Offgrid Privacy Policy

The short version

Offgrid does not collect anything. There is no account, no analytics, no crash reporting, and no server of ours for data to be sent to. Every reply is generated by your own phone's processor and stored only on that phone.

You can verify this yourself: turn on airplane mode. Everything except downloading a model continues to work exactly as before.

What the app stores, and where

All of the following lives in Offgrid's private storage on your device. None of it is transmitted anywhere.

What	Where it lives
Conversations and messages	A local SQLite database in the app's private data directory
Settings, including your system prompt	Local preferences in the app's private data directory
Downloaded model files	The app's own external files directory

Uninstalling Offgrid deletes all of it. There is no backup and no sync, so there is nothing to restore from and nothing held by us.

When the app uses the network

Offgrid holds the INTERNET permission for exactly one purpose: downloading model files that you choose to download.

Downloading from the built-in list sends a request to huggingface.co. As with visiting any website, that request reveals your IP address and the file you asked for to Hugging Face and its CDN, and their privacy policy governs it rather than this one. Offgrid attaches no identifier of you to that request.

Downloading from a URL you paste sends a request to whichever host you typed. The same applies.

Nothing else in the app opens a network connection. Generating text does not.

The optional local API server

Offgrid can serve the loaded model over HTTP to other software on your phone. It is off by default.

When enabled, it binds to 127.0.0.1, which is reachable only from the device itself. A separate, clearly labelled option also listens on your Wi-Fi network.

The Wi-Fi option has no authentication. While it is on, anything on the same network can send prompts to your model. Only enable it on networks you control.

The server never sends anything outward. It only answers requests made to it.

Permissions, and why each one exists

Permission	Why
INTERNET	Downloading model files you choose
ACCESS_NETWORK_STATE	Checking whether a download can proceed
POST_NOTIFICATIONS	Showing download progress and local API server status
FOREGROUND_SERVICE, FOREGROUND_SERVICE_DATA_SYNC	Keeping a large model download alive, and the API server responsive, while the app is in the background
WAKE_LOCK	Keeping the screen on while a reply is generating, so it does not appear to have hung

There is no location, contacts, camera, microphone, broad storage or advertising-identifier access, because nothing the app does requires them.

About the models

Models are third-party files produced by their respective publishers. They run locally, and Offgrid does not modify or transmit them. What a model outputs is a property of that model rather than of this app. Some models offered in the list are community tunes published without refusal training, which is stated on each of them where it applies.

Children

Offgrid is not directed at children. It collects no data from anyone, including children.

Changes to this policy

Any change will appear on this page, and the date shown at the top will change with it.

Contact

Questions about this policy can go to elijah@commonerapps.com.