Privacy

Vox is built for local transcription. This page summarizes what stays on your device and what may touch the network.

Vox is built so the audio of your voice and the text it produces stays on your Mac.

What stays local

  • Audio recordings — captured to a temp file on your Mac, transcribed locally, then deleted automatically when you remove the transcript from history (or kept locally if you do not).
  • Transcripts and settings — saved locally on your Mac at ~/Library/Application Support/Vox/.
  • The on-device speech model (~1.5 GB) and engine binaries — saved at ~/.vox/. Once downloaded, runs entirely offline.

Vox's Settings → System → Uninstall button removes everything above, clears cached files, and resets macOS permission grants in one click.

What touches the network

After the first-run model download, Vox makes no outbound network requests at all. Audio is transcribed on-device and never leaves your Mac. There is no telemetry, no crash reporting, no analytics, no usage data, and no remote logging.

The one network call:

  1. First-launch model download. Vox downloads the speech model (~1.5 GB) from a public Hugging Face repository. After this completes, Vox can transcribe without internet access.

What we do not collect

  • No accounts. There is no login.
  • No analytics or product telemetry.
  • No advertising identifiers.
  • No transcript content sent to any server.
  • No microphone activity outside an explicit recording you trigger by holding your hotkey.

This website

The marketing site is statically hosted on Vercel. Like most web hosts, Vercel may retain basic request logs (IP, browser, page) for a short period for security and traffic analysis. We do not run third-party trackers or set advertising cookies.

Permissions Vox asks for, and why

  • Microphone — to capture your voice while you press the hotkey.
  • Accessibility — to type the transcript at your cursor in any app. macOS requires this permission to inject keystrokes.
  • Input Monitoring (only if you choose the Fn/Globe key as your hotkey) — so a small helper process can detect Fn presses, which Vox’s main process cannot see otherwise. Right Option, the default hotkey, does not need this permission.

You can revoke any of these in System Settings → Privacy & Security at any time.

Contact

Questions: @timobuilds on X.

Last updated: April 26, 2026.