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: 28 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.
• Mielo's moods. Mielo's face follows the time of day and how long it's been since you last used your keyboard or mouse, so it can look glad when you're back. Binqo only reads that number of seconds, never what you type or click, and it stays on your Mac. Turn it off with "Mielo's moods" in Settings.
• Mini-apps. The apps you make, and everything you put in them, are saved on your Mac in Binqo's folder. Making or changing an app from words uses Apple's on-device model, so your request stays on your Mac. "Add to Dock" puts a small app for it in the Binqo Apps folder of your Applications; it's built and signed on your Mac and sends nothing anywhere. Mini-apps can't see your calendar, clipboard or files.
• Reminders. Only when you click a reminder Mielo offers, Binqo adds it to the Reminders app on your Mac. It never reads your reminders.
• 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. On Macs with Apple Intelligence (macOS 26 or later), anything about you is answered with Apple's on-device model, so those questions, your calendar, your clipboard, your notes and the weather stay on your Mac. General questions that need nothing about you, like facts or maths, go to Binqo's server and Groq with only the question, because they're answered more accurately there; you can turn this off with "Ask online for general questions". If a question is too big for your Mac, Mielo asks before sending it online. On other Macs, or if you turn off "Answer on this Mac", 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. To stop abuse, it also counts requests per network, keeping only a salted hash of your IP address, never the address itself. All counts are deleted at the daily reset.

Anonymous usage in the app, only if you say yes

When you first open Binqo, Mielo asks whether you'd like to share anonymous usage. If you say yes, the app sends small events to PostHog, hosted in the EU: things like which tab was opened, whether a question got an answer, and which voice played. Each event carries a random install ID, the Binqo version, the macOS version, your Mac's chip type and your language. It never includes your questions, answers, clipboard, calendar, file names or location, and no profile is built about you. If Binqo crashes, the next launch also sends a short crash summary: the type of crash, the Binqo and macOS versions, and the names of the functions that were running. It never includes file paths, your user name or anything from other apps. You can turn it off any time in Settings, and nothing is sent if you said no.

Cookies on this website

This website asks before using any cookie. If you choose Sure, have it, PostHog (EU) sets a first-party cookie and local storage entry (named ph_…) to count visits, page views and download clicks without knowing who you are. If you choose No thanks, no analytics load and nothing is stored, apart from remembering your choice in your browser's local storage. You can change your mind with Cookie settings at the bottom of any page. Fonts are loaded from Google Fonts.

Meeting notes

When you start Mielo in a meeting, Binqo listens to your microphone and to your Mac's sound and turns them into text with Apple's speech recognition, on your Mac. The audio is never saved or sent anywhere. The transcript is stored only on your Mac, with your notes. When the meeting ends, Binqo sends the meeting title, your notes and the transcript to Binqo's server, which asks Mielo's AI service (Groq) to write them up and sends the result back; neither keeps a copy. Please let people know before Mielo takes notes: in many places, everyone on a call needs to agree before it is transcribed.

Asking about your notes

Searching your pages and meetings happens entirely on your Mac. When you ask Mielo a question about them, Binqo picks the few pages that match. On Macs with Apple Intelligence, Mielo answers from them on your Mac, and nothing is sent. Otherwise, or if you choose "Ask online" for a question too big for your Mac, Binqo sends your question with those pages (or the matching parts of a transcript) to Binqo's server, which asks Groq for an answer. Neither keeps a copy.

No accounts, no ads

Binqo doesn't ask you to sign up, shows no ads, and never sells data.

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.
• PostHog (EU), for anonymous analytics, only with your consent.

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

Questions

If you have a question about your data, write to [email protected]. Binqo is published by Raphael Griffiths; see the legal notice.