Privacy

Last updated 16 August 2026

Celery records your voice, turns it into text, and puts the text where your cursor is. That is the whole job, so this page is short.

What happens to your audio

When you let go of the key, the recording is sent to our server over an encrypted connection, transcribed, and dropped. It is held in memory for the few seconds the transcription takes and is never written to disk, never put in a bucket, and never kept after the response is sent back to your Mac or your phone.

Silence is trimmed on your device before anything is sent, so the pauses at either end of a dictation never leave your machine at all.

What happens to your words

The transcript is returned to the app and then discarded on our side. We do not keep a copy, we cannot read back anything you have dictated, and neither we nor the transcription providers we use train models on your recordings or your text.

What we do keep

To run accounts and bill correctly, we store:

• your email address, and the identifier your sign-in provider gives us;
• your plan, and when your trial ends;
• one row per dictation containing how many seconds of audio it was, which model handled it, and how many words and filler words it contained — used for your usage total and, if you have asked for it, your daily digest;
• a record of your devices, so a lost Mac can be signed out without signing out the rest.

None of that includes what you actually said.

Who else is involved

Transcription runs through OpenAI's API under terms that exclude the data from training. Payments run through Stripe, which holds your card details — we never see them. Email is sent through our mail provider. This website is hosted on Vercel, and it counts its own visits through Vercel's analytics — a pageview and the page you arrived from, no cookies, nothing that identifies you, and nothing that follows you to another site. That is the entire list.

Deleting your account

Email hello@usecelery.io and we will delete your account and everything attached to it. There is no audio to delete, because there never was any.

Questions

Ask: hello@usecelery.io. The app is open source, so you can also read exactly what it sends: github.com/lenajeremy/celery.