The short version: Typort runs on your own computer. When you dictate or
record a meeting, your audio is transcribed on your device and stays there, unless you
switch to Typort Remote, which transcribes on our servers.
Some features send text to our servers once you have signed in: Polished mode's
cleanup pass (on by default for new installations), meeting insights and notes, Compose and
fact check. Once you have signed in, screen recordings also upload to our servers when their
share link is on, which is the default. Each one is listed below with exactly what it sends, and you can ask us to
delete anything we hold.
Who we are
Typort is made by Human Compute, LLC, in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, USA. This policy covers
the Typort desktop app, the Typort Vault browser extension, and the optional cloud services behind
them.
What stays on your device
Typort is local-first. When you dictate:
Your audio is transcribed on your own computer by a local speech model.
The audio is not sent anywhere. In Raw mode the resulting text is not sent anywhere
either; in Polished mode it is sent for one cleanup pass, described below.
Recent recordings, so you can recover a dictation that went wrong.
Only the 15 most recent are kept, and older ones are deleted automatically as you
dictate.
Training audio — this one is different and worth reading carefully.
Every time you dictate, Typort also saves that audio clip and its text into a training
set on your machine. Nothing is ever removed from it. Over months of use
it becomes a complete archive of your recorded voice, and it will keep growing for as
long as you use Typort. It exists so that a speech model can be trained on the way you
actually speak, and it never leaves your computer. Typort does not currently offer a way
to clear it from inside the app; you can delete the folder yourself at any time.
Everything that leaves your device is listed in the next section, plus the version check
described further down. Your dictation and meeting audio stay on your computer unless you
switch to Typort Remote. The only other time audio leaves is a screen recording with its
share link on: the recording's sound travels with its video.
What is sent to the cloud
These features send data off your device. None of them runs before you sign in. Three of
them are on by default once you have: Polished mode's cleanup pass on new installations,
meeting insights and notes, and the share link on screen recordings. Each is called out
below.
Cloud sync / Context Vault. If you enable it, the items you choose to sync
(for example your captured AI conversations or dictation history) are stored on our servers
so you can search them across devices. This data is tied to your account.
Polished mode's cleanup pass. In Polished
mode the text of what you said is sent to our servers for one cleanup pass and
returned to you. Your audio is never sent in this mode — only the
words, after they have been transcribed on your own machine.
On a new installation this cleanup runs on our servers by default,
from the first time you sign in. If you have been running Typort since before this
changed, your installation stays local and will not start sending text on its own.
Press F10 for Raw mode and nothing leaves your computer at all. Raw
transcribes on your own machine and makes no network call. The mode is shown on screen
each time you switch, so you always know which one you are in. Raw is the way to keep
your words on your machine: there is no longer a local cleanup model to switch Polished
over to.
Meeting insights and notes. Once you have signed in, the text of the
meeting transcript is sent to our servers to write the insights shown every two minutes
and the notes saved when the meeting ends. The meeting audio, the screenshots and the
files themselves stay on your computer. Auto-insights can be switched off in the meeting
bar. If you choose to sync meetings to your vault, the transcript and notes are stored on
our servers as well.
Typort Remote. Off unless you choose it. In Typort Remote, your dictation
and meeting audio is sent to our servers, transcribed there, and the text returned to
you, instead of being transcribed on your computer. On the current release it is the
third position when you press F10; press F10 again to leave it.
Compose and fact check. The text you ask them to rewrite or check is sent
to our servers and the result returned to you.
Screen recordings (Beam). Once you have signed in, the share link is on
by default: the video, with its sound, uploads to our storage in short pieces while you
record so the link works straight away, its captions are transcribed on our servers, and
its title and summary are written there from that transcript. You control who you give
the link to. Switch the share link off, or record without signing in, and the recording
and its transcript stay on your computer only. Shared recordings may be checked against our
Terms, including by automated tools, and we count how many
different people open each share link so we can pause one that spreads unusually fast.
Meetings capture pictures of your screen
When you record a meeting, Typort also captures still images of your screen. It watches for
meaningful changes rather than filming continuously, so it saves a picture when something on
screen actually changes — sometimes just the part that changed, sometimes the whole screen.
The images are stored in the meeting's folder on your computer alongside the audio and the
transcript. This is on by default and can be switched off in Settings before you start a
meeting.
Problem reports
If you choose to send a problem report, it includes a description of how your computer and
Typort are set up, and the recent part of Typort's own log. It contains nothing you
dictated, no audio, no files, no browsing history and no IP address. The report window shows you what is in it before
anything is sent, and nothing is sent unless you press the button.
Checking for updates
Typort checks typort.com for a new version when it starts, and again about every two days
while it is running. The request sends only the app version — nothing you
dictate, record or type is ever included, and it carries no account, no machine identifier and
no installation identifier.
This check is automatic and there is no setting that stops it. What you do control is what
happens when an update is found: unless you have chosen automatic updates in Settings, nothing
is downloaded or installed without your permission.
The browser extension (Typort Vault)
The Typort Vault extension captures your conversations from supported AI platforms (ChatGPT,
Claude, Perplexity, Grok, Gemini) into your browser's local storage, and only reads pages on those
platforms. Captured items stay in your browser unless you turn on cloud sync above.
Service providers we use
When a cloud feature is on, we rely on:
Amazon Web Services (AWS) — hosting and storage for synced data
and recordings (United States).
Amazon Bedrock (part of AWS, United States) — the AI models behind
Polished mode, Compose, fact check, meeting insights and notes, and recording titles and summaries run here. Text you send for a cloud AI
feature is processed by Bedrock and the result returned to you. We do not send your
text to any other AI provider.
We do not sell your personal data, and we do not use your private dictation content to advertise
to you.
How long we keep it
Local recordings: only the 15 most recent are kept — older ones are deleted automatically as you dictate.
Cloud-synced data and recordings: kept until you delete them or ask us to.
Your choices and deleting your data
Local data is under your control — clear it in the app or by uninstalling.
Cloud data — to delete anything we hold for you (synced items, recordings), email us at adam@humancompute.com
and we will delete it from our servers.
Depending on where you live (for example under GDPR or CCPA), you may have rights to access,
correct, or delete your data, and to ask us not to sell it (we don't). Email us to exercise them.
The website
Our marketing website (typort.com) may use standard analytics and advertising pixels to measure
how people find us. These are part of the website only — they do not see your dictation or app data.
Children's privacy
Typort is not directed at children under 13 and we do not knowingly collect their information.
Changes to this policy
If we update this policy we'll change the date above, and for material changes we'll tell you in
the app.