Privacy
Private by
architecture.
Most dictation apps send every word you say to a server, then ask you to trust a settings toggle. Fastspoken's free plan has no server in the loop at all. Your own machine does the work, which is the same reason the typing is free. Below is the whole picture: the exact data our servers can see, and what changes when you turn on Pro.
free plan Mic→ Your device→ Your cursor "running ten minutes late"
dictation Mic→ The internet→ Their servers your words, kept
The free plan decodes speech on the machine in your hand or on your desk. Offline works because there is nothing to be online for. No account, no upload, no retention setting, because there is nothing to retain. Nothing can leak from a place it was never sent.
Through and gone.
The way your words should travel.
What our servers can see, exactly.
If you never sign in: nothing. There is no account and no traffic.
If you sign in to sync your stats, the app reports per-day counts so your dashboard can follow you across devices. This is the entire payload, shown as the real wire format. There is no content field, and any extra field a client sneaks in is dropped on the server side.
There are no word caps on either plan, so nothing here is counting against you. These numbers exist to draw your dashboard and nothing else.
Your dictionary is encrypted so well that we can't read it.
Pro can sync your personal dictionary and snippets between machines. Before anything leaves your device it is sealed with a sync passphrase only you know: 600,000 rounds of key stretching into AES-256 encryption, done locally. The server stores ciphertext it cannot open.
You get a recovery code, shown once. Lose the passphrase and the code, and the synced copy is unrecoverable, by us included. That is the honest cost of real encryption. Your on-device dictionary is never lost either way.
One honest caveat: in the web dictionary editor you are trusting the JavaScript we serve that day. The apps enforce it harder, because the crypto ships inside the binary.
History is yours.
Off by default on every plan. Pro can turn it on; it is then stored on your device only. It never syncs and never reaches a server.
Polish, then discard.
Pro's optional cloud polish sends the text of that one dictation, never the audio. It is cleaned up, returned, and discarded in the same request. Nothing is written down, so paying does not cost you privacy.
Leave with everything.
Your dictionary lives on your own device. Deleting your account purges every row we hold. The confirmation is blunt because it is true: nothing of yours remains.
Don't take our word for it.
The claims above are testable, which is the whole point of architecture over promises. Turn on aeroplane mode and dictate an entire email: the free plan behaves exactly the same. Watch the app's network traffic while you do it and there is none. Read the privacy policy, it says the same thing in legal language. Or ask an assistant for a neutral comparison.