Privacy Policy
Last updated: November 13, 2026
LonoText is a dictation app for Mac. This policy explains what data LonoText handles, why, and for how long. LonoText never stores your voice or your words.
- Dictation in English, and in the other languages Settings lists under “On this Mac”, happens entirely on your Mac.
- Arabic, Auto-detect and the other languages are sent, encrypted, to LonoText Cloud to be turned into text, as is a language while your Mac is still downloading it. LonoText keeps neither the audio nor the text.
- On plans with offline Arabic, Arabic is also listed under “On this Mac”: a key set to it is transcribed on your Mac, once your Mac has downloaded it.
- Actions run only when you start one: the text you selected and the action's instruction are sent, encrypted, to LonoText Cloud to be rewritten. LonoText keeps neither.
- Clipboard history stays on your Mac. Clipboard sync, which you turn on, sends copies to your paired phone through LonoText Cloud, end-to-end encrypted. The servers can't read them.
- There's no account. Your Mac gets a random ID so we can count its words and actions each month: only how many, never what you said or wrote.
- This website uses no cookies or trackers. It counts visits and downloads as one number a day, with nothing about who.
1. On your Mac
- Microphone: LonoText listens only while you hold a dictation key. Recordings aren't saved.
- Keys: LonoText watches for its dictation keys. It doesn't record or send anything else you type.
- Inserting text: LonoText pastes through the clipboard and then puts back what was there. That paste stays on your Mac.
- Clipboard history: off unless you turn it on in Settings › Clipboard. Then LonoText keeps the last 50 texts you copy, so you can paste them again, and skips what password managers mark as private. The history stays on your Mac, in the app's private storage and out of backups, and is never sent. Turning it off deletes it.
- Actions: when you start an action (with its shortcut, the palette or the menu), LonoText copies the text you selected (⌘C) and puts your clipboard straight back. It reads nothing you haven't selected, and doesn't run in password managers.
- Arabic on this Mac: on plans with offline Arabic, when you set a key to Arabic under “On this Mac”, your Mac downloads a speech model (about 1.6 GB) once. From then on, that key's Arabic is transcribed on your Mac, and nothing about it is sent. The model is deleted if your plan no longer includes offline Arabic.
- Stored on your Mac: your settings, your actions, your keywords, how many words you dictated this month, and the credential that identifies your Mac to LonoText Cloud, and, if you use clipboard sync, the keys that seal your copies, all in the app's private storage.
2. What's sent to LonoText Cloud
When you dictate in a language that isn't on your Mac (Auto-detect, or a language listed under “LonoText Cloud” in Settings), the app sends:
- the recording;
- the language you chose (for Auto-detect, the languages on your keys) and your keywords, so names and terms are spelled the way you want;
- your Mac's credential and the app version.
This is used only to send the text back to you. LonoText doesn't store the audio or the text, doesn't use them to train anything, and doesn't read them. It counts the text's words for your monthly allowance and keeps only that number. Our logs contain only the Mac's ID, the length of the recording, how many words it had and how long it took.
Your plan counts words each month, on your Mac and in LonoText Cloud alike. So after you dictate on your Mac, the app sends LonoText Cloud the number of words you dictated there this month, never the words themselves, so the allowance works across your Macs and isn't lost if you reinstall. It also sends how many words of LonoText Cloud's text it threw away (for example, when nothing was said), so they aren't counted.
When you run an action, the app sends:
- the text you selected;
- the action's instruction, and your keywords so names stay the way you write them;
- your Mac's credential and the app version.
This too is used only to send the result back to you. LonoText doesn't store the text, the instruction or the result, doesn't use them to train anything, and doesn't read them. It counts each action for your monthly allowance and keeps only that number. Our logs contain only the Mac's ID, the lengths of the text and the result, and how long it took.
Clipboard sync is off until you turn it on in Settings › Clipboard. When it's on, the app sends each copy to LonoText Cloud to pass it on to your paired phone. The copy is sealed with a key that only your Mac and that phone have. The servers also see its size, when it was sent and the IDs of the devices involved, but they can't read the copy. A copy that hasn't reached the other device yet is kept, sealed, for up to 24 hours, then deleted; only the latest copy waits for each device. Our logs contain only device and link IDs and what happened to a copy, never its text.
Passwords that password managers mark as private are never sent from your Mac. On your phone, a copy marked as sensitive asks before it's sent, and goes only if you tap Send.
The app also asks LonoText Cloud for your Mac's plan and how many words are left when it starts, and checks lonotext.com for updates about twice a day. Update checks don't include your Mac's ID.
3. Service providers
- A speech-recognition provider turns the audio into text. It doesn't use the audio to train its models, and may keep it for up to 30 days to detect abuse before deleting it.
- A language-model provider rewrites the text for Actions. It doesn't use the text to train its models, and may keep it for up to 30 days to detect abuse before deleting it.
- A model-hosting service serves the speech model your Mac downloads for Arabic on this Mac. Like any download, it sees your IP address; it receives nothing else from LonoText.
- A hosting provider runs LonoText Cloud, its database and this website. It processes network data such as your IP address to deliver and protect the service, and may keep request logs for a short time.
- Google's Firebase Cloud Messaging wakes an Android phone when a copy is waiting for it. It gets the phone's push token and a wake-up signal, never a copy.
- Paddle sells LonoText's paid plans as the merchant of record. When you buy one, Paddle collects your name, email, address and payment details, handles taxes and receipts, and tells us what you bought and your customer ID with Paddle.
The speech-recognition, language-model, hosting and messaging providers work on our behalf under their data-processing terms; Paddle is the seller of record for purchases, under its own privacy policy. We don't sell your data or share it for advertising.
4. What we keep about each Mac
- a random ID (the Support ID shown in LonoText › Settings › Account) and a hash of the Mac's credential;
- when it was first and last used;
- for each phone paired with it for clipboard sync: a random ID, its push token, when it was last seen, and its name, which is sealed so that we can't read it;
- the words used this month: the number dictated on each Mac and in LonoText Cloud, never the words themselves;
- the cloud minutes it used this month;
- how many actions it ran this month, never the text;
- its allowance, whether cloud dictation is turned off for it, and a note we may add to recognize beta testers;
- a keyed hash of the network it signed up from, used only to limit sign-ups per network per day, and deleted after a day;
- if you buy a plan: which plan, its status (for example, when it renews), your customer ID with Paddle, and the email you paid with, so you can restore your plan on another Mac. We email you only when you ask for a restore code.
We keep this while you use LonoText. To have it deleted, send us your Support ID (see Deleting your data).
5. This website
lonotext.com uses no cookies or trackers, and loads nothing from other sites, except Paddle's checkout when you buy a plan from LonoText's Upgrade button. Our hosting provider processes your IP address to deliver the pages.
To know how many people visit and download LonoText, the site counts each visit to the home and pricing pages and each download, and keeps only the total for each day. Nothing about you is kept or stored in your browser for this: no cookie, no IP address, no ID. Your address is used only for a moment, so that one address can't inflate the count, and is then forgotten.
6. Your choices and rights
- Dictation in the languages listed under “On this Mac” works fully on your Mac, without LonoText Cloud.
- Nothing is sent for Actions until you start one.
- Clipboard sync is off until you turn it on. Turn it off in Settings › Clipboard, or remove a phone there, and copies stop going to it.
- You can ask to see or delete the data about your Mac and the phones paired with it: send the Support ID from LonoText's settings, on your Mac or your phone, to support@lonotext.com.
- Depending on where you live, you may have further rights, including complaining to your data protection authority.
Deleting your data
- Find your Support ID. On your Mac: LonoText › Settings › Account. On your Android phone: LonoText › Settings, while it's paired.
- Email it to support@lonotext.com and ask us to delete your data.
Within 30 days, we delete what we keep about that device (section 4). A phone's Support ID deletes that phone: its ID, its push token, its links to your Macs and any copies waiting for it. A Mac's Support ID deletes the Mac and every phone paired with it, with its usage counts and plan details. If you've already unpaired your phone or removed the app, send your Mac's Support ID and tell us which phone. We keep only daily totals that identify no one. Our hosting provider's request logs aren't deleted on request; they expire on their own within 31 days. If you bought a plan, Paddle keeps its own record of the purchase under its privacy policy.
7. Children
LonoText isn't meant for children under 13.
8. Changes
If this policy changes, the date above changes too. We'll announce important changes in the app or on this website.