Last updated: May 2026
NotchLive is designed as a local-first Mac app. Speech recognition, translation, notes, session history, and transcript export are handled on your Mac. This policy explains the limited cases where data may leave your device: website analytics, checkout attribution, Polar payments, license verification, model downloads, translation language setup, and software update checks.
The NotchLive Mac app does not include product analytics, advertising SDKs, or crash analytics. We do not operate a NotchLive account system. App data is handled as follows:
NotchLive captures system audio via ScreenCaptureKit and/or microphone input via AVAudioEngine for the sole purpose of captions, transcription, translation, notes, and session recording features you use. Audio is processed locally on your Mac and is not transmitted to our servers. Temporary local processing files may be created during recording or finalization and are deleted after processing.
NotchLive uses WhisperKit (built on Apple CoreML) for speech recognition and Apple Translation for real-time translation. AI model files are downloaded from Hugging Face/WhisperKit sources and stored locally in your Application Support folder. No audio is sent to Hugging Face by NotchLive during transcription.
When you record a session, transcripts are stored locally as JSON files in your Application Support folder. These files never leave your device unless you explicitly choose to export them.
Our website uses analytics and checkout attribution to understand which pages and sources lead to downloads, checkout clicks, completed purchases, or checkout drop-offs.
Checkout attribution records are stored in our private Vercel/Upstash storage with limited retention so we can understand aggregate landing-page and checkout performance.
Purchases are processed by Polar, our merchant of record and authorized reseller. When you buy NotchLive Pro or a NotchLive Team Pack, Polar may collect and store personal data such as your name, email address, billing address, payment metadata, tax or VAT details, IP/device data, and purchase history according to Polar's Privacy Policy and Polar Buyer Terms.
We may access order and customer details in Polar for support, refunds, license delivery, fraud prevention, accounting, and legal compliance. We do not send customer name, email address, billing address, or license keys to GA4, Telegram alerts, or public analytics.
When you enter a license key, NotchLive communicates with Polar to verify your license. This transmits your license key and a machine identifier used for activation limits. The app stores your license key in the macOS Keychain and may store license status, activation ID, validation timestamp, and the customer email returned by Polar locally on your Mac. Audio, transcripts, sessions, and notes are not sent to Polar for license verification.
NotchLive checks for software updates using Sparkle. Update checks may contact our appcast hosted through GitHub/Gist and may transmit basic technical information such as app version and macOS version so Sparkle can determine whether an update is available.
The NotchLive app does not use cookies. On the website, GA4 only loads after you accept analytics. Rejecting analytics keeps GA4 off and removes existing GA cookies where possible. We store your analytics choice in local storage so you do not have to answer on every page.
Since app content is stored locally on your device, you have direct control over it. To delete NotchLive data, remove NotchLive folders from ~/Library/Application Support/NotchLive and ~/Library/Application Support/com.notchlive.NotchLive, remove the app, and remove any NotchLive Keychain items if you want to clear license data. Polar may retain purchase and tax records as required for payment processing, accounting, tax, fraud prevention, and legal compliance.
Local app data is stored on your device until you delete it. Checkout attribution records are retained for a limited operational period. Website analytics data is retained according to Vercel and Google Analytics settings. Polar may retain purchase and tax records as required by law.
Depending on how you interact with NotchLive, data may be processed by Vercel, Google Analytics, Polar, Upstash/Vercel KV, Telegram, GitHub/Gist, Sparkle, Hugging Face, WhisperKit model hosting, and Apple. These providers process data under their own terms and privacy policies where applicable.
Depending on your location, you may have certain rights regarding your data:
For any data-related requests, contact us at support@tinythings.app.
We may update this policy from time to time. Any changes will be reflected on this page with an updated date.
If you have questions about this policy, contact us at support@tinythings.app.