Bridgi is a Hebrew–English translation keyboard for iOS. You type English in any app; Bridgi translates it to Hebrew and inserts it. That is the complete function in v1.
Nothing leaves your iPhone. When you type a message and tap Translate, Bridgi passes your text to a translation model running locally on your device. The Hebrew result comes back and goes into the text field. No server is involved. No network call is made. No copy of your text is kept after the translation is complete.
The translation model ships inside the Bridgi app. There is no download step and no first-launch setup.
The Bridgi keyboard requests iOS Full Access. We are required to explain what Full Access is used for.
Full Access is used for one purpose: it lets the keyboard extension pass text to the Bridgi app running in the background on your device, so the Bridgi app can run the translation and send the result back. This happens entirely on your iPhone through a sandboxed on-device channel called App Groups. The text file used for this exchange is deleted immediately after the translation completes.
Full Access does not:
If you do not enable Full Access, the Bridgi keyboard will show a prompt to turn it on. The translate button requires Full Access because of how iOS keyboard extensions work; without it, the extension cannot reach the Bridgi app to run the translation.
Bridgi collects no data from you. Specifically:
Bridgi does not include any analytics SDK, advertising SDK, or third-party reporting library.
The declaration for Bridgi v1 is Data Not Collected. Bridgi's own code collects no data. The only bundled third-party library is ONNX Runtime (Microsoft, MIT License), a local inference engine that makes no network calls during translation. SentencePiece (open source) is a tokenizer that runs locally with no network calls.
Bridgi uses ONNX Runtime (open source, Microsoft Corporation, MIT License) to run the translation model on your device. ONNX Runtime processes data locally and does not transmit data to Microsoft or any other party during translation.
Because Bridgi collects no data, most privacy rights (access, correction, deletion, portability) have nothing to act on. There is no personal data held about you to access, correct, export, or delete.
European Union and EEA residents: GDPR gives you rights over data controllers who hold your data. Because Bridgi holds no data about you, we are not a data controller in the usual sense. If a future version changes this, the policy will be updated before that version ships.
California residents: The CCPA gives you rights over businesses that collect your personal information. Bridgi does not collect personal information.
Israeli residents: Under the Israeli Privacy Protection Law, you have the right to access and correct personal information held about you. Bridgi holds no such information.
If Bridgi changes how it handles data, this policy will be updated before the change ships. The effective date at the top will reflect when it was last changed.