What leaves your Mac

Short version: with a fresh install, nothing. Every choice that changes that is one you make yourself, and here is the complete list.

Always on your Mac

• Audio recordings. They are written to your disk and never uploaded anywhere by anything, ever. No exceptions, no telemetry, no accounts.
• Transcription, by default: the Whisper model runs on your machine and works with the network cable unplugged.
• Meetings, transcripts, insights, reports: a local database in the app's own container.
• Your API keys, if you add any: stored in the macOS Keychain, not in files.

Sent out only if you set it up

• Copilot on Claude or a custom server: transcript text from the current call (plus matched knowledge base snippets and your profile's instructions) goes to that provider during calls and for reports. Audio never goes.
• Cloud transcription (Groq or Deepgram): the call audio is sent to them for speech-to-text as it happens. This is the one opt-in that sends sound. On-device stays the default.
• Update check: once a day Parrot asks GitHub whether a newer release exists. It sends nothing about you; it just reads the public releases list.

And Ollama?

Ollama runs on your own machine, so a Copilot on Ollama keeps everything local: Parrot only ever talks to it on localhost. Local model, local transcription, zero outbound bytes. That combination is the whole reason Parrot exists.