# Privacy Sayonic is a voice assistant that sees your screen, so you should know exactly what leaves your Mac. Here it is. Last updated 29 September 2026 ## The short version - The app has **no tracking and no ads**. It sends a few anonymous counts, such as a first launch or a trial start, with nothing that identifies you. - Your voice, your request and a summary of your screen go to the AI services that answer you, and only while you're asking. - **Audio isn't saved.** Nothing is kept on a Sayonic server except what's needed for your licence and, if you use Sayonic Cloud, your account. - Your API keys stay in your Mac's Keychain. ## What stays on your Mac - **API keys and your licence key** are stored in the macOS Keychain, set to this Mac only, so they don't sync to other devices. - **Unfinished tasks** are remembered so you can pick them up later. They're encrypted (AES-GCM) with a key kept in your Keychain, kept for at most 7 days, and never include audio or screenshots. A saved task resumes only when you ask. You can clear them, or turn this off, in Settings → Privacy. - **File contents.** When Sayonic searches your files, it uses Spotlight on your Mac. It has no index of its own. - **A log file** in your Library's Logs folder, for troubleshooting. Sayonic never uploads it. ## What is sent, and where ### The built-in brain, with your keys While the pill is listening, or during a conversation, your voice is streamed to the voice service whose key you add in Settings → API Keys, so it can be understood and answered. Requests for planning go to that service too, sent with storage turned off. To decide quickly which action you meant, the built-in brain also sends your request and the screen summary described below to the intent service whose key you add there. Each service's own terms and privacy policy for API use apply. ### The brain you choose If you pick an API provider (OpenAI, Anthropic, Google Gemini, Groq, OpenRouter, or a service you add), your request goes to that provider with your key. If you pick a CLI agent (such as Claude Code or Codex CLI), it runs on your Mac, signed in with its own account, and follows that app's own privacy terms. ### Sayonic Cloud (optional) If you sign in to a Sayonic account and turn on Sayonic Cloud, the Sayonic brain, its quick decisions and Live conversations run on our AI services instead of your own keys. Your request, the screen summary and any screenshot the brain asks for pass through `sayonic.app` to those services. We pass them on and don't store them. For a Live conversation, `sayonic.app` only sets up the call; your voice then goes straight from your Mac to the voice service. You can sign in with a code we email you, or with Google or GitHub. From either we keep only your email address (which must be verified) and an ID for your account there. We never get your password. No Google or GitHub scripts or cookies run on `sayonic.app`: you're sent to their page to sign in, then back. For your account we keep your email address, the IDs of the Google or GitHub accounts you sign in with, your Mac's name (so you can tell your sign-ins apart), your credit balance and top-ups, and a record of each use: what kind it was, its size and the credits it cost. The sign-in is kept in your Keychain, and signing out ends it on our side too. To delete your account, write to us at the address below. ### What the brain sees - **A screen summary:** the front app, its window title, the labels of what's on screen and, in a browser, the page address. - **A screenshot of the front window**, only when an agent or API brain asks for one, and only if you've allowed Screen Recording. - **File names**, folders and dates from a file search. The contents of your files are not sent. ### Updates Every 6 hours Sayonic checks a public update feed hosted on GitHub. It asks you before it installs anything. ### Your licence Until you enter a licence key, Sayonic doesn't contact us about it. Once you do, the app sends the key and a scrambled (SHA-256) ID for this Mac to `sayonic.app` to check the subscription is active and to count your Macs against the licences you bought. The raw ID never leaves your Mac. ## Permissions - **Microphone:** to hear you. - **Accessibility:** to click, press keys and type for you, and to read the labels on screen. - **Screen Recording:** to see the front window when a brain asks. - **Automation:** to work with apps such as Chrome, Safari and Notes. - **Calendar** (optional, add only): to add events. Sayonic can't read your calendar. - **Files and Folders, Full Disk Access** (optional): to find and open files you ask for. You can turn any of these off in System Settings → Privacy & Security. ## This website - sayonic.app loads no analytics scripts and sets no cookies of its own. It's hosted on Cloudflare, which handles the network traffic to serve it. We look at Cloudflare's totals for the site, such as visits per day, top pages and countries. They are counts, not profiles of you. We also count downloads per day, country and linking site, and the app's update checks per day and app version, as totals only, without IPs or anything else that identifies you. In the same way we count, per day, country and linking site, how many people open the download and buy pages and start checkout, and how often the app reports a first launch, a trial start, a sign-in, the trial-ended screen or a tap on Upgrade. Each is a bare count with no IP, account, device ID or cookie attached. - The download page doesn't ask for your email. - **Buying:** checkout is handled by PayPal on the [Buy](https://sayonic.app/buy) page, which loads PayPal's script. We never see your card. PayPal tells us your email address and your subscription's status, which we keep with your licence key and the scrambled IDs of the Macs using it, so the key works and can be sent to you. - **Launch links:** if you arrive through a partner or launch link, we keep the link's label (like "producthunt") with your subscription so we know where buyers come from. - **Credits:** top-ups for Sayonic Cloud are paid through PayPal too. We keep each order and the credits it added. ## Questions Write to [hello@sayonic.app](mailto:hello@sayonic.app). If this policy changes, the date at the top changes with it. Source: https://sayonic.app/privacy