🔒 Privacy commitment
Your audio stays
where it belongs.
Recording, transcription, and notes never touch the network. Summaries run locally by default. Turn on Lockdownand conversation content can’t be sent to any cloud AI — and the live network monitor shows every request Pribble makes, ready to read and export. You’ll see the silence, too.
★ The data flow
Three steps. One device.
Summaries run on a local model with zero network traffic. Bring your own API key and Pribble sends just the transcript text — your key, no Pribble server, governed by your provider's terms. Want a hard guarantee? Lockdown blocks conversation content from reaching any cloud AI, and the live network monitor shows you every request — proof you can read, export, and keep.
✦ Six principles
The rules we won't break.
Your audio never uploads
WhisperKit runs on your Mac’s Neural Engine. The transcript is generated entirely locally — your audio never gets uploaded for transcription. Ever.
You choose what leaves
Cloud only if you say so. Summaries run on a local model with zero network traffic. Bring your own API key and Pribble sends just the transcript text — your key, no Pribble server, governed by your provider’s terms. Want a hard guarantee? Lockdown blocks conversation content from reaching any cloud AI, and the live network monitor shows you every request — proof you can read, export, and keep.
Local file storage
Recordings, transcripts, summaries — all in ~/Documents/Pribble/Recordings/. You can browse them in Finder. You can delete them. You own them.
No account required
Pribble doesn’t need an email, a login, or a profile. There’s nothing to sign up for. Download and use.
Your iCloud, your encryption
Optional iCloud Drive backup uses your iCloud account. Pribble never sees your data — Apple’s end-to-end encryption handles it.
No telemetry without consent
We don’t track your usage. No analytics SDKs, no error-reporting that includes content. If we ever add crash reporting, it’ll be opt-in and stripped of all transcripts.
✓ Verify, don’t trust
Don’t trust us. Verify.
Pribble keeps a tamper-evident log of every network request it makes — readable and exportable. So don’t take our word for it: run Little Snitch, run Wireshark, flip on airplane mode. Recording, transcription, and notes work exactly the same.
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The pledge
If Pribble ever changes how it handles your data, your existing version keeps working the way it always has.
We may someday ship a v2.0 with new defaults. The v1.0 you have today will keep doing what it does today, with the privacy posture it shipped with. Forever.
— The Pribble team
The simplest privacy policy: your stuff, your machine.
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