Last updated: July 2, 2026
Claro is a voice-to-text app for macOS. This page explains, in plain language, what data Claro touches, where it goes, and what stays on your Mac. Questions: hello@claro.sh.
When you dictate with the cloud engine, your audio is streamed in real time to our speech-recognition provider (Soniox) over an encrypted connection to produce the transcript, along with a small amount of recognition context — your custom vocabulary and the name of the app or site you're dictating into. Claro's own servers never receive or store your audio. The resulting text is typed into the app you're using and saved in your local transcription history, which you can clear or auto-delete in Settings.
If you use the offline model, transcription happens entirely on your Mac and your audio never leaves it. The optional AI and memory features described below work with transcript text and are separate from the transcription engine.
If you use AI features (formatting, translation, mods), the transcript text is sent through our server to a language-model provider (via OpenRouter) to produce the result. We don't store the text on our servers and use it only to produce that result.
If the memory feature is enabled, short sanitized excerpts of recent dictations (plus app and website names) are periodically sent the same way to build your memory profile; the profile itself is stored only on your Mac. You can turn AI enhancement and memory off in Settings and use Claro without them.
Sign-in is optional for dictation and handled by Clerk (your email address). Payments and subscriptions are handled by Polar — we never see your card details. Our server stores account identifiers, your subscription state, and usage counters (such as seconds of transcribed audio) to enforce plan limits, plus security audit logs. Device identifiers are stored as salted hashes.
The app sends usage events (feature usage, error and reliability events) to PostHog (EU region) and crash reports to Sentry. These help us find and fix problems. They are tied to a random install identifier — not to your name or email — and never contain your audio or the content of your dictations.
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