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Last updated 9 June 2026 · Public beta

Ploca is built so that privacy does not depend on trust. This page describes what the app does on your machine, the one network call it makes, and what happens when you give us your email to download it.

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i.The app collects nothing

Ploca runs entirely on your Mac. Your audio is captured into memory, transcribed by a local Whisper model, and discarded. It is never written to disk. Your transcripts are processed locally and injected at your cursor. They are never sent anywhere.

There is no analytics SDK, no crash reporter, no A/B testing framework, and no install identifier. This is not a setting you can turn off. That code was never written. The only things stored on disk are your own settings, vocabulary, and snippets, which stay on your Mac.

ii.The one network call

When Ploca launches, it makes a single request to confirm the public beta is still active. The request carries standard HTTP headers only. No audio, no transcripts, no usage data, and no install identifier are sent. Our server sees the headers and your IP address in its access log, the same as any web request.

This check respects a seven-day offline grace window, so Ploca keeps working on a flight or behind a firewall. We derive a rough count of daily and monthly users from those server access logs. The app itself runs no telemetry.

iii.Your email, when you download

To download the beta, you give us your email address. We use it to send you the download link and the occasional beta update. We do not sell it, share it with advertisers, or use it for anything else. You can ask us to delete it at any time by writing to hey@ploca.app.

Two services help deliver this: Cloudflare hosts the website, and Resend sends the email. Each processes only what is needed to do its job. The website sets no advertising or analytics cookies and runs no third-party trackers.

iv.Permissions the app asks for

Ploca asks for two standard macOS permissions: Microphone, to hear you, and Accessibility, to type text at your cursor. It deliberately does not ask for Input Monitoring or Screen Recording, which some dictation tools use to read on-screen context. We treat those as permissions not worth the cost.

v.Verifying all of this

You do not have to take our word for any of it. You can watch Ploca's network activity with a tool like Little Snitch and see the silence yourself. Privacy that can be checked is the whole point.

vi.Questions

Write to hey@ploca.app. This statement covers the public beta and will be updated as the product changes.