Sotto

Privacy Policy

Sotto does not collect, store, or transmit any personal data.

Last updated · 2026-04-15

TL;DR

Sotto is a local macOS utility. It does not collect analytics, telemetry, crash reports, usage data, or any other information. It never records audio. No data ever leaves your Mac.

What Sotto accesses on your Mac

  • Audio devices (via Apple’s CoreAudio APIs), to enumerate connected inputs/outputs, read and set volume, mute state, and default device. This is a local, on-device operation that macOS provides to any audio application.
  • Your microphone permission, granted to read and set microphone state (mute, volume) and to make global mute / push-to-talk shortcuts work. Sotto never opens an audio input stream to capture or record sound.
  • Your preferences, stored locally on your Mac via Apple’s UserDefaults API (the standard macOS preferences store). Contents include your safety-net thresholds, default-volume preferences, keyboard shortcut bindings, and which device is pinned.
  • Keyboard shortcuts, registered globally so your mute / push-to-talk bindings work outside the app. Key events are handled locally by macOS.

What Sotto does not do

  • No network requests. The app does not phone home, check for updates automatically, or contact any server.
  • No analytics, no crash reporting, no product telemetry, neither first-party nor third-party.
  • No advertising identifiers, no tracking domains, no cookies.
  • No audio capture or recording, ever.
  • No access to contacts, calendars, photos, files, location, camera, or any other system resource beyond audio devices.

Third parties

Sotto has no third-party SDKs, analytics, or services bundled. The only external dependency at runtime is Apple’s own CoreAudio and related system frameworks.

Updates

Updates are delivered through the Mac App Store. The App Store handles the download and install, Sotto itself never contacts a server, never checks for updates, and never installs anything on its own.

GDPR, CCPA and similar

Because Sotto does not collect or process personal data, it has nothing to store, share, export, or delete on your behalf. If you wish to remove the app and all of its local preferences:

  1. Open Launchpad, click and hold the Sotto icon, then click the × that appears.
  2. Optional: remove local preferences with defaults delete com.sotto.app in Terminal.

Contact

Privacy questions: deimosfr+sotto-support@gmail.com

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