Privacy

Bolio turns your speech into text. This page explains, in plain language, what happens to your voice and the words it becomes. No legal fog.

Two ways to run Bolio

How your data is handled depends on the mode you use:

• On-device / bring-your-own-key (BYOK): Transcription runs locally on your Mac, or directly against a provider key you supply. Your audio and transcripts stay on your machine (or go only to the provider you chose). Bolio doesn't store them.
• Bolio Cloud (managed mode): Bolio handles transcription for you, with no setup. To do that, audio leaves your Mac. The rest of this page is about that mode.

What Bolio Cloud does with your voice

• Transcription: When you dictate, Bolio sends your audio to our speech-to-text provider, Deepgram, which converts it to text and returns it to you.
• Storage to improve quality: Bolio stores your recordings and the resulting transcripts. We use them to measure and improve how well Bolio handles Hindi, English, and Hinglish — the accents, code-switching, and real-world speech that generic dictation gets wrong.
• What we don't do: We don't sell your recordings or transcripts, and we don't use them for advertising.

Deleting your data

Your recordings and transcripts are yours. You can remove them at any time:

• Delete them from within the app, or
• Email [email protected] and we'll delete your data.

If you'd rather Bolio never store anything, use on-device or BYOK mode — your data simply stays local.

Permissions on your Mac

Bolio needs Microphone access to hear you and Accessibility access to type text into the app you're using. These are standard macOS permissions, used only for dictation.

Questions

Anything about your data, this policy, or a deletion request — write to [email protected].