Drishan AI privacy policy.
Updated 7 November 2026. This policy covers the Drishan AI app for iPhone (com.myind.drishan). The Drishan Chrome extension has its own policy.
Short version
- Pages are read on your phone. Finding the words on the picture and speaking them happens on this iPhone.
- No ads, no analytics, no tracking. We don't sell your data and we don't use it for advertising.
- Everything works without an account. Signing in, shared readings, hosted AI reading and your own Gemini key are each your choice.
- A picture you read leaves the phone only if you turn on hosted AI reading, or add your own Gemini key and agree to send pages with it.
- You can delete your account in the app at any time: Settings › Account › Delete account.
Who we are
Drishan AI is made and run by Shantanu Bombatkar ("we"). Contact: support@myind.ai.
What stays on your phone
- The comics and websites you open, the text read from them, your characters and voice choices, translations already made, and your settings.
- Downloaded voice and reader models.
- Your sign-in, and your own Gemini key if you add one, are kept in the iPhone's Keychain.
- Deleting the app deletes all of this. You can also remove the Kokoro download in Settings.
When the app uses the internet
Without an account and without the optional features below, the app needs no internet to read the sample or your own pages.
| When | What is sent | To |
|---|---|---|
| On Wi-Fi after you install the app (Settings > Voice > “Get resources ready by itself” turns this off), or when you turn on the Kokoro voice | A one-time download of the voice model, never over mobile data when it starts by itself: about 203 MB on most iPhones (Apple Core ML version), or about 360 MB if that version can't run on your phone. Nothing about you or your pages is sent | huggingface.co |
| After you install the app (same switch), or when you turn on "Better bubbles" | A one-time download of a speech-bubble detector, about 11 MB. Nothing about you or your pages is sent | huggingface.co |
| You listen in another language | Apple downloads the language once. The translation itself runs on this phone; your pages and words are not sent | Apple (Apple Translation) |
| On Android, whenever the app reads text or translates | Text recognition, language detection and translation run on the phone with Google’s ML Kit through Google Play services, which sends Google usage diagnostics (device and app information, performance, error codes) and an installation identifier. Your pages and words are not sent | Google (ML Kit) |
| You read a website in the app | Ordinary visits to the sites you open, as any browser makes. Searches typed in the address bar go to DuckDuckGo | Those websites; duckduckgo.com |
| You add your own Gemini key and agree to use it | For "Who's speaking": a slice of the page picture and its lines. For translation: the page's lines and who says them (text only). Sent with your key | Google (Gemini API), under your own account and Google's terms |
| You sign in, use shared readings, hosted reading or Drishan Plus | See the sections below | Our servers (Supabase); Apple and RevenueCat for purchases |
Like any website, the services above see your internet (IP) address when your phone connects to them. Their own privacy terms apply.
Who's speaking can also run on the phone with Apple's on-device model (Apple Intelligence). Nothing is sent on that path.
Account (only if you sign in)
You sign in or sign up with a code sent to your email; there is no password. The account is the same one used by the Drishan Chrome extension.
| Data | Why | Kept |
|---|---|---|
| Email address, and the one-time code sent to it | Signing in | Until you delete the account |
| Your account's plan, hosted chapters (credits) and their history, and the time you agreed to hosted reading | Knowing what you can use | Until you delete the account (see "Deleting your data") |
| Usage records: feature, amount, cost, time and status. No pictures, dialogue or page addresses | Billing, limits, finding faults | 13 months |
This is stored with our database and sign-in provider, Supabase (EU region). We don't keep a list of what you read.
Shared readings (only if you sign in)
Shared readings let you reuse text that other readers already agreed on for the same picture, so a page reads faster and better.
- "Use shared readings" (on while you are signed in; you can turn it off in Settings) sends the picture's fingerprint: a SHA-256 code made from the image file, which cannot be turned back into the picture.
- "Share readings to improve results for everyone" is off until you turn it on. Then the app sends, for pages you read: the fingerprint, the text found and where each line sits, the name of the reader that found it, and a voter id made from a random id on this phone and that picture (so two pictures can't be tied to one reader). When you fix a character's name or gender, the fix is sent with a fingerprint of the series name. "This text is wrong" reports send the fingerprint, the slice number and the same voter id.
- Never sent to the shared cache: your pictures, page addresses, your email or your account id.
- How long: your vote is kept 1 day after readers agree, or 30 days if they never do; a "wrong text" report 90 days. Text that two different readers agreed on is kept with no link to you and shown to other readers until it is reported or removed.
Hosted AI reading (Drishan Plus, only if you turn it on)
This is the only path where a picture you read reaches our server. It runs only when you are signed in, you have hosted chapters or Drishan Plus, you turned it on for the chapter, and you agreed once that pages are sent.
- Sent: a slice of the page picture (JPEG), the reading options (such as the language to translate to and the reading direction), the names of the characters in the series so far, the last few lines read, and a request key made from the picture's fingerprint.
- Our server passes it to the AI provider, Google Gemini, and sends the text back to you. Our server holds the picture in memory for the call only and does not store or log the picture, the dialogue or your page addresses.
- Google keeps what it receives for up to 55 days to watch for abuse, under its terms for the Gemini API.
Purchases (Drishan Plus)
- Payments are made through your Apple ID and handled by Apple. We never see your card or payment details.
- We use RevenueCat to check what you bought and keep it working across reinstalls. RevenueCat receives the purchase record from Apple (product, dates, state) and an anonymous app user id; if you are signed in, your account id (not your email) so the purchase follows your account.
- Cancel or manage a subscription in iPhone Settings › [your name] › Subscriptions.
Clips and Photos
If you make a clip of a page, it is made on the phone. It is saved to Photos only when you choose Save, using add-only access (the app can't see your photo library), or shared only where you choose in the share sheet.
Ratings
The app may show Apple's standard "rate this app" prompt. Apple runs it; we receive only the public rating or review you choose to post on the App Store.
No ads, no analytics, no tracking
The app has no advertising, no analytics and no tracking SDK. It does not track you across other companies' apps or websites, and nothing about how you use the app is collected. Our providers' servers (Supabase) keep ordinary request logs, including your IP address, for a short time to run and protect the service; we don't use them to follow what anyone reads.
Deleting your data
- In the app: Settings › Account › Delete account. This deletes your email, profile, plan and credit balance from our servers and signs you out.
- By email: or write to support@myind.ai from the address on the account, and we delete it within 30 days.
- A running subscription is not cancelled by deleting the account. Cancel it first in iPhone Settings › [your name] › Subscriptions.
- What stays, with nothing that identifies you: credit and payment event records kept as unlinked numbers for accounting, usage records until they reach 13 months, and agreed shared text (it was never linked to you).
- On the phone: deleting the app removes everything it stored.
Depending on where you live you may have further rights, such as access, correction, and complaint to a regulator. Write to support@myind.ai to use them.
Children
Drishan AI is not directed at children under 13, and we don't knowingly collect personal data from them. If you think a child has made an account, write to us and we will delete it.
Changes
If this policy changes, the date at the top changes. If a change sends something new from your phone, it stays off until you turn it on.
Contact
Updated 2026-11-07