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privacy
vaqlo is built so that nothing you record has to leave your mac. there is no vaqlo server, no account, and no analytics.
WHERE YOUR DATA LIVES
- RECORDINGS
- audio, transcripts, summaries and metadata are stored in
~/Library/Application Support/Vaqlo on your machine.
- AUDIO LIFECYCLE
- after transcription, audio moves to the Trash and auto-deletes after a configurable number of days. transcripts are kept until you delete them.
- TRANSCRIPTION & SUMMARIES
- run on-device (whisper.cpp and a local LLM). no audio or text is uploaded.
- MODELS
- downloaded once directly from Hugging Face to your machine. that download is the only outbound network request vaqlo makes, besides update checks.
- CALENDAR
- read locally via EventKit to label recordings with meeting titles and participants. nothing is sent anywhere.
- UPDATES
- vaqlo checks
panic-kit.com/vaqlo/appcast.xml for new versions. that request contains no personal data.
- TELEMETRY
- none.
YOUR RESPONSIBILITY
recording conversations may require the consent of the other participants depending on where you and they are. vaqlo always shows a recording indicator in the menu bar; you decide when and whom to record.