Privacy policy

Last updated November 9, 2026

What the app does with sound

Hush Minutes records the microphone, and on the Mac the Mac's own audio when you allow it, only while the Record button is on. Speech is turned into text by Apple's on-device speech models, and the notes are written by Apple's on-device language model. Neither leaves your Mac, iPhone or iPad. If a language cannot be transcribed on the device, the app refuses to record it; it does not fall back to a server. The app never uses Apple's Private Cloud Compute or any other server.

Audio is discarded after it has been transcribed unless you turn on "Keep the audio file" in Settings.

What is stored, and where

On the Mac, each meeting is saved as Markdown files in a folder that you choose. Until you choose one, the app keeps meetings in its own folder. Delete a meeting like any file, or from the app, which moves it to the Trash.

On iPhone and iPad, meetings are saved in the app's own folder on the device, which the Files app shows. Deleting a meeting in the app removes it.

iCloud, only if you switch it on

On iPhone and iPad there is a setting, "Keep meetings in my iCloud, on all my devices". It is off unless you turn it on. With it on, transcripts and notes are kept in the app's folder in your own iCloud Drive, and Apple's iCloud carries them between your devices under your Apple Account. They go to no one else: there is no server of ours, and the developer cannot see them. Turn it off and meetings are kept on the device again; what is already in your iCloud Drive stays there until you delete it.

If you choose a folder that iCloud Drive or another sync service looks after, that service syncs the files as it does any others there. That is the service's doing, not the app's.

Permissions the app asks for

• Microphone: to transcribe what you say.
• Screen Recording (Mac only): only if you switch on "Both sides", so the app can hear what the Mac plays on a call. No picture of your screen is taken or used.
• Calendar and Reminders: only if you allow them, to answer questions you ask and to add the reminders you ask for. They are read on the device.
• Speech Recognition (iPhone and iPad, some languages): where Apple's older on-device recogniser is used. The system's own wording for this question mentions Apple; the app only ever asks it to work on the device.
• Face ID: only if you turn on the lock.
• Notifications: to offer to record when a meeting is about to start, and for watched words.

What is collected

Nothing. There is no account, no analytics, no crash reporting, no advertising and no tracking. Nobody, including the developer, can see your meetings.

This website

This site uses no cookies and no analytics scripts. Like any website, the hosting provider's servers see the address a request comes from when they answer it.

If you write to support

If you email support@hushminutes.com or use the form on the support page, your message and address are used only to answer you. The form is delivered as an email by Resend, an email delivery service.

The launch list

If you enter your email address to hear about the launch, it is sent to us as an email (delivered by Resend, an email delivery service) and used for one purpose: a single message on the day Hush Minutes is released, plus the note confirming you are on the list. It is not shared or used for anything else. Reply "remove" to any message and it is deleted.

Children

The app collects nothing from anyone, of any age.

Changes

If this policy changes, the new version is posted here with a new date.

Contact

Keith Adler, support@hushminutes.com