Cadrillo Voice for Android — Privacy Policy
Last updated: October 24, 2026 · Applies to Cadrillo Voice on Google Play (co.getcreative.voicetype)
The short version. Cadrillo Voice is a keyboard for Android that also takes dictation. What you type is handled on your phone. When Cadrillo turns your speech into text, the audio goes to our own speech servers in the United States. For a personal account it is turned into text and not kept, and it is not sent to any other company. You can also choose to have your phone do the speech itself, and then the audio never leaves the phone. The app uses Google's Firebase to count how it is used and to report crashes, with no advertising ID. It shows no ads, and we do not sell your data.
Who we are
Cadrillo Voice is part of Cadrillo. Cadrillo is operated by Intentionally Creative LLC, a New York limited liability company doing business as Cadrillo, a Get Creative company ("Cadrillo", "we", "us"), at 4465 E Genesee St., Syracuse, New York 13214, United States.
This page adds to Cadrillo's Privacy Policy. It says what this app collects, why, who receives it and how long it is kept. Where this page and Cadrillo's policy differ about this app, this page applies.
Questions: [email protected].
Typing stays on your phone
The keyboard reads what you type in order to show suggestions and fix typing slips, and it does this on your phone. It learns a word you type twice (Settings → Learn new words) and keeps that list on your phone. Settings → Forget everything learned clears it.
In password boxes, and in boxes an app marks as private, the keyboard learns nothing and keeps no history.
Android shows a warning when you turn on any keyboard: that it may be able to collect what you type. Cadrillo Voice sends typed text to Cadrillo only in three cases, each one something you start:
- you open Wesley on the keyboard and ask for a task (see Wesley in the keyboard);
- you add a word to your Cadrillo dictionary, or tell the keyboard not to offer one;
- you send Feedback and tick a change the keyboard made (see Feedback you send).
The app turns off Android's app backup, so nothing it saves on the phone is copied into your Google account's backup.
Signing in
Typing works without an account. Dictation through Cadrillo, Wesley, your dictation history in your account and the membership need a Cadrillo account.
- Personal account. Tap Sign in with Google. Your phone opens Cadrillo's sign-in page at app.cadrillo.com in a browser tab, and Google tells Cadrillo your email address and name. Google does not give us your password.
- Work account. Tap Company. You sign in on the same page, or with a six-digit code we email to your work address. If you use Cadrillo through your company, your company decides how the information in its workspace is used, and we handle it for the company under our agreement with it.
The app keeps your sign-in on the phone, sealed with a key held in Android's secure key store. Signing out removes it.
The app also makes a random install number the first time it runs. It is not taken from your phone's hardware, and it is sent with each request so we can tell one install from another.
Dictation
In Settings → Speech to text you choose who turns your speech into text:
| Setting | What happens to the audio |
|---|---|
| This phone | Your phone does it. The audio never leaves the phone. You first download the speech files to the phone |
| Cadrillo | Our own speech servers do it. With no signal, the recording is kept on your phone and sent when you are back online |
| Auto | Our speech servers do it, and your phone does it when there is no signal, if you downloaded the speech files |
When our servers do it, the app sends the audio as you speak, over an encrypted connection, to Cadrillo's own speech servers in the United States. They send the words back as you talk and check each finished sentence a second time. The text you get always comes from these servers. No AI model rewrites what you said.
With a personal account, the audio is turned into text and not kept: no copy of the recording is saved, and it is not sent to any other company.
With a work account, your company's agreement with Cadrillo decides how its data is used. For a company account that Cadrillo set up for the company, including the companies that run Cadrillo, we keep a copy of every recording our speech servers turn into text, with our text beside it, and send the same recording to three outside speech-to-text services so we can compare their accuracy with ours: AssemblyAI, Deepgram and ElevenLabs. Each receives the recording, and your name and email address do not go with it. AssemblyAI and Deepgram also receive up to 100 spellings from your company's word list, such as the names of its people, products and clients, so they can spell them correctly. Their text is never what you get back. We have not set an end date for our copies yet.
This does not happen for a company created through Cadrillo's own sign-up, for a company whose workspace is set so that its data is used only to serve it, or ever for a personal account.
On your phone, a recording that could not be turned into text yet waits in the app's private storage until it is, or until you delete it (History → Not transcribed yet). The speech files for This phone are downloaded, when you choose to, from a public download site (GitHub), which sees your phone's network address the way any download does. They are about 104 MB or 482 MB.
Your dictation history and dictionary
History. With Settings → Keep a history on (it is on to start with), the text of each dictation is kept on your phone (the newest 500) and in your Cadrillo account, so it is there when you sign in on another device. Each one carries when you started and stopped, how long it was, and the name of the app you were dictating into. Nothing is kept from password boxes or private boxes. With Keep a history off, the text is not saved, on the phone or in your account.
Deleting a dictation in History removes it from this phone. It does not remove the copy in your Cadrillo account. To remove those, see Deleting your data.
Dictionary. Words you add to your dictionary, and words you tell the keyboard not to offer again, are saved in your Cadrillo account so dictation on every device knows them. With Settings → Offer to add words you fix on, a name you fix after dictating is added after 5 seconds unless you tap Don't add. Removing a word in Dictionary removes it from your account too.
Wesley in the keyboard
Wesley is Cadrillo's AI employee. On the keyboard, Wesley turns the text you selected, or the whole message, into a task. When you ask, the app sends that text (up to 8,000 characters) to Cadrillo. Cadrillo's server sends the text to an AI model provider, which reads it and returns a draft: a title, the name of the person the task is for, a due date and any details. Only the text goes to the provider. Your name, your email address and your workspace do not. Cadrillo's server then matches a name in the draft to the people in your workspace.
The AI providers Cadrillo may use for Wesley's drafts are Anthropic (Claude), OpenAI (ChatGPT), Google (Gemini), xAI (Grok) and Cerebras, which runs AI models on its own servers. Today a draft is made by Cerebras. When Cerebras is not answering, it is made by Anthropic's Claude or xAI's Grok. If none of them answers, Cadrillo's server makes the task from your words without AI. Each provider handles the text under its own terms. More is in How We Use AI.
Nothing is created until you tap Create task, and the text in the box is never changed. A task you create is saved in your Cadrillo workspace.
Feedback you send
The Feedback button sends a report to the Cadrillo team. It holds whether the keyboard got something right or wrong, what it was about, a note you speak (turned into text), and up to 5 changes the keyboard made in the last 10 minutes that you tick, each as what you typed and what it became. It also carries the app's version, your Android version, your phone's maker and model, and the app you were typing in (left out for password and private boxes). It is filed with your Cadrillo email address so we can reply. Sending feedback needs a signed-in account.
Diagnostics we receive
So we can keep the app working, it sends Cadrillo short diagnostic records: counts, error codes and timings, such as how long a dictation took. They carry your random install number and, when you are signed in, your account. They never hold what you type or say. The app also tells Cadrillo now and then that it is running, with its version, the Android version and what the phone supports.
Analytics and crash reports
The app uses two Google services, from the first time you open it. There is no switch for them in the app.
| Service | What it receives |
|---|---|
| Google Analytics for Firebase | Google's standard app events: the first open, sessions and time in the app, which app screen is showing, app and Android updates, the app's data being cleared or the app being removed, app errors, and Google Play purchase events such as a membership starting, renewing, being canceled or refunded. With them come a random app-instance ID, your phone's model, Android version, language and the app's version, and the city or country Google works out from your connection |
| Firebase Crashlytics | A report when the app crashes: where in the app's code it failed, the phone's model, Android version, free memory and storage, whether the app was in the background, the app's version, and a random installation ID |
We use these to see how the app is used and to fix crashes. We do not send them your name, your email address, your account, or anything you type or say, and we have added no events of our own. The app has no advertising ID: it removes Android's advertising ID permission, and Google's ad features are turned off. Neither service is used for advertising.
The membership and purchases
Cadrillo dictation and Wesley in the keyboard are free for the first week of a personal Cadrillo account, and after that come with a Cadrillo membership, bought through Google Play. Typing, autocorrect and your phone's own speech are always free. A company account includes Cadrillo dictation and buys nothing here. The Terms of Use have the rules.
- Google Play takes the payment. We never see your card or payment details. Google Play's own privacy terms cover what it collects.
- RevenueCat runs the purchase for us. It receives your Cadrillo account number (a random ID, not your email or name), the Google Play purchase details for the membership (which plan, its price and currency, when it started, renews or ends, and Google's proof of purchase), the app's version, and the network details any website receives. The app starts RevenueCat only when you open the membership screen with a personal account.
- Cadrillo's servers ask RevenueCat whether your account holds a membership, after your free week ends.
Permissions the app asks for
| Permission | Why |
|---|---|
| Microphone | To hear you while you dictate. The app records only after you press the mic key or hold to talk |
| Internet and network state | To reach Cadrillo, sign in, and know when you are offline |
The app does not ask for your location, contacts, photos or files.
Who else receives your data
We do not sell your data, and we do not share it for advertising. It is received only by:
- Google, for Google sign-in, Google Analytics for Firebase, Firebase Crashlytics and Google Play;
- RevenueCat, for the membership;
- AI model providers, for Wesley's drafts only: Cerebras today, and Anthropic or xAI when Cerebras is not answering, as described in Wesley in the keyboard;
- AssemblyAI, Deepgram and ElevenLabs, outside speech-to-text services, for recordings from the company accounts described in Dictation only, never from a personal account;
- Cadrillo's service providers that host and run our servers, listed in Service Providers and Subprocessors;
- your company, if you use a work account, as Cadrillo's policy describes;
- others only when the law requires it, or as Cadrillo's policy describes for a merger or sale.
Where it is processed and how it is protected
Cadrillo's servers, including the speech servers, are in the United States. Everything the app sends travels over encrypted connections. More on where Cadrillo's data is kept and how it is protected is in Cadrillo's policy.
How long we keep it
| What | How long |
|---|---|
| Audio from a personal account | Not kept. It is turned into text and dropped |
| Dictation recordings kept from some company accounts | No end date has been set yet |
| Your dictation history and dictionary in your Cadrillo account | While your account is open, then as Cadrillo's policy sets for a closed account: 30 days so you can export it, then deleted |
| History on your phone | The newest 500, until you delete them or remove the app |
| Feedback reports and diagnostic records | No end date has been set yet. You can ask us to delete them at any time |
| Analytics events (Google) | Up to 14 months, then deleted by Google |
| Crash reports (Google) | Up to 90 days, then deleted by Google |
| Membership records (RevenueCat) | While we use RevenueCat. We ask it to delete yours when you delete your account |
Deleting your data
- On your phone: delete dictations in History, use Settings → Forget everything learned, sign out, or remove the app, which deletes everything it saved on the phone.
- Your account and what it holds: email [email protected] from the address you sign in with. The steps, and what is deleted, are on the Account and Data Deletion page.
Your rights
You can ask us to show you, correct, export or delete the information we hold about you, and to stop using it. Email [email protected] from the address you use with us. We confirm who you are before we act, answer within 30 days (45 days where US state law allows), and do not charge for it. The rest of your rights, including those under US state laws and in Europe, are in Cadrillo's policy.
Children
Cadrillo Voice is not for children. You must be 18 or older to create a Cadrillo account, and we do not knowingly collect information from anyone under 16. If you believe a child has given us information, email us and we will delete it.
Changes
When this page changes, we update the date at the top. If a change is significant, we tell you in the app or by email before it takes effect.