Privacy

ParPar transcribes your voice entirely on your Mac. Your audio never touches a network. It is never written to disk — not even temporarily. It exists in memory for the second or two it takes to turn into text, and then it's gone.

The transcription engine itself runs locally. On Apple Silicon Macs with the on-device Speech Transcriber (macOS 26+), dictation uses Apple's built-in engine. On every other supported Mac — including M1 and M2 machines — ParPar uses the Parakeet model (FluidAudio / NVIDIA), which downloads once and runs entirely on your machine. There is no cloud transcription fallback and no remote model call at any point in the dictation flow.

You can verify this rather than take our word for it: turn off wifi and ethernet, and keep dictating. Or point a network monitor at ParPar and watch it make no calls at all.

Your words stay on your disk

If you turn on History, ParPar saves what you dictated to a SQLite database in your Application Support folder — the same way Notes and Messages store your data. There is no account, no sync, and no server. There is nothing to breach, because there is nowhere for it to go.

History is off by default. You can clear everything in one click, at any time.

Optional, opt-in usage data

We're trying to learn one thing: do people open ParPar when they're not dictating? That tells us whether the vocabulary and stats are actually worth building.

So there's an optional, off-by-defaultsetting that sends anonymous counters. If you leave it off, the analytics code never even starts. Not “we filter it on the server” — it never runs.

If you opt in, this is everything ParPar can send:

  • App opened (and whether you dictated in that session)
  • Which tab you viewed — Corpus, Stats, or Dictionary
  • A dictation finished — which engine, and a word-count range (never the exact count)
  • A dictionary term was added — and whether you typed it or ParPar learned it
  • A correction prompt was shown, and whether you accepted it
  • You reached a streak milestone
  • Text insertion failed — and the reason

That is the complete list. There is no eighth item.

What ParPar never sends, under any setting:

  • Anything you said. No transcripts, ever.
  • Any audio. It never leaves memory, let alone this Mac.
  • Your dictionary terms.
  • The names of apps you dictated into.
  • File paths, or anything identifying you personally.

Crash reports

Crash reports share the same opt-in switch. When they're on, ParPar strips the report down to the stack trace before it's sent — error messages, breadcrumbs, and file paths are all removed, because any of them could carry a sentence you dictated.

The website

If you join the beta list, we store your email address so we can send you an invite. That's it. We won't sell it, and we won't send you anything else.

Questions

Ask, and we'll answer specifically: hello@28digital.studio