MIT licensed
You should be able to read what listens to you.
Plainspoke is open core. The client that captures your voice, and the prompt that rewrites it, are public under the MIT licence. The hosted service that runs the models is not. Here is the line, drawn plainly.
Read the sourceOpen
- The desktop client
- The whole Linux app: hotkey handling, audio capture, tray integration, clipboard behaviour. If it touches your microphone, you can read it.
- The cleanup prompt
- The exact instructions we send to the model, verbatim. It is the most valuable thing we have, and hiding it would make the fidelity promise unverifiable.
- Local transcription
- The on-device path that runs without an account, without our servers, and without a network connection.
Not open
- The hosted backend
- The service that runs the cloud models, sync and history. Running it is what the subscription pays for.
- Billing and entitlements
- Payment handling and quota enforcement. Nothing here would be useful to you, and publishing it mostly helps people who want to bypass it.
The promise this makes
If we raise prices, change the cleanup in a way you dislike, or disappear entirely, the client keeps working. You can run it against your own API keys, or against the local model, and nothing we do can take that away.
That is the point of the licence. A dictation tool asks for permanent access to your microphone and sees everything you write. The reasonable response to that request is “show me”, and this is us showing you.