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Privacy Policy

Effective 8 November 2026

In short. Molvi turns your speech into text on your device. Your voice never leaves your device. In the free version your text stays on your device too, and you need no account. If you use Molvi Pro, the recognised text (never the audio) is sent, with your permission, to our server and to an AI provider so it can be cleaned up or translated. That text is not stored on the Molvi server. We have no ads, no analytics, and we never sell data.

1. Who we are

Molvi is provided by ALTEX GROUP, informacijske dejavnosti, d.o.o., Dunajska cesta 159, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia, registration number 9379185000 ("we", "us"). We are the controller of the personal data described in this policy. Contact: info@altex.si.

This policy covers the Molvi app for iPhone (including the Molvi keyboard), the Molvi app for Mac, and the website molvi.ai.

2. Your voice and your text

  • Audio is processed by a speech-recognition model running on your device. It is not sent to us or to anyone else, and it is not kept after recognition.
  • Recognised text is inserted where your cursor is. In the free version it is not sent anywhere.
  • On iPhones that support Apple Intelligence, text clean-up can run on the device using Apple's built-in model. The text is not sent to us.

3. The Molvi keyboard on iPhone

The Molvi keyboard needs "Full Access" so that iOS lets it start dictation and receive the recognised text from the Molvi app. The keyboard does not record what you type, does not read your clipboard and does not send what you type over the network. You can type without Full Access; only dictation needs it.

4. Data stored on your device

  • Settings: language, keyboard layout, selected model.
  • Speech-recognition model files.
  • Your personal dictionary, if you add words to it.
  • A technical log for troubleshooting. It does not contain what you dictated. It may contain the name of the app in which you started a dictation.
  • On iPhone, to diagnose text clean-up, the app may keep the text of recent dictations on your device for up to 7 days. It never leaves the device.

This data stays on your device and is deleted when you delete the app. The technical log reaches us only if you choose to send it to us.

5. Downloading speech models

When you download a speech model, the iPhone app connects to Hugging Face, Inc. (USA), which hosts the model files; if Hugging Face is unavailable or too slow, it downloads the same files from our mirror at models.molvi.ai, hosted by Selectel (Russia). The Mac app downloads its models from models.molvi.ai (Selectel, Russia); if that server is unavailable, it downloads the same files from Hugging Face, Inc. (USA). In both cases the files are pinned versions, and the app verifies their checksum (SHA-256) after download. These servers see your IP address and the file you download, as any web server does. No audio, text or account data is sent.

6. Molvi Pro (cloud processing)

Molvi Pro offers cloud features: removing filler words and slips, formatting text for the recipient, and translation. They stay off until you start a free trial or subscribe and give your permission on a separate screen.

What is processed, and for how long:

  • The recognised text of a dictation you send to a cloud feature — to return the processed text to you. It is not stored on the Molvi server: the server processes it in memory and discards it.
  • An anonymous account ID and a device token (we store only a hash of the token) — to recognise your trial or subscription. Kept until you delete your account.
  • Subscription status from Apple (product, original transaction ID, expiry date) — to grant Pro. Kept until you delete your account, or longer where tax or accounting law requires it.
  • Monthly usage counters (number of requests, words, tokens, cost) — to apply the free-trial and monthly limits. Kept for 12 months.
  • A technical server log (time, account ID, model, token counts, status, response time, IP address) — for security and troubleshooting. Kept for 30 days.

To offer the free trial once per device, the app uses Apple's DeviceCheck service: Apple stores a flag for your device that tells us whether a trial was already used; we receive no hardware identifier. We do not ask for your name or email for Molvi Pro. Payments are handled by Apple; we never receive your payment details.

Who processes this data for us:

  • Hetzner Online GmbH, Germany — hosting of our server.
  • OpenAI, L.L.C., USA — the AI model that processes the text. Under OpenAI's terms, data sent to its API is not used to train its models and may be retained for up to 30 days to detect abuse. Transfers to the USA are covered by the Standard Contractual Clauses in OpenAI's Data Processing Addendum.
  • Apple Inc. — payments, subscription management and DeviceCheck, under Apple's own privacy policy.

Legal basis: performance of the contract with you (Article 6(1)(b) GDPR) and your explicit permission before any text is first sent to the AI provider. You can withdraw your permission at any time in the app's Settings; cloud features then stop and your text stays on your device.

Availability: cloud features may not be reachable from some networks and countries. Dictation on your device always works.

7. The Mac app

Speech recognition in the Mac app always runs on your computer; audio is never sent anywhere. Until you connect your Mac to Molvi Pro, the app connects to the internet only to download speech models (section 5), and your text is not sent anywhere either.

Molvi Pro on the Mac. Cloud features on the Mac work the same way as on iPhone (section 6). They are enabled only after you connect the Mac to your Molvi Pro subscription with a code shown by your iPhone and give your permission on a separate screen. During cloud processing the recognised text of a dictation is sent to our server, never the audio; it is then processed by the AI provider (OpenAI) under the terms described in section 6. The Molvi server does not store that text. You can withdraw your permission in the app's Pro section or disconnect the Mac, and cloud features on it stop.

When you connect, the Mac receives a device token. It is stored in the macOS keychain; we keep only a hash of it (section 6). When you connect a Mac to Molvi Pro, the app also sends the computer name (as set in macOS) to the Molvi server so you can recognise this Mac in the device list on your iPhone. The name is stored with the device and deleted when you disconnect the Mac in the app ("Disconnect this Mac") or in the device list on your iPhone.

Dictation history on the Mac contains only the text of your dictations and is kept only on that Mac. On a new installation, history is off. If you updated the app from an earlier version in which history was kept and already contains text, history may stay on. You can turn it on or off in the History section with the "Keep history" switch.

The app does not save new audio recordings. Audio recordings from earlier versions that you marked as saved stay on that Mac until you delete them; the app deletes the other audio recordings from earlier versions. You can delete the audio of an entry with "Delete audio", and the whole entry with "Delete entry", in the History section.

To insert text where your cursor is, the app (with the default paste method) temporarily places it on the clipboard, marked "transient" and "concealed" for clipboard managers that support these markers. It then restores the previous clipboard contents if neither you nor another app has changed the clipboard in the meantime. If "Copy to Clipboard" is selected in the advanced settings, the recognised text stays on the clipboard after pasting.

8. Our website

molvi.ai has no analytics, no advertising and no tracking. It sets one cookie, lang, to remember your language choice. Our hosting provider, Selectel (Russia), keeps standard web server logs (IP address, time, requested page) for a limited period for security. If you write to us by email, we use your message only to reply and delete it within 12 months after the conversation ends.

9. What we never do

No advertising, no tracking across apps or websites, no sale of data, no use of your text to train AI models, no third-party analytics.

10. Your rights

Under the GDPR you may ask us for access to your data, its correction or deletion, restriction of processing and data portability, and you may object to processing. You can delete your Molvi Pro account data in the app (Settings → Molvi Pro); this does not cancel your Apple subscription, which you manage in your Apple ID settings. Because we keep almost no data about you, most requests will concern only your trial or subscription status. Write to info@altex.si. You may also lodge a complaint with the Information Commissioner of the Republic of Slovenia (Informacijski pooblaščenec, www.ip-rs.si) or with the data protection authority in your country.

11. Children

Molvi is not directed at children under 15. We do not knowingly process data of children.

12. Security

Connections to our server are encrypted (HTTPS). Device tokens are stored only as hashes. Access to the server is limited to authorised staff.

13. Changes

If we change how Molvi handles data — for example, a new cloud feature or a new provider — we will update this policy before the change, show the new date at the top, and ask for your permission again in the app where required.

14. Contact

ALTEX GROUP, informacijske dejavnosti, d.o.o., Dunajska cesta 159, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia · info@altex.si