Sermon Scrubber is an app that allows users to take audio recordings of sermons, transcribe them, and transform them with AI into new forms of written content.
The transcription layer is performed on-device. The user is entirely in control of how that content is then shared—the transcription will only be shared by active choices made by the user to do so.
If the user chooses to use the app to transform the content into new forms, it can only do so by processing the content through a third party provider, Anthropic, as noted in the app’s settings. That involves sending the transcript to Anthropic, which will use it to generate the new content. Anthropic’s privacy policy can be found here.
The app also stores the user’s name and email address as identifiers in the process of tracking usage tokens. Tokens are the currency that measures AI usage, and allows the developer to provide 3rd party services without bearing infinite costs associated with unintended usage rates. Token tracking happens on a remote server, and the data stored there will not be exposed or used for any purpose other than credit reconciliation if a user’s token usage account gets corrupted and needs to be sorted out manually. This info is handled with care, using appropriate encryption.
Steven Hovater 