Quota Voice — Privacy Policy

Last updated: July 9, 2026

This policy covers Quota Voice (the macOS and Windows app) and Quota Voice Remote (the iPhone companion app), both made by Rare Data LLC. The short version: we don’t collect your data. Your voice is transcribed on your own device, and when you use the phone remote, what you say travels end-to-end encrypted to your own computer — not to us. There are no accounts, no analytics, and no tracking of any kind.

What stays on your device

  • Your voice never leaves the device it’s spoken into. Speech is transcribed on-device — Whisper on your Mac or PC, Apple’s on-device speech recognition on your iPhone. The audio is never uploaded, and it works in airplane mode.
  • Recordings are not kept. While you talk, audio lives in a single temporary file that is deleted the moment transcription finishes.
  • Transcripts stay local. If you keep a history, it’s a plain file on your own machine that you can read, clear with one click, or turn off entirely so nothing is written at all.
  • Your license is verified on your device. A Quota Voice license is a signed key checked with math on your own computer. The app never contacts a server to validate it.
  • Face ID / Touch ID and the camera stay on the phone. Quota Voice Remote uses Face ID only to confirm a command locally, and the camera only to scan the pairing QR code shown on your computer. Neither produces data that leaves the phone.

The phone remote, and what “encrypted” means here

Pairing Quota Voice Remote to your computer is a one-time QR scan; the two devices agree on a shared key directly (X25519), and from then on everything between them is authenticated-encrypted (ChaCha20-Poly1305) with commands signed by your phone (Ed25519). So when you send a spoken command or note from the phone, the text does leave the phone — but only as ciphertext, addressed to your own paired computer, not to any Rare Data server.

A relay in the middle connects the two devices (a phone on cellular can’t otherwise reach a computer behind a home router). That relay is blind: it stores only an opaque encrypted blob under a random routing id, holds it for minutes at most, deletes it the moment your computer picks it up, and keeps no IP logs, no accounts, and no content it could read even if it wanted to. Rare Data cannot decrypt anything that passes through it.

The only things that reach the network — the complete list

“We don’t collect data” is easy to say, so here is everything the apps ever send. Nothing else makes a network request.

  • An update check, on launch. The app fetches a small public file that lists current versions. It sends nothing about you, your machine, or what you said — it’s the same kind of request your browser makes for any file.
  • The encrypted phone-remote relay, only if you pair a phone and use it, as described above — and only to your own computer.
  • Things you explicitly ask for, like importing audio from a URL you hand the app, or downloading a speech model the first time it’s needed.

Data we collect: none

We do not collect, store, sell, or share personal data through these apps. No advertising identifiers, no location, no contacts, no usage analytics, no crash telemetry, no third-party trackers or SDKs. There is no Apple App Tracking Transparency prompt because there is nothing to track. In Apple’s App Privacy terms, Quota Voice Remote is “Data Not Collected.”

Payments

If you buy a Quota Voice license, the purchase is handled by our reseller, Paddle (Paddle.com), who acts as merchant of record and processes your payment under their own terms and privacy policy. We never see or store your card details. We receive the email address you bought with, so we can send your license key. That’s it.

Service providers

We use Cloudflare (the blind relay described above), Backblaze and Apple (to host and deliver app downloads), and email delivery for your license and download links. None of these receive your voice, your transcripts, or the contents of what you send between your devices.

Children

These apps are not directed at children under 13 and collect no data from anyone, including children.

Changes

If we ever change how these apps handle data, we’ll update this page and its date. We will not start collecting your data quietly — the whole point of Quota is that we don’t.

Contact

Questions? Email support@getquota.app. Rare Data LLC, United States.