Private by design.

Oube is made by NO IDEA OÜ, Sepapaja tn 6, 15551 Tallinn, Estonia (VAT EE102573422). We are the controller for the little personal data we handle, mainly support emails. Contact us at hi@oube.app.

To do its job, Oube processes the following on your Mac:

• Audio from your microphone and, with your permission, the audio of your calls.
• Transcripts, meeting titles, speaker names you add, and the Markdown files Oube writes to the folder you pick.
• Calendar events, if you allow calendar access, to name meetings and start recording automatically. Oube only reads them.

None of this is sent to us. We have no servers that receive your recordings or transcripts.

Recordings and transcripts are stored in Oube’s local database and in the transcript folder you choose. Audio is deleted once a transcript is ready, unless you turn on Keep audio after transcription in Settings. You can delete any recording at any time, which removes its transcript, its audio and its Markdown file.

If you’re signed in to iCloud, Oube syncs transcripts between your Macs using your private iCloud database, run by Apple. Only you can access it, and we can’t read it. Apple’s privacy policy applies to iCloud. If you’d rather not sync, turn off iCloud for Oube in System Settings › Apple Account › iCloud.

The first time you set up Oube, it downloads open speech recognition models from Hugging Face. That download is the only network request Oube makes on its own. No audio or text is sent with it, and transcription itself runs entirely on your Mac.

Oube does not send anything to AI services on its own. Text leaves Oube only when you:

• choose Open in Claude or Open in ChatGPT, which opens that app with the transcript filled in, or
• connect an AI app to Oube’s local MCP server, which lets that app read your transcripts when you ask it to.

From that point the AI provider’s own terms and privacy policy apply, under your existing account with them.

• No accounts, names or email addresses in the app.
• No analytics, usage tracking or advertising identifiers.
• No third-party crash reporting SDKs.

During the beta, TestFlight may share crash reports, device details and feedback you choose to send with us. Apple handles this under the TestFlight terms, and we use it only to fix bugs.

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Many countries require everyone on a call to agree before it’s recorded. Oube doesn’t join your calls or announce itself, so it’s your responsibility to tell participants and get their consent where the law requires it.

Under the GDPR you can ask to access, correct or delete personal data we hold about you, or object to how we use it. Since your recordings never reach us, most requests are about support emails. Write to us and we’ll reply within 30 days. You can also complain to the Estonian Data Protection Inspectorate (Andmekaitse Inspektsioon) or your local authority.

If we change how Oube handles data, we’ll update this page and the date at the top, and mention it in the release notes.