Most transcription tools send your audio to their servers. If your recordings contain client matters, patient information, personnel discussions or unreleased work, the upload is the problem, not the transcript.
Your recordings never leave your iPhone. 5cut cuts, transcribes and makes notes on the device. There is no 5cut server. You need no account, and no third-party transcription service gets the audio.
Client interviews and case discussions. An upload of this audio to a third-party processor needs its own justification.
Interviews and consultations with patient or subject data. Here, the simplest compliant answer is that the audio never left the device.
Conversations that an external service must not receive, whatever that service promises.
Organizations with a security policy that prohibits uploads of internal discussions to external SaaS. By default, this policy excludes most transcription tools.
It is easy to say "on-device". Here you can test it in about a minute. You do not need to trust us:
Version 1.2.5 removed the last code path that was able to send audio to a speech server, for languages without on-device support. The app still declares the iOS Speech Recognition permission. Apple requires this declaration from each app that links its Speech framework, and 5cut uses the on-device speech engine of Apple. The declaration shows which API the app uses, not where the audio goes. The security summary has all the technical details.
You do not need a data processing agreement, because nobody processes data for you. No system exists that can receive it. The security summary answers a standard vendor questionnaire. It also states clearly what 5cut does not have.
A clear statement about the size of 5cut.
5cut is an independent app, not an enterprise platform. It has no admin console, no SSO and no audit log, because it has no account system. Apple Business Manager and your MDM handle deployment and control. If you need central policy enforcement in the app, 5cut is not the right tool. We prefer to tell you this now.
You can deploy 5cut to managed devices through Apple Business Manager and your MDM. Apple does not sell in-app purchases in volume. For a license for your whole team, we make a custom build with the paid features already active. We distribute it privately to your organization. Contact us, and we will explain the steps.
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