Privacy Policy
Last updated: June 10, 2026
In one sentence
Typefree runs locally on your own device. Your recordings, transcribed text, history and API credentials are stored on your device by default — we operate no servers that store this content, and we do not collect it.
Who we are
Typefree is a voice-input tool built by Rui Wang, an independent developer. For privacy questions, contact ray@typefree.app.
How your voice and text are handled
- Recording is local: audio is captured on your device while you hold the shortcut, and only enters processing after you release it.
- Recognition and clean-up run through third-party providers you configure yourself: speech recognition and AI clean-up use your own third-party services (e.g. Volcengine, Alibaba Cloud Bailian) with your own API key. Requests are sent directly from your device to those providers — they do not pass through Typefree's servers. That content is governed by each provider's own privacy policy, which we recommend you review.
- History and credentials stay local: recognition history, optional original audio, and API credentials are stored in a local folder on your device (on macOS,
~/.config/voicepolish/). Whether and how long to keep them is up to you.
Purchase and activation
Purchases are handled by our payment provider Paddle (Paddle.com Market Ltd, acting as Merchant of Record / reseller). Your payment information is collected and processed by Paddle under its own privacy policy; we never receive your full card details. When you activate the paid version, the app sends to our activation server (api.typefree.app, hosted on Cloudflare): your license code, a one-way hashed device identifier (irreversible), your Mac model and macOS version — used solely to enforce the one-Mac license limit and for support (license recovery / device transfer). We never collect your computer name, voice, text or usage statistics; after activation, the app does not contact our servers during normal use.
This website
typefree.app is a static site hosted on GitHub Pages / Cloudflare. It sets no tracking cookies and includes no third-party advertising or behavioral analytics. Hosting providers may retain standard server access logs (such as IP address and timestamp) under their own policies for security and operations.
Your rights
Because we hold almost none of your personal data, you have full control over the data on your device and can delete it at any time. For purchase-related data, contact us or Paddle. Send any privacy request to ray@typefree.app.
Changes
If this policy changes, we will post the update on this page and revise the date at the top.