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Privacy policy.

Last updated: 26 October 2026

Thimvo is a personal voice notebook developed by Matus Kramarik. It records audio on your Apple Watch or iPhone, transcribes recordings on your iPhone, and backs them up to your own private iCloud database when iCloud is available.

Your recordings

Microphone access is used only when you start recording. Thimvo saves audio, its recording date, duration, source device type, detected language, and transcript on your devices. Audio from Apple Watch is transferred to its paired iPhone through Apple's WatchConnectivity service. Transcripts can be sent back to your watch.

Transcription

Language detection and speech recognition run on your iPhone. Recordings and transcripts are not uploaded to a transcription provider, used for advertising, or used by Thimvo to train models. First use downloads an open-source speech model and tokenizer from Hugging Face and may download language assets from Apple. These services receive normal network-request information, such as your IP address, when providing the downloads. Thimvo does not include your audio, transcripts, recording identifiers, or Apple Account information in those download requests.

iCloud

When you are signed in to iCloud, Thimvo backs up audio, transcripts, and recording metadata to the app's private CloudKit database in your account. This uses your iCloud storage. The developer cannot view your private recordings through the CloudKit developer console. Apple's iCloud terms and privacy policy apply to that service. Recording and local playback do not require an iCloud account.

Sharing

Audio and transcripts leave the app through the system share sheet only when you choose to share them. The destination you select may handle the shared content under its own policies.

Analytics and tracking

Thimvo contains no advertising, cross-app tracking, analytics SDKs, or developer-operated transcription server. It does not request access to contacts, location, photos, or health data. Apple may provide App Store or operating-system diagnostics according to your Apple settings.

Retention and controls

Your audio and transcripts are retained until you delete the recording from its detail on iPhone. After confirmation, the local audio and transcript are removed; deletion is also sent to your paired Apple Watch and private iCloud database when connected. Keep Thimvo installed until pending changes finish syncing. A minimal deletion record (a random recording identifier, deletion date, and sync status) is retained without audio or transcript to prevent delayed transfers from restoring the recording.

You can export individual recordings and transcripts from the recording detail on iPhone. You can revoke microphone access in system Settings. To remove all local copies, delete Thimvo from each device where it is installed. Separately manage or delete Thimvo's iCloud data in your Apple Account's iCloud storage settings. Removing a local app alone does not remove its iCloud backup. Copies you shared with other services remain subject to those services' controls.

Support

If you contact support, the information you choose to provide is used to respond to your request. Do not include private recordings unless you want to share them for troubleshooting. Contact Matus Kramarik at mat.kramarik@gmail.com. Help is available at https://matves.eu/thimvo/support/ and the online policy at https://matves.eu/thimvo/privacy/.

Changes

This policy will be updated if Thimvo's data practices change. The date above identifies the current version.

This website

The public Thimvo pages use no cookies, analytics, advertising pixels or external fonts. Technical connection information is needed to deliver these pages; access logging is disabled for /thimvo. If you email support, Gmail processes your message under Google's privacy policy. We use the information you send to answer your request and do not require recordings or passwords for routine support.

Contact and your choices

Contact Matus Kramarik at mat.kramarik@gmail.com about information you have provided directly to support. Your recordings stay in your own devices and private iCloud; the developer cannot retrieve or delete those copies for you. See support for export and removal instructions.

Apple privacy policy · Hugging Face privacy policy · Google privacy policy