Keeppad is a note taking app you speak to. It has no user accounts and no analytics. The Android app shows ads from Google AdMob.
The microphone
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Hey Keep is off until you turn it on. The app explains it first and asks you to agree.
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With Hey Keep on, the microphone stays open in the background, also when the app is closed and the screen is off, so the app can hear "Hey Keep" or its Russian form "Эй, Кип". Android shows a notification and a green dot all the time it listens.
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The phone checks the sound for that phrase on its own, with a model that ships inside the app. That sound is kept in memory for about 2 seconds, then thrown away. It is not saved and not sent anywhere.
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Only what you say after the phrase becomes a note. The app says "Recording" so you know, and stops after a few seconds of quiet.
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The recording button in the app works the same way: only what you say while it records is kept.
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You turn Hey Keep off in Settings, or with "Turn off" in its notification.
Speech to text
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Android's speech service (Google) turns your note into text. On many phones it runs on the phone. On others it sends the sound of that one note to Google to get the text back. Google's policy covers it: https://policies.google.com/privacy.
Your notes and their recordings are in a database and a folder on your phone, or in your browser for the web version.
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Sorting notes into groups happens on the phone: by the words of the note, or by Gemini Nano (Android) or Apple Intelligence (iPhone) where the phone has them. Both run on the phone.
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A note you share is also stored in Google Firebase (Cloud Firestore, Sydney region), so the people you send the link to can read and edit it. Anyone with the link can open that note. Firebase gets the text and the group of the note. The recording stays on your phone. Notes you don't share stay on your phone.
Apps you connect
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Settings > Send notes to is off until you connect an app. Then each new note goes to that app. Notes made before stay put.
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Obsidian or a Markdown folder: the note becomes a file in the folder you picked on your phone. It doesn't leave the phone, unless another app syncs that folder.
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Notion, Todoist, Google Docs, OneNote: the text of the note goes to that service over HTTPS, into your own account. Its policy covers it from there. The recording stays on your phone.
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Google Keep: the app opens Keep with the text when you tap the Keep button. Keep saves it only if you do.
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Sign ins and tokens stay in the phone's secure storage. Google Sign-In (Google Docs) and Microsoft sign in (OneNote) give Keeppad access only to add notes. Google Docs access covers only the files Keeppad made.
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Turn off forgets the token and the account on this phone. Notes already sent stay in that app.