Privacy Policy

1. Who we are

VibeType is built and run by Paprik Technologies Private Limited, G1106, Purva Fountainsquare, Bangalore, Karnataka 560037, India (“we”, “us”). This policy covers VibeType for Mac, VibeType for your phone (Android and iOS) and its keyboard, our website, and the service behind them. We are responsible for the personal data described here.

2. The short version

• On Mac, dictation is processed on your computer, unless you choose to connect your own AI provider.
• On your phone (Android and iOS), online speech recognition sends your recording to our speech provider. On iPhone you can choose recognition on the phone instead, which keeps the recording on your phone, except in Meeting and Medical, which always use online recognition; some text features still go online. Android always uses online recognition.
• We do not save what you dictate or write as part of your account, except your writing profile on iPhone (section 4), any result you choose to report to us on Android (section 3), and what you say on our website's LinkedIn post page (section 4), and we never use it for advertising, sell it, or use it to train AI.
• Your history, vocabulary and journal stay on your device. On iPhone, they and your modes are also backed up to your own iCloud account unless you turn it off. On Android, your history, journal, vocabulary, settings and what the app learned from your corrections go into your phone's own backup to your Google account, only when that backup is encrypted with your screen lock, and, if you turn it on, into a copy in your own Google Drive. We cannot access these copies.
• On your phone (Android and iOS), VibeType learns from the words you correct, on your phone, keeping only the words you changed.
• The providers that process your recording or text may keep it for a limited time under their own policies.
• We keep account, plan, usage, invitation, notification and limited technical records to run the service.

3. What we collect

• Account details. An account identifier, made on your phone (Android and iOS) the first time you open the app or its keyboard, before you sign in. Your email address when you sign in. If you sign in with Google, the name and profile picture link Google shares with us. If you sign in with Apple on iPhone, Apple may give the app your name once; if Apple gives no email address, the app asks you for one, which you can skip, and confirms it with a code we email you. On Android you can also sign in with a code we email you.
• Plans and purchases. Which plan you have, when it started and ends, where you bought it (the App Store, Google Play or our website), and that store's purchase identifiers. For a plan bought on Google Play, we receive Google's purchase token, order number, product and dates, and the purchase carries your account identifier so the plan reaches your account. Payment providers handle your payment details; we never see your card or UPI details.
• Usage. How much you use VibeType, such as the words you have used and how often you dictate, so plan limits work and your statistics are the same on each device you sign in on, and your invitations if you use them. We also use analytics about how the apps are used to improve VibeType; they never include what you dictate.
• Writing profile. On iPhone, if you use it, the preferences you add and the changes you make to text VibeType types for you, with related details such as when and in which app.
• Technical records. Performance and error information, such as which provider handled a request, how long it took and whether it failed, and, for each install of our apps, its version and a random identifier, so we can tell you when an update is needed. These records contain no audio and no text. On your phone (Android and iOS), the app also reports whether notifications are allowed, your notification choices, and when a notification is shown or opened, and on iPhone, if you allow notifications, your phone's push address. On your phone (Android and iOS), the app also reports how far it got through first-time setup: the furthest setup screen you reached, whether you opened your phone's settings from setup, whether the microphone is allowed, whether the VibeType keyboard is turned on (and on iPhone, has Full Access), and the language you chose. On Android it also reports each setup screen shown, each setup button tapped and each answer given there, and your first dictation, as short names and times. These never include what you said or typed, or which apps you use.
• Reports you send (Android). If you report a result with Report this result, we receive that report: the result, what you said (or, for the ✨ button, what you asked for), the reason you picked, any note you wrote, the app's version and your account identifier. Nothing is sent unless you tap Send.
• Website. If you join a waitlist, your email address. If you use our LinkedIn post page, the text of what you said there, the drafts written from it and which of them you copied, a random identifier kept in your browser, and a one-way code made from your network address, so that free use can be limited. Not the recording.
• What you dictate and write. Processed to provide the service, as section 4 describes, and not saved by us, except on our website's LinkedIn post page.

We do not collect your contacts, your location or advertising identifiers. Our apps contain no third-party analytics or advertising code; our website uses analytics to understand visits.

4. How your dictation is handled

On Mac. Speech recognition and text clean-up run on your computer, and your audio and text do not come to us. The app goes online for sign-in, plans, usage, technical records, and model and update downloads. If you connect your own AI provider, your text goes to that provider under your agreement with them.

On your phone (Android and iOS), your recording. With online speech recognition, your recording is sent from your phone to Deepgram, our speech provider, which may keep part of it to improve its speech models. Android always uses online recognition. On iPhone, with recognition on the phone, your recording stays on your phone, except in Meeting and Medical, which always use online recognition. If a recording cannot be processed, it is kept on your phone so it can be tried again (on Android it is sent by itself when you are back online), and you can delete it in History. It is removed once it has been processed, and a recording left unprocessed for more than seven days is removed the next time the app tidies up.

On your phone (Android and iOS), your text. When you are online, the text of a dictation and the words you have taught the app are sent to our service and our AI provider to be turned into finished writing. On iPhone this happens even when recognition ran on your phone. Offline, the text is finished on your phone; on iPhone, so is Raw mode with recognition on the phone. On Android, Raw mode's text goes only to our service, which tidies it by rules, not to our AI provider, and what you said, word for word, is kept on your phone beside each dictation and never included in a backup.

The AI button. When you press the ✨ button on the keyboard (Android and iOS), it may send what you said, the text near the cursor, any text you have selected, and text you have copied. On iPhone, copied text goes only if you choose to include it. On Android, a copy you made in the last five minutes and have not already used is included when nothing is selected, and the button lights up and shows the copy's first line when one is waiting; that line is read on your phone, and nothing is sent until you press the button. A copy Android marks as sensitive, or text that looks like a password or code, is never sent, and the button does not appear in password boxes. The keyboard reads what you type on your phone to suggest words and emoji, and none of your text or clipboard is sent for an AI request unless you press the button, except for your writing profile on iPhone.

On our website's LinkedIn post page. Before anything is sent, Cloudflare checks that you are a person. Your recording goes through our website to Deepgram, our speech provider, to be turned into text; Deepgram may keep part of it to improve its speech models, and we do not keep it. The text goes through OpenRouter to Anthropic, and to no other provider, to write three drafts. We keep the text and the drafts to see how the page is used and to improve it. If you are signed in, they are linked to your account; if you sign in later on the same browser, the ones you made before are linked to it too.

History. On iPhone, your dictations, the figures the app shows about them, your dictionary and your modes are stored on your phone, and unless you turn it off in Settings, a copy is kept in your own iCloud account, so they come back if you reinstall the app or move to a new iPhone; we cannot access it, and Apple keeps it under your iCloud terms.

A copy in your Google Drive (Android). If you turn it on, VibeType keeps a copy of your History, journal, dictionary, modes and what it learned from your corrections in a folder of its own in your Google Drive, so a new phone or a reinstall can bring them back. VibeType cannot see anything else in your Drive. The copy is in your Google account, not on our servers, and we cannot read it. You can turn it off in Settings and delete the copy from your Google Drive.

Journal. An entry is made only when you record in Journal; your other dictations never go into it. Entries and what the app notices in them are stored on your phone (Android and iOS). On iPhone, unless you turn it off in Settings, a copy is kept in your own iCloud account, so your journal comes back if you reinstall the app or move to a new iPhone; Apple keeps it under your iCloud terms. On Android, your journal goes into your phone's own backup to your Google account when that backup is encrypted with your screen lock, so it comes back if you reinstall the app; there is no separate switch in VibeType, and Google keeps it under your Google account's terms. We cannot access either copy. Their text is processed online to write each entry up and to notice details in it. You can export or delete your journal in Settings. Journal is not a medical service.

Notifications. If you allow them, VibeType can remind you about things like your journal or your weekly words. On iPhone, our service can also send you a notice through Apple, and offers and promotions are sent only if you turn them on. You can change your choices in Settings.

Writing profile. On iPhone, if you use it, VibeType learns how you write from the preferences you add and the changes you make to its text, and uses this to personalise its writing. It may be kept with your account and processed by our AI providers, and you can manage or delete it in the app.

Learning from your corrections (Android and iOS). When you correct a word VibeType typed, in History or just after the keyboard typed it, the app compares its text with your change on your phone and keeps only the words you changed, never the message. It never does this in password boxes or in boxes that ask keyboards not to learn, and it does not learn from writing done by AI. What it learns is kept on your phone and in your own backups, and is never sent to us as a whole. It helps your later dictations: a word you correct can be added to your dictionary, and some of your past corrections may go with a dictation to our service and AI provider so it is written the way you spell. We do not keep them.

The microphone. On your phone (Android and iOS), nothing is recorded, kept or sent before you start a dictation. On iPhone, the orange microphone indicator can appear while VibeType is ready to dictate, and you can turn this off under Ready to dictate in Settings; Full Access lets the keyboard work with the VibeType app and use its online features. On Android, the microphone is on only while you are recording, and Android 12 and later show their own microphone indicator then. While a journal entry or a meeting records, Android shows a notification with a timer and Stop, so the recording can continue when you leave the app or the screen turns off. In password boxes the talk and ✨ buttons are off. In boxes that ask keyboards not to learn, such as a browser's private tab, dictation still works but nothing is saved to History. If you give an app its own settings, the keyboard notes which app you are typing in, on your phone only.

5. How we use your information

To provide VibeType, run your account and plan, apply plan limits and invitations, fix problems, prevent abuse (such as resetting the free allowance with new accounts), meet legal obligations, see where people get stuck setting up the app so we can make setup easier, understand how the apps are used so we can improve them, contact you about the service, send the reminders and notifications you choose, and count how many are shown and opened. Where the law requires a legal basis, we rely on providing the service you asked for, our legitimate interest in running and protecting it, legal obligations, or your consent.

6. Who we share it with

We share information only with providers that help us run VibeType, each for its own part:

• Speech recognition: Deepgram receives recordings made with online speech recognition, which on Android is every recording, and recordings made on our website's LinkedIn post page.
• AI models: Google receives text for clean-up, writing, Journal and your writing profile. When Google cannot be reached, OpenRouter passes the text to another AI model provider, and we set it to avoid providers that use data for training. On our website's LinkedIn post page, OpenRouter passes what you said to Anthropic to write the drafts. These providers process the text to return a result and may keep it for a limited time for security and abuse prevention.
• Notifications: Apple delivers the notifications our service sends.
• Hosting: Cloudflare runs our service and checks that people using our website's LinkedIn post page are not automated, Vercel hosts our website, and Supabase hosts our database.
• Website analytics: Google and Vercel measure visits to our website.
• Sign-in and payments: Apple, Google, Google Play, Razorpay and Dodo Payments, for signing in and buying plans. Dodo Payments is the seller for the purchases it handles.
• Downloads: Hugging Face and GitHub receive a download request when the speech model or an app update is downloaded on Mac or iPhone.

We may also disclose information when the law requires it, or to a business that takes over VibeType. We do not sell your information.

7. How long we keep it

• Account details, plans and usage: while your account exists.
• Purchase records: as long as we need them for accounting, tax, refunds and disputes. They may include your account identifier.
• Technical records: for a limited time, generally about 30 days, removed on a rolling basis.
• Install records: which app an install is, when it was first seen and, how far its first-time setup got and, on Android, its setup steps are kept; the rest is removed some months after an app stops checking in.
• Notification records: a phone's record, with its push address on iPhone, is deleted with your account, or once the app has not reported for 120 days. Each notification sent, shown or opened is kept while your account exists.
• Reports you send (Android): until you delete your account.
• Waitlist sign-ups: until you ask us to remove them, or we no longer need them.
• LinkedIn post page: what you said and the drafts, while your account exists if they are linked to it; otherwise, unlinked from any account, with no end date. The browser identifier lasts a year in your browser, and you can clear it with your cookies.
• What you dictate and write: not saved by us, except your writing profile, which we keep while your account exists or until you delete it, and what you say on our website's LinkedIn post page, as above. Our providers may keep it as section 6 describes.

When you delete your account, we delete its details, plan, usage, invitations, writing profile and what you made on our LinkedIn post page. On your phone (Android and iOS), it also deletes the dictations and journal on that phone, its dictionary, modes and writing settings on iPhone, and on Android what VibeType learned from your corrections. On iPhone it also deletes the copies of your history and journal in your iCloud; on Android, the copy in your phone's Google backup is replaced the next time your phone backs up, and a copy in your own Google Drive is yours to delete there. We keep a record derived one way from your Apple or Google sign-in, with the number of words you have used, so that deleting and recreating an account cannot reset the free allowance. It holds no name and no email, and is kept with no end date. We also keep purchase records as above, and a Mac plan bought before accounts existed stays linked to your email address so it can be restored if you sign in again. We also keep, unlinked from you, a history of how the apps were used: which apps were installed and when, how far first-time setup got and its steps, the days you dictated with how many words, usage analytics, and the notifications sent, shown and opened. It holds no account identifier, name, email or device identifier. None of these records contains what you dictated.

8. Where it is processed

Our providers may process your information outside your country, including in the United States. We use providers that protect it with appropriate safeguards.

9. Security

We use technical and organisational measures to protect your information. No method of storing or sending information is completely secure.

10. Your choices and rights

• Delete what is on your device: your history (all of it, or one dictation at a time), vocabulary and journal, in the app on your phone (Android and iOS).
• Signing out (iPhone): your dictations, journal, figures, dictionary, modes and writing settings stay on that phone, hidden until you sign in again with the same account, and so do their iCloud copies. Someone who signs in there with a different account sees none of them. To remove them, delete your account, or sign in again and delete them.
• Learning from corrections: words VibeType adds from your corrections appear in your dictionary, where you can remove them.
• Your rights: depending on where you live, you can ask to access, correct, delete or receive a copy of your information, and object to how we use it. Contact us and we will respond within the time the law allows. You can also complain to your data protection authority.

Delete your account

This applies to VibeType on every device, including VibeType - AI Voice Typing on Google Play.

In the app on your phone (Android and iOS): open VibeType, tap the person icon (or your picture), then Account and billing, then Delete account, and confirm. This also deletes the dictations and journal on that phone, and on iPhone their copies in your iCloud. On Mac: email us.

Without the app: email info@tryvibetype.com from the address you sign in with, with the subject “Delete my account”. We may reply to check it is you. We delete the account within 7 days and email you when it is done. If you never signed in, your account has no email address we can find it by, so use Delete account in the app before you remove it; an account left behind holds only an identifier and a count of words.

Subscriptions: a subscription bought on Google Play or on the Mac is stopped first, and the account is not deleted if it cannot be stopped. Deleting your account does not cancel an App Store subscription; cancel that with Apple. Time already paid for is not refunded by deleting.

What is deleted and what is kept, and for how long: section 7.

11. Children

VibeType is not for children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect their information.

12. Changes to this policy

When we change this policy, we update the date at the top, and we tell you in the app before a material change applies.

13. Contact

Paprik Technologies Private Limited, G1106, Purva Fountainsquare, Bangalore, Karnataka 560037, India. Email info@tryvibetype.com, or see the contact page.