Akshar collects nothing.

No servers. No analytics. No tracking. No accounts. Your typing stays on your device, the way a keyboard should.

Effective April 23, 2026

The short version

Akshar is an iOS keyboard and companion app built by one person. It runs entirely on your iPhone or iPad. There is no Akshar account, no Akshar server, and no analytics. When you type, suggestions are generated on-device by a Core ML model shipped inside the app. Nothing about what you type is sent anywhere, ever.

If you turn on iCloud sync, your Akshar preferences, notes, and conversion history live inside your own Apple Account. Nobody on the Akshar side can see them.

App Store privacy label

Apple requires every app to declare what data it collects. Here is the complete list for Akshar:

• Contact Info Not collected
• Health & Fitness Not collected
• Financial Info Not collected
• Location Not collected
• Sensitive Info Not collected
• Contacts Not collected
• User Content Not collected
• Browsing History Not collected
• Search History Not collected
• Identifiers Not collected
• Purchases Not collected
• Usage Data Not collected
• Diagnostics Not collected
• Other Data Not collected

What runs on your device

Transliteration. When you type in English and Akshar suggests an Indic word, that conversion is done by a Core ML model bundled inside the app. No part of the input, the candidates, or the selection is sent to any server.

Language picker, themes, icons, widgets. These are local UI state. They live in the app's own sandbox on your device.

Full Access. Keyboard extensions on iOS can either run in a sandboxed mode or, optionally, with Full Access. Akshar works without Full Access. Full Access is only used so that settings you change in the companion app (preferred languages, themes, keyboard layout) can reach the keyboard extension. It is not used for transliteration, and it does not enable any network traffic from Akshar.

iCloud sync (optional)

If you enable iCloud sync for Akshar, three kinds of data are written to iCloud under your own Apple Account: preferences (preferred languages, chosen theme, keyboard layout), your Notes, and your Convert history.

This data lives inside your Apple Account's container. It is encrypted in transit and at rest. If you have Advanced Data Protection turned on for iCloud, it is also end-to-end encrypted, meaning Apple cannot read it either.

Akshar does not have an iCloud account of its own. There is no Akshar-operated server that stores any of it. If you disable iCloud for Akshar in iOS Settings, syncing simply stops and each device keeps its own local copy.

No third parties

Akshar does not include any third-party SDKs for analytics, crash reporting, advertising, or attribution. There are no trackers. There is no telemetry. The only network calls the app can make are the ones iOS itself makes on its own behalf (for example, to check for iCloud availability), and those never contain what you type.

Changes to this policy

If this policy ever changes, a new effective date will appear at the top of this page, and the change will be described in the app's release notes. Akshar will never quietly start collecting data.

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