Privacy
Privacy Policy
Last updated: October 2026
Local AI Cat is designed around on-device AI. The default experience keeps your chats, models, and voice inputs on your own hardware instead of routing them through our servers.
TL;DR: We do not collect, store, or transmit your conversations. Your data stays on your device unless you explicitly choose an optional Apple-provided service.
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What we do not collect
- Chat content or conversations
- Voice recordings or transcriptions
- Personal information for core app use
- Tracking analytics tied to your prompts
Local storage by default
The app is built around local model execution and local storage. If you delete the app, the local data stored by that install is removed from that device.
Optional Apple-managed services
If you enable an Apple-provided enhancement such as cloud-backed transcription, that processing is governed by Apple's terms and privacy policies. Local AI Cat does not receive or store that audio.
Direct download and billing
The direct-download and business path may introduce purchase, entitlement, or billing records needed to manage subscriptions, Developer Mode, Team access, or Enterprise rollout. Those records should be limited to commerce and entitlement state, not your chat content.
Open-source licenses
Local AI Cat uses open-source libraries. See the full list on our third-party licenses page.
This website
We use Vercel Web Analytics to understand page visits, download clicks, creator opens and successful cat-code copies. It uses no analytics cookies. Vercel derives a daily visitor identifier from the request and discards that identifier after 24 hours; aggregate reports are retained.
Reports include pages, referring sites, country, device and browser type. We strip query strings and fragments from the page URLs we send and exclude account, checkout and private pages. We never send cat names, birthdays, cat codes, drawings or chat content as analytics events.
The explorer sign shows GoatCounter’s estimate of visitors since midnight UTC. It is not a live headcount. With Do Not Track or Global Privacy Control on in your browser, you are not counted at all; to object otherwise, write to us. Your custom cat is saved only in this browser.
This applies to the website, not the native app. Read more about Vercel’s analytics privacy.
We also count public page views with cookie-free GoatCounter, using a small image request rather than a third-party script. We send only the public page path, without query strings, page titles or referring URLs. Vercel Speed Insights measures page performance with the same privacy preferences.
The site counts Mac downloads, checkouts started and the direct-download app’s update checks itself, as daily totals per channel and app version. It keeps no IP address, browser details or cookie for this. To count each Mac once a day, it keeps a hash of the address and app version made with a key that is deleted after two days. These totals are public at localaicat.com/stats, with App Store downloads and the number of orders: counts only, never amounts or people.
Chat support loads Chatwoot in an isolated panel only when you select it. We do not load it on checkout, activation or account pages, or send it your checkout details or current page URL. Information you choose to send in chat is handled by Chatwoot.
Questions
For privacy questions, contact privacy@localaicat.com.