Privacy
Nothing you say ever leaves your Mac
Privacy as architecture. Offline by design.
Two permissions, one reason
Okato asks for exactly two macOS privileges, granted once from System Settings. Screen Recording and Audio Capture let it listen to anything that plays on your Mac, a film, a call, a lecture, so it can subtitle or translate it for you. The audio is processed entirely on your machine, and neither permission sends anything anywhere.
No network calls
Okato makes zero network requests. The app ships with speech recognition, translation and speaker separation that all run on your Mac. If you unplug the internet, everything still works.
No accounts
There is nothing to sign up for. No profile, no email address, no password. The app does not know who you are, because it does not need to.
No cloud processing
Your conversations, meetings, subtitles and translations never leave your Mac, unless you decide to share them. Transcription, translation and speaker separation all happen locally, so anything sensitive stays exactly where it happened, not a dataset.
No telemetry
Okato does not report usage, crash logs or analytics back to anyone. What happens in the app stays in the app.
Your transcripts are yours
Sessions are stored only on your Mac, and you can delete them at any time. Export takes your transcript wherever you want it, Markdown, plain text, PDF, or timed subtitles. Or go one step further: burn the subtitles of your choice into a brand-new video file, baked in and ready to share.
The only exception
The single system-level check is the Mac App Store receipt validation that confirms your purchase. It involves Apple, not us, and it is the only interaction Okato has with anything outside your machine.