Your meeting audio and transcripts live on your laptop.

Your recordings, transcripts, and everything Kanab learns from them sit in a file on your Mac. The AI that listens, summarizes, and searches runs on your Mac too. We don’t have a copy of any of it.

• We don’t record what you type.
• We don’t look at what’s on your screen or in the documents you’re working in.
• We don’t upload your meeting recordings or transcripts.
• We don’t train any AI on your meetings.

Dictation has its own section below, because it’s the one place where data does leave your Mac when the toggle is on.

Once a day, Kanab sends a hashed license key to license.kanab.dev to confirm your subscription is active. If your Mac is offline, the app keeps working for up to seven days before asking you to reconnect.

Kanab counts things like how often the app opens, which features get used, and how often something crashes. That helps us fix bugs and decide what to build next. No names, no transcripts, no dictation. Email hi@kanab.dev if you’d like us to turn it off for your install.

Dictation gets better when we can see what you said next to what you wanted. With “Help improve dictation” turned on, Kanab sends us the rough text we transcribed, the cleaned-up version, and any edits you make right after. We never send the audio. Meetings are never part of this.

Turn it off in Settings → Privacy → Help improve dictation. Anything still waiting to send gets dropped, not uploaded.

If you’re a developer, you can let your code editor read your local memory through a private connection on this Mac. It’s read-only, requires a token that only Kanab installs, and won’t accept connections from anywhere else.

Kanab checks updates.kanab.devfor new versions. The check only tells us the version you’re on. No name, no Mac ID, nothing else. You can turn off automatic updates in settings and install them yourself.

Sync keeps your memory in step across your own Macs. Everything is encrypted on your laptop before it leaves, so our relay never sees anything readable.

Outposts work the same way for transcripts and notes you share with teammates. Audio isn’t shared; it stays on the Mac that recorded it.

Email hi@kanab.dev. Vulnerability reports go to the same address. We read every message and respond within 72 hours.