Privacy

Binqo is built to keep your things on your Mac. This page explains, in plain words, what stays local and what is sent somewhere when you use a feature. Last updated: 24 October 2026.

What stays on your Mac

• Clipboard history is kept in memory only and is gone when Binqo quits. Items that password managers mark as hidden are never kept.
• Files on the shelf stay where they are. Binqo only remembers their location.
• Your calendar and what's playing are read on your Mac to show them in the notch.
• Turning your voice into text uses Apple's speech recognition. It runs on your Mac whenever possible; if on-device recognition isn't ready, your audio is processed by Apple under Apple's privacy policy.
• Settings, such as your chosen voice, are stored on your Mac.

What is sent, and only when you use it

• Asking Mielo a question. Your question goes to Binqo's server, which passes it to Groq to write the answer. If you allow it, today's calendar events and your recent clipboard text are included so Mielo can help. You can switch both off in the Ask tab's Voice and privacy settings.
• Spoken answers. When Mielo reads an answer aloud, the answer text goes through Binqo's server to ElevenLabs to be turned into speech.
• Weather. Your approximate location (about 1 km) is sent to Open-Meteo to get the forecast.

Binqo's server

Binqo's server runs on Cloudflare. It does not store your questions or answers. To keep usage fair, it counts how many questions and voice characters each install uses per day, using a random ID that Binqo creates when it starts for the first time. That ID is not linked to your name, email or Apple account, and the counts reset every day.

No accounts, no ads, no tracking

Binqo doesn't ask you to sign up, shows no ads, and doesn't use analytics or tracking in the app. This website doesn't use cookies or analytics. Its fonts are loaded from Google Fonts.

Services Binqo uses

• Cloudflare, to host this website and Binqo's server.
• Groq, to write Mielo's answers.
• ElevenLabs, to give Mielo a voice.
• Open-Meteo, for weather forecasts.

Each handles the data they receive under their own privacy policies.

Questions

If you have a question about your data, contact us at a contact address that will be listed here shortly.