Privacy policy
Effective October 4, 2026
The short version
- Your audio, transcripts and notes are files on your Mac. We never receive them.
- When you run a hand-off, the text goes to Claude under your own Claude account.
- The app has no analytics, no tracking and no ads.
Who we are
Megaphone Bar is a Mac app made by Rodney Manor ("we", "us"). This policy covers the Megaphone Bar app for macOS and this website, getbaton.app.
What stays on your Mac
Megaphone Bar records your microphone and your Mac's sound during a capture. It turns speech into text with Apple's speech recognition on your Mac. It saves the audio (.m4a), the transcript, your notes and every hand-off as plain files in the ~/Baton folder. We do not have a server that stores them, and we cannot see them.
You can open, edit, move or delete these files at any time. Delete a file and it is gone. Uninstalling Megaphone Bar does not delete ~/Baton, so you keep your notes.
What leaves your Mac, and only when you choose
- Hand-offs to Claude. When you run an engine (for example Enhance notes, Write follow-up or Make content), Megaphone Bar sends the text that engine needs, such as the transcript and your notes, to Claude through Claude Code on your Mac. This uses your own Claude account. Anthropic's privacy policy covers that data. Audio is never sent.
- Text you highlight. When you use Fix grammar, De-slop or another text engine from the right-click menu, the highlighted text goes to Claude the same way.
- Your connectors. If you set up connectors in Claude Code (for example Slack, Notion or Linear) and send a hand-off to one, the result goes to that service under your account.
- Mail and Reminders. A follow-up opens as a draft in Apple Mail for you to check and send. Action items you pick go to Apple Reminders. These stay inside your Apple apps.
Permissions the app asks for
- Microphone and system audio: to record your calls.
- Speech recognition: to make the live transcript on your Mac.
- Calendar: to see upcoming meetings, so Megaphone Bar can brief you and offer to take notes.
- Reminders: to add the action items you choose.
You can turn any of these off in System Settings → Privacy & Security.
Updates
Megaphone Bar checks for updates by downloading a small update file from our download server (Bunny CDN). Like any web server, it can see your IP address and app version for that request. We use this only to deliver updates.
This website
This site uses no cookies, no analytics and no tracking scripts. It is hosted on Vercel and loads a font from Google Fonts. Those providers can see standard request details, such as your IP address and browser, to serve the page.
Recording other people
Recording laws differ by place. Some places require everyone on a call to agree. You are responsible for telling people and getting consent where the law requires it. Megaphone Bar gives you a one-tap consent line to paste in the chat when you start a capture.
Children
Megaphone Bar is not meant for children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect data from them.
Changes
If we change this policy, we will update the date at the top of this page. If a change affects how your data leaves your Mac, we will say so in the app's release notes.
Contact
Questions? Email rodney@rodneymanor.com.