Updated November 9, 2026

Privacy Policy

Verbato is built so that what you say never leaves your Mac. We can't read your dictations, because we never receive them.

What stays on your Mac

• Your voice. Audio is turned into text by a speech model running on your Mac. It is never uploaded anywhere.
• Your words. The cleanup step (removing filler words, fixing punctuation) also runs on your Mac. The text is typed into the app you're using and nowhere else.
• Your history. Verbato keeps a list of your recent dictations so you can see and copy them, plus your personal dictionary and settings. These are stored only on your Mac, in ~/Library/Application Support/Verbato. Deleting that folder removes them.
• Recordings. Off by default. If you turn on Save recordings in Settings, audio files are kept in the same folder, on your Mac only.

When Verbato connects to the internet

Verbato never sends your audio or text. It makes only these connections:

• First launch: it downloads its two models once: the cleanup model from downloads.sayverbato.com and the open-source Whisper speech model from Hugging Face (huggingface.co).
• Updates: about once a day it checks downloads.sayverbato.com for a newer version. The request includes Verbato's version number and nothing about you. You can turn this off in Settings.
• License: when you activate a license, and occasionally afterwards, Verbato checks your license key with our payment provider, Lemon Squeezy. It sends the key and a random identifier for this Mac, not your name or your computer's name.

Like any website, those servers see the IP address a request comes from. We don't use it to identify you.

Buying Verbato

Purchases are handled by Lemon Squeezy, which sells Verbato on our behalf as the merchant of record. Lemon Squeezy collects your name, email, billing details and payment information to process the order, send your receipt and license key, and handle tax. We receive your name, email, country and order details, never your full card number. Lemon Squeezy's own privacy policy applies to that information.

This website

sayverbato.com uses no cookies, no analytics and no trackers, and loads nothing from other companies. It is hosted on Cloudflare, which processes standard request information (such as IP addresses) to deliver the site and protect it from attacks.

Email

If you email support@sayverbato.com, we use your message and address only to help you. We don't add you to a mailing list or share your email.

Sharing and selling

We don't sell or rent personal information, and we don't share it except with the services named above, as needed to run Verbato, or when the law requires it.

Your choices

Your dictations live on your Mac and are under your control. For anything we or Lemon Squeezy hold about you (such as order records), email us to ask for a copy, a correction or deletion, subject to what the law requires us to keep, such as tax records. Verbato is not directed at children under 13.

Changes and contact

If this policy changes, we'll update the date above. Questions: support@sayverbato.com.