Text recognition happens on your iPhone
On iOS, Panza uses Apple Vision to recognize document text on the device.
That keeps the recognition step close to the capture itself, but it does not mean that every document and every saved piece of data stays only on the phone.
Panza does not make that claim.
Your uploaded documents are not public files
Document files uploaded to Panza live in a private storage bucket.
When someone tries to open a document or its saved details, Panza checks whether that person owns the document or has been given access to it.
The useful distinction is simple: a document being available to you does not make it publicly available to everyone else.
Sharing happens one document at a time
Family access should not mean opening the entire filing cabinet.
Panza shares individual documents. The owner decides whether another person receives viewer or editor access, and that role can later be changed or revoked.
That makes sharing part of the document itself instead of a separate shared folder containing unrelated information.
What we deliberately do not claim
Security copy gets useless quickly when every sentence tries to sound absolute.
So Panza does not currently market itself as zero-knowledge, end-to-end encrypted, device-only, “bank-level” or certified to a compliance standard that has not been verified.
Those phrases would sound stronger. They would also say more than the current product evidence supports.
Security is a system, not a badge
A secure document habit also depends on what you keep, who you share with, how you protect your phone, and whether old copies are still scattered through screenshots, downloads and message threads.
Panza can make the active set clearer. It cannot make careless handling elsewhere disappear.