Privacy

OrbitAI runs on your Mac and reads things that are already on it. There is no OrbitAI account and no server of ours for anything to be sent to. This page is the specific version of that, including the parts that are not so tidy.

What it reads

Only when you allow it

Reminders, Calendar, Contacts, Mail, Messages and Notes, through the same macOS permissions any app has to ask for. Refuse any of them and it carries on without that part rather than nagging you.

Where it goes

Into the sentence it says back to you, and then out of memory. Nothing is copied into a database of its own, and there is nowhere for it to be uploaded to.

Messages needs Full Disk Access, which macOS never offers on its own. That is a real permission with real reach, and it is the one we would understand you refusing. Everything else keeps working without it.

The microphone

The menu bar app keeps a few seconds of audio in memory so it can tell who spoke. When you say something to it, that clip is written to a file in ~/.local/state/daily-welcome that only your account can read, and the next thing you say overwrites it. Deleting the folder deletes all of it.

Working out whose voice it was happens on the Mac, with a model that is downloaded once and then run locally. Recordings are never sent anywhere, and neither are the numbers derived from them.

Turning speech into text is the exception, and you choose which way. By default macOS does it, which can involve Apple's servers, the same as dictation anywhere else on the Mac. Switch on-device recognition on the Setup page and no audio leaves the machine at all — at the cost of being noticeably worse at unusual names.

The one thing that leaves

To understand a sentence nobody anticipated, Orbit sends that sentence to a model, and gets back which command you meant. What goes is the words you said, plus a short list of the things it can do. What does not go: your files, your mail, your messages, your calendar, or any recording.

Asking it a question is different, and obviously so — a question goes to Claude the way a question you typed would, and if you ask it to read your screen, it reads your screen. That only happens when you ask.

Three ways out of it, all on the Setup page: point it at a model running on your own machine, so nothing leaves; or set understanding to rules, which sends nothing anywhere and understands only the phrasings in the Commands list; or leave it as it is, and know what it is.

This website

No analytics, no cookies, no accounts, no tracking. The pages that control your assistant talk from your browser straight to your own Mac — requests never pass through this site, and it could not read them if they did. Fonts come from Google, which sees that a browser asked for a font.

Deleting it

rm -rf ~/.local/state/daily-welcome     # recordings, logs, voice profiles
rm -rf ~/.config/daily-welcome          # your settings
rm -rf ~/Applications/DailyWelcome.app  # the app itself

Keys you gave it live in your login Keychain under daily-welcome, and Keychain Access will delete them. Nothing else needs undoing, because nothing was sent anywhere to undo.