Last updated 9 November 2026. This page describes the app as it is today. The privacy policy is the full legal version.
The short version
- The script stays on the phone. The voices are built into the app and perform on the device. There is no account, and nothing is uploaded on its own.
- We never receive a script. There are no servers of ours for it to go to, and nothing the app sends us carries a script’s words.
- It works with no connection at all. Reading, rehearsing, self tapes and every production report work in airplane mode.
- The optional online extras are off until you switch them on, and a script marked Confidential is kept away from them.
- You can check. Settings → Privacy → What has left this device lists every request the app sends to an online service.
What stays on the phone
The script, its cast, the audio, your notes and pronunciations, the lines you record, your self-tape takes and every report you make. Scanned scripts are read on the phone itself, and a password-protected studio PDF is opened there too.
What can leave the phone
- iCloud sync, on when the phone is signed in to iCloud. Your place and your work on a script follow you to your other iPhone or iPad through your own iCloud, never through us. Character names and lines go as codes, not words. Your notes on lines and your pronunciation fixes go as words.
- Shared notes. If you share the notes on a script, they go through Apple’s iCloud sharing to the people you invite, and no one else. Never the script itself.
- ElevenLabs voices, only if you switch them on. With your own ElevenLabs account, the text of the parts you give its voices goes to ElevenLabs.
- Casting help, coverage and scene descriptions, only if you switch them on, through an online service you connect with your own key (Claude, ChatGPT or Gemini). The script text the feature needs goes to that service when you use it. On a device with Apple Intelligence, casting help runs on the phone and sends nothing.
- A bug report, a crash report or the beta license claim, when you send one. None of them carries a script’s words.
One thing comes in rather than going out: cast voices for books are a one-time download from Apple. Nothing about the book is sent.
Two switches
Confidential is for one script. Tap the padlock beside its title. From then on:
- ElevenLabs and the online service can’t touch it, so none of its words go to either.
- Its self-tape takes can be sent, one deliberate choice at a time, but not saved to Photos, which may sync to iCloud.
- Its lines can’t be sent to a scene partner, because that file carries their words.
- Its title is kept out of the app’s problem log and out of any notes invitation.
Your notes on a Confidential script still follow you to your own iPad through your own iCloud. To stop that too, use the second switch.
Keep everything on this device is for every script. Turn it on in Settings and the online extras switch off for every script, along with iCloud sync and shared notes, and crash reports never go automatically. Everything stays on the device.
Backups
Like any app’s documents, scripts are part of the phone’s own backup if one is switched on, such as iCloud Backup. That backup is between you and Apple, and the phone’s iCloud settings let you choose which apps it includes.
What we can’t tell you
Every confidentiality agreement is different, and Scene Voice can’t know what yours says. Check it, especially on keeping a script on a personal phone or in that phone’s backup. Keeping to it is up to you, as the terms of use say.
Questions
A production office or security team with questions can reach the person who makes the app through the support page.