Privacy Policy

Cadence for macOS. Effective 5 August 2026.

Summary

Cadence does not collect anything. Your recordings and transcripts stay on your Mac, there is no account to create, and there is no analytics or tracking of any kind.

What Cadence stores, and where

Recordings you import, the transcripts produced from them, and your settings are stored locally in the app's own container on your Mac:

~/Library/Containers/io.mgcrea.Cadence/Data/

Speech models you choose to download are stored alongside them, under Application Support. Settings ▸ Models shows the exact folder and the space in use, and lets you delete any model to reclaim it.

Cadence runs under the macOS App Sandbox. It reads the audio and video files you explicitly open, and nothing else.

What leaves your Mac

Transcription runs entirely on device. Your audio, your transcripts and their contents are never uploaded, and Cadence has no server to upload them to.

Cadence makes network connections in exactly two situations:

1. Downloading a speech model. When you choose an engine that needs one, the model is fetched from Hugging Face, once. The request carries nothing about you or your recordings; it asks for a published model file. Apple Speech, the default engine, needs no download at all, so Cadence works offline from first launch.
2. Purchasing or restoring Cadence Pro. This is handled by Apple's StoreKit. Cadence never sees your payment details, and receives only whether the purchase is valid.

Once a model is downloaded, transcription works with no network connection.

What Cadence does not do

• No account, sign-in, or email address
• No analytics, telemetry, crash reporting, or usage statistics
• No advertising and no advertising identifiers
• No third-party SDKs that collect data
• No iCloud or cross-device sync
• No microphone access; Cadence transcribes files, it does not record

Third parties

Cadence has no data-sharing arrangement with anyone. Two services are contacted only as described above, under their own terms:

• Hugging Face, which hosts the speech models, when you download one
• Apple, for the App Store purchase of Cadence Pro

Children

Cadence is not directed at children and collects no personal information from anyone, including children.

Your rights

Because Cadence collects no personal data, there is nothing for us to disclose, correct, export or delete on your behalf. Your data is on your own Mac and under your control: deleting a recording in the app, or deleting the container folder above, removes it.

Changes

Any material change to this policy will be published on this page with a new effective date, alongside the app release it applies to.

Contact

Questions about this policy: cadence.mgcrea.io/support, orsupport@mgcrea.io.