Privacy

What Harps does with your voice: nothing you didn't ask for.

Last updated September 2026

This page covers two different things people mean by "privacy": what the Harps app does with your microphone and your transcripts, and what this website does with your visit. They're answered separately below because the answers are different in kind — one is a design decision, the other is a disclosure.

The app

Audio

Never leaves your Mac. Transcription runs on-device, using a model downloaded once at setup. There is no server in the loop for a capture to fail toward.

Transcripts

Saved as plain markdown files in a folder you choose, one file per day. Harps reads and writes that folder; nothing else does unless you point another tool at it.

Kept audio

Off by default. If you turn it on in Settings, audio is kept alongside its transcript and has no further use after transcription — it is not used to improve any model.

Accessibility access

Used only to insert text at the cursor in the app you were using. Harps does not log keystrokes or read the screen beyond that single insertion.

Analytics

None. There is no usage telemetry, no crash reporter phoning home, and no account to create in order to use the app.

This website

The site you're reading this on is static — it has no backend, no database, and no sign-in. It uses Google Analytics to see how many people visit and which pages they read, nothing more.

Google Analytics sets cookies and collects standard visit data — pages viewed, approximate location, device and browser type. It does not see anything you type into the app; the app has no connection to this site or to Google at all
Fonts and icons are served from this site, not a third-party host
No advertising pixel runs on any page; a future purchase or download flow may introduce a payment processor, which would be disclosed here before it ships

If something here turns out to be wrong

This document describes the app as designed. If a future version changes any of the above — audio leaving the device for a better model, for instance — that row changes here first, in the same plain language, before the update ships.

Questions about any of this

A person reads this inbox, not a form

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