Bozza
Privacy policy
Last updated: 9 November 2026
Bozza is a dictation app for the Mac: you hold a key, speak, and the text is typed into the app you are using. This policy explains what Bozza keeps, what leaves your Mac, and when.
The short version. Bozza has no sign-in, no analytics, no ads and no servers of its own. We, the makers of Bozza, do not receive your recordings, your text or anything else about you. Bozza records a meeting only when you click Record, and saves no audio. Your words leave your Mac only if you turn on an AI feature and give Bozza your own API key for an AI provider, and then they go straight from your Mac to that provider.
What stays on your Mac
Bozza stores these in its own folder on your Mac (inside the app's sandbox container), and nowhere else:
- Your settings, including the name you enter (shown on Home).
- Your dictation history: the text, what the speech recognizer heard before clean-up, the name of the app you dictated into, and the length of each dictation. In Settings you choose whether history is kept, deleted after 24 hours, or not kept at all.
- Your vocabulary, expansions, rewrites and notes.
- Your meeting notes (Bozza Pro): the title, start and end time, the transcript with each line marked as you or the other participants, and the summary if you asked for one. They stay until you delete the note or erase everything in Settings → Account; the history setting does not apply to them.
- Word counts and streaks shown on the Stats page.
- The models Bozza runs on your Mac, once downloaded.
- If you save an API key for an AI provider, the key, encrypted with your macOS login keychain.
Your voice
Your voice is turned into text on your Mac by a speech model that runs on the device. Audio is not sent to us or to anyone else.
Meeting recordings (Bozza Pro)
Bozza records a meeting only after you click Record in Meetings, and stops when you click Stop or quit Bozza. It records your microphone and the sound your Mac plays (except Bozza's own sounds), which is how it hears the other people on the call. While it records, a "Recording meeting" badge stays on screen. Bozza turns the audio into text on your Mac, keeps the audio in memory only until then, and never saves or sends it.
To hear the call, Bozza needs the macOS Screen & System Audio Recording permission. It uses that permission for sound only: the system requires a picture too, so Bozza asks for the smallest one (2×2 pixels) and discards it without looking at it or saving it. Recording other people may need their consent where you live; tell everyone on the call before you record.
Your calendar
If you connect a calendar, Bozza asks macOS for permission and reads today's events on your Mac to list your meetings. Bozza does not keep a copy of your calendar and sends no calendar data anywhere. If you start a recording during a calendar event, the meeting note takes that event's title.
What leaves your Mac, and only when you choose
- AI clean-up, Rewrites and meeting summaries (Bozza Pro). These features work only after you turn them on and save an API key from an AI provider you pick (Anthropic or OpenRouter). Then, for each dictation or rewrite, Bozza sends the text to be cleaned up or rewritten, the name of the app you are writing in, and the words from your vocabulary that help spell it. When you click Summarize on a meeting note, Bozza sends that meeting's transcript, with each line marked as you or the others; it never sends meeting audio. All of this goes from your Mac directly to that provider over an encrypted connection, using your key. We never see this text or your key. What the provider does with it is set by your agreement with them and their privacy policy.
- Downloading models. On first use Bozza downloads the speech recognition model (and, if you choose clean-up on your Mac, the clean-up model) from Hugging Face. The download contains nothing about you; like any download, it reveals your IP address to the server.
- Subscriptions. Bozza Pro is sold by Apple through the App Store. Apple handles the payment; we do not receive your payment details. Bozza checks whether your subscription is active with Apple's StoreKit on your Mac.
- Links you open. Links such as Manage subscription open in the App Store or your browser.
What we do not do
- No sign-in and no user accounts with us. The Account page in Settings only holds the name shown in Bozza, on your Mac, and the button that erases your data.
- No analytics, crash reports, usage tracking or advertising identifiers.
- No selling or sharing of data. Bozza does not track you across apps or websites.
Your control
- Delete single dictations, or your whole history, in Bozza. Choose not to keep history to stop storing it.
- Delete a meeting note in Meetings, or all of your data at once with Erase everything in Settings → Account.
- Remove your API key in Settings to stop all AI requests.
- Turn off Microphone, Calendar, Input Monitoring, Accessibility or Screen & System Audio Recording access for Bozza at any time in System Settings → Privacy & Security.
- Deleting Bozza removes its folder and everything in it.
This website
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Children
Bozza is not directed at children and does not knowingly collect information from anyone.
Changes
If this policy changes, the new version will be published at this address with a new date.
Contact
Dmitrijs Sabelniks, the developer of Bozza: support@bozza.dmitrijs.dev