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Everything here is true of the app as it ships. Anything missing, email us.
No request Nico makes carries your files, your audio or anything they produce. Nico runs on the Mac the files are already on.
The coding CLI is a separate matter and worth being exact about. Nico drives the Claude Code or Codex already installed on your Mac, in a terminal on the card. What that CLI sends to its provider, it sends under your own subscription and that provider's terms — not through us. Point Nico at a local model through Ollama and nothing leaves the machine at all.
Yes. Unplug the network and dictation keeps working, because transcription happens on your Mac.
Three things ever leave this Mac: a model download; a licence check, about once a month, carrying your key and a machine fingerprint; and an update check, at most once a day, carrying nothing at all.
A tool that asks a cloud CLI a question needs the network for that question, the same way the CLI does on its own. A tool pointed at Ollama does not.
$25 a month. Seven days free first, with everything unlocked and no card asked for.
The trial clock starts at your first recording, not at the download, so leaving it a fortnight costs you nothing. There is a 14-day refund, set out on the legal page.
Nothing on top for tokens. Nico does not resell, proxy, mark up or meter a single model request.
Nico does not ship a model and does not host one. It runs the coding CLI that is already on your Mac — Claude Code or Codex — on the subscription you already pay for.
For local models it drives Ollama, so whichever models you have pulled are the models available.
Dictation is separate and always local: speech becomes text on your own machine.
macOS 13 or later, on Apple silicon.
There is no Windows build and no Linux build.
No. There is nothing to sign into and nothing to sign out of.
Buying sends you a licence key by email. The app holds the key; we hold no profile.
Anything a tool needs — a key, a token, a password — lives in the macOS Keychain, never in a file on disk.
A licence key and a machine fingerprint, about once a month. Nothing else, and never a file.
One subscription covers three Macs. To move it to a fourth, email us and a slot is freed.
They stay. Every tool Nico builds is an ordinary folder on your Mac, with a data folder of its own that survives every run.
Cancelling stops the subscription. It does not reach into those folders.
Yes. A tool exports as a zip, and the export leaves the data folder out — so somebody can have the receipt parser without having your receipts.
The CLI runs in a terminal you can see, on the card, and it asks before it changes anything. You answer it there.
MCP tools are granted one at a time rather than in a block.
No. If the focused field is a secure text field, or any process on the Mac has turned on secure input mode, Nico refuses to synthesise keystrokes and puts the text on the clipboard instead.
That second case is also the usual reason a global hotkey appears to be broken on macOS, and the app's own diagnostics name it, because nothing else will.
As many as you like, each in a folder of its own. Ten versions of each are kept, so a bad edit is not a disaster.
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