Silo Scribe transcribes a session on-device and drafts an editable SOAP, DAP, BIRP, or intake note. No PHI ever leaves your Mac.
Cloud scribes (Abridge, Nuance DAX, Heidi, Freed, Nabla) run your sessions through their servers, charge per seat, and ask you to trust a business associate with your patients' words. Silo Scribe takes the opposite path: every step runs on the Mac you already own. There's no cloud business associate to trust, because there is no business associate. Your sessions never become someone else's training data.
Recording, transcription, speaker diarization, and note generation all run on your Mac on the Apple Silicon GPU. Apple's on-device Speech framework handles transcription, and the optional Gemma 4 E2B note model downloads once from a pinned Hugging Face revision, then Silo Scribe works offline for the lifetime of the app. The same in a closed office as it is at your desk.
No cloud, no account, no telemetry, no analytics SDK, no crash reporting over the network. The note-generation helper talks to the app over a Unix-domain socket as on-device IPC, not a network service. Notes are encrypted at rest with AES-GCM under a key in your Keychain and stay inside the App Sandbox container. There's no cloud business associate to trust, because there is no business associate.
Silo Scribe is a documentation and productivity tool. It does not diagnose, treat, or make clinical recommendations. It drafts a structured note from the session you recorded, and you review, edit, and mark it Verified. The clinician authors and signs off on every word. The work that a cloud scribe would charge per seat for, computed on hardware you already own.
Start a recording from inside Silo Scribe and the session audio is held locally for transcription, with no notetaker bot joining the call, no upload, no third party in the room. The audio stays in the app's App Sandbox container on your Mac, where you put it.
Apple's on-device Speech framework transcribes the session on your Mac, and speaker diarization separates clinician from client so the transcript reads as a conversation between two people, the right words attributed to the right voice, before a single line of the note is drafted.
The local Gemma 4 E2B model, running through mlx-lm on Apple Silicon, reads the transcript and drafts a structured SOAP, DAP, BIRP, or intake note in one tap. You review it, edit anything that needs editing, and mark it Verified, then export it as Markdown, plain text, or PDF. The note is a draft until you author and verify it. Silo Scribe never diagnoses, treats, or recommends; the clinician does.
Capture a session through your microphone with one tap. The audio is held locally for transcription and stays inside the app's sandbox container, never uploaded, never sent to a notetaker bot, never anyone else's training data.
Speech-to-text runs through Apple's on-device Speech framework, with speaker diarization that separates clinician from client so the transcript reads like the conversation it was, not one undifferentiated block.
The local Gemma 4 E2B model through mlx-lm on Apple Silicon turns the transcript into a structured, editable note in one tap. The drafting that a cloud scribe runs on its servers happens entirely on your machine.
SOAP, DAP, Behavior-Intervention-Response-Plan (BIRP), and intake formats are included today. Version 1.1.0 adds clinician-authored dot phrases and custom note structures stored encrypted on your Mac.
Edit the draft inline, correct anything the model got wrong, and mark the note Verified when it's right. Nothing is final until you say so. You author and sign off on every note.
Export a finished note as Markdown, plain text, or PDF to a folder you choose, ready to drop into the EHR or chart you already use. Recording, transcription, editing, and exporting existing notes are never paywalled.
Notes are encrypted on disk with AES-GCM using a key stored in your Mac's Keychain, inside the App Sandbox container. Your records are yours, and they stay where you put them.
The optional Gemma 4 E2B note model downloads once from its pinned Hugging Face revision after explicit consent, with live byte-progress and checksum verification before use. After that, every transcription and note is fully offline.
Silo Scribe is a single $49.99 purchase with unlimited local note generation. SOAP, DAP, BIRP, and intake templates are all included; there is no subscription or in-app purchase. Recording, transcription, editing, and exporting existing notes are never paywalled.
Download on the Mac App StoreSilo Scribe is a one-time Mac App Store purchase for clinicians who would rather not send PHI to a cloud scribe. Record, review, draft, verify, and export entirely on the Mac you already own.
