Distavo keeps meeting content under your control.

Distavo is designed so that your recordings and notes stay on machines you control. This page describes what data Distavo produces, where it is stored, and what leaves your Mac.

What data Distavo produces

For each recording it processes, Distavo creates:

• A WAV copy of the recording, produced locally by AVFoundation from your original file.
• A transcript of the audio, produced on your Mac by the built-in engine — or returned by your WhisperX server if you configured one.
• A summary or structured note, produced by your Ollama model from the transcript.
• The original recording file remains where you placed it.

Where data is stored locally

• Recordings: the watched folder, by default ~/Documents/Distavo/recordings.
• Notes: by default ~/Documents/Distavo/notes/<name>.md.
• Working files and configuration: under ~/Library/Application Support/Distavo/.
• Downloaded transcription models: ~/Library/Application Support/Distavo/models (removable from Settings).
• Logs: ~/Library/Logs/Distavo/distavo.log.

These files are written in cleartext under your home directory. Distavo does not encrypt them; protect them with your normal macOS account and disk encryption, such as FileVault.

What leaves your Mac

With the built-in transcription engine (the default), audio never leaves your Mac. Distavo makes network connections only to:

• Your Ollama server, which receives the cleaned transcript for summarisation.
• Your WhisperX server, only if you switch transcription to server mode; it receives the locally converted WAV.
• Hugging Face (huggingface.co), a one-time download of the on-device transcription models. Model files are downloaded; no audio, transcripts, or personal data are uploaded.

The WhisperX and Ollama endpoints can be on localhost, your own network, or a remote machine. Because audio or transcript text leaves your Mac to reach them, only configure servers you operate or fully trust.

No telemetry

Distavo has no telemetry and no phone-home. It does not collect analytics, crash reports, usage statistics, or any other data, and it does not contact any server other than the endpoints listed above.

Recommendation

Prefer the built-in on-device engine, or local and otherwise trusted WhisperX and Ollama servers. Review the configured URLs before processing sensitive recordings.