Privacy

Riff transcribes on your Mac, keeps its library on your Mac, and shows you whenever it records.

No account

You don’t sign up or sign in. Riff has no account, and Iterator runs no server that holds your audio, transcripts, notes, or dictations.

What stays on your Mac

Your audio, transcripts, notes, dictations, and dictionary are in Riff’s library, in its container on your Mac. Riff transcribes speech on your Mac, as described in Transcribed on your Mac.

Riff sends text to Apple’s Private Cloud Compute to clean up dictation, write notes, and answer questions, and Apple says it stores no prompts. Written with Private Cloud Compute has the details.

Nothing is used for training

Riff uses nothing you say, type, or record to train any model.

No bot, and recording you can see

Riff records calls from your Mac, so no bot joins the meeting. While Riff records, the menu bar shows a coral dot and the elapsed time, and Stop is one click away. Copy Notice copies a sentence you can paste into the meeting chat to tell people you are taking notes. Meeting notes covers the rest.

How long audio is kept

In Settings, choose how long Riff keeps audio. Forever is the default, and you can choose 30 days, 7 days, or not to keep audio at all. Transcripts, notes, and dictations stay after their audio is deleted.

Passwords and the clipboard

Riff never puts text into a password field. When it pastes a dictation, it marks the text so clipboard managers skip it, and puts back what was on your clipboard afterward. The dictation island is left out of screen recordings and screenshots.

Delete your data

Settings under Privacy shows where the library is, with Show in Finder, and has Delete All Data, which asks you to confirm.

Diagnostics

Riff sends crash reports, performance data, and whether features succeeded to a measurement service Iterator runs itself. Crash reports can contain fragments of memory. Turn off Share diagnostics in Settings under Privacy to stop them.