Privacy

What stays on your Mac

• All audio. Captured by cpal, processed by whisper-rs, then discarded.
• All transcripts (raw and cleaned). Stored in the local SQLite database.
• All profiles, vocabulary, vault files.
• The cleanup model itself (bundled llama-server).

What leaves your Mac

• Update checks. Fluister pings https://github.com/andre347/fluister/releases/latest/download/latest.json to see if a new version exists. You can turn this off entirely (Settings → About → uncheck Automatically check for updates) and update manually.

What is never sent

• Audio.
• Transcripts.
• Anything you've dictated, cleaned, or stored in the vault.

If you configure Fluister to use external Ollama instead of the bundled cleanup model, raw transcripts will be sent to your Ollama server. Ollama is typically also local (http://localhost:11434), but it's your call where it runs.