Who we are
Oravo is made by Oosan Studios (“we”, “us”). You can reach a human at hello@oravo.app. This policy covers the Oravo app for macOS and the oravo.app website.
What stays on your Mac
Speech recognition runs locally, using a model downloaded to your Mac. Your voice is processed in memory and is never written to disk and never uploaded. These files live in your own Application Support folder and are never transmitted to us:
- Dictation history — the text of your dictations, so you can find and reuse them.
- Learned vocabulary — words Oravo picked up from your corrections, so it spells them right next time.
- Connection log — a record of every outbound request Oravo has made, shown in the Privacy panel.
- Settings, and — only if you configure an automation command — a
last-transcript.txtfile holding your most recent dictation.
API keys you add are stored in the macOS Keychain, not in a file we control.
The only times Oravo connects to the internet
Oravo makes no background calls beyond these, and each is listed in the app's Privacy panel as it happens:
- Downloading the speech model (once, from Hugging Face). No personal data is sent — it's a plain file download.
- Checking for updates — Oravo fetches an update feed from oravo.app. Like any web request, this reveals your IP address and app version to the server.
- License activation and validation (Pro only, to Lemon Squeezy). This sends your license key and a device name you can see, so your seat count is accurate. It does not send your dictated text.
- AI features (Pro, and only when you use one) — described next.
AI features and your own API key
Oravo's AI features — cleanup and restyle, Ask AI, and translation — do not run on our servers. They run on your account with the AI provider you choose, using an API key you supply.
When you use one, the text involved (your dictation, or the text you selected) is sent directly from your Mac to that provider — Anthropic, OpenAI, xAI, or Perplexity, depending on which you configured. It does not pass through us, and we never see it. That provider's own privacy policy and data-retention terms govern what happens to it, so it's worth reading theirs.
If you'd rather nothing leave your Mac at all, Oravo also supports Ollama, which runs a model locally with no key and no network.
Local-Only mode
Turning on Local-Only in the Privacy panel stops all outbound requests — including license checks. AI features are unavailable while it's on. That's the point.
What we collect
Nothing automatically. Oravo contains no analytics, no telemetry, no crash reporting, and no advertising or tracking code. The website sets no cookies and uses no analytics either.
We only hold personal information you hand us directly:
- If you email us — your email address and whatever you write, kept so we can answer you and refer back if you write again.
- If you buy Oravo — see below.
- If you send a diagnostic report — Oravo's “Report an Issue” never includes your dictations. It gathers your app and macOS version, which permissions are granted, and settings metadata. You see the report before anything is sent, and sending is your choice.
Purchases
Payments are handled by Lemon Squeezy, which acts as the merchant of record — they are the seller, and they process the payment and any tax. Your card details go to them, never to us; we never see or store them. We receive the order record: your email address, what you bought, and your license key. Lemon Squeezy's privacy policy governs their handling of your payment data.
Deleting your data
Because it's on your Mac, you control it directly:
- History → Delete All removes every saved dictation, including the automation transcript file.
- The Privacy panel clears the connection log.
- Deleting the app and its Application Support folder removes everything else.
To have us delete support correspondence or ask what we hold about you, email hello@oravo.app. Depending on where you live, you may have rights to access, correct, export, or delete personal data we hold, and to complain to your local data-protection authority. We'll honor those requests regardless of where you live.
Children
Oravo isn't directed at children under 13, and we don't knowingly collect their personal information.
Changes
If this policy changes in a way that matters, we'll update the date above and note the change in the app's release notes. We won't quietly start collecting something this page says we don't.
Questions about any of this? Email hello@oravo.app.