Transcription and summarization happen on your phone's own processor. Your conversations aren't uploaded to be understood, aren't stored on someone else's server, and aren't used to train anything.
Almost every AI transcription service works the same way: your audio is uploaded, processed in a data centre, and stored there so you can read it back. That's a reasonable engineering choice, and it's also a permanent one — once the recording of your call with your doctor, your lawyer or your bank is on someone else's disk, your privacy depends entirely on their policy, their staff and their breach history.
Orgmee is built the other way round. The models that do the understanding are downloaded to your phone, and the audio is processed there. Not as a premium tier. As the default, and as the only thing that happens unless you deliberately turn on something else.
None of those four steps needs a network connection once the models are downloaded. You can put the phone in airplane mode and it still works.
Being honest about a privacy claim means being precise about the exceptions. There are three, all off unless you turn them on:
There are no ads in Orgmee and no advertising SDK inside it, which also means there's no ad network receiving a stream of signals about you in the background.
Running AI on a phone instead of a server buys you privacy and costs you three things, and you should know all three before installing:
You can delete any individual call with its recording, transcript and summary. You can delete your whole account and its data from inside the app, or from this website without needing the app at all. If your phone is lost or stolen you can lock your account from the web to freeze access to it.
The full detail is in the Privacy Policy.
Diagnoses, medications, case details, settlement figures. These are exactly the conversations worth having notes on and exactly the ones you'd never hand to a transcription service. On-device processing removes the choice between the two.
Plenty of workplaces ban uploading client or internal conversations to cloud AI tools. Audio that never leaves the handset is a materially different proposition from audio sitting in a vendor's storage bucket.
Cloud transcription needs bandwidth and a stable connection to upload minutes of audio. On a train, in a rural area, or on a metered plan, local processing just works — and costs no data.
A free cloud service has to be funded somehow — ads, upsells, or the data itself. Orgmee's answer is that there's no server bill to fund, because the work happens on hardware you already own.
Not by default. Recordings, transcripts and summaries are created and stored on your device, and the models that produce them run on the phone. So are your Orgmee Notes, chats and day plans. The one exception is a note you send to another Orgmee user: it passes through our servers encrypted, in a form we cannot read, and is deleted as soon as it reaches them. Cloud backup is opt-in, and only for calls.
Yes, for the core loop — recording, transcription and summarization — once the on-device model has been downloaded. Internet calling, cloud backup and the AI assistant need a connection, as their names suggest.
The on-device models are fixed — they run locally and produce output; they don't learn from your calls or transmit them. If you opt into the cloud AI assistant with your own API key, that request goes to your provider under their terms, which is why it's deliberately separate and opt-in.
An account is what makes internet calling between users possible and what lets optional cloud backup restore to a new phone. The account holds your profile and settings — not, by default, your recordings or transcripts.
A few hundred megabytes, downloaded once over Wi-Fi. It's the largest single cost of the privacy-first approach and the app is upfront about it before you start.
Free, ad-free, no subscription. The AI runs on your phone because that's the only way the promise actually holds.
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