Storyline: Private Writing

For work that is confidential by law. On-device AI, encrypted research, and a web-search screen that warns before your searches reveal what you are working on

Storyline is a writing studio for people whose words are confidential by law: clinicians, lawyers, journalists, and anyone who cannot paste sensitive work into a cloud chatbot. Your document, your research, and every AI conversation live encrypted on your device and sync only through your own iCloud, never a server we own. There is no account and there are no servers, so there is nothing to leak.

On-device AI, by default. For privileged work the AI runs right on your Mac, iPad, or iPhone and physically cannot reach a cloud model. Turn on Prefer on-device and Storyline uses a model on your device first, a model on a nearby device of yours second, and the cloud only if you allow it, with your own OpenAI, Anthropic, or Ollama key.

An AI co-author that thinks before it writes. Ask it to continue a passage, draft from an outline, argue a point differently, or pressure-test a weak paragraph. It plans its approach, drafts, then checks and revises its own work, and every suggestion arrives as a branch you adopt or discard. Nothing touches your page until you say so.

Dictate anywhere. A private, on-device voice keyboard turns speech into text with no upload, on the page or in almost any field. Everything you say collects in an editable panel and only lands when you tap Done, so a pause never drops a word.

Research without leaving your draft. Drop a link, a PDF, a note, or a spoken thought into one capture bar and it is read, transcribed on device, filed, and summarized. Sources you import are kept encrypted on your device. Select a phrase and Storyline searches the web and hands back cited notes, with a screen on every outbound query so your protected names and facts never ride along, and a guard that warns when a run of searches starts to reveal what you are working on.

EVERYTHING IN ONE PLACE

• A focused editor with snapshots, branches, and full version history
• On-device Apple Intelligence and local models, plus your own OpenAI, Anthropic, or Ollama keys when you want them
• A research desk that imports pages, PDFs, and audio, transcribes on device, and clips cited evidence into your draft
• Export any note as a password-protected archive, and pull the citations, claims, and follow-up topics out of a document in one tap
• A knowledge base for the people, places, and structure of your work, in your field's own words, across ten writing registers

PRIVATE BY ARCHITECTURE, NOT BY POLICY

• End-to-end encryption behind a passphrase and a Face ID or Touch ID vault
• Imported research kept encrypted on your device, decrypted only when you open or export it
• Both directions observed: outbound crossings screened and logged verbatim, inbound content screened before your AI reads it
• A search guard that warns before a pattern of queries reveals your line of work
• Data flow, per project: see exactly what left and what came back
• Privileged projects can never use a cloud model

YOURS ACROSS DEVICES

• One purchase covers iPhone, iPad, and Mac
• Sync through your private iCloud, encrypted in transit and at rest
• Hand a heavy run to a stronger device on your Wi-Fi and watch it stream back

Storyline does not watch you write. No tracking, no ads, no account on our servers, because there are no servers. Just you, your words, and tools that respect them.

https://eswarvenigalla.substack.com/p/storyline-privacy-policy https://eswarvenigalla.substack.com/p/storyline-support https://eswarvenigalla.substack.com/p/storyline-terms-of-use