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Yes. Team packs start at 5 seats and go up to 50, bought once. Whoever buys gets one admin key that opens a team page to see every seat, free up a Mac or retire a seat when someone leaves, plus one key per seat to hand out. A seat key activates DeftNib Pro on one Mac and cannot see or change anyone else's. Nothing anyone dictates ever leaves their Mac, and nobody, not even the admin, sees what was said. Details and prices at deftnib.com/teams.

A Mac with Apple Silicon (M1 or later) and macOS 26 or newer. There is no build for Intel Macs or for older macOS: the app runs on the speech engine and the language model Apple put inside the system, and those do not exist in earlier versions. For the language model to clean up your text you also need Apple Intelligence turned on; without it the app still transcribes and cleans up with rules.

No. DeftNib leans on Apple frameworks to transcribe and format on the device, and there is no equivalent that would let it do the same on Windows without sending your voice to a server, which is exactly what this app exists not to do.

The license lifts the volume limit and nothing else. The free plan gives you 4,000 words a week with EVERY feature: hands free mode, every language your Mac supports, the dictionary that learns, snippets, history, spoken corrections. Nothing is switched off waiting for you to pay. The counter resets on Mondays and needs no account and no email: it is a file on your Mac.

The app talks to our servers for four things, and none of them carries your voice: activating your license (once per Mac), renewing that Mac's permission (once a month, in the background), checking for updates, and, on the free plan, syncing the week's word counter once per session, when the app starts or as soon as it gets online. That last one sends a hashed machine id and one number; never what you dictated, never when. Apart from that, your Mac downloads Apple's speech models from Apple when you add a language, and the installer when you accept an update. Your audio and your text are never transmitted: there is no code in the app that knows how to. You can dictate all day with Wi-Fi off.

Yes. Your audio and your text are processed on your Mac and never transmitted: there is no code in the app that could send them, and dictation works with Wi-Fi off. The app talks to our servers for four things, all about the license and updates, each listed with what it carries at deftnib.com/private-dictation. That is a precise description of what the app does, not a promise.

One request per session, on the free plan only, when the app starts or as soon as it gets online if it started without a connection: it sends a hashed id of your Mac and the number of words used this week, and gets back the higher of that and the number the server remembers, so reinstalling the app does not reset the counter. It never sends what you dictated or when. If the server does not answer within two seconds, the app keeps its local counter and keeps working; it tries again a few times with growing pauses, and after the first answer it does not ask again until the next launch. Pro users never make this call.

An opaque identifier, and nothing else. Your Mac's hardware id never travels raw: what gets sent is an HMAC salted with your license id, which the server cannot reverse. Because the salt is your license, the same Mac under two different licenses produces two different identifiers, so customers cannot be correlated with each other either. The label stored alongside it is the model (MacBookPro18,3), never the name you gave your Mac.

3. You can see which ones are active and free any of them up, from the app or from deftnib.com/license, which is the way out when that Mac no longer exists. Re-activating a Mac that already had the license does not use up a new slot.

Nothing. You dictate exactly the same, with the whole pipeline, because the network was never involved in that. If you activate your license offline, the app turns Pro on anyway with a 14 day provisional permission and confirms by itself next time it can reach the server. And if one day it cannot renew your Mac's permission, you stay on Pro: the app only drops out of Pro if the server explicitly says the license was deactivated.

One payment, perpetual, 3 Macs, every 1.x version included forever. You activate each Mac once, and from then on the day to day license check runs on that Mac. There is no update renewal and no subscription of any kind. If a version 2 ever exists it will be a paid upgrade for whoever wants it. We never switch 1.x off and there is nothing in it that expires: it runs on the speech engine Apple ships with macOS, so it keeps working for as long as macOS keeps that engine.

The app keeps running. Transcription, formatting and everything that makes the app what it is run inside your Mac, and an activated Mac checks its license locally, with cryptography, without asking anybody. The server's one job is counting which Macs are on your license, and it is built to fail in your favor: if it ever goes silent, the Macs you already activated stay on Pro, by design. The only thing a dead server could stop is activating the license on a brand new Mac.

Yes, 30 days, no questions. And before buying you can use the free plan as long as you like: it does not expire, it asks for no account and it has every feature.

Because it cannot be. To hear your dictation key in any app and to paste the text wherever you are typing, DeftNib needs permissions the App Store sandbox does not allow. It is direct distribution, signed and notarized by Apple.

Three, and the setup assistant explains them one at a time: the microphone, to hear you; accessibility, to paste the text into the app you are working in; and input monitoring, to notice your dictation key even when you are in another app. None of them is used to log your keystrokes or to read anything but the text the app itself just wrote.