Privacy

Beta version, last updated October 10, 2026.

SayMath is made by Quietspire LLC. This page says what happens to your voice, your words and your account, in plain language. Questions go to support@quietspire.com.

Your voice

SayMath listens only while you are dictating: while you hold the talk key, or after you double-tap it or click the bar, until you finish. Hands-free listening also stops by itself after 30 seconds without speech, so a forgotten dictation does not leave the microphone on. SayMath does not listen at all while a password field is selected, and never types into one. Speech is turned into words on your Mac. Audio is never sent to us or to anyone else. SayMath does not keep recordings of your dictations.

Voice Lab is the one exception you control: if you choose to record practice phrases there, the recordings are saved on your Mac, and they leave it only if you export them yourself.

Your words

Clean sentences without math are written out on your Mac. To format them, nothing is sent; with sharing on (below), their text is kept to improve SayMath.

When a dictation contains math, or a sentence needs tidying (filler words like “um”, a correction like “no wait”, a spoken list, or a language other than English), its words are sent to our server so an AI model can write it out. If you have saved fixes, the few most related to that dictation go along, so your notation is followed, and so do the words in your personal dictionary, so names and terms are spelled the way you spell them. If you select text and say an instruction about it (for example “make this shorter”), the selected text goes along with your words so it can be rewritten. Selected text is read only when you dictate, and sent only for an instruction. Our server passes the words to our AI provider (Google’s Gemini API or Anthropic’s Claude API) and passes the answer back. We use these providers through their paid business terms, under which they do not use the text to train their models.

Keeping and selling your dictations

Unless you turn it off, SayMath keeps the text of your dictations: what it heard and what it wrote, including the math, the app you dictated into, and the corrections you make afterwards (in History, in the card that holds your words, or right where SayMath typed). We use it to make SayMath more accurate and to train our models. It never includes audio, and nothing from a password field, because SayMath does not listen there.

We may sell or share math dictations, and the corrections made to them, with other companies, such as companies that build AI, speech recognition or education technology, for example to train their models. What we sell carries no name, email or account ID. We never sell:

• anything you dictate into messaging, email or notes apps (for example Messages, Slack, Mail, Gmail or Notes): we keep it to improve SayMath, but it is never sold;
• anything from someone who has not told SayMath they are 18 or older, or who signs in with a school district (K-12) email address;
• anything from someone who has opted out, including what we kept before they opted out.

Kept dictations are stored on our servers (Cloudflare) under a code that is not your account ID. We delete them five years after they were kept, or sooner when you delete your account.

Your choices

In SayMath, open Settings, then Account:

• Share dictations to improve SayMath: turn it off and nothing more of what you dictate is kept.
• Do not sell or share my personal information: turn it on and nothing of yours is sold or shared, including what we kept before.
• Delete account: removes your account and everything you shared.

You can also make any request by email: write to support@quietspire.com with “Privacy request” in the subject. See Your Privacy Choices.

What our server keeps

• Your account: the email address you sign in with (the one Apple or Google gives us, or the one you type), your name if Apple or Google share it, how you sign in (Apple, Google or email), a random identifier, your plan, when any Pro time ends, which code you joined with, and the friend who referred you, if one did. There is no password: Apple, Google or a code we email you shows it is you.
• What follows you to other Macs: unless you turn it off in Settings, Account, your personal dictionary, snippets, notation notes, the fixes you made to results, and a few writing preferences (such as the chat style), so they are on every Mac you sign in on. Deleted with your account, and never sold.
• Sign-in codes: a scrambled form of each six-digit code we email, for ten minutes, deleted when used.
• Your school email: if you sign in with a .edu address or confirm one in Settings, the address and its school’s domain, to mark you as a student. We count students by school (numbers only) to see where SayMath is used.
• Your Mac’s trial: a one-way scrambled form of your Mac’s hardware ID, so each Mac gets one free Pro trial. It can’t be turned back into the ID or matched with anything outside SayMath. We keep it after an account is deleted, so a new account on the same Mac gets no second trial.
• Your sign in: a fingerprint of your device’s sign in code, not the code itself.
• Weekly counts: how many math dictations you made this week and how much AI text they used, so the free plan’s limit works. Not their content.
• Kept dictations: the text of your dictations and corrections, unless you turned sharing off (see above), and whether each may be sold.
• If you pay: the reference numbers Stripe gives your customer record and subscription, the plan you chose, whether it renews, and when it renews or ends. Your card, name, email and billing address go to Stripe, our payment processor, not to us. Stripe uses them under its own privacy policy and keeps records of payments as the law requires.
• Codes for another Mac: when you ask for a code to use your account on another Mac, a scrambled form of it and which account it belongs to, deleted when it is used, replaced, or no longer works (after an hour).
• Your privacy choices: whether you opted out of selling, and whether you said you are 18 or older.
• Days you used SayMath: the dates only, no content, so a friend who referred you gets their month once you’ve used SayMath on three days.
• Referrals: your referral code, and how many friends joined with it and started using SayMath.
• The invite request form: the email, school and role you enter, used only to send your invite.
• Abuse protection: for one hour, a scrambled form of your network address and how many times it tried to sign up or join the waitlist.

Emails we send

To the email you sign in with: sign-in codes, a notice the day before free Pro time ends, and, unless you turn them off, a few tips and a weekly summary of how you used SayMath (in Settings, Account, or with the link in each one). Receipts for payments come from Stripe. We send email through Cloudflare and keep a record of which of these emails we sent you, so none goes twice.

What stays on your Mac

Your recent dictations (History), your other settings and any Voice Lab recordings are stored on your Mac only. Your personal dictionary (including names and math SayMath learned when you edited a result before copying it), snippets and the fixes you save are on your Mac, and also with your account while sync is on (see above). In SayMath’s Settings you choose how long History is kept (down to not at all) and can clear it at any time.

What we never do

• Sell anything you dictate into messages, email or notes, anything from someone under 18 or who has not told us their age, or anything from someone who opted out.
• Sell your name, your email or your account ID, or put them with anything we sell.
• Show you ads, or use advertising or analytics trackers in the app or on this website.
• Read your screen. When you start dictating, SayMath notes which app and, in a browser, which website is in front, so it can insert the math the way that place understands, and any text you have selected, which is used only if you give an instruction about it. It also reads up to a line of text just before your cursor, so a dictation that continues a sentence gets a space and a small first letter. That text is used on your Mac and never sent. After SayMath types a sentence, it looks at that sentence now and then for a minute and a half (and once more at your next dictation) to learn the spelling of a name you corrected by hand. Only the sentence it typed and the words beside it are read, on your Mac. A correction you make there is kept with your dictations unless you turned sharing off (see above); nothing else is sent.

Your rights

California. You have the right to know what personal information we collect, use, sell and share, and to get a copy of it; to have it deleted; to have it corrected; to opt out of its sale or sharing; to limit the use of sensitive personal information; and not to be treated differently for using these rights. Free and Pro are the same whether or not you share or allow selling: we offer no discount or reward for your data.

In the last 12 months, and going forward, we collect: identifiers (your email address, your name if Apple or Google share it, a random account ID, and a one-way fingerprint of your Mac for its trial); education information (that you are a student, and your school’s domain, if you use a school email); electronic activity (the app you dictated into, the days you used SayMath, weekly counts); commercial information (the plan you bought and when, if you pay); and the content you dictate, which may include sensitive information, such as the contents of messages and emails. We sell or share only the content of math dictations and their corrections, with the app they were made in, to companies that build AI, speech recognition or education technology. We use the content of messages and emails only to provide and improve SayMath, never for sale. Our service providers (Cloudflare for hosting and to send email, Google or Anthropic to run the AI model, Stripe for payments, and Apple or Google when you sign in with them) process data for us under contracts that limit its use.

Other states. If you live in Virginia, Colorado, Connecticut, Utah, Texas, Oregon, Montana or another state with a privacy law, you have similar rights to access, correct, delete and get a copy of your data, and to opt out of its sale. If we decline a request, you can appeal by replying to our answer; if you disagree with the outcome, you can contact your state’s attorney general.

How to make a request. Use the switches in SayMath (Settings, Account), or email support@quietspire.com. We confirm the request with the email you sign in with. An authorized agent can make a request for you with your signed permission. We answer within 45 days.

Global Privacy Control. This website has no accounts, ads or trackers, so there is nothing about you here to sell. To opt out of the sale of what you dictate, use the switch in SayMath.

Deleting your account

In SayMath, open Settings, then Account, then Delete account. Your account, your email and name, the ways you sign in, its sign ins, its weekly counts, the days you used SayMath and every dictation you shared are removed from our server; only the scrambled trial fingerprint of your Mac stays. If you pay, your subscription is cancelled and your customer record at Stripe is deleted; Stripe keeps its records of past payments as the law requires. To be removed from the invite list, email us.

Age

SayMath is not for children under 13, and we do not knowingly have accounts for them. Setup asks whether you are 18 or older; if you are not, or do not answer, nothing of yours is ever sold.

Changes

If this page changes in a way that matters, the app will tell you before the change applies to you.