Privacy

Yapwing · Updated November 12, 2026

The short version

Your footage, transcripts and projects never leave your Mac. Transcription, picture search and the chat’s language model run on the Mac.
No analytics, ads or tracking, in the app or on this website. The website sets no cookies and runs no scripts.
If you subscribe, yapwing.com keeps your email and the state of your subscription, and nothing about your videos.

On your Mac

Projects, media, transcripts and the chat are kept in the folders you choose and in Yapwing’s own app data. Deleting a project folder removes it; Yapwing never uploads it.

A coding agent you connect to Yapwing reads and edits the project through the command line or MCP on your Mac. What that agent sends to its own service is set by the agent and its provider, not by Yapwing.

Downloads and updates

Yapwing downloads its speech model from Hugging Face the first time it needs it, and the chat’s model and the picture-search model only when you press Download. Hugging Face sees your IP address and which file was asked for. Nothing of yours is sent with the request.

To check for updates, Yapwing reads yapwing.com/appcast.xml. Vercel, which serves yapwing.com, sees your IP address and which page was asked for, and keeps request logs for a limited time under its own policy.

Your first export is free. Exporting again needs a subscription; the terms cover billing, renewal and refunds.

Payment: Stripe handles the payment; we never see your card. Stripe tells us the email you paid with, your plan, and when the subscription renews or ends.
What we keep: that email, your plan and its status, and a sign-in for each Mac you use. Sign-ins and email codes are stored as keyed hashes, never the values themselves. The sign-in on your Mac is kept in its Keychain.
Email: to use your subscription on another Mac, we email you a one-time code through Resend. We don’t use your email for anything else.
Abuse limits: sign-in and checkout requests are counted per IP address and per email. The counts are stored under a keyed hash, never the address itself, and expire within the hour.

Your Mac tells yapwing.com only its sign-in. It never sends a project, a file name, a transcript or anything from the chat.

Deleting your account

In Yapwing, choose Yapwing › Account…, then Delete Account. A subscription that still renews must be cancelled first, from Manage Subscription. Deleting erases your email, your subscription record and every sign-in at once. Stripe keeps its own record of the payment, as the law requires. You can also write to the address below.

Who else is involved

Vercel serves the website and update feed (privacy policy).
Cloudflare runs the subscription service and its database (privacy policy).
Stripe takes payments and runs the page where you manage your subscription (privacy policy).
Resend sends sign-in codes (privacy policy).
Hugging Face hosts the models Yapwing downloads (privacy policy).

None of them receive your footage.

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