Ask the uncomfortable ones.

No. Audio is processed in memory and never written to disk, let alone uploaded. Transcription runs on your Mac with a local Whisper model. The only thing that can leave is the text transcript, and only when you explicitly ask for a summary.

Nothing remains. Samples are read in memory, transcribed on your device, and dropped as they are consumed. No audio file is ever created, so there is nothing to upload, sync, leak, or delete. Only the transcript you watched being written survives the meeting.

The text transcript of that one meeting, after scrubbing: emails, phone numbers, card numbers, and internal IDs are redacted first. It goes to a leading AI model, OpenAI or Gemini, and the summary comes back to your local library.

Locally, on your device, under ~/Library/Application Support/Savory/ on the Mac, protected at rest by FileVault. Secrets live in the system Keychain. No Savory server holds a copy of your meetings; across your own devices the text syncs through your own private iCloud database.

Yes, and it's real deletion: a biometric-confirmed action wipes your account's content, including any stored voiceprints. You can also auto-delete transcripts after 90 days, or export everything to plain files first.

It depends on who bills you, and the app tells you before you confirm. In the version downloaded from savory.ai, deleting your account ends the Stripe subscription at once; a trial ends without a charge, and any time left in a paid period is not refunded. In the Mac App Store version, Apple bills you and deleting your Savory account does not cancel the subscription: cancel it first under Savory Pro, then Manage subscription, or in your Apple ID settings, or it keeps renewing. Deleting the app cancels nothing on either channel.

Never. Savory captures your microphone and the call's system audio directly on your Mac. Nothing appears in the participant list, and it works with any meeting app, or no meeting app at all.

Speaker separation runs locally on macOS and tells voices apart. Assign a voice to a person once and the whole transcript updates. If you opt in to Remember voices, recognition improves over time, stored on this Mac only.

Yes. Recording and transcription are fully local, so airplane mode works. You need a connection only for the optional summary step and calendar sync.

Savory recovers calmly: it rebuilds the capture, keeps the timeline consistent, and shows a quiet caution rather than pretending everything is fine. A silent mic warns you; it never silently loses your meeting.

No. Summaries are opt-in and off by default. Savory is a complete transcription and people tool without them.

Leading models from OpenAI or Gemini, built into the app. Summaries are generated only when you ask, per meeting, and stored locally with everything else.

Yes. Rename, reassign, re-date, add, complete, or delete any action item; your edits are yours and survive a summary regeneration.

macOS 26+ on Apple silicon, and iOS 26+ on iPhone. The Mac app captures both sides of calls; the iPhone app records from the microphone, a deliberate first-class mode.

Yes. Transcripts, summaries, action items, people, and notes sync through your own private iCloud database, so the copy in flight belongs to your Apple account rather than to us. Audio never syncs, because it is never a file, and voiceprints never sync by design.

The app is free forever: unlimited on-device transcription, people, calendar, and search. Pro adds AI summaries and action items, $19.99 a month or $149.99 a year, with a 30-day free trial. The privacy architecture is never the paywall.

Yes. Sign in with Google or Apple, or create an account with an email address. The account itself lives on Savory's account service so it works across your devices; your meetings, transcripts, and notes stay on your device. You can add more than one account, lock the app, and require biometrics for destructive actions.