Hear doesn't collect anything about you. Effective 4 November 2026.
Sound and words. Hear listens through the microphone only while it is listening on screen. The sound is turned into captions on this iPhone, as it happens. It is not recorded, not written to storage, and not sent anywhere. The words on screen are kept in memory only. They are gone when you press Stop or the app is closed.
The one download. The first time you open Hear, it downloads its speech model from Hugging Face, once. You are asked before it starts. As with any download, Hugging Face can see your device's internet address while it happens. No sound, words or personal details are sent. After that Hear doesn't need the internet.
What stays on this iPhone. The speech model, your text size and your light or dark choice. All of it is removed when you delete Hear.
What Hear doesn't have. No accounts, no advertising, no analytics and no tracking. Nothing is shared with anyone, because the developer never receives anything.
Apple. Apple runs the App Store and TestFlight under its own privacy policy. If you agree to share diagnostics with app developers in your iPhone's settings, Apple may pass on anonymous crash reports.
Changes. Any change to this policy will be posted with a new date, in the app and on Hear's privacy page.
Questions. Please open an issue at github.com/parispremdas/hear/issues (needs a free GitHub account).