Your clinical notes stay out of someone else’s cloud.

• Drafts SOAP, DAP, BIRP notes. Type or paste your session shorthand and get a structured draft to edit. The text stays on your Mac, so there is no BAA to negotiate and no audio sent to a vendor.
• Reads intake forms and treatment plans. Ask questions across long PDFs, summarise prior episodes of care, and draft a treatment plan from intake.
• Anonymises before you forward. Strip names, addresses, contacts, and identifying details before you share a vignette with a supervisor or a written summary with another provider. Muet saves a clean anonymised copy with no tracked changes, comments, or metadata.
• Translates intake materials. For clients you see in a second language, without sending the intake to an online translator.
• Edits letters and reports. Tracked-change drafts of court letters, school accommodation letters, treatment-summary correspondence to GPs, insurance appeals.

HIPAA treats psychotherapy notes as a separate, more protected class of record. They are excluded from a patient’s right of access by default, and disclosure requires a specific written authorisation that names the recipient. Pasting them into consumer ChatGPT, Claude, or Gemini is a disclosure: none offers a BAA on its consumer tier, and the preservation order in NYT v. OpenAImeans “deleted” and temporary chats are still retained.

APA’s June 2025 guidance puts the responsibility on the psychologist: informed consent before any AI scribe records a session, and the practitioner remains accountable for whatever the AI produces. Cloud scribes add a paper-trail problem and a vendor-management problem; keeping the file on your Mac removes both.

• Drafting progress notes from your own session shorthand.
• Reviewing intake assessments and prior treatment records.
• Anonymising vignettes for supervision, consultation, or teaching.
• Drafting treatment plans, discharge summaries, court reports.
• Letters to schools, employers, GPs, and insurers.
• Reading research studies and applying them to a current case.
• Bilingual practice where intake forms arrive in a second language.

Mentalyc, Blueprint, Upheal, Eleos, and similar services sign BAAs and help with the typing, but the session content travels to their servers, usually as audio. A signed BAA means the vendor accepts responsibility if it leaks, not that the content stayed with you. Several of these services reserve a licence to use de-identified data for product improvement.

Muet captures no audio, records nothing, and puts no third party in the path: you type, the Mac processes, and the file stays put. There is no BAA because there is no business associate.

For a solo or small-group practice that bills 40–100 sessions a week, the licence is recouped in the first month if it saves twenty minutes a day on documentation.