Privacy

Your microphone and system audio are captured locally on your Mac. If you choose Local STT, audio never leaves your machine. If you choose AssemblyAI, audio streams to their servers for transcription and is deleted immediately after processing. Talqo never records, stores, or transmits audio to any Talqo-owned infrastructure. No such infrastructure exists.

Transcripts are stored in a local SQLite database at ~/Documents/Talqo/talqo.db on your machine. They are never sent to any server except Anthropic's API as part of AI requests - using your own API key, under your own account's data policy.

All AI inference goes directly from your Mac to api.anthropic.com using your API key. Anthropic's API has zero data retention - they do not store or train on API data. Every request and response is logged locally in ~/Documents/Talqo/logs/ so you can inspect exactly what was sent and received.

On launch and every 30 days, Talqo makes a single GET request to talqo.ai/api/validate-license with your license key and a hardware identifier (IOPlatformUUID). This is the only network call to Talqo infrastructure. No usage data, no telemetry, no analytics are included.

Talqo makes exactly three types of network calls: 1. api.anthropic.com - AI inference (your API key) 2. streaming.assemblyai.com - Speech-to-text (only if you choose AssemblyAI) 3. talqo.ai/api/validate-license - License check (launch + every 30 days) That is the complete list. No analytics. No telemetry. No update checks. No CDN requests. No third-party scripts. The app works fully offline except for these three services.

Every LLM call is logged to local JSON files. Every transcript entry is stored in your local database. Every screenshot taken by Assist mode is saved to ~/Documents/Talqo/screenshots/. You can inspect, export, or delete any of this data at any time. There is nothing on our servers because we have no servers.