Discreta privacy policy

Last updated: 12 November 2026

Who we are

Discreta is made by Patrice Manser, Switzerland, who is responsible for the data described in this policy. Contact for privacy questions: support@manser-dev.ch.

The short version

Discreta turns your recordings into transcripts on your own iPhone or Mac. We have no account system and no server for your data, so we do not receive your recordings, your transcripts or information about how you use the app.

What stays on your device

• Recordings you make and files you import, transcripts, speaker names, corrections and notes. They are stored in an encrypted vault on your device, protected by your password.
• Your password is not stored. The vault is opened with your password, your recovery key, or Face ID / Touch ID if you turn it on; for Face ID and Touch ID the device keeps a key in its Keychain.
• Settings and the count of free transcription minutes used this month, in a settings file on your device.

Speech recognition and speaker detection run on your device. Your audio and your transcripts are not sent to us or to anyone else by the app.

Your device’s own backups (for example iCloud Backup or Time Machine) may include the encrypted vault, as with other app data. Files you export, and text you copy, leave the vault: from then on they are ordinary files under your control.

When the app uses the network

The app connects to the internet in two cases only:

1. Speech components, once. At first launch the app downloads its speech recognition and speaker detection models (about 650 MB) from Hugging Face (huggingface.co), a third-party hosting service. The request asks for these files only; it contains none of your recordings or transcripts. As with any download, the server sees your IP address and the request. Hugging Face’s privacy policy applies to that request: https://huggingface.co/privacy
2. Purchases. Discreta Pro is sold through Apple’s App Store. Apple processes the payment and tells the app on your device whether Pro is active. We do not receive your payment details. Apple’s privacy policy applies: https://www.apple.com/legal/privacy/

Links you open from the app (for example the terms of use or subscription settings) open in your browser or the App Store.

What we do not do

• No account, no sign-in.
• No analytics, no advertising, no tracking, no third-party SDKs that collect data.
• We do not sell or share personal data, because we do not receive any through the app.

Information Apple may share with us

If you agree in your device settings to share analytics or crash reports with app developers, Apple may give us aggregated statistics and crash reports about the app. They do not contain your recordings or transcripts.

If you contact us

If you email us, we receive your email address and what you write, and use it only to answer you. We keep your emails until you ask us to delete them.

Children

Discreta can be used at any age. The app collects no personal data from anyone, children included.

Your rights

Because your recordings and transcripts stay on your device, you control them directly: you can export them, and you can delete them in the app (Settings also offers erasing the whole vault). The only personal data we hold is the email you send us, if you contact us. We use it to answer you; where the EU or UK data protection law (GDPR) applies, the legal basis is our legitimate interest in answering your request. You can ask us what we hold about you, have it corrected or have it deleted, by writing to the address above.

You may also complain to a data protection authority: in Switzerland the Federal Data Protection and Information Commissioner (FDPIC), in the EU or the UK the authority of your country.

This website

These pages set no cookies, use no analytics and load nothing from third parties. As with any website, the server that delivers a page processes your IP address to do so.

Changes

We will post changes to this policy on this page with a new date.