Data collected: none. No account, no sign-up, works offline. HarkNote runs entirely on your iPhone and, in its default configuration, makes no network calls and sends nothing anywhere.
Recording, transcription (WhisperKit via Core ML / Apple Neural Engine), and speaker identification run entirely on your iPhone.
Summaries and Q&A also run on-device: Apple's Foundation Models (Apple Intelligence) where supported, otherwise a built-in deterministic text heuristic. No model is downloaded by the app; your audio and transcripts never leave the device for processing.
Default: zero network access. iCloud sync is opt-in. If you enable it, recording metadata syncs via Apple CloudKit (your private database) and audio via your iCloud Drive container — encrypted by Apple, between your own devices. We never receive or can read it.
No analytics. No telemetry. No crash uploads. No advertising IDs. No trackers. No third-party SDKs that phone home.
Required only to record audio you start. Never accessed otherwise.
Optional, read-only. Links a recording to a meeting. HarkNote never creates, edits, or deletes events.
Both are optional and can be declined or revoked in iOS Settings at any time.
Delete any session in-app — it removes the audio, transcript, and metadata. Uninstalling wipes everything. Audio is standard .wav, exportable via the Files app. We keep no server-side copies because there is no server.
Recording-consent laws vary by jurisdiction and you are solely responsible for complying with them — obtaining consent and giving notice where required. See the Privacy Policy for the full notice.
Speech-to-text: WhisperKit (Argmax) — MIT — and its open-source dependencies, used under their MIT / Apache-2.0 licenses.
Typefaces, used under the SIL Open Font License 1.1: DSEG7 Classic, Silkscreen, JetBrains Mono, IBM Plex Mono, VT323, Anton, Poiret One, Rye, Pacifico, Major Mono Display, Press Start 2P, Audiowide, UnifrakturMaguntia. Special Elite is used under the Apache License 2.0. Full license texts are bundled with the app.