Privacy Policy
Transcribe · Last updated 12 October 2026
Transcribe turns what you say into written notes. It does that on your iPhone or iPad — your voice is not sent to us, and it is not sent to anyone else for transcription. This policy explains what the app reads, where your notes are kept, and the few specific moments when anything leaves your device.
1. Who we are
Transcribe ("the app") is published by Enacti Ventures Private Limited ("we", "us"), a company incorporated in India (CIN: U72900HR2019PTC081522) and registered at 931F, Sector 21, Panchkula, Haryana, India. You can reach us at services@enacti.com.
This policy covers the Transcribe iOS and iPadOS app. It does not cover any other product or website.
2. The short version
- Your speech is transcribed on your device. The audio never reaches us and is never uploaded for recognition. Where a language has no on-device recogniser, the app tells you the language is unavailable rather than sending your voice away.
- Your recordings never leave your device at all — not to us, and not to iCloud. Transcripts sync so your other devices have your notes; the audio stays on the device that recorded it.
- We have no servers and no accounts. There is nowhere for us to store your notes, and you never give us a name, an email address, or a password to use the app.
- We never read your notes, your recordings, or your transcripts. Not for training, not for quality, not for anything.
- Advertising and analytics. Without Transcribe Pro the app shows ads, and it counts how it is used with Google Analytics for Firebase. Pro switches off both. Section 5 is the whole of it, including how to change your choice.
3. What the app reads on your device
All of the following is read and used locally unless section 5 says otherwise.
Microphone and speech recognition
With your permission, the app records audio while you are dictating and converts it to text using Apple's on-device speech recognition. The app forces on-device recognition. Apple's speech framework can send audio to Apple's servers, and the app is configured never to allow that: if a language cannot be recognised on your device, that language is reported as unavailable instead.
On-device recognition is a model that has to be present on the device, and a language's model may need to be downloaded from Apple first. The app asks Apple for one when you choose a language that is not installed yet, and once after launch for your device's own language. That request names a language. It does not contain your voice.
The recording is saved with the note so you can play back what you said and check a word. You can delete the audio and keep the text, or set the app to discard audio automatically, in Settings › Notes.
Your notes
Titles, transcripts, folders, tags, and the audio you record are stored on your device. They are also indexed locally for Spotlight so you can find a note from the home screen; that index stays on your device. The audio is the one part that goes no further than the device it was recorded on — section 4.
Apple Intelligence and the writing tools
Clean-up, summaries, action items, rewriting, and translation run through Apple's on-device models on hardware that supports them. Four of the actions need no model at all and work on every supported device. Nothing is sent to us at any point.
Face ID and Touch ID
If you switch on App Lock, the app asks iOS to authenticate you before showing your notes. iOS performs the check and returns only whether it succeeded. The app never receives your face or fingerprint data, and neither do we.
Reminders
With your permission, action items the app finds in a note can be sent to Apple's Reminders app. This happens only when you tap the button, and only the items you send are written. The app does not read your existing reminders.
Purchases
The app records which entitlement is active so it does not have to ask Apple on every launch. That is a short list of feature flags stored on your device. It contains no payment information.
Diagnostics
The app uses Apple's MetricKit to see whether it has crashed or frozen. These reports stay on your device. Nothing is uploaded. If you write to support, a short summary — the app version, the iOS version, and the type of crash — is appended to an email that you can read and edit before you send it. If you do not send the email, we never see it.
4. Where your notes live, and what does not travel
Your notes are stored on your device and mirrored to your own iCloud account, in Apple's private CloudKit database, using your iCloud storage. This is what keeps your notes on your other devices and what restores them if you reinstall the app.
What syncs is the written part: titles, transcripts, word timings, folders and tags. Your recordings do not sync. They are not in that database and they are not uploaded anywhere — an hour of audio is tens of megabytes where an entire library of text is under one, and mirroring audio would fill your iCloud storage and make sync useless for the words that matter. A note opened on a second device shows its full transcript with its player disabled, and says why.
We are not a party to any of this. We have no server, no access to your iCloud container, and no ability to read, copy, or recover your notes. Apple's handling of iCloud data is governed by the Apple Privacy Policy.
If you sign out of iCloud or turn iCloud Drive off for Transcribe, the app keeps working and your notes stay on the device.
5. Advertising and analytics
Transcribe Pro is what the app sells. Without it, the app shows advertising. Transcribe Pro removes every ad in the app, on iPhone and on iPad, and an active introductory period counts as Pro for as long as it runs.
Ads are served by Google AdMob, in three places and nowhere else:
- A banner below your notes list. On iPhone it sits between the list and the tab bar; on iPad it sits at the bottom of the notes list.
- A full-screen ad when you leave a finished note — not when you save one, and not every time: it is limited by how many notes you have finished since the last one and by how recently you saw it.
- A full-screen ad when you come back to the app after leaving it, and never on a cold launch, never over onboarding, and never on the launch that brings your library over from an earlier version.
No ad is ever shown while you are recording, over a transcript you are reading, or over a sheet.
Your consent, and how to change it
Where a consent choice is required — the EEA, the UK, and Switzerland — the app asks for it through Google's consent management platform, and no ad is requested until you have answered. You can reopen that choice at any time, in Settings › Privacy & Security › Ad preferences inside the app. Withdrawing consent stops the advertising and the analytics below immediately, in the same moment. That row appears where a consent choice applies and not elsewhere, because elsewhere there is no form behind it.
On iOS, a personalised ad also needs your permission under App Tracking Transparency. The app asks the first time an ad is about to appear, rather than at launch. If you decline, every ad request the app makes is marked as non-personalised, and no advertising identifier is read. You can change this at any time in iOS Settings › Privacy & Security › Tracking.
The app also declares Apple's SKAdNetwork identifiers, which exist to attribute an app install to an advertising campaign. We have never run one. We do not pay to promote Transcribe on any platform, so today they attribute nothing; they are declared rather than deleted so that nothing is silently lost if that ever changes.
What analytics counts
The app uses Google Analytics for Firebase to count how it is used: a note finished, a locked feature run into, the purchase screen opened, a plan looked at, a purchase started, completed or abandoned, an introductory period started, converted or cancelled, a Pro feature used, and the one-time import of a library from an earlier version.
Those events count things and never describe them. No note title, no transcript, no word you dictated, no folder name and no file name is ever included. Where an exact number would say too much it is recorded as a range instead: how long a note was, how many notes you have, how long you spent on the purchase screen.
Three facts about your situation are attached to the install so the counts can be read in groups — which plan you are on, whether your library came from an earlier version of Transcribe, and how many notes you have as a range. Google also gives the install a random identifier of its own. It is not your name, your email address, or your Apple Account, and we hold nothing that could be joined to it.
Analytics follows the same switch as advertising. It is off until a required consent choice has been answered, off the moment you withdraw it, and off entirely for anyone with Transcribe Pro — a paying user is not counted at all.
Google's handling of advertising and analytics data is governed by Google's privacy and terms. Your notes, your transcripts, and your recordings are never shared with any advertiser, and never sent to Google.
6. When information leaves your device
There are six cases, and only six.
| What | Goes to | When |
|---|---|---|
| The written part of your notes — titles, transcripts, word timings, folders, tags — in Apple's private database on your own storage quota. Never your recordings. | Your iCloud account | Continuously, while iCloud is enabled for Transcribe. |
| Your purchase and subscription status | Apple | When you buy, restore, or renew a purchase. |
| A request for a language's on-device recognition model. The language, not your voice. | Apple | When you choose a language that is not installed yet, and once after launch for your device's own language. |
| An advertising request, marked personalised or non-personalised according to your choices, with an advertising identifier only if you allowed tracking | Google AdMob | Only without Pro, and only for the three placements in section 5. |
| Counts of what happened in the app — a note finished, a paywall opened, a purchase made. Never your words. | Google Analytics for Firebase | While analytics is on; section 5 says what consent it follows. |
| Whatever you deliberately send — a note you export, share, or send to Reminders; a support email | Wherever you send it | Only when you tap the button. |
Your recordings are not in that table, and neither is your voice. Audio is transcribed on your device, is never transmitted for recognition, and is never uploaded for any other reason either.
7. What we do not do
- We do not read your notes, your transcripts, or your recordings. We hold no copy of them.
- We do not use anything you say or write to train any model, ours or anyone else's.
- We do not sell or rent your personal information.
- We do not require an account, and we collect no name, email address, or phone number.
- We build no profile of you, and no advertising or analytics event ever carries a word you dictated. What analytics does count is listed in section 5.
- We do not pay to advertise Transcribe anywhere, so nothing in the app exists to measure a campaign.
8. Children
Transcribe is not directed at children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from them. The app has no account system, so it collects no identifying information from anyone.
9. Your choices
- Microphone and speech recognition: revoke at any time in iOS Settings › Privacy & Security. Dictation stops; your existing notes remain readable.
- Face ID: revoke in iOS Settings, or switch App Lock off in the app.
- Reminders: revoke in iOS Settings. Only the "send to Reminders" button depends on it.
- Tracking: iOS Settings › Privacy & Security › Tracking. Declining does not remove the ads; it marks every request non-personalised.
- Personalised ads and analytics: Settings › Privacy & Security › Ad preferences, wherever a consent choice applies. Withdrawing consent stops both at once.
- Ads and analytics entirely: Transcribe Pro switches off both.
- iCloud sync: turn iCloud Drive off for Transcribe in iOS Settings. The app continues to work locally.
10. Keeping and deleting your data
Your notes live on your device and in your own iCloud account. Deleting a note in the app removes it from both, after the Recently Deleted period. Deleting the app removes the local copy; to remove the iCloud copy as well, delete the app's data in iOS Settings › your name › iCloud › Manage Account Storage.
Getting your own words out never depends on a purchase: any note exports as plain text, as Markdown, or as its original audio file whatever you have or have not bought.
We hold no copy of your data, so there is nothing for us to delete on your behalf. What advertising and analytics collect, and how to stop it, is section 5; what you can ask for is section 12.
11. Security
Data stored on your device is protected by iOS file-level encryption and your device passcode. App Lock adds a Face ID, Touch ID, or passcode check before anything is displayed. Data in iCloud is protected by Apple under your Apple Account. Every network request the app makes uses HTTPS, and the requests it makes are the six in section 6.
12. Your rights
We have no account system, no server, and no copy of your notes. There is nothing for us to retrieve, correct, export, or delete on your behalf, and nothing we could disclose to anyone else if we were asked to.
The advertising and analytics in section 5 are the one place where data about your use of the app exists off your device, and it is worth being exact about it. Both are Google products. What they collect reaches us only as aggregate reporting in Google's own consoles, keyed to the random identifier Google assigns your install — we cannot look an individual up, and nothing in it identifies you to us.
Data-protection law in several regions — including the EU and UK GDPR, India's Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023, and the California Consumer Privacy Act — gives you rights over personal information a company holds about you, including the right to object, to withdraw consent, and to have data erased. Where those rights apply to the identifiers described above:
- To stop the collection immediately: Settings › Privacy & Security › Ad preferences, where a consent choice applies — or buy Transcribe Pro, which switches both off permanently.
- To have what was already collected erased: write to services@enacti.com. We will ask Google to delete the data associated with your install, which is the only action available to us, and tell you when it is done.
We do not sell personal information. Where "sale" or "sharing" is defined broadly enough to cover a personalised ad request — as it is in California — declining tracking or withdrawing consent is the opt-out, and both are in the list above.
The data controller for this app is Enacti Ventures Private Limited (CIN: U72900HR2019PTC081522), 931F, Sector 21, Panchkula, Haryana, India, contactable at services@enacti.com. You also have the right to complain to the data-protection authority where you live. Information held by Apple or by Google is controlled by those companies, and enquiries about it should be directed to them.
13. International transfers
Your notes are not transferred anywhere by us, because we never receive them. The requests in section 6 are made to Apple and to Google and may be handled on their servers outside your country, under the safeguards those companies publish for their own services — for people in the EEA and the UK, the standard contractual clauses that form part of the Google and Apple terms linked above.
14. Changes to this policy
If we change how the app handles information, we will update this page and change the date at the top. Material changes will also be described in the App Store release notes for the version that introduces them.
15. Contact
Questions about this policy: services@enacti.com.