Privacy Policy

Shaberu has an account, and it holds as little as an account can. Signing in is Sign in with Apple; what we receive is the identifier Apple issues for this app and, if you allow it, an email address to reach you at. No analytics, no tracking, no advertising, and nothing is sold or shared.

Dictation runs on our server. When you speak, the audio is sent to shaberu-api.magicparklabs.com, transcribed, converted and polished, and the finished text is returned. The recording exists only in memory for the length of that one request — it is never written to disk, never backed up, and there is no storage bucket it could be written to.

Transcription is performed by OpenAI and polishing by Anthropic, as processors on our behalf, under their API terms — neither trains on data submitted through those APIs. They receive the audio and the transcript, and nothing that identifies you.

Transcripts are yours and you can switch them off. By default the text of a dictation is kept on your account so both your devices show the same history. Turning off Sync history (Settings → General → Account) stops the server writing them at all — not writing then deleting. The copy on your Mac is separate and stays either way.

Deleting your account deletes everything. Settings → General → Account → Delete account removes the transcripts, the vocabulary, the settings and the device list immediately and irreversibly.

We record how many words and how many seconds of audio your account used each month. That is what the free plan is measured against and what tells us what serving you costs; it is a count, not content.

The microphone is open only while you are speaking, on both platforms. It opens when a dictation starts and closes when you send or cancel, and the system recording indicator agrees with it.

The iPhone keyboard requires Full Access and uses it for exactly one thing: reaching the container it shares with the app, to read the finished text and to write back start, send and cancel. The keyboard opens no network connection, records nothing, logs no keystrokes and keeps nothing you type.

Accessibility permission on the Mac is what lets Shaberu see the shortcut key and put text into the app in front of you. It is used for that and nothing else.

Your local dictation history is the last 200 transcripts in plain text on the device. Deleting the iPhone app removes it; on the Mac brew uninstall --zap --cask shaberu removes it with the app.

Questions about any of this, or a request for a copy of what we hold: contact@magicparklabs.com.