Dettivo opens for new purchases in April 2026. Until then, join the waitlist on the homepage or pricing page — you’ll hear from us once at launch, and once more when founders’ pricing closes.

We’re tightening up a few final edges with our alpha group before opening the gates. Keeping new sales closed until April lets us ship launch with zero bugs left over.

Nothing. Alpha licenses keep working, secure updates keep flowing, device management keeps working. You’re in.

No. Dettivo is a one-time lifetime license. You pay once and own the app, including every future update we ship.

Not right now. We’re keeping launch focused on paying customers. Refunds are available within 14 days.

Three. Switching Macs? Revoke an old device in Settings > Cloud and activate the new one.

The license is marked refunded and its activations are revoked. Secure updates stop — you can’t pull new builds with a refunded license.

Apple Silicon (M1 or newer) on macOS 14 (Sonoma) or later.

No. Apple Silicon only at launch.

No. Direct download only. This lets us ship updates without a review delay and ship a real local-API surface that App Store rules don’t allow.

Yes for the core flow. Dictation and meeting transcription run locally. License activation and secure updates need internet, and hosted OpenAI/Anthropic meeting notes are optional if you enable them.

Microphone (to capture your voice), Accessibility (to insert text into the focused app and read its context for dictation polish), and Screen Recording (for the ScreenCaptureKit fallback used by meeting system-audio capture). Dettivo asks for them on first use and never takes them silently.

Not by default. Dictation and meeting transcription run locally on Apple Silicon. If you enable a cloud STT endpoint with your own key, your audio goes to that endpoint — that’s opt-in and clearly marked.

Yes. You can keep meeting capture and transcription local, then optionally use your own OpenAI or Anthropic key for notes, action items, polish, and Q&A. Keys stay in Keychain; providers process transcript text, not meeting audio.

Yes, as an advanced option. Curated local models are still recommended. Power users can choose a compatible local MLX folder or a downloaded Hugging Face MLX repo for meeting notes and polish. The model stays local, but quality and compatibility vary by model.

Yes. Dettivo captures system audio and your microphone locally. Nothing joins your call and nothing gets posted to your meeting provider.

Your license key, device activations, optional email, and Stripe purchase records. Nothing about your dictation or meetings.

No. There’s a live transcript checkpoint + retained audio buffer. If something fails mid-meeting, you can recover the final transcript from the retained audio.

Yes. You can leave it as a draft, auto-compose in Mail, or connect Gmail/Graph/SMTP for direct send. Always your choice, always configurable.

Yes. Dettivo has diarization with a speaker-relabel UI, and remembers your names as suggestions next time.

Sparkle pulls a signed appcast gated by your license. New builds install in-place once you accept the update prompt. Your license signs every fetch — there is no anonymous update path.

Yes. You can keep a specific build, and manually trigger Check for Updates later from the menu bar.