You pay for it. That is why it is yours.

The agreement

Short, because it is simple. By buying the app you buy the data. Everything it makes from your words is yours, and that is an agreement between you and us, not a setting you have to find.

Everything it does

Not a list of settings — the things you will actually use. All of it works offline, dictation included.

Several keys do more when held — each carries a dot in the corner, and every one is listed on the help page.

Why not just use Gboard?

The keyboard already on your phone is very good at typing, and so is this one — the numbers above are measured, not hoped. The difference is not the typing. It is the deal, and the deal is six questions.

Put them to whichever keyboard you use now. Only this one is answered here, because only this one has been measured — the code that builds this page is where each answer comes from, and nothing on it is a claim about anybody else’s.

Better, not just more private

The trade people expect is that a keyboard which respects you is a worse keyboard. It is not, and the reason is dull rather than clever: almost everything that makes a keyboard good — a dictionary, a language model, key geometry — runs on the phone anyway. So it runs on yours.

Why it is yours, at lengthThe whole argument, if you want it rather than the three lines above.

Everything you do on a phone is measured by somebody. What you search, what you buy, where you go, how long you looked at it. Most of it you agreed to without reading, because the alternative was not using the thing.

Typing is the most personal of all of it — it is every message before you decided whether to send it — and on most phones the keyboard is free because the typing is the product.

This is one piece taken back. Not a movement, not a manifesto. One keyboard, where what you write stays where you put it. If more things worked this way you would not have to think about it at all; until they do, here is one that does.

How it actually works, in three parts

Almost everything never leaves

The dictionary, the corrections, the words it learns from you, your clipboard, your drafts. All of it runs on the phone — which is also why the keyboard works with no signal at all.

One thing leaves, only when you send it

A file, when you attach one — and audio only if you choose the server for dictation instead of the phone. Both go to your own account — storage you hold the key to, not a pool we own. Neither happens on its own.

The rest does not exist

There is no keystroke log to protect, because there is no keystroke log. Password fields are excluded from every feature that stores anything at all.

What you dictate and what you upload land in your account — scoped to your key, reachable by you and nobody else. How long any of it stays is your call, set on the account rather than by this app. And what the keyboard itself keeps, you can see the size of and clear in one screen.

You control it

One screen in Settings lists everything stored — what you copied, what you sent, your recordings, the words it has learned — with how many of each, a Review to read exactly what is held, and a Clear beside every one. Anything it can count, you can read.

It stays on the phone

App-private storage, encrypted under the Android Keystore where it matters. Cloud backup is off at the manifest level, so none of it reaches a Drive you did not ask for.

It is never sold

Not sold, rented, shared or brokered, and never used to build a profile of you. Not now, and not as a business model later. Uninstalling takes the lot — there is no copy elsewhere to delete.

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In more detailHow the dictation, the correction and the file handling actually work.

Speak

Dictation that stays on the phone

Tap the microphone, say what you mean, and it lands in whatever app you were in. There is no length limit — a two-second reply and a ten-minute thought both work.

• It runs on your phone. A speech model downloaded once does the work, so the recording never leaves, and a flight or a dead spot makes no difference. Your own server stays as an option.
• Nothing is thrown away on failure. A transcription that fails is retried twice, then waits for you. The audio is kept either way.
• It notices when you come back online and finishes the job without being asked.
• Every recording is kept and can be replayed, re-sent or deleted.

Type

A keyboard that learns your hands

Every key press is measured against where the keys actually are, so a correction knows the difference between a word you meant and a finger that landed 3mm to the left.

• Slide through the letters instead of tapping them, if you would rather — the word is worked out from the shape of the path. Off until you turn it on.
• Corrections you can see and undo in one tap.
• Hold a letter for accents, if you want them — off by default, so the popup never interrupts English.
• Your vocabulary outranks the dictionary, because you know your own words better than it does.

Keep

Everything you copied, and a way to forget it

Hold the paste key. Everything you copied recently, newest first, with how long ago — tap one to insert it, hold one to remove it, or clear the lot without leaving the keyboard.

• It never records from a password field. Copy a password out of a manager, focus the password box, paste — the keyboard does not read the clipboard there, on any Android version.
• Kept on the phone, encrypted under a key that cannot be extracted, and cleared after a week whether you use it or not.
• One switch turns it off, and Your data shows exactly how many clips are held.

Move

Your files, from inside the keyboard

Attach a photo or a document without leaving the app you are typing in, and browse everything you have stored without opening a browser.

• It goes to storage you own, on the account your key belongs to.
• If an app refuses an attachment it goes to the clipboard instead, rather than failing silently.
• Downloads land in your Downloads folder, with no storage permission asked for.

Measure

Measured, not guessed at

Settings shows what your typing actually looks like — speed, how much you correct, how much you dictate — so a change you make is a change you can see the effect of. A dashboard charts it: how your writing arrives, where the wait goes on a dictation, words a day over the last fortnight, and why dictation failed when it did.

• Counts and durations only. No text is stored, so nothing that could reconstruct what you wrote exists to be stored.
• Rates are withheld until they mean something rather than printing a figure averaged over four words.
• Corrections kept is the number worth watching: it says whether autocorrect is helping you or fighting you.

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What it never doesThe list of things it will not do, and why each one is a decision rather than an oversight.

Nothing you type is uploaded

No feature sends the contents of a field anywhere. There is no keystroke log to leak, because there is no keystroke log, and password fields are excluded from every feature that stores anything at all.

One exception, and you trigger it by hand: if a correction fails you can hold that word and report it, which sends that word so the fault can be found. Never automatically, and never from a password field.

No third parties, at all

No advertising SDKs, no analytics brokers, no crash-reporting service. The app talks to exactly one server: the one your account is on.

Nothing syncs to Google

Cloud backup is switched off at the manifest level, so your key, your history and your learned words never leave the device in a Drive backup you did not ask for.

Even the crash reports are thin

A crash records the exception type and which lines of this app were on the stack. Never the message — that is the likeliest place for your text to end up.

A key from your account fetches the speech model and reaches your storage. Once the model is on the phone, dictation needs nothing from it. Typing, autocorrect, prediction, clipboard, emoji and everything else never needed one.

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