Minutae

Last updated: September 21, 2026

Minutae records meetings and turns them into text on your iPhone. Because that means running a microphone in a room with other people in it, this policy is specific about where the audio goes: nowhere.

Short version

• There is no account, no sign-up, and no email address.
• Speech becomes text on your iPhone. Neither the audio nor the text is uploaded.
• Everything Minutae keeps lives in the app's own storage on your device.
• We operate no server that holds your recordings or your transcripts.

No account, no identity

Minutae has nothing to sign in to. We do not ask for a name, an email address, a phone number, or a social login, and we do not create an identifier that follows you across apps or devices. We have no means of knowing who you are, which also means we cannot look up "your data" on request — there is no record of you on our side to look up.

The microphone, and what happens to the sound

While a meeting is being recorded, Minutae writes the audio to a file inside the app and passes it to Apple's on-device speech recognition. Both happen entirely on your iPhone. The audio is not streamed anywhere, not sent to any service for processing, and not used to train anything.

Minutae asks for microphone access for this one purpose. You can decline it, or revoke it later in iOS Settings → Privacy & Security → Microphone, and the rest of the app keeps working — it simply cannot record.

The app declares the audio background mode so recording survives your screen locking. It is active only while a meeting is running, and it stops when you end the meeting.

Speech recognition

Transcription uses the speech model Apple ships with iOS, running on your device. The first time you use a language, iOS may download that language's model from Apple; that request goes to Apple, not to us, and carries none of your audio. Once installed, transcription works with no network connection at all.

What is stored, and where

Minutae stores its data in the app's own container on your device. Nothing below is copied to a server.

• The recording: one audio file per meeting, deleted automatically once the retention period you chose has passed.
• The transcript: the text, with the time each line was said, the language it was transcribed in, and any moments you bookmarked.
• Capture gaps: the stretches where recording stopped and why — an interruption, the app being stopped, or running out of storage.
• A summary, if you asked for one on a device with Apple Intelligence. It is produced on the device and stored with the meeting.
• Your settings: transcription language, retention period, and whether the purchase has been unlocked.

You can delete every stored meeting from Settings → Delete all recordings inside the app. Deleting the app removes its container, and everything in it, from your device.

How long audio is kept

You choose the retention period in Settings: 7, 30 or 90 days, or keep forever, with 30 days as the default. Audio older than that is deleted automatically. The transcript is much smaller and is kept until you delete it yourself.

The purchase

Minutae is unlocked by a single purchase made through the App Store. We never see or handle your payment details; Apple processes the payment.

To know whether this device has the purchase, we use RevenueCat, a purchase-management service, as our processor. RevenueCat receives an anonymous, randomly generated identifier for the install and the App Store purchase record for this app — which product was bought, when, and whether it is a sandbox or production purchase. It receives none of your recordings, none of your transcripts, and nothing from your microphone. We use it only to unlock what you paid for.

This is the only reason Minutae makes a network request at all. If the device is offline, the app still records and transcribes as normal.

No advertising, no analytics, no tracking

Minutae contains no advertising, no analytics SDK, no attribution SDK, and no crash-reporting service. It does not use the Advertising Identifier and does not ask for tracking permission, because it has nothing to track you with. We do not build profiles from your usage, and we do not sell or share personal data — we do not hold any to sell.

Other people in the meeting

A microphone in a meeting records everyone in the room, not only you. Please tell the other people present that you are recording, and get their agreement first. In many places the law requires it. Minutae gives you no way to identify or separate speakers, and nothing leaves the device, but the responsibility for recording a conversation is yours.

Children

Minutae is intended for adults and is not directed to children. We do not knowingly collect personal data from children, and since there is no account and no server, we hold no personal data from any user.

Changes to this policy

If we change how Minutae handles data, we will update this page and the date at the top. Because the app holds no contact details for you, this page is where changes are published.

Contact

Questions about this policy, or about the app, go to ootssu@ootssu.com.