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Privacy Policy

Last updated November 10, 2026

Overtype is built to send as little as possible. You don’t need an account, there are no ads and no tracking cookies, and we never sell your data. We never keep anything you write.

What the app sends, and when

Only when you ask for a rewrite, the app sends three things to Overtype’s server: the text you highlighted, the instruction you typed, and the app’s version number. The server passes the text and instruction to a third-party AI provider, and sends the rewrite back to the app.

• Nothing is sent before you press Enter, and nothing else on your computer is read or sent.
• Overtype doesn’t store your text or the rewrite. Our AI provider processes them to make the rewrite, under its own business terms and privacy policy.
• To read your selection, the app copies it, then puts your clipboard back exactly as it was.
• Your settings and custom commands stay on your computer.

Voice

When you talk to Overtype, your speech is turned into text on your own computer, and the audio never leaves it. If you ask Overtype to write something from what you said, only that text is sent, the same way as a rewrite.

Counting the free rewrites

The first time the app opens, it gets a random, anonymous key from our server. It isn’t linked to your name, email or anything else about you. The server uses it, along with your network’s IP address, to count rewrites per day so it can enforce the free daily limit and stop abuse.

Those daily counts are deleted after about two days. We keep only anonymous totals, such as how many copies were opened and how many rewrites were made each day.

Signing in and Overtype Pro

Signing in and Overtype Pro are coming soon. Free never needs an account. If you sign in with Google to use Pro, we store only:

• your Google account ID and email address, to know which account is yours;
• your Stripe customer ID, subscription ID and the subscription’s status, to know your plan;
• daily rewrite counts for your account, the same kind of counts kept for the free plan.

We don’t get your Google password or anything else in your Google account. The website remembers that you’re signed in with a token kept in your browser for up to 30 days, and signing out deletes it.

Payments are handled by Stripe. Your card details go straight to Stripe and never reach us. Stripe processes them under its privacy policy.

Updates and downloads

The installer and updates are downloaded from GitHub, and the app checks GitHub for new versions. GitHub sees those requests under its own privacy statement.

This website

useovertype.com is hosted on Vercel and uses Vercel Web Analytics, which doesn’t use cookies. It counts page views, the page that linked you here, your country and your device type, all in aggregate. It doesn’t build a profile of you.

Contact form

If you send us a message with the contact form, we get your name (if you give one), your email address and your message, and we use them only to reply to you. The message reaches our inbox by email through a form-forwarding service.

Children

Overtype isn’t directed at children under 13, and we don’t knowingly collect information from them.

Changes

If this policy changes, we’ll update it here and change the date at the top.

Contact

Questions about privacy? Use the contact form or message us on X @useovertype.