Forte Privacy Policy

Effective July 30, 2026 · doublebooked

What Forte does with your voice

When you dictate, Forte records audio on your device and transcribes it on your device, using a speech-recognition model that runs locally. The audio and the resulting text are processed and stored only on your iPhone. Forte does not transmit your audio, transcripts, vocabulary, or any other content anywhere.

What Forte stores on your device

Your dictation history, statistics, vocabulary, word replacements, and settings are stored locally in the app's private storage. Deleting them in the app, or deleting the app, deletes them. There is no copy elsewhere: Forte cannot recover data you delete.

About the “Allow Full Access” switch

iOS requires Full Access for the Forte keyboard to communicate with the Forte app on your device — that is how the keyboard hands audio duty to the app and receives your transcript back. iOS shows a standard warning that full-access keyboards could transmit what you type; Forte does not. The keyboard contains no networking code, and everything it exchanges with the app stays inside the app's protected storage on your phone.

Permissions Forte requests

Microphone — used only while you're dictating, only to transcribe on-device. The one-time model download (from Apple-hosted and Hugging Face CDNs) fetches the speech model itself; no personal data is sent in that request beyond what any download implies (your IP address).

Data collection

Forte collects none. No analytics, no advertising identifiers, no third-party SDKs that phone home, no accounts. Forte's App Store privacy label reads “Data Not Collected,” and that is the whole story.

The beta waitlist

Requesting a beta invite goes through a short form hosted by Tally. It asks for your name and email — that is how we send your TestFlight invite, arrange feedback conversations during the beta, and send one note when Forte launches. The other questions are optional. None of it is ever shared or sold, and we delete it on request ([email protected]).

Beta versions (TestFlight)

If you use Forte through TestFlight, Apple provides us with crash reports and any feedback or screenshots you choose to submit, under Apple's TestFlight terms. That is the only usage information we receive, and it comes from Apple, not from Forte.

Changes

If this policy ever changes, the new version will be posted here with a new effective date. Since Forte's design goal is that there is nothing to collect, we do not expect it to change in substance.

Contact

Questions: [email protected]