Your music is never uploaded. There are no WavRead servers to upload it to, no account to create, and no telemetry. This page lists every request the app can make, so the claim can be checked rather than trusted.
Audio, stems, documents and measurements stay in a folder on your machine.
No sign-in, no licence server, no email address, nothing to leak.
No analytics, no crash reporting, no usage counters, no identifier.
WavRead does nothing while you are not using it, beyond one daily version check you can switch off.
Four, in the whole application. None of them sends anything about you or your music — the requests carry no identifier, no filenames and no measurements.
| Update check | Once a day, one request to WavRead's public release page, asking only what the newest published version is. It has no body and no identifier, fails silently when you are offline, and is switched off for good in Settings if you would rather it never ran. |
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| Installing an update | Only when you press Update now. It downloads that release's disk image from the public release page and checks it against the checksum published in the release notes. Nothing installs on its own. |
| Stem separation model | About 80 MB, fetched once from the model's publisher the first time you separate a mix into parts. Bring your own stems — or capture them from your DAW — and this never happens. |
| Lyric transcription model | About 460 MB, fetched once from its publisher the first time you transcribe lyrics, then cached. Skip lyrics and it is never downloaded. |
Both models are downloads of software, not uploads of your audio: the model comes to your machine and runs there. Everything else — measurement, structure, chords, melody, the whole Feedback Report — needs no connection at all, and the app runs normally with the network off.
Melody transcription needs no download: that model ships inside the app.
WavRead Bridge talks to exactly one address — 127.0.0.1, your own
machine — and the app refuses any capture request that did not originate locally.
The audio it records is written straight into WavRead's library folder on the
drive you chose. Nothing about a session, its track names, or its audio goes
anywhere else.
One folder holds everything: analyses, documents, separated stems, captures and copies of the audio you analysed. Settings shows you the exact path, how large it is, and how much room is left on that drive — and moves the whole library somewhere else if you want, copying first and removing the original only once the copy is complete.
You can delete any part of it from inside the app, or in Finder. WavRead keeps no second copy anywhere, and nothing is retained after you delete it.
Track Documents contain measurements, structure, estimated chords and lyrics, and your own notes — no audio. If you paste one into an AI assistant, that is your decision and your assistant's privacy policy; WavRead never sends a document anywhere itself. Nothing in the app requires an AI at all.
Last checked against WavRead 1.4.4. The model download sizes are the actual sizes on disk after a first run: 80 MB for separation, 464 MB for lyric transcription.