Privacy policy

Transcribe turns recordings into text on your PC. Privacy is the reason it exists, so this policy is short: your recordings and transcripts never leave your PC, and the app collects nothing about you.

• Your recordings. When you import a file, Transcribe keeps a copy for playback in its library folder. The original file is never changed.
• Meetings you record (Pro). While a recording runs, Transcribe hears your microphone and, if you choose, the sound your PC plays (the other side of an online call). The audio is written to the library folder and transcribed on this PC, like an imported file.
• Your transcripts, with your edits, the speaker names you give, and the waveform used by the player.
• Your notes and folders.
• Your settings, including custom words (Pro).
• A few counters: how many of the 15 free Accurate minutes you have used, and when the app last asked for a review.
• Your plan: the last answer the Microsoft Store gave about your subscription, so Pro keeps working when you are offline.

Speech recognition runs on this PC with whisper.cpp and OpenAI's Whisper models, which are installed with the app. Nothing is sent to a server to be transcribed.

Speaker detection (Pro), when you ask for it, compares the voices within one recording on this PC to tell who says which line, using a speaker model installed with the app. It keeps only the result, the speaker on each line; nothing describing a voice is stored, sent, or compared with any other recording or any outside list.

Transcribe uses the microphone only while you record a meeting, and never in the background. Windows asks you once before the app may use it; you can turn it off at any time in Windows Settings, Privacy and security, Microphone. While a recording runs the app always shows it: a red dot in the sidebar, the running clock on the Record page, and, unless you turn it off in Settings, a small floating recorder that stays above other windows. Screen sharing and screenshots leave that floating recorder out, so the people you share your screen with do not see it; tell them you are recording. Recording the PC's sound needs no permission of its own and also happens only while a recording runs.

The library lives in the app's own folder. Settings > Storage shows where it is and how much space it uses. In the Microsoft Store version, Windows removes that folder when you uninstall the app.

Nothing about you or your recordings. There is no account, no telemetry, no analytics, no crash reporting, no advertising and no tracking. The app does not update itself (the Microsoft Store does that) and does not download anything while it runs.

The app makes contact with something outside your PC in only four ways, and only these:

1. The Microsoft Store, through Windows' own Store service, to check whether you have a Pro subscription (shortly after the app starts, when your PC wakes from sleep, when a plan is about to renew, and when you choose Check purchases), to show the current prices (only when you open the plan dialog or the Plan section of Settings), and to complete a purchase you start. Transcribe sends no data of its own in these requests. Microsoft handles them under the Microsoft Privacy Statement (privacy.microsoft.com).
2. Manage subscription opens account.microsoft.com/services in your web browser, only when you click it.
3. Leave a review opens Transcribe's page in the Microsoft Store app, only when you click it.
4. Send feedback opens a new email in your own mail app, addressed to the developer, with a subject line and nothing else. You decide what to write and whether to send it.

Windows notifications ("Transcript ready") are shown by Windows on your PC and contain only the recording's name.

• Delete a recording in the library, or every transcript at once in Settings > Storage > Delete all. Deleted recordings can be restored for 30 seconds with Undo, then they are removed from the disk.
• Exports (text, subtitles, Word, PDF) are saved only where you choose.
• Before you record people, tell them, and follow the law where you are.
• Uninstalling the app removes its library folder and its settings.

If you write to the developer, your message and email address are used only to answer you, and are not shared with anyone. You can ask for your emails to be deleted at any time.

Transcribe is a general-purpose tool and is not directed at children. It collects no personal information from anyone.

If this policy changes, the new version ships with the app (Settings > About > Privacy policy) and is published at the same address, with a new effective date. A change that would send anything new off your PC would be said plainly in the app before it took effect.

Transcribe - Offline is made by nawki, in Türkiye. Questions about privacy: yusufnawki@gmail.com.

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Hosting

The website is served by Vercel Inc.. Like every web server, it receives the technical data your browser sends to load a page (your IP address, the address of the page, the time, and your browser's identification) and processes it on our behalf to deliver the pages and protect the service from abuse. We do not use this data to identify or profile visitors. The legal basis is our legitimate interest in a website that works and is secure: Article 5(2)(f) of Türkiye's Personal Data Protection Law No. 6698 (KVKK) and, for visitors in the European Union, Article 6(1)(f) GDPR. The host may process this data in other countries, including outside Türkiye and the European Union; its privacy policy describes where and with which safeguards.

Links to other websites

The download and Store links lead to Microsoft's websites, where the Microsoft Privacy Statement applies. Nothing is sent to Microsoft before you click.

If you email us

If you write to us, your message and email address are used only to answer you, and are not shared with anyone. You can ask for your emails to be deleted at any time.

Who is responsible

The data controller is the provider named in the legal notice, based in Türkiye. Contact: yusufnawki@gmail.com.

Your rights

Under Article 11 of the KVKK you can ask whether we process personal data about you and for information about it, learn its purpose and whom it was shared with, have it corrected or deleted, and claim compensation for damage caused by unlawful processing. You can complain to Türkiye's Personal Data Protection Authority (Kişisel Verileri Koruma Kurumu).

If you are in the European Union, the GDPR gives you the right to access your data, to have it corrected or deleted, to restrict or object to its processing, and to data portability, and to complain to a data protection supervisory authority, for example the one where you live or work.