§ Privacy posture
Privacy + security
What leaves your Mac and what does not. Local-first dictation and meeting capture, opt-in hosted providers with bring-your-own-key credentials in Keychain, no telemetry, full retention controls.
Cloud providers
Cloud providers (BYOK)
Hosted STT, polish, and meeting analysis are available behind a Bring-Your-Own-Key model. OpenAI, Anthropic, or any OpenAI-compatible endpoint (Ollama, vLLM, LM Studio, a self-hosted gateway). Keys live in Keychain. Off by default.
Opt-inLocal AI
Local AI models
Speech-to-text runs through WhisperKit. Polish and meeting analysis can run through bundled MLX models. Advanced users can point Dettivo at compatible local MLX folders or cached Hugging Face MLX repos.
Local-onlyPrivacy
Privacy posture
Dictation and meeting capture run locally on Apple Silicon. Hosted providers (OpenAI, Anthropic, OpenAI-compatible) are opt-in, BYOK, and credentialed in Keychain. No telemetry. No bot joins meetings. You control retention.
Local-onlySTT engines
STT engines
Dictation and meetings can pick different STT engines. Bundled WhisperKit tiers and a Parakeet-class local engine ship by default. Cloud STT is opt-in, BYOK, and currently used for dictation paths only.
- Getting started — Install, activate, grant permissions, and run your first dictation.
- Dictation — Hotkeys, modes, direct insertion, dictionary, Quick Access, Quick Note.
- Meetings — Bot-free capture, speaker labels, meeting analysis, recap automation, Meeting Mirror.
- Automation — Dictation macros, app + shell allowlists, recap email automation, weekly digest.
- Developers — Same contract everywhere. Bundled CLI, loopback REST adapter, stdio MCP server.
- Account + license — Activation, device management, secure updates, recovery, refunds.
- Troubleshooting — Hotkeys, insertion, meeting audio, MCP connect, REST 401, license activation.