Murmo Notes is still in development and has not been released. This page describes what the app does now; if that changes, this page will be updated.
What the app stores on your device
Everything below is kept on your iPhone in Murmo Notes’ own storage space, which other apps cannot read.
| What is stored | What it is used for |
|---|---|
| Audio recordings | Transcription, and later playback and re-transcription. The original recording is kept until you delete it. |
| Transcripts | Reading back in the list. What is saved is the transcript as produced; the tidied-up text you see is worked out each time it is shown and is not saved as a second copy. |
| Marks made while recording | The second at which you tapped Highlight or Remind, used to mark the matching sentence. |
| Which reminders and events were written | So that you can undo an item the app wrote, and so that the same thing is not written twice. |
| Custom Words and settings | The word corrections you enter yourself, and switches such as Lock with Face ID. |
| Diagnostic log | Only figures such as times, recording IDs, lengths and durations, used to work out things like why a transcription did not finish. It does not record what you said and is never sent to anyone automatically. |
The watch only holds recordings that have not yet been handed to the iPhone. Once the iPhone confirms it has received a recording, the copy on the watch is deleted.
Permissions the app asks for
- Microphone: to record what you say. Used only after you start a recording.
- Reminders: to write the to-dos you mention. The app asks for full access because undoing requires finding the item the app itself wrote. The app does not send the contents of Reminders anywhere.
- Calendar: to write the events you mention. Full access is requested for the same reason. The app does not send the contents of your calendar anywhere.
- Face ID: used only after you turn on Lock with Face ID in the app’s settings, to confirm it is you before showing recordings and transcripts. The check is done by the system; the app only learns whether it passed or failed and has no access to Face ID data.
You can refuse any of these, and you can turn them off at any time in the iPhone’s Settings. Without access to Reminders or Calendar the app still records and transcribes; it just does not write to them.
What leaves the device
Transcription is done on the iPhone itself. The speech recognition components the app uses (the open-source WhisperKit and a Whisper model) run on the device and do not send recordings anywhere. The speech model is currently installed together with the app; if that changes, it will be stated here. The app contains no analytics, no advertising, and no third-party data collection code.
Data leaves a given device only in the cases below, and each one is between your own devices or within your own Apple account:
- From the watch to your iPhone: audio recorded on the watch is sent to the iPhone it is paired with, over the system’s own channel between watch and phone.
- Reminders and Calendar: once the app has written a reminder or an event into these two Apple apps, the content is theirs to manage. Whether it syncs to your other devices through iCloud depends on your own iCloud settings and is outside Murmo Notes’ control.
- Your own backups: if you have turned on iCloud Backup or back up to a computer, Murmo Notes’ data (recordings, transcripts, marks and so on) goes into your own backup, like the data of any other app.
- Speaking to Siri: when you use Siri to start a recording, the phrase you say to Siri is handled by Apple’s Siri under Apple’s privacy policy. Murmo Notes only receives the “start recording” action, not what you said to Siri.
Separately, if you have agreed to “Share With App Developers” in the iPhone’s analytics settings, Apple provides the developer with anonymous crash and usage statistics. These are collected and provided by Apple; Murmo Notes itself collects nothing and uploads nothing.
Writing notes into Apple Notes is still being prepared. When it becomes available, this page will explain how the content is handed over and where it is written.
How long data is kept, and how to delete it
- Recordings and transcripts stay on your device until you delete them.
- Deleting a recording in the app also deletes: the audio file, the transcript, the marks made while recording, and the app’s own record of which reminders and events that recording produced.
- Not deleted along with it: anything already written into Reminders or Calendar. That content lives in Apple’s apps and has to be deleted there. Before deleting a recording, you can also remove its reminders and events from within Murmo Notes by tapping Undo.
- Deleting Murmo Notes from your iPhone removes everything the app has stored.
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Children
Murmo Notes is not directed at children under 13. The app does not collect personal information from anyone.
Changes to this policy
When the policy changes, this page will be updated and will show the date of the update.
Contact
Murmo Notes is developed by Home M K Inc.
If you have a question about this policy, or want to know how Murmo Notes handles your data, write to support@murmonotes.com.
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Effective date: October 11, 2026