Silo Scribe records a clinical or therapy session, transcribes it on-device with speaker diarization, and drafts a structured, editable note in one tap — all on your Apple Silicon GPU through Apple's Speech framework and a local Gemma model. A documentation tool, not a medical device: you review, edit, and verify every note, and 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 note-drafting model downloads once from public open-weights mirrors — 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 — it is 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 — 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.
A local Gemma model, running through mlx-lm on Apple Silicon, reads the transcript and drafts a structured SOAP or DAP 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.
A local mlx-lm Gemma model 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 and DAP note formats are included free. Behavior-Intervention-Response-Plan (BIRP), intake, and specialty templates unlock with an optional one-time Pro Templates purchase.
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 note-drafting model downloads once from public open-weights mirrors — consent-gated, on first use — with live byte-progress. After that, every transcription and note is fully offline.
Your first 10 generated notes are free. After that, an optional subscription unlocks unlimited note generation at $29 per month or $249 per year. SOAP and DAP templates are free; BIRP, intake, and specialty templates are a separate one-time $49 Pro Templates unlock. Recording, transcription, editing, and exporting existing notes are never paywalled.
On the Mac App Store ⌘Silo Scribe is on the Mac App Store for solo and small-practice clinicians who would rather not send PHI to a cloud scribe. Download it, record a session, and draft your first ten notes free — entirely on the Mac you already own.
