What We Collect

Reed’s dictation runs on your Mac. This page lists every connection the app makes, what each one carries, and where you control it. It describes the current free release of Reed for Mac.

Never, regardless of any setting: your audio, your transcripts, or the text Reed writes into your apps. The dictation pipeline is blocked from the network in the free release. Reed has no account, so nothing is tied to a name, email, or device ID.

Diagnostics you control

Two optional streams, each with its own switch in Reed → Settings → Privacy.

• New installs: the last step of setup shows a “Share anonymous usage stats & crash reports” checkbox that starts checked. Leaving it checked turns both streams on; unchecking it turns both off. Nothing is sent before that step.
• Existing installs: the choice you already made is kept as is. An install that was never asked is shown a one-time “Help improve Reed?” card after its fifth successful dictation, and sends nothing until it is answered.
• Either way, the Settings → Privacy switches are the final word and can be changed anytime.

Usage analytics (when on)

• Whether a dictation succeeded, and roughly how long each step took
• The rough length of what you said, as a range (e.g. “1–5 words”) — never the actual words
• What kind of app you were dictating into (e.g. “email,” “chat”) — never which one, never its contents
• Whether cleanup was on, and content-free counts of what cleanup did
• App version and macOS version, tied to a random ID that resets every day — never your name, email, or device ID

Sent to Aptabase, hosted in the EU.

Crash reports (when on)

• What the app was doing when it crashed, and the technical details needed to fix the bug
• No transcript, audio, or personal information attached; no user identifier is set

Sent to Sentry.

Connections that are not diagnostics

These carry no dictation content and are not affected by the Privacy switches.

What	When	Where
Speech-model download (about 461 MB, once)	During setup, when you press Download	Hugging Face
Update check and download	Automatically, about once a day, and from “Check for Updates…”	Reed’s release bucket (Amazon S3)
Minimum-version check and feature switches	At launch	Reed’s release bucket and reed.w20.ai
“Report an issue” (your description plus a content-free app log)	Only when you send one	reed.w20.ai
“Be first to know” about Reed Pro (your email)	Only when you submit it	reed.w20.ai

The app refuses connections to any other host while in the free, on-device mode.

This website

reed.w20.ai uses Umami, a cookieless, aggregate page-view counter, to see which pages and download buttons are used. It does not identify you and is not linked to anything the app sends.

Describes Reed for Mac 0.2.5. Questions: support@w20.ai. The binding document is the Privacy Policy.

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