That statement is the top privacy claim for Nokie. It applies to dictation itself. License activation, release-page update checks, website requests, and support mail are separate network events and are listed plainly below.
“Local dictation” describes speech capture, transcription, and text insertion. Activating a license, opening the releases page, visiting this website, or sending support mail creates a separate network request described below.
| Microphone audio | Captured locally while the trigger is active. Audio and dictated text stay on your Mac during normal dictation use. |
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| Dictated text | Produced locally and written to the macOS clipboard so it is available even if auto-paste is denied. When Automation is allowed, Nokie also types or pastes into the app that was focused when you started speaking. Nokie does not send that text to licensing, update, analytics, or website services. |
| Temporary local files | Temporary dictation buffers remain on the Mac and are deleted automatically when each transcription task finishes. |
| Permissions | Microphone and Speech Recognition let Nokie hear and transcribe you. Automation and Accessibility let it place text in the app you are using. macOS controls each permission. |
| Config and license state | License keys, activation IDs, and cached entitlement state are stored in macOS Keychain. Ordinary preferences contain no license key. |
These requests are separate from dictation. Nokie never sends audio or transcripts with them, and it makes no license network call while active dictation is running.
| License activation | Sends the license key, Nokie organization and benefit identifiers, product major version, and a device label to Polar so it can create an activation. It does not send microphone audio or dictated text. |
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| License validation | Occurs at startup or when you choose Validate, never during active dictation. It sends the stored key and activation ID to Polar to confirm status and refresh the 30-day offline grace period. |
| Release checks | Manual update checks use the releases page over HTTPS. The page can include version, checksum, architecture, minimum macOS, and notarization status. |
| Website requests | Navigating https://nokie.app creates normal web requests. When configured, the site uses cookie-free Cloudflare Web Analytics for aggregate page, referral, demo, download, and checkout events. It does not collect audio, transcripts, clipboard contents, or typed text. |
| Support mail | Support is an explicit customer action. A message contains only what you choose to send; Nokie does not attach transcripts or audio automatically. |