Legal
Privacy, recording consent and the licenses of the software lautli downloads.
Privacy
lautli processes meeting audio only on your Mac.
- No telemetry. The app sends no analytics, usage data or crash reports.
- Audio is never saved. Audio is converted to text in memory and discarded.
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Transcripts stay local. Text is written to
~/Documents/lautli/. Standard German notes are created by Apple's on-device model on macOS 26 or newer. Nothing is uploaded. - AI apps you connect. If you connect Claude, Codex, Cursor or another AI app through Settings → Connect to AI app, that app can read your transcripts and notes on request, and its provider then sees the text under its own privacy terms. lautli sends nothing itself, and the connection is read-only.
- Network use. The first launch downloads the Python runtime (GitHub), Python libraries (PyPI) and the speech model (Hugging Face). Those services see an ordinary download request from your IP address. After set-up, the worker runs fully offline.
- Permissions. Microphone for your voice, Screen Recording only to hear the meeting app's audio (no screen content is captured or stored) and Accessibility only to notice that a meeting window is open.
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Logs. The app keeps technical logs in
~/Library/Application Support/lautli/logs/. They contain no transcript text or audio. Settings → Export diagnostics creates a zip only when you ask, and you decide whether to share it.
If crash reporting is ever added, it will be opt-in and documented here first.
Recording consent
Transcribing a conversation can require the consent of everyone in it. You are responsible for informing participants. The app asks you to confirm this once.
License
lautli is licensed under the Apache License 2.0. Copyright 2026 Ameet Madan.
Third-party notices
lautli downloads and runs the following components on first launch. Each is subject to its own license.
| Component | License |
|---|---|
Swiss German model Flix-AI/flix-swissgerman-full
(Whisper-derived)
|
Apache-2.0 (base OpenAI Whisper weights: MIT) |
| python-build-standalone CPython 3.13 | Python Software Foundation License and bundled component licenses |
| PyTorch | BSD-3-Clause |
| Transformers | Apache-2.0 |
| Accelerate | Apache-2.0 |
| huggingface_hub | Apache-2.0 |
| NumPy | BSD-3-Clause |
| SoundFile | BSD-3-Clause |
The app itself uses only Apple system frameworks. The same information is kept in PRIVACY.md and THIRD_PARTY_NOTICES.md in the repository.