All versions

What stays on your device

All of it, unless you pick a cloud backend. Stored locally and never uploaded by JustTalk:

• Modes, your custom dictionary and actions
• Usage statistics — words dictated, time saved, estimated spend
• Recorded audio, which is held in memory for the length of a dictation and not written to disk
• API keys for the services you configure — where each platform keeps them is in its part below
• Speech models you download, if you use on-device transcription

JustTalk has no server, so there is nothing of yours on one to delete. How to remove what is on your device is in each platform's part.

When you choose a cloud backend

JustTalk can send audio, or the transcript of it, to a provider you configure — Google, OpenAI, Groq, Mistral, Anthropic, or a server address you enter yourself. That data is then handled under their privacy policy, not this one, and JustTalk has no visibility into what they keep. The app shows which provider is active before you record, and switching to on-device transcription stops any of it from leaving your device.

Privacy Mode

One switch, in every version, that keeps a dictation entirely on your device: speech is recognised on the device, polishing runs only through a language model on the device (or is skipped if you have none), and on Mac and Windows no information about the app you are typing into is read. Switching it off restores exactly what you had configured.

How JustTalk uses AI, how what it generates is marked, and what the EU AI Act asks of you: see the AI statement.

Children

JustTalk is a productivity tool for adults, not a children's app. It collects no personal information from anyone, of any age.

Mac

Where your keys are kept

API keys are stored in the macOS Keychain. Deleting the app's Application Support folder deletes everything else JustTalk keeps.

What is sent alongside your words

When a polishing model is in use, JustTalk tells it only the name of the app you are dictating into, so the result fits: a reply in a mail app, a message in a chat. Privacy Mode stops even the app's name being read or sent.

Purchase

JustTalk Pro for Mac is a one-time purchase handled entirely by Apple. The App Store tells the app whether it is entitled; it never sees your name, your email or your payment details. The purchase is Family Shareable: if a member of your family group shares it with you, Apple tells the app it is entitled and nothing else about them.

Permissions

JustTalk uses the microphone, and system audio when you record a meeting; macOS asks your permission before either. It needs Accessibility to paste the result into the app in front of you. It reads no contacts, no location, no photos and no health data.

iPhone and iPad

The keyboard

The JustTalk keyboard asks for Allow Full Access. Full Access is what lets the JustTalk keyboard receive what the JustTalk app hears, and reach the service you chose. Without it, a keyboard can only type letters. iOS warns that it lets the developer transmit anything you type; here is exactly what JustTalk does with it:

• It does not read what is already in the field. It types, and it keeps track of what it typed so that undo and the actions can work on that text and nothing else.
• It does not log what you type. Keys you press go into the app you are typing into and nowhere else.
• Nothing goes to us. iOS does not let a keyboard open the microphone, so the JustTalk app records and sends your dictation only to the service you chose; Fix my typing and actions go from the keyboard to that same service. There is no JustTalk server anywhere on the way.
• While a session is running, the JustTalk app holds the microphone and iOS lights the orange indicator for the whole time. That is honest: the microphone genuinely is available to you until you stop the session.
• With Private chosen under Settings → How JustTalk writes, speech is recognised and polished on the device and nothing leaves it. Fast and Best quality use the cloud service you set up with your own key.
• The keyboard cannot see which app it is typing into, so no app name is ever sent with your words. It can tell only that a field is a chat or a search box, from its return key, so that the style fits.
• Password fields always get Apple's keyboard: iOS never offers a third-party keyboard there.

What left your iPhone

Settings → Privacy → What left your iPhone lists the services the app or the keyboard has contacted: each one's domain, what it was used for (dictation, polishing, Fix my typing, an action, a file) and when it was last contacted — never the words. The domains are the ones iOS's own App Privacy Report shows (Settings → Privacy & Security → App Privacy Report), so you can compare the two. The list stays on the device.

No history

JustTalk keeps no record of what you dictate. Updating deletes any history an earlier version kept.

Where your keys are kept

API keys are stored in the iOS Keychain. Deleting the app deletes everything JustTalk keeps.

Purchase

JustTalk Pro for iPhone and iPad is a one-time purchase of its own, separate from the Mac one and handled entirely by Apple. The App Store tells the app whether it is entitled; it never sees your name, your email or your payment details. It is Family Shareable, and a family member sharing it tells the app nothing about them.

Permissions

The app asks for the microphone and for speech recognition; with on-device transcription, recognition stays on the device. It reads no contacts, no location, no photos and no health data.

Windows

The Windows version is not an Apple product and is not sold through the App Store, so none of the Apple parts above applies to it.

Where your keys are kept

API keys are stored in Windows Credential Manager. Uninstalling the app deletes everything else JustTalk keeps; keys stay in Credential Manager until you remove them there.

What is sent alongside your words

When a polishing model is in use, JustTalk tells it only the name of the app you are dictating into, so the result fits: a reply in a mail app, a message in a chat. Privacy Mode stops even the app's name being read or sent.

The licence

A Windows licence is not on sale yet. When you request one, the request you send us by email carries the name and email address you type into it and a one-way hash of your PC's hardware identifiers, so that the key works on that PC. We use them to issue and re-issue your key and for nothing else.

Permissions

JustTalk uses the microphone, and system audio when you record a meeting; the microphone settings under Privacy & security decide whether it may. It reads no contacts, no location, no photos and no health data.

This website

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Apple's privacy questionnaire for the two App Store listings is answered from exactly this page.