Privacy policy

The short version

Oyelo records, transcribes and summarizes on your device. Your audio, transcripts, speaker names and summaries are never sent to us or to anyone else. There is no account to create, and we don’t collect personal data through the app or this website.

Who we are

Oyelo is made and published by an independent developer (“we”). For any question about privacy, write to support@oyeloapp.com.

What stays on your device

• Recordings and imported files. Audio you record, and audio or video you import from Files, Voice Memos or another app’s share sheet, is stored in the app’s storage on your device.
• Transcripts, speakers and summaries. Speech recognition and speaker separation run on your device with models stored on it. Summaries and action items use Apple Intelligence on the device, never a cloud model.
• Your custom dictionary, folders and settings are stored on your device.

We never receive any of this, and we have no server that could store it.

Microphone

The app asks for microphone access so it can record. It only records after you start a recording, and it stops when you stop it.

Things that go through Apple

• Speech-model download. The first time you transcribe, the app downloads its speech model from Apple’s servers. The download contains no audio or text of yours.
• iCloud sync (optional, off by default). If you turn it on, your notes are stored in your own private iCloud database under your Apple Account, so they appear on your other devices. Audio syncs only if you turn that on separately. We can’t read your iCloud data. Apple’s privacy policy applies to it.
• Apple Watch. Recordings made on the Watch are sent directly to your paired iPhone.
• Purchases. Subscriptions and the lifetime purchase are handled by the App Store. We don’t receive your name, email or payment details.
• Crash reports. If you choose to share analytics with app developers in your device’s settings, Apple may give us anonymous crash and performance reports. You can turn this off at any time in Settings.

Sharing and export

When you export or share a transcript, subtitles or audio, it goes where you choose to send it, such as Files, Mail or another app. What happens next is up to you and that app.

Deleting your data

Delete a note in the app to remove it from your device, and from iCloud if sync is on. You can also delete only the audio and keep the transcript. Deleting the app removes everything it stored on your device. Synced data can be removed in your device’s iCloud settings.

This website

This website has no cookies, analytics, advertising or tracking scripts, and it loads no third-party resources: fonts are served from this site. If you choose a light or dark theme, that choice is saved in your browser only. The site is hosted by Cloudflare, which processes technical data such as IP addresses to deliver the pages and protect the site from abuse, as described in Cloudflare’s privacy policy.

Children

The app and website collect no personal data from anyone, children included.

Changes

If this policy changes, we’ll update it here and change the date at the top.