I don’t get it. It says nothing leaves your computer, but it’s sending things to OpenRouter, not running models locally. Perhaps I am dumb (and I always feel dumb after reading an AI generated README for yet another AI tool Tbf)
I guess you could theoretically plug in a local model here but of course the readme should be more precise here when talking about privacy
So local-first and still upload files to cloud models if you configure it.
Given the software‘s broad appeal, I’d rephrase to make it more clear every word/file you send would leave your computer.
I agree that someone may misunderstand their phrasing though
Where does it say that?
It sends to OpenRouter if you chose to use OpenRouter. Can use Ollama. Idk how to get more local than that? Any tool will be non-local, when you do something explicitly non-local.
Are you saying this part is a lie?
In that I'm saying their AI generated slop README is misleading enough to be lying.
When you prominently say "all without uploading anything to the cloud." but the default does exactly that, a single half-sentence mentioning Ollama doesn't cut it.
They talk about privacy first, they talk up local first, then their default settings are to send every syllable to someone else’s computer. Once you understand the app it’s trivial to make it a local, but there’s a good chance your first transcript is coming off a server unlike what the marketing material suggested.