Privacy Policy

Last updated 30 October 2026

What you say, and the words it becomes, stay on your Mac. Enoughtype has no accounts and no server that receives your dictations. It only counts, anonymously, that it is being used, and you can switch that off.

Who we are

Enoughtype is made by Jtobin (“we”, “us”). You can reach us at [email protected].

What Enoughtype does with your data, on your Mac

Everything below happens on your Mac and is never sent to us.

• Microphone. The microphone is used only while a dictation is running (after you press the shortcut, until it ends). The audio is turned into text by the speech model on your Mac (Cohere Transcribe, run with MLX).
• Live words. The faint words that appear while you talk come from Apple’s speech recognition, which Enoughtype forces to run on the device. Nothing is sent to Apple for it.
• Accessibility. Used to listen for your shortcut, to find the text cursor, and to type the words there. Enoughtype does not read or store the other text in your windows.
• Clipboard. The words are pasted through the clipboard. Whatever you had copied is put back afterwards, images and styled text included, and the paste is marked so clipboard managers do not keep it.
• History. Enoughtype keeps what you dictated (the text, the time, the app it was typed in, the language) so you can copy it again. By default for 30 days; in Settings you can choose off, a day, a month or forever. It also keeps your last 10 recordings (16 kHz mono audio files) so a dictation can be transcribed again in another language. They are stored in ~/Library/Application Support/Enoughtype/history/. “Clear” in the history deletes them.
• Log. A log file records when something was typed, in which app and how long it was, plus errors. It does not contain your words.
• Settings. Your choices (shortcut, language, replacements and so on) are saved in config.json in the same folder.

To remove everything Enoughtype has stored, quit it and delete that folder, then delete the app.

What goes over the internet

Enoughtype itself never uploads your voice, your words or your history. It connects to the internet for these reasons only:

When	What	Who receives it
First launch	Downloads the speech model (about 3.9 GB) once.	Hugging Face (huggingface.co), which sees your IP address and the request, under its own privacy policy.
At launch and every few hours while it runs	Asks for a tiny file (version.json) that says the oldest version still allowed, so a broken version can be retired. The request carries nothing but the usual web request information.	Our website, on Cloudflare (standard server logs).
About once a day, and when you click Check for Updates	Asks for the update list (appcast.xml) and, if there is a new version, downloads it. The request carries the app’s name and version, as any download does. Enoughtype does not send a system profile.	Our website, which runs on Cloudflare, and the installer storage (Cloudflare R2). Cloudflare keeps standard server logs, such as your IP address and the time.
At launch, once a day, and around the model download	The anonymous usage counts above (unless you turned them off).	PostHog, under its own privacy policy.
If the download from our site is not available	You may be sent to the release page.	GitHub, under its own privacy policy.

We do not use these logs to identify you, and we do not sell or share them.

Anonymous usage counts

To know whether Enoughtype works for people, the app and its speech service send anonymous counts to PostHog (PostHog Inc., US cloud). They say that and how something happened, never what you said or typed:

• Each dictation: that it started (by the shortcut or from another program), how long you spoke, how long the transcription took, how many words and characters came out, the language, whether you tapped or held the shortcut, whether the words were typed or left on the clipboard, whether the text field was a terminal, and whether it was cancelled, empty or failed. Never the words, and never the name of the app you typed into.
• Your options: once a day, which options are on (language, microphone choice, live words, numbers as digits, the shortcut, how long the history is kept, how many replacement rules you have but not what they say), and when you change one.
• The settings panel: that you opened it, which tab or page you looked at, and which buttons you clicked (Restart, Open Log, Quit, Check for Updates, Licences, the permission buttons).
• The app itself: that it started, once a day that it is running, which permissions are on or off, which page of the first-run guide you reached (and that you finished it, and which permission buttons you pressed there), how long the model took to load, whether the model download started, finished (and how many seconds it took) or failed, when the “update required” notice was shown and whether you chose Update Now, and when a dictation was held back because the version was too old to use because the speech model had not been downloaded yet (and whether you chose to download it from the alert), or because the microphone did not start (and which of two reasons: no microphone connected, other).

Each of these also carries the app version and build and your macOS version. Each Mac is told apart only by a random number made on that Mac, which is not linked to your name, your account or your Apple ID. PostHog is set to drop IP addresses, and no profile is built. These counts never contain what you say, type or record, file names, or the names of the apps you use. You can turn them all off, in the app and its speech service together, under Settings › General › About › Share anonymous usage.

This website

The website has no cookies, and its statistics write nothing to your device: no cookies and no local storage (PostHog runs in memory only), so nothing survives closing the tab or opening another page. It counts page visits anonymously with the same PostHog project: which page, which site sent you, the width of your screen and whether you clicked a download button. No visitor profile is built, so we cannot tell whether two page views came from the same person. The IP address is dropped (a country is worked out from it first, and the address itself is not stored), and nothing is counted or recorded if your browser sends Do Not Track or Global Privacy Control. It also records anonymous replays of how a page is used (how it looked and where you moved, clicked and scrolled), to find where the page confuses people. Anything typed into a field is hidden before it is recorded, replays are kept for 30 days, and because nothing is stored on your device, each page you open is a separate replay that cannot be linked to the next one. The replay code is loaded from PostHog’s servers, the same service that receives the statistics. Because nothing is stored on your device and you are not followed from page to page, there is no cookie banner. The only thing the site saves is the language you pick on the privacy and terms pages (English or 中文), in your browser’s local storage, because you chose it. Its fonts are served from the site itself, so visiting loads nothing from Google or any other third party. The site is served by Cloudflare, which keeps standard server logs.

Permissions you can take back

Enoughtype asks macOS for Accessibility, Microphone and Speech Recognition. You can turn any of them off at any time in System Settings › Privacy & Security. Without them the matching part stops working.

Children

Enoughtype does not collect personal information from anyone, so there is nothing to collect from children either.

Changes

If this policy changes, the new version is posted here with a new date. If a change affects what leaves your Mac, we will say so in the update notes.

Contact

Questions about privacy: [email protected].