Privacy Policy

Last updated: 1 November 2026

Typecut is published by Kira Hryb ("we", "us"). This policy says what the app does with your data. Questions: vitalijtoporkov5@gmail.com.

The short version

Typecut turns what you record into text, so you can edit a video by editing the words.

To do that, the sound of your recording is sent to a transcription service, ElevenLabs, through a server of ours. With it goes one random identifier the app makes, so that a subscription you pay for is still yours after you delete the app and install it again. A subscription is bought from Apple and confirmed through Adapty, a service that checks purchases with Apple for us. Nothing else leaves your iPhone — not the picture, not your projects, not your name, your email or your Apple Account.

There is no account. There is no advertising, no analytics and no tracking. The one piece of third-party code in the app is Adapty's, for subscriptions, and it is set up not to collect the advertising identifier or your network address. We do not know who you are, and we have no way to find out.

What leaves your iPhone

The sound, and only the sound. Before a recording is transcribed, the app takes the audio out of it — one channel, 16 kHz — and sends that file to the transcription service, through our server at api.typecut.app, which runs on Cloudflare, passes the sound on and keeps none of it. A video's picture is never sent. If the audio cannot be taken out, the recording is not sent at all.

An identifier, made by the app. The first time it is needed, the app makes a random identifier — a string of letters and digits derived from nothing: not this iPhone, not your Apple Account, not your name. It is kept in the iPhone's Keychain, and iCloud Keychain carries it to your other devices signed in to the same Apple Account, so they are one customer with one subscription and one allowance of transcription hours. Apple encrypts iCloud Keychain end to end; we have no access to it. With iCloud Keychain turned off, the identifier stays on the device that made it. It survives deleting and reinstalling the app, and that is its whole purpose.

It is sent to Adapty with each purchase, and to our server with each recording's sound, and our server keeps a record of your subscription under it: which plan, when it started, when it ends. That is how a recording sent from this iPhone is known to belong to a subscription that has been paid for. Our server does not pass the identifier to the transcription service, which never sees it.

Counting your hours. Your plan's transcription hours are counted by our server, under the same identifier. When a transcription starts, the app tells it how long the recording is, so that much can be set aside. When the transcript comes back, the server reads it as it passes to find two things: how long the transcription service says the recording was, which is what it charges for, and whether any words were spoken. It keeps neither the transcript nor any word of it, and sends it nowhere but back to your iPhone.

Hours you buy. When you buy a pack of hours, Adapty tells our server, and our server adds the hours under the same identifier, with Apple's number for that purchase. The number is what makes the same purchase count once however often it is reported, and lets a refund take back exactly what that purchase gave.

Why there is one at all. Until October 2026 this app had no identifier of any kind, on purpose. A subscription changed that: it exists at Apple whether or not the app remembers it, and without something that survives a reinstall, a person who reinstalled would be a stranger to us and asked to pay again for what they are already paying for. The identifier is the smallest thing that prevents that.

What Adapty receives. When the app starts, when you buy or restore a subscription and when you buy hours, Adapty receives the identifier above; the purchases made in this app — which plan, when, and Apple's transaction numbers for them; and what any app's code can read about the phone: its model, its iOS version, its language and region, its time zone, and the country of its App Store. The first time the app reaches Adapty it also sends Apple's identifier for this app's maker on this iPhone (the IDFV); the app then asks Adapty not to collect it again. Collection of the advertising identifier (IDFA) and of your network address is switched off. Adapty uses this to confirm with Apple that a subscription was paid for, and to tell our server so. Payment itself is Apple's: neither Adapty nor we ever see a card.

That is the whole list. Nothing else is uploaded, at any time, for any purpose.

What never leaves your iPhone

• The picture of anything you record or import — and with it your face and anybody else's. Typecut does not detect, analyse or send faces.
• Your projects, transcripts and edits. They are stored on the device and nowhere else. There is no cloud copy and no sync.
• Your Photos library. The app reads a video you choose and nothing else.
• Anything that names you. No account, no advertising id, no analytics id. The one identifier above ties a recording's transcription to a subscription, and nothing it carries is a name, an email or an Apple Account. Apple knows who bought a subscription, because Apple sold it; we and Adapty do not.
• Scripts, captions and translations. The script writer uses Apple's on-device model, and translation uses Apple's on-device translation. Nothing is sent anywhere for either.

Who transcribes it, and what they may do with it

Transcription is done by ElevenLabs (Eleven Labs Inc.; in the EEA, the UK and Switzerland, ElevenLabs Poland sp. z o.o.), using their Scribe speech-to-text service. We send them the audio; they send back the words and their timings.

What they do with the audio afterwards is governed by their privacy policy, last updated on 9 October 2026, and these are the parts that matter to you:

• Audio is kept, not discarded. ElevenLabs keeps data it generates about a voice for up to three years after the last interaction. Zero-retention processing exists, but only as an enterprise arrangement, which this app does not have.
• ElevenLabs does not train its models on your recordings. Its policy allows that unless an account opts out, and the account this app transcribes through has opted out.

ElevenLabs' privacy policy: elevenlabs.io/privacy-policy — their privacy contact is dpo@elevenlabs.io.

Who confirms subscriptions

Subscriptions are sold by Apple and confirmed through Adapty (Adapty Tech Inc.). What it receives is listed under What leaves your iPhone. It keeps the history of the purchases made in this app under the app's identifier, so that a subscription can be found again after a reinstall, and it tells our server when one starts, renews, ends or is refunded — and when hours are bought or refunded.

Adapty's privacy policy: adapty.io/privacy/

Where our server runs

Our server runs on Cloudflare (Cloudflare, Inc.). Cloudflare keeps logs of the requests it handles — when each was made, which address it asked for, how it was answered, and details of the connection it came from, which can include its network address — together with the lines our server writes. Those lines name the app's identifier, a transcription's random job number and its length in seconds, and the product when hours are bought or refunded; never a word of a transcript. These logs are deleted within seven days. We read them only to find out why something did not work.

Cloudflare's privacy policy: www.cloudflare.com/privacypolicy/

What is stored on your iPhone

• The recordings you make or import, as files in the app's own storage.
• Their transcripts, your edits, and a still from each recording for its card.
• A list of your finished transcriptions — when and how long — that stays after a project is deleted.
• A handful of settings: the language you chose for new recordings, the words you marked as filler, whether you have seen the introduction, and whether you were subscribed when the app last checked.

Deleting a project deletes its recording, its transcript and its still. Deleting the app deletes everything it ever stored, at once, except the identifier in the Keychain.

Permissions the app asks for

• Camera — to record video. The picture stays on your iPhone.
• Microphone — to record sound. The sound is what gets transcribed.
• Photos — to bring in a video you already have, and to save an exported one back. The app reads only the video you pick.

Each is asked for when it is first needed, and the app works without the ones you decline — it simply cannot do the thing they are for.

Children

Typecut is not directed at children, and collects nothing that would identify anyone of any age.

Your rights, and the honest version of them

Laws such as the GDPR give you the right to see the personal data a company holds about you, to correct it, and to have it deleted.

We hold almost none. There is no account. Our server passes the sound on and keeps none of it, and reads the transcript on its way back only to count your hours. It keeps these things:

• The record of a subscription, under the app's random identifier: the plan, when it started and when it ends. It is deleted on its own a day after the subscription ends — so to have it deleted, cancel the subscription in Settings and let the period run out.
• The hours you have used, under the same identifier: how much of this month's allowance is used or set aside, and, for each transcription of the last seven days, how long it was and whether it was counted. No recording, no title, no words. A month's count is dropped once the next one has begun, and a transcription's entry after seven days.
• The hours you bought, under the same identifier: how many are left, and for each purchase Apple's number for it, how many hours it gave, when, and whether it was refunded. It is not deleted on its own, because purchased hours never expire, and deleting it would delete hours you paid for. Cancelling a subscription does not delete it either.
• A daily count per network address. To stop the transcription service being used by anything but this app, it counts how many transcriptions each network address starts in a day, and forgets the count after two days.

To ask for what we hold to be shown to you or deleted, write to vitalijtoporkov5@gmail.com with the Order ID of any purchase you made in Typecut — it is in Apple's email receipt, and at reportaproblem.apple.com. The app does not show its identifier, and the identifier names nobody, so a purchase is how we find what belongs to you. Deleting the hours you bought deletes them for good.

Everything else the app knows about you is on your iPhone, where you can read it and delete it yourself. Nothing we hold connects to your name, your email or your Apple Account.

For the audio held by ElevenLabs, their privacy policy and their contact details apply; they never receive the identifier, so a request to them is best made with the date and time of the recording. For the purchase history held by Adapty, their privacy policy applies.

Changes

If this policy changes, the date at the top changes with it, and a material change will be said in the app before it takes effect.

Contact

Kira Hryb
vitalijtoporkov5@gmail.com