server.

Other connections

• Speech models, Parakeet and Whisper, are downloaded from Hugging Face when you choose one.
• Listing a provider’s models contacts that provider with your key.

Permissions Sayzen asks for

• Microphone, to record your voice when you dictate, ask, annotate or record a meeting.
• Accessibility and Input Monitoring, so shortcuts such as fn work in every app and finished text can be pasted into the field you were typing in.
• Screen Recording, optional: for Commands to see your screen, and for Annotate, which asks the first time you use it.
• System Audio Recording, asked the first time you record a meeting, to hear the call app’s sound. Sayzen taps only that app’s sound.

What Sayzen doesn’t do

Sayzen has no analytics, crash reporting, advertising or tracking. We don’t sell data, and nothing you say or type is used to train AI models by us.

Your choices and deletion

• Delete single items or all history in the app.
• Remove an API key in Settings; you can also revoke it on the provider’s site.
• Stop sharing a note to delete it from the sharing server; each person keeps the copy on their Mac. Leaving a note someone shared with you keeps your copy too.
• Sign out in Settings › Account. To delete your account and everything it keeps, email us from the address you signed in with.
• To remove everything, quit Sayzen and delete its folder at ~/Library/Application Support/Sayzen, then delete the app.

This website

This is a static website hosted on Vercel. It uses no cookies, analytics or tracking, and loads its fonts from this domain. The download page asks GitHub for the latest version number. Vercel and GitHub may process standard request logs, such as IP addresses, to serve and protect their services.

Children

Sayzen is not directed to children under 13.

Changes

If this policy changes, the updated version will be posted on this page with a new effective date.

Contact

Questions about this policy: founder@edgetr.tech.