Built by a practicing clinician

Your clinical notes, written for you. On your Mac, and nowhere else.

Local. Private. Fast.

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macOS 15 (Sequoia) or later · Apple silicon · 16 GB RAM recommended

Free for up to 15 active clients · No account to create · Signed and notarized by Apple

Mock session with Bugs Bunny. No real client data.

On-device AI

Transcription & notes run locally

Encrypted at rest

AES-256, keys in your Keychain

No cloud sync

Nothing uploaded, ever

No BAA required

We never receive your PHI

How it works

Three steps, and the note is done.

There's no workflow to learn and nothing to configure. The session ends, the draft is already waiting, you read it and sign off.

  1. 1

    Record, or just jot a few lines

    Start a session in the room or on a telehealth call and Flowers transcribes it locally with Whisper. Not comfortable recording? Type a few reflections instead — those work just as well.

  2. 2

    Flowers drafts the note

    SOAP, BIRP, DAP, Intake, or a Treatment Plan, in a structured format, in seconds. The model runs on your own machine, so nothing is queued, uploaded, or sitting on someone else's server waiting to be processed.

  3. 3

    You review and sign off

    Every draft is flagged not yet reviewed until you approve it, and editing or regenerating resets that flag. Flowers will only record a diagnosis you have stated yourself — it never infers or suggests one. You sign the note. The AI never does.

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How we're different

The difference is where your session goes.

Most AI scribes built for therapists are cloud services: the session audio is uploaded, processed on the vendor's servers, and retained under the vendor's policies. Flowers does none of that — and that single architectural choice changes everything downstream.

Flowers compared with a typical cloud-based AI scribe
Feature Flowers Typical cloud AI scribe
Where session audio goes Stays on your Mac Uploaded to vendor servers
Business Associate Agreement Not required Required
Works with no internet Yes, after setup No
Who can technically access your notes Only you The vendor, per its policy
What it costs Free to 15 clients, then $20/mo Commonly $40–$100+/month
If you stop paying Records stay readable, free Export window, then lockout

"Typical cloud AI scribe" describes the common architecture of cloud-hosted note tools, not any one product — individual vendors differ, and some offer more than others. Always read a vendor's own terms and BAA before deciding, including ours. Why Flowers doesn't require a BAA →

You're in control

Your session data is yours alone.

Flowers is built on a simple promise. The most sensitive record in your practice, what your clients tell you, belongs to you and only you. It stays on your computer, encrypted with keys only you hold.

  • None of it comes to us. We never see, collect, or store your sessions, notes, or clients. There's no account and no server to send them to.
  • None of it goes to insurers. No claims pipelines, no billing partners harvesting your notes in the background.
  • None of it feeds the big platforms. Your clients' words never train a model or land in someone else's data warehouse.
  • You hold the keys. Encryption keys live in your macOS Keychain. Backups are yours, password-protected, and go where you choose.
The whole session, handled

With you through the long arc of care.

Flowers sits quietly alongside your practice: capturing the session, drafting the documentation, keeping the schedule, and remembering what matters across months of work.

Capture the session, your way

Flowers transcribes your sessions locally with Whisper and labels who's speaking. Prefer to type? Jot a few reflections instead and the AI shapes them into a note. Either way, no audio is ever written to disk.

Local WhisperReflections or transcriptIn-person or telehealthAudio never saved
Live transcript
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Generate clinical notes

SOAP, BIRP, DAP, Intake, or a Treatment Plan, drafted from the transcript or your reflections in seconds. Structured forms keep every note consistent and fully editable in your own voice, and each one is saved as a document you can revisit alongside files you import for the client.

5 note typesStructured formsEditableSaved as documents
Flowers app generating a clinical note: the Clinical Note tab active, showing a SOAP note being written on-device

Walk in prepared

Before each appointment, Flowers synthesizes a prep sheet from prior sessions: the threads to pick up, what to revisit, where you left off. Have it read aloud while you settle in.

Auto-generatedFrom recent sessionsRead aloud
Session Prep sheet showing last session recap, follow-up items, and suggested focus for the next appointment

Mock session with Bugs Bunny. No real client data.

Case conceptualization

See each session through the framework you actually practice. Eleven modalities including CBT, DBT, EFT, and ACT, with follow-up questions when you want to go deeper.

See the long arc

Flowers reads across a client's history to surface themes and progress over time, including the slow shifts you don't always notice week to week. It cites its sources.

Schedule in one place

Link the calendar you already use and your appointments come in automatically. Book with your own service types and fees, and send optional reminders from your own email account.

Hours toward licensure

California BBS requirements built in for the LMFT track, plus generic tracking with your own custom targets for any other state or board. Export a clean log when it's time to submit.

For students & supervisees →

Session review & growth Pro

Have your private, on-device AI review a session and reflect back where you excelled and where there's room to grow, drawn from specific moments in the transcript.

A reflective aid, not formal supervision or evaluation. The model can be wrong — treat each observation as a prompt for your own reflection.

Plan the practice Pro

Project income from your real caseload — copays, reimbursement, fee splits — and model what changes as you grow, take time off, or shift your week.

All of it on your own machine, for free, up to 15 active clients.

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Why Flowers exists

We built the tool we wanted to exist.

Flowers started with a practicing clinician doing paperwork at 9pm, again, and looking at the AI note-takers that promised to fix it. Every one of them wanted to upload the session first.

That trade never sat right. The most sensitive thing a person will ever say out loud, handed to a company because the alternative was another hour of typing. It felt like the wrong bargain to have to make, so we made a different one: put the AI on the clinician's own machine, where the recording never has to go anywhere at all.

That is a harder way to build software. It means shipping a real language model instead of calling an API, and it's why Flowers needs a reasonably modern Mac. We think it's worth it, because it turns a promise about data handling into something structural. We can't leak, sell, subpoena, or get breached out of session data we never receive.

No telemetry. Not now, not later.

Flowers has no analytics, no crash reporting, and no usage tracking of any kind. We genuinely do not know how you use the app.

Your PHI never reaches us

Not as a policy we could quietly revise, but as an architecture. There is no account and no server holding your clients' records. Read the security overview →

Your data outlives us

Records live in files on your Mac, and you can export everything unencrypted at any time. If this company disappeared tomorrow, nothing of yours would switch off.

No ads, no data sales, no insurers

Flowers is funded by the people who use it. There is no second business model reading over your shoulder, because there is nothing for one to read.

Flowers App LLC · California Signed & notarized by Apple Published security overview HIPAA & BAA position A real person answers
Built for PHI

Privacy isn't a setting. It's the architecture.

Flowers was designed from the first line of code around a single idea: clinical data should never have to leave the room.

On-device models

Whisper transcribes and a local language model writes your notes right on your computer. No prompts, transcripts, or notes are sent to any server.

Encrypted at rest

Names, contact details, notes, transcripts, and conceptualizations are encrypted with AES-256-GCM. The key lives in your macOS Keychain, device-only and never synced to iCloud.

No cloud, no accounts

There's no sign-up and no sync. Your practice doesn't live on our servers, because there are no servers holding your clients' data.

Backups you own

Export an encrypted, password-protected backup whenever you like and store it wherever you trust. Restore it on any computer. The key travels with it.

Flowers is built to run offline. It reaches the internet only for a few optional, non-clinical tasks: downloading the AI models once at setup, checking your license if you go Pro, syncing a calendar feed you connect, keeping the app updated, and sending appointment reminders through your own email if you turn them on. None of your sessions, transcripts, or notes are ever sent, and none of it goes to us. Read the full security overview →

Pricing

A fraction of what cloud scribes charge.

AI note tools for therapists commonly run $40 to $100 a month — in part because someone has to pay for storing and processing your sessions on their servers. Flowers runs on hardware you already own, so there's no server bill to pass on to you. Students and anyone with a caseload under 15 active clients pay nothing at all; Pro is $20/month if you outgrow that.

Free
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For getting started and smaller caseloads.

  • Today, Contacts, Schedule & Sessions, fully usable
  • AI notes, transcription & prepFree for up to 15 active clients (plus a rolling 30 within any 90 days)
  • Scheduling, calendar sync & licensure hour tracking
  • On-device & encrypted, always
  • Full read access to every client and note, always
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An active client is anyone on your current caseload — anyone you haven't discharged — plus a rolling allowance of 30 in any 90-day window so discharges and test clients never count against you. Reaching either limit pauses new generation only. We never paywall data you already have: every client and note stays readable, free, forever.

Flowers Pro
Early Bird First 100 subscribers · locked in forever
$20/ monthreg. $25

Lock in $20/month forever. Price rises to $25/month after the first 100 subscribers.

  • Everything in Free
  • Unlimited AI generationNo caseload cap
  • Growth: session review and feedback
  • Finances: projections and planning
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Upgrade anytime from within the app

Anyone you haven't worked with in over 90 days frees up a slot automatically, and Flowers warns you as you approach the limit. Pro removes both limits and can be cancelled from within the app at any time — your records stay readable either way.

Not ready to install anything?

Fair enough — it's a real download and a real decision. Leave your email and we'll send you a short walkthrough, plus a note when something meaningful ships. A few times a year at most.

Marketing list only. Never any client information — please don't send us any. Unsubscribe in one click, and we don't share the list with anyone.

Questions

The things therapists ask first.

Yes. Transcription and note generation run on your computer with on-device models, and your data is encrypted at rest with a key stored only in your macOS Keychain. There is no account and no cloud sync. Your sessions, notes, and clients never reach us, an insurer, or any platform. The one exception is optional appointment reminders, which go straight from your own email account to your client and never through us.
Yes. After a one-time model download at setup, transcribing a session and writing a note run entirely offline and never need the internet. A few optional extras reach out only when you use them, like syncing a calendar you connect or sending appointment reminders through your own email. Skip those and Flowers stays fully offline.
An active client is one who's currently part of your caseload: anyone you haven't discharged. The free tier covers up to 15 at a time. There's also a separate, more generous limit of 30 clients within any rolling 90-day window, so occasional changes and test clients don't count against you. Anyone you haven't worked with in over 90 days rolls off automatically. Either limit only ever pauses new generation, never the records you already have.
Nothing happens to your existing data. It all stays fully readable for free. To generate for that 16th active client, upgrade to Pro ($20/month early bird rate, normally $25/month), which lifts the cap entirely and unlocks the Growth and Finances tabs. You can upgrade at any time from within the app, and we only ever gate new generation, never the records you already have.
Flowers runs on macOS 15 (Sequoia) or later on Apple silicon. The on-device language model comes in a few sizes; 16 GB of memory or more is recommended for the best quality, and Flowers checks your computer at setup to suggest the right one.
Flowers is built to help you meet your HIPAA obligations, but it's worth being precise: "HIPAA compliant" describes a practice, not a piece of software, and no vendor can hand it to you. What Flowers does is remove the biggest source of risk. Because your sessions, notes, and client records never leave your computer, there is no vendor holding your PHI, no cloud breach that could expose it, and no Business Associate Agreement to negotiate. AES-256 encryption at rest, a tamper-evident audit log, and app lock are built in. The rest — your consent process, your retention policy, the physical security of your Mac — stays with you, as it always has.
No. A Business Associate Agreement is required when a vendor creates, receives, maintains, or transmits PHI on your behalf. Flowers does none of those things — your clinical data stays on your machine and never reaches us, so we never become a business associate. If your group practice, employer, or malpractice carrier asks for documentation, we publish a plain-language explanation of that position, and we'll send you an attestation letter on request. Read the full HIPAA & BAA position →
This is the right question to ask any small software company, and Flowers has an unusually good answer: nothing happens. Your records are files on your own Mac, not rows in our database, and there is no server for us to switch off. You can export everything — clients, sessions, notes, transcripts — in an open, unencrypted format at any time, without a subscription and without asking us. If this company vanished tomorrow, the copy of Flowers on your machine would keep working and your records would stay exactly where they are.
Not through us. Everything lives locally under your own macOS user account, and nothing is transmitted to any server, so there is no dashboard for anyone to log into and no back door for us to open. If you need to share something — for supervision, an audit, or a records request — you export it deliberately, and Flowers records in its audit log that an export happened.
Client records are encrypted at rest with AES-256-GCM, and the key lives in your Mac's Keychain behind your account password rather than in the app's files. We strongly recommend turning on FileVault, Apple's full-disk encryption, and enabling app lock in Flowers' Security settings for a second layer. Keep an encrypted backup somewhere separate, too, so a lost Mac stays an inconvenience rather than a catastrophe — and remember you can erase a stolen Mac remotely with Find My.
Architecture, mostly, and everything that follows from it. Cloud scribes upload your session audio and process it on their servers, which means a BAA, a vendor holding your PHI, an internet dependency, and a price that has to cover their compute. Flowers runs the transcription and the language model on your own Mac, so none of that applies. The honest trade-off: you need a reasonably recent Apple-silicon Mac with enough memory, and there's no web or Windows version. See the side-by-side comparison →
For your own recordkeeping, yes: Flowers handles service codes, superbills, statements, and claim tracking. What it isn't is a clearinghouse — it doesn't transmit claims to payers, and it doesn't check your documentation or codes against a payer's rules. Confirming that each note and code meets a given payer's requirements stays your call, as does the clinical judgment behind it. Flowers handles the writing so you can be more present in the room.

Be more present in the room.

Let Flowers carry the documentation, privately, on your computer. Free for up to 15 active clients.

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Requires macOS 15 (Sequoia) or later · Apple silicon · 16 GB RAM recommended