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Your writing stays yours.

Never used to train anything, and never sold.

What that means for you

Encrypted before it reaches us.

Only you hold the key, and the people you share a script with.

  • Scripts, titles and folders

    Every script you save to First Page’s cloud is encrypted on your Mac, or in your browser when you write on the web. So is its title, and so are your folder names. Scripts saved before First Page added encryption stay as they were until you encrypt them from your library or save them again.

  • No readable copy, even by mistake

    Once your account has a key, the database itself refuses a readable copy. Scripts saved before encryption are the only readable ones we hold, until you encrypt them.

  • As little as possible

    Every script gets a random id. Sizes are rounded up to standard steps, so we can’t even tell how long your script is.

  • AutoSave is your choice

    With AutoSave off, a script is an ordinary file on your Mac and never reaches our servers. With AutoSave on, it’s encrypted on your Mac before it’s saved to the cloud.

Getting back in.

Only you hold your key, so setup makes sure you have a way back in.

  1. A passkey, on the web
  2. Your recovery key, saved as a one-page Recovery Kit
  3. Approving a new device from one you’re already signed in on, by matching a six-digit code

If you lose every one of them, nobody can open your cloud scripts, including us. Scripts saved on your Mac are still on your Mac.

Sharing a script.

A shared script stays encrypted. Its key goes only to the people you share it with.

  • Who can read a shared script

    The people you share a script with can read it and write in it, on their own devices. We still can’t read it.

  • Removing someone

    Removing someone takes the script away. We stop sending it to them, and their apps delete their copy the next time they connect. The script moves to a new key soon after, from the next device that edits it and can pass the new key to every owner. Nothing written under the new key can be opened with the old one. Until then, new writing is still under the old key.

  • What removal can’t undo

    We can’t take back files they exported, printed or saved outside First Page.

  • What we can’t rule out

    A hostile server could swap a collaborator’s key for its own and be given the script key by the next device that shares it with them. The only sign is a quiet line saying their encryption was reset, unless you compare safety codes. This is the trade mainstream encrypted messengers make. Someone removed from a script, working with a hostile server, could also give a key of their own to a member’s device that holds the script’s old key but has never opened the script. They could then read what is written on that device.

Your scripts never train anything.

We never sell your data, either.

Two optional features read your script, and only when you ask.

Analysis

Sends the draft you ask it to read to Anthropic, for that one read.

  • We never store the script.
  • The notes go straight back to your device, which encrypts them with your key. That encrypted copy is the one we keep.
  • Notes your device never collects are deleted after a day.

Studio voices

Sends each scene to ElevenLabs as it plays.

  • We don’t keep the audio.
  • Your device does, so replaying is free.

Neither company trains on your script. Nothing else you write leaves your device in a form anyone else can read.

Help with the job, never doing it.

  • It never writes for you

    No generated scenes, no suggested dialogue, no rewrites.

  • Analysis

    Reads your draft and points out small things worth a look, like a formatting slip or a stretch where the pace drags. Each note is pinned to its scene.

  • Listen

    Reads your script aloud with a voice for every character. The voices on your Mac are free and never leave your Mac. Studio voices sound more like a real table read.

  • It’s all optional

    One switch turns Listen and Analysis off: in Settings › Privacy on the Mac, and in Privacy and encryption on the web. When it’s off, our servers refuse those features for your account, everywhere.

What we can and can’t see.

We’d rather tell you than have you wonder.

What we can see

  • Your account

    Your name, email address, plan and billing history, and the names of the devices you’ve signed in on.

  • Your library, from the outside

    How many scripts you have, which folder each is in, a rough size for each, and when each was created and last saved. Not what’s in them.

  • When something breaks

    Error reports and health counts. They never include your writing, your titles or your file names.

What we can’t see

  • What’s in your scripts
  • Their titles, and your folder names
  • Exactly how long a script is
  • Your writing, titles or file names in an error report

Only you hold the key, and the people you share a script with.

When you contact support, you can give us a support code from the error message so we can find what went wrong without seeing your work. If you choose to send diagnostics, you see exactly what’s in them first.

Questions.

Something else? Write to support@firstpageapp.com.

To the writers.

The words are yours to write. Every scene, every line, every draft.

First Page keeps the page formatted, safe and private. It reads it back when you want to hear it. It never writes a word of it.

Just write.

From the people who make First Page

Start writing. It stays yours.

Download free and read any script today.

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